I am home alone. This does not happen often. I’ve taken a day off here and there to rest up and try to get this heart beating to the sound of a recognizable drummer. Bryant and Chuck are off to the States to accept delivery of a very special object. When Chuck was a small…

Today’s rant – cell phone contracts. I am halfway through a three year cell phone contract. My phone has died. I didn’t buy an extended warranty because, except for cars, I don’t believe they are worth it. I accept the fact that I must pay for a new phone but I’m having a hard time…

Sometime a quickie knit is just so darn satisfying. An entire shawl in weekend, a poncho in five evenings… That’s exactly the case with my Trendsetter Dune shawl. I knit it twice in a satisfying amount of time. Truthfully it was almost three times – it was originally the Bias stole pattern that came with…

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…