I’m pulling out the old quote from 9th grade math teacher, Miss Lahrman,  the one she used when we gave excuses for not studying or doing homework. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.This one’s for you, Marina, it’s about your namesake. I made a vow not to start any major projects until…

You learn something new everyday. My sister, a recent knitting recruit, attended a knit-in to make pink scarves for breast cancer. Here’s her story: "I almost forgot to tell you about these two ladies who came to that knitting pink scarfs for cancer night my friend put on.  They were knitting with their hands and…

1. Elann.com gives good customer service. Shop there. The story is: I bought six skeins of Bombolo, a polar weight yarn, for two scarves. The product description didn’t indicate that it was a yarn with graduated colours. It wouldn’t have mattered, I would have bought it anyway. However, when I knit it, this is how…

It doesn’t happen to me often, but I’m having one of those life is out of control days. On the workfront, on the homefront, on the knitting front. Too many things happening at once. Can you imagine defective yarn from Elann, noticed halfway through the project, and finding out about some bad lab results I…

I have a policy of never saying never because, in some way or another, it happens. But I know for a fact that I’ve never said I’m never going to Bratislava and now it’s happening. Are you following this? It was a long week and I’ve had a glass or two of wine. Many years…

Now that’s something you don’t see very often – Vancouver’s North Shore covered in snow.This is sunrise from my deck – it’s a photo of a large neighbourhood, built up against the mountain, but you can hardly tell for the snow. I’ve lived in Vancouver for 22 years and I can count on one hand…

How do you lose underwear?This isn’t a thong I’m talking about, really, can you see me in a thong? Nor is it my usual all cotton granny panties. This is the body shaper I bought for my daughter’s wedding this summer. One of those satiny stretchy torture devices that goes from underneath the girls to…

Voila! Lady Eleanor in natural light, the colours looking more accurate than past photos. We had a fair chunk of the weekend sans rain but ten minutes after the picture was taken it started dripping again. Now we’re in full blown storm mode again and still boiling our water. The specs: 1. Noro Silk Garden…

As a person without TV, I don’t know how far news travels. For those outside of Vancouver, you might have heard Friday, that the entire area is on a "boil water advisory." Our recent storms have caused slides to falll in to our reservoirs. There is a measure of water turbidity (cloudiness) that is reported…

…and washed Vancouver out. This is our sky earlier this week and the same sky a minute later. And that’s how it’s looked since, day and night: This weather system is known as the Pineapple express, a storm system out of Hawaii. What’s worse than experiencing the Pineapple Express in Vancouver? Experiencing it in Hawaii…