I’m glad someone knows how to cook.

We’re in southern France now, but here are some pictures of our week in Italy.
We ate well, and one of my favorite dishes was this lovely tagliatelle at a place in Montecatini Alto (Tuscany).
One of the best gelatorias (I guess that should be gelatorie for plural?) we found was La Botega in Montecatini Terme, just [...]

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A real frog.

No frogging to report, but here’s our real resident frog:
Too bad my Mac isn’t a frog, especially since I doused it with water the other day while typing instructions for the pet sitter.  It was a tense evening in the Domesticshorthair household as my husband came to Mac’s aid in Mac Intensive Care Unit.  It [...]

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Fabled Cabled Coat

Whew!  It’s done!  I’ve finished Cabled Coat.  For me, it proved to be a tortuous path to get here, wrought with dumb mistakes, vague instructions, and pattern errors or omissions but it’s all done now.

I rather like the design of it, in fact it’s quite special, but it is a bit flashy for the usual [...]

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