If you know me you know that I don’t make purchases without first knowing from where the money will come. Ms Practicality here never carries a credit card balance. So what I’ve done, in my books, is really bad. A total act of greed and comfort. OK, so here’s the story. I was at Costco…

The used to be called our walk, as in Bryant’s and mine. That is until he turned 16. No explanation necessary if you know 16 year old boys. Gracee’s not thrilled with it either. She’s never been much of a walker. When she arrived to us, at an older than usual puppy age, her toenails…

My Thanksgiving crowd left on the 11:00 ferry this morning. Chuck’s on his way down to B’Ham to clean the condo before the next rental. Too bad there was no room for me in the van, it being filled to the brim with U Vicers and the dad. I’ll relax suffer at home, thank you…

Twice in my life I’ve had the opportunity to meet, by chance, particularly interesting 80 some-year-old strangers. The first was when I was about eleven and met a woman while walking home from the bank. Despite my parent’s advice, I talked to strangers. Always the bargain hunter I had walked two miles to open a…

Chuck and Bryant worked at 7:00am this weekend and I had the house all to myself. I didn’t go out all day Saturday except to walk the dog. I didn’t fix my bedhead. I made a big pot of chicken soup and one of red beans for rice and beans, a staple of my childhood…

If you’ve been reading you know about the boat ride. This was a $60 one day mini-cruise from Seattle to Vancouver. This is Part 2 of the great yarn crawl/cruise adventure. To wrap up the yarn crawl, you’ll be amazed that I exercised great self control. My recent criteria for yarn purchasing is either that…

You know it’s a good yarn crawl when: 1. You have to take a break to eat lunch in order to clear your head enough to make purchasing decisions. 2. You get a fortune cookie at lunch that reads "You will take on a new project and complete it." 3. You hit a yarn math…

Ok, I’m just knitting along on my Lady Eleanor wrap, in Noro Silk Garden, which, by the way was a terrific bargain at 40% off, and all of a sudden – I’m knitting nothing. The yarn just disintegrated mid stitch. I’ve knit with Silk Garden before, and besides a knot or two in each skein,…

This weekend I’m going on another cruise! It’s on the Dawn Princess and it cost $60! OK, so it’s for a total of 15 hours and I’m sharing a cabin with my knitting buddy Marsha, her husband, and 27 year old son. We sail from Seattle to Vancouver. What the heck, good food, good company,…

You guys are wonderful. Thank you so much for your blogiversary wishes. What a relief if it was to find out that so many people are actually reading this blog. I find that I can’t trust the stats page on Typepad, so I never accurately know what’s going on. Today, for example, it tells me…