10 Things I Learned From Knitting
1. Patience – Knitting anything takes a long time. In a world where I am used to instantaneous communication with friends on the other side of the world and same-day delivery of almost anything, it’s a good…
The Harvest Begins, and I Make Pear Butter
All my friends with vegetable gardens seem to be canning tomatoes or making zucchini bread or pickles. What I have at this time of year is an abundance of pears. The pear tree in our backyard is…
Tips & Tricks for Devious Knitters: Cables That Don’t Flare
Way long ago when I was just a baby knitter, I made a Down Under sweater for my oldest son. Here’s the sweater in question, modeled not by my older son, nor even my younger son, but…
Nary a Ball to be Wound
I tend to go in fits and spurts with things. When it’s time to start a new project, I want to start ALL the new projects. It was like that a couple of weeks ago, when I…
The Top Ten Things I Learned From the Pandemic
1) I am not in charge of the whole world and everything in it. I am only in charge of me. When I obsess over everything happening everywhere, I make myself CRAZY. 2) Getting outside makes me…
Tips & Tricks for Devious Knitters: Narrowing Socks-in-Progress
As you may be aware, I don’t particularly care for re-doing things in my knitting. So when a project is turning out to be, well, not quite what I had hoped, I will consider whether something can…
“What Makes You Devious?”
My teenaged son asked me that this afternoon as he was supervising my attempts to get reacquainted with WordPress. Frankly, it’s shorthand for lazy. I’m a pretty lazy knitter. There are things I don’t like to do,…
Snelloween Party Recipes
In honor of that time of year, here are a few favorites from Snelloweens past: Blood Orange Punch 2 parts whiskey2 parts sour mix3 parts orange soda Float ice cubes made of Hawaiian Punch in the punchbowl…
Summer Corn and Green Bean Salad with Bacon
Roughly 3/4 pound of green beansFour ears of cornApprox 1/2 lb grape or cherry tomatoes1/2 shallotapprox. 3 tbsp. cider vinegarapprox. 3 tbsp. oilrounded teasp. salt3 strips bacon, crisp and crumbled Blanch the corn and green beans for…
Escape from Snelloween
Snelloween was a little different this year. When guests arrived, they first had to find a password to be admitted to the house. Behind them was a graveyard … Where a particular message was highlighted: TREAT Inside,…
