Google can sure do some interesting things. I’ve used the translate feature to shop for yarn in Japan and Germany. It’s not totally accurate, but it works. Recently I’ve noticed somebody from France is googling my blog and using the translate feature to read it. I took a look at what she was getting and…

Angie made a comment the other day about a radio show that featured mountain climbers naming their "seven peaks of mountain climbing." I take that to mean their ultimate climbing experiences. She asked about the seven peaks of knitting. What would they be for you? So far for me it’s my Marina sweater, my Charlotte’s…

Sitting around the dinner table, all three children, various boyfriends, dinner guests, and my mom, this is a rare event. We start talking about things we used to say when we were kids. Bryant called his cuffs his "cliffords" as in "roll up my cliffords, Mum." He called his jacket hood his neighbourhood. My friend’s…

This weekend Gracee graduated from the school of mouse hunting to hunting bigger things. She was begging to go outside and I knew she had just been out so I wasn’t inclined to give in to her pleas. I heard Mari’s b/f Mitch ask Bryant to take her out, but I was busy and didn’t…

Quite a few years back when I was working in programs with first time parents I knew a different generation was having babies when the new moms were appearing with nose piercings before they were fashionable. Yesterday I saw something that indicated that we were into yet another generation of parents. I saw a dad…

That’s daughter #2’s word for the flawed thinking that comes out of our mouths at times. Come to think of it, even she has spewed some flawgic in the recent past: We own three cars. Gasp! We register two during the year when the girls are away at school. The PLAN was that if they…

I’m the last person in the world to be talking about balance in life. I’m sure that in the end it will all balance out, but for now full speed ahead! I did, however, bring some balance to my knitting life while in Edmonton.  I have Marina going very well on teensy weensy needles, and…

Still in Edmonton, we drove out to Stoney Plain to Pam’s Wooley Shop in their new location. I was surprised when they didn’t have a ball winder in house, but the nice clerk offered to wind with me by hand. She explained that when she was a kid, many years ago, her mom would ask…

Thanks to all of you for your kind words for our family. There will be a memorial service next month and that’s a relief because I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to attend. Rosie was right in her comment that even when expected, death is a shock. My Dad died young at 47 and…

It’s off to Edmonton we go this morning, to the graduation. I’m still figuring out how to travel with Marina. This project needs its own luggage: Call me quirky, but I know I’m awake in the morning because I have a song in my head that wakes me up. It’s not always the same song;…