Feral Knitting

I had a Martha moment yesterday. I was despairing over half finished projects and balls of yarn that mock me from my stash, when I noticed my failed Revontuli shawl I started last winter. I was trying to use up my Kauni. Don’t get me wrong, I like  Kauni, but I bought it at a [...]

Yep. It’s hot out. Hotty hot mc Hotterson. And I’m not a fan of heat. Especially humid heat. Ick ick ick.
Okay, enough. I won’t complain, as it will just make me feel even warmer. I find that if I move slowly at everything I do, I feel just a touch less icky. I plod up [...]

So today we spent some time in the forgotten places of our home doing a bit of clean up. We have a small shed in our carport which I suspect was used as a dog run at some point. It has a largish open hole on one side, near the door, and a big window… [...]

I keep feeling like I get nothing done, but this really isn’t true. I get things done, just not anything I can concentrate for more than a few minutes on. It only feels like I have no time… I have time,  just tiny bits of it scattered throughout the day. And of course, there are [...]

I’m not sure how it got to be February already. Oh, wait, yes, I do know. We spent most of last month battling an epic cold. Oh, and then there was the tailbone incident, which apparently wasn’t even funny to watch. Seven weeks later and it still hurts at a certain angle. Yikes. I do [...]

Yes, I’m well aware that I have been horribly negligent. But ha, I don’t really care. I have a million excuses and all of them are valid. Most of them have to do with a small human being who completely and utterly dominates my life. The other has to do with technology, and that’s a [...]

Okay, so I’ve been negligent. I have a good reason, though. It is small, but is amazing mobile and tends to get into everything and cause a lot of trouble, thus giving me very little time for myself. (It also has some severe sleep issues, which result in much misery all around…!) Anyway, enough on [...]

Yep, summer is in full swing. I remember desperately waiting for the sun to come back, and it did, with a vengeance. I had a feeling it would be long, dry summer, and that it has indeed been. It’s been great for my garden. My tomatoes have already started turning red, which is amazing, as [...]

Well, it seems that I am completing a few more projects, but I still feel quite like I’m not. I think I need to relax and enjoy each project for what it is, instead of trying to hurry through so I can move on to the next thing. There’s just so much I want to [...]

My garden suffered a terrible blow when the exterminators came (long, disgusting story). Our war with the slugs in the lettuce is over before it could become very heated. Sad, sad times. Here’s the lettuce patch in its prime:
I was given scant seconds to harvest it, and of course couldn’t eat it all in [...]