Wonder what Google searches I’ll get with that title? In a break from knitting, I give you the following true story: I am not shoe addicted as some, as I am extremely tenderfooted, hence the need for comfy shoes as pictured on the left. I don’t know how I was blessed with such namby pamby…

The before shot doesn’t look as bad as it really was and the after doesn’t look as good as it really does.  Isn’t it funny how a pretty driveway makes an ugly garage door look uglier? Bryant discovers the curling iron. Before and after: On our October vacation, Blogless Marsha told me if I was…

Back in the day, if you lost your car keys, there were two options: 1. Call your carefully guarded key code into a locksmith and have them cut another key – $4.50.or2. Have the locksmith make what you thought was an expensive house call  $45. He would do his magic with something like wax and…

Recently subscribing to Interweave`s Knitting Daily, I have learned the truth about UFO`s. Only 2% of polled knitters have no unfinished objects. 36% have between two and four, 36% have between five and eight, and 6% of us have over 20 UFO`s hanging around. That`s all I needed to hear to cultivate a worse habit.…

What’s this? It’s not half of a bikini top. It’s not a hat. Nope, it’s not a knit artichoke or even a tea cozy. Give up? It’s the beginning of Jared‘s Hemlock Ring Blanket. Jared morphed a 1942 doily pattern into a blanket by using chunky yarn and adding rows of feather and fan stitch,…

WARNING: Rant ahead. I believe it comes with age. Why, when you call your bank, are you asked to punch in your access number only to be asked your access number again when a service rep finally picks up the line? The other one that bugs me is when you can’t reach a person without…

Where to begin? I’ve been on vacation, starting with an unpleasant medical procedure that left me with a two day headache and a bruised neck. There was nowhere to go from there, but up. Lets start with the two, five and nine:Two countries,five cities, and nine yarn shops. That sounds like a good holiday to…

Look at the difference between this year and last: I’ve been out of town this week, no time to post, so I’ll leave you with my scarf at the halfway mark. You can get a good idea of the drapiness in the first and the colour in the second.

When all the world is a hopeless jumble,and the raindrops tumble all around,heaven opens a magic lane… (Over the rainbow, Arlen-Harburg, 1939) Our house this year, with the 17 year old, has been a struggle. Academics have not been his strong suit and his highlight in the school play was over shadowed by an act…

In BC we call it budging, elsewhere it’s cutting in or jumping the queue. It bugs me. I can’t figure it out – is it a laid back West Coast thing or a Canadian trait, but here, people are generally good about taking turns. Lining up to cross the Lion’s Gate Bridge, where three lanes…