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Desperate Housewife

Posted in knitting, other stuff on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I did it! I made a break for it yesterday and finally got out of the neighborhood! It required a little work beforehand: I cleared 75 feet of snow and ice down to the pavement for one set of tires to run through at the steepest part of the 1/4-mile long uphill driveway. [...]

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We’re very homey, these days.

Posted in cooking, knitting, other stuff, tagged , , , on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We’ve been feeling very homey and never made it off the front porch yesterday, so we made spritz cookies from the cookie cookbook of my childhood:  Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book, 1963 edition.  Feeling particularly festive, we frosted them with royal icing.

Next, I hope to make either World Peace Cookies, which I have Mariko to thank [...]

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Day 4: Cabin Fever

Posted in complaint department, knitting, other stuff, projects, tagged , , , , on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today marks the fourth day I have not left the confines my neighborhood. I haven’t driven anywhere due to an icy uphill drive and icy roads—nay, I haven’t been in a car in four days—and now the third round of our winter storm has hit in the form of a blizzard. Next year [...]

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These days of cold….

Posted in knitting, tagged , , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We don’t get out much these days between biting cold weather, occasional icy roads, school closures and snow.  We finally got our big snow storm early this morning and we did our sledding and made a snow angel.
We finally got a Christmas tree last weekend and we’re pretty much done decorating it.  Because it’s been [...]

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Chicken Little or Common Sense?

Posted in complaint department, other stuff on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Excuse me while I rant….
Ugh!  My son’s preschool didn’t open today because the local school district canceled school, and in fact I think every school district within 100 miles of Seattle must have closed. Sheesh! This is for snow that wasn’t supposed to hit until about 10 a.m. and still hasn’t hit at [...]

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From Montepulciano with Love

Posted in adoption, knitting, other stuff, travel, tagged , on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My one big splurge from the trip to Europe in September has finally made it’s debut.

All lavender and lace and cashmere.

Sometimes buying a nice sweater is okay, even if you could’ve made it yourself.  It doesn’t have to be cashmere.

What a treat to wear.

From Del Santo Cashmere, Montepulciano, Italy.
Not a lot of knitting to report [...]

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