this (altered) liscence plate we saw could not have said it better! don't get me wrong. our kids spend a lot of time indoors living like lumps, but usually with a book in hand. we've m...
late afternoon out on our trusty but little-used 'orange crush'. braved the rough, puddle-ridden road. got 'skunked' with regards to the fish. plucked a small handful of wild c...
yes, indeed, things are really and truly o.k.i know, i know. i fell off the blogging planet around here a few months ago...to the point where concerned emails and comments are starting to roll in.ple...
My new winter 2010/11 motto: "All or Nothing". It's seems it's either 40-50 degrees and raining or bitter cold and blowing. Today it's in the single digits, the winds star...
Playing catch up here on some things, starting with these slippers made in January when one of my toes was complaining loudly of the bitter cold with chilblains, for the second year in a row, and my ...
Fresh made corn tortillas, roasted & shredded venison, smothered in homemade enchilada sauce (I'll never waste $ on canned sauce ever again), black beans, limeade, Ibarra hot chocolate, chip...
Well, we were away for a week for a mid-winter vacation with my parents in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Such a lovely time together. As always, it was all about the food for us. Aside from fresh c...
Finally, I'm getting around to sharing (or rather, showing off) a rundown of the holiday gift knitting & sewing as, I think, all have finally arrived with their recipients. Oven mitts, 9 pai...
or rather, past the swingset and trampoline into... ...our own private Narnia. Then, back home again, just before dark. Then, the 'putting to bed' of the animals, a quick dinner, the poppin...
Those are some of the lovely winter greys that have me adoring winter, the ones that make me embrace it wholly. Unfortunately, much of the greys this year have looked a little more like this: rainy...
lanterns string made with the plastic leftovers of new year's confettin poppers. gumdrop/toothpick creations, by the boys. paper stars. a set of preemie-sized hats for a friend's new baby...
1 evening. 2 parties. A pile of friends and family. It was bitter, bitter cold and yet, we still spent a fair amount of it outdoors skating, playing in the snow, lighting up the night and just e...
Happy Solstice all! Here, it was bright and beautiful, inside and out, albeit chilly, both day and night. We deeply soaked in the warmth of the sunshine, the moonlight, the firelight, the fellowship...
Along with the usual stuff of life, December, so far, has been a flurry of holiday cleaning and preparations, gift making, and parties (birthdays, sledding, skating, tamale-making, solstice...) There...
Clearly this is out of season but, while laid up with the last vestiges of a 24 hour style flu, I spent a good part of the couch-time going through pictures and came across these. This would have...
hoping you and yours are having a nice, fun-filled weekend. we are!
The 7 pictures he took, in the order taken. More than I ever would have expected. (It took him a few days just to figure out how to put the batteries in the camera. This from a man who can build ...
Winter has arrived. In earnest. Leaving us a little unprepared. Even after a long, drawn out, and mild fall. which meant, on Thursday driving an hour to buy snowboots for E. And then, after a good l...
(these pics are just a short distance to the left of this pic.) (yarn: trekking XXL. knit toe-up over 60 sts.) The pics: yesterday morning on the way to work. I couldn't help but stop down ...
very, very little yarn dyeing occurred this spring through fall. then, at the 11th hour, apparently it finally occurred to me that I just couldn't let an entire year go by without a little dabbl...
Now, why not, other than for good measure, have a few pretties from the last week or so? It has been a lovely fall here, that's quickly slipping now into winter. So few hours of light. Very lit...
so many fungi out there, you can barely move without seeing or stepping upon one. gathering grand fir boughs, fresh water snail shells. growing gnome beards. warring with berries & beargrass spea...
2nd pair of "larch" socks. knit with the second 50 gram ball leftover from the 1st pair. These socks will go into a silent auction next week to benefit a local organization "dedicated...
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici, "Patina", 24119. only 2 skeins, with very little leftover, maybe 2-3 stripes worth of each ball remaining. Toes and heels, cuffs and crocheted chain stitch ties,...
Not only the usual pumpkin carving, costuming, and trick or treating, but also dress rehearsal and performances all day and evening on Saturday, followed by a haunted house visit, then late night g...
i go!
of hunting season. I'm going to try to get out for more and better pics during the week. For now, this is all I have. Already this morning, while feeding the chickens and letting the sheep out ...
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