A Trip To The Frog Pond

The Hatfield Sweater was in time-out for a long while because I just wasn’t in the mood to knit. Then I got a case of startitis and restrained myself by resolving to finish the Hatfield before casting on for anything else.  All I had completed was the left front so I dragged it out of [...]

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Is My Old-Farthood Showing?

We’ve been dealing with a heat wave lately.  Temperatures in my neighborhood have reached 106F.  The AC has been running full time and the complex pools are full.
Okay. . . . making allowances for the heat, I still don’t understand why some women dress like skanks and 10-dollar hookers.  I’m not talking about the sweet [...]

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Does Anyone Know Of. . . .?

I don’t read books, I devour them.  For the past couple of years I have concentrated on pure escapism.  I don’t want to have to think or analyze.  I do enough of that with my day job which is stressful enough in it’s own peculiar way.  So my tastes have leaned toward sci-fi, fantasy, and [...]

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Not Quick Enough On The Comeback

     I have a picture of Himself at my desk.  It was the subject of the following conversation with a patient today.
     “Is THAT your boyfriend?”
      ”Yes.”
      ”He looks like a comedian.”
       “Yeah, he is.”  Eye roll and smile.
       “Well, if he’s YOUR boyfriend he would HAVE [...]

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Hey, Look!! Knitting!!!

 
  
Obligatory Scarf, originally uploaded by pixelpurl.

      This is all I have been capable of lately, a garter-stitch novelty yarn scarf.  Mindless knitting I could take to Wednesday night knitting group and keep up with the chatter.  It’s Trendsetter Yarn’s Dune, a melange of mohair, acrylic, viscose, nylon, and metal.  It is an obligatory scarf [...]

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