I’m trying to be fairly ‘project monogamous’ and work one project at a time so I don’t end up with a bazillion projects going on at once. But that Multnomah shawl is BORRRRING with its row after row after row of garter stitch, and I needed a break. I had two…
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I did something yesterday that I have never done before – I took a giant bag of books in to Half Price Books to sell. Normally I’ll pare back my books every year or so and donate them to our local library book sale, which is also the same sale…
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I’ve been having way too much fun with this dehydrator. The latest adventure: banana bread fruit roll-ups. Over the last couple of months I’ve been changing my eating habits and cutting out a LOT of the wheat products. Not entirely, of course, because seriously if I ever give up homemade…
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My knit group girls had our 3rd annual yarn day this morning. We started our day with wonderful breakfast and coffee at First Watch, then a trip to the nearest yarn shop. In snow. Apparently it doesn’t matter if we do it on MLK day or President’s day, we’re just going…
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Back around the holidays my parents gifted me with my very own NESCO Snackmaster over the holidays, and my wonderful husband (who knew ahead of time what my parents were doing) gave me a book on dehydrating to go with it. I’ve wanted one for a while now, so of…
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Seed catalogs have arrived, the weather is unseasonably warm, and I’m dreaming of getting back outside and working our little piece of land. There will be tomatoes and peppers and eggplant, oh yes! And this year will also bring cucumbers – proper cucumbers, not those nasty pickling cucumbers – and…