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…

What does Noro Silk Garden have to do with our house’s foundation? Here is a glimpse of how I think. Or rationalize spending money. When we bought our house it was considered a teardown. It is expensive to demolish a house and start over. Being from a career that involves a bit of a rescuer…

I fear I am turning into a frog queen. How do you make the decision to fix or frog? If you are making a shawl that has 20,000 stitches do you go back and fix one stitch ten rows back? I’m not talking about the dropped stitch that ladders all the way to the bottom,…

“I am an acne pimple, lonely as can be.” “Don’t cry pimple, I’ll bring you company” “Hey fellow pimples, would three be a crowd?” “All together pimples, sing real loud… Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah…” That was a Clearasil commercial from my teens. I have worse acne now than I ever had at 13. My…

True for knitting as anything else. I love the tools of knitting. Among my favourites re my digital scale (so I never have to guess about how much yarn I have left) and my newly acquired yarn winder. My daughter’s boyfriend gave me a generous gift certificate for Joann for a recent special big birthday.…

Occasionally I buy some mortgage the house yarn – the kind that is above the regular budget, but irresistible. The kind you buy with birthday money. I consider La Boheme or Touch Me in that category. I know there’s worse but I don’t dare buy them. What’s one step worse than knitting with m-t-h yarn?…

Besides the start of incessant rain there are other ways to tell fall is here in BC. Without many deciduous trees we don’t get the spectacular colour I was used to, being brought up ion the East Coast. There is a river about five blocks from our house. You can’t see it because it is…

Every morning just before 8:00 a group of girls walks past our house on their way to school. I figure they are about 14 years old, you can tell by their giggling. The sound makes me happy. I remember being that age, sitting with my friends under a tree playing cards all day listening to…