My son asked if the opposite of masterpiece was disasterpiece. I liked that. I’ve knit a few of those. I have a chenille sweater I almost finished a few years back when I first started back in knitting. I was just about done when Ms.Gracee May chewed up the top of the back. I stuffed…

The product of my weekend efforts, a finished Rippling Waters scarf: I have been demoted to the shortest person in my family. I used to be second tallest and now I am last. Trying to think positively here – when I make a sweater for myself it will the most reasonable one in the family…

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving. We are lucky, we celebrate Thanksgiving twice. I buy an extra large turkey and save half the breast for US Thanksgiving, which is invariably on a work day for us. I remember when we moved to Canada twenty years ago and we couldn’t afford a turkey at the then very expensive Cdn…

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I had a difficult time in the beginning celebrating Thanksgiving before Halloween, but now I’m used to it. Canadian Thanksgiving is officially on a Monday, but people generally pick one day of the long weekend for the turkey dinner. You could actually manage three days of feasting if you juggled invitations.…

I spent the entire day in emergency. It was a heck of a way to get a day or two off. If you’ve read my “About Me” you know I have an annoying arrhythmia. It’s been under control for six years with a drug called Rhythmol. Clever name. Yesterday, I had an episode of tachycardia…

Yup, that’s Gracee’s name. She came to us at six months old, a piece of returned merchandise, a used dog. The breeder told me that her owners couldn’t house train her and she was vicious when tucked into bed. If you know Scotties, you know a bed tucking would be most embarrassing for such a…

Are these the cutest things you ever did see: Last year the pres of my board of directors and I started knitting these. I did a total of three; she did at least three dozen. She sold them at a craft fair for $12 Cdn, a totally too reasonable price. I wanted to buy a…

I was determined to finish this project, as I have several others being ignored and it feels so-o-o good to finish something. It was really fun to knit – fun colours, fun stripes, and the ruffle was fun, too. I get bored knitting solid colours or plain patterns. Toward the bottom I decided to knit…

I grew up just outside of New York City. We saw wild animals from time to time – squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies and the occasional raccoon. Stories of people getting eaten up by wild things were reserved for fairy tales. You heard stories of alligators coming up through the toilet, but did that really happen? Now…

$1000 worth of damage on my car, after being kicked in by a teenage boy with a problem. My son was laughing with a friend at MacDonald’s because his friend had ice cream all over his face. A swarm of kids outside of MacD’s saw them through the window and thought they were the target…