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Paused for maintenance

I'll be in Chicago next week for the Vineyard Midwest Regional Conference, offline. Meantime, this is the state of play: * I'm well over halfway on sock #2 of the English Country Garden socks and the Karaoke scarf is one ball down with three to go. I&

Spinning FO: Red BFL

Spun and plied another skein of Blue Faced Leicester, it's drying now. I've got two skeins out of the 8oz of fibre, and there's enough left for one more smaller skein. Apparently I spin better to classical music, but not the angry parts of

Football World Cup 2006

I've been tracking the FIFA World Cup on the BBC website, thirty two countries are competing. I want England to win, but I wanted the USA to at least get to round 2. They lost to Ghana on Thursday and are out of the cup. Brazil and Argentina

Cats and a blanket

The cute kitten turned into a lean 15 pound cat who behaves like a dog (plays fetch, and comes when called, but without the drooling). Quantum will greet strangers, but prefers people she knows to sit on. Tangle runs from strangers, friends, everyone but Hubby and me. The two cats

Cuteness

Submitted this to Cute Overload for Mr Bristow: Quantum was about 8 weeks old when this was taken (she's now nearly four years old) and her tail stump was still bare. (Short version of the cat story: Owner drives over kitten tail, tail has to be amputated, owner

Offline

I'm taking a break, I'll be back in a week or so.

Spin, coin, knit

Tried spinning my silk hankie on Friday, using the Knittyspin article as a guide. I'm amazed at the results! It is so easy to spin, even easier than the Coopworth, and it's shiny. Shiny and beautiful. It gets stuck to your hands, especially if your skin

Geocaching

It is now possible to circumnavigate Creve Coeur Lake. You didn't used to be able to get all the way around, this was our first complete loop. It's a 3.7 mile trail, more if you're wandering off doing an excellent 3 part multi-

Bullet points

Spun, plied, and washed my mini-skein on Tuesday, it's dry now. George was not as easy to spin as the Coopworth, but the dyed fibre was nice. It's a lot less even than my wheel-spun, but it's not as thick as my

Exodus

From the mountains high and valleys low, the ocean through the desert snow, say goodbye to the friends we know, this is our exodus, this is our exodus. From the traffic jams in Tokyo, new music on the radio, say goodbye to the world we know, this is our exodus,

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