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Knitting progress and a trip to Gauge
I made great progress on my sock. I have finished the first one. I will cast on the second one tomorrow. Rachel and I hung out this afternoon and evening. We had a great time. We spent a couple of hours at Gauge picking out yarn for some projects that Rachel wants to do. We found tons of awesome yarn, but we finally managed to narrow it down. Then we spent quite a while trying to wind the yarn wound into cakes, but it was not very cooperative! Rachel managed to figure out its secret, and then we got it into shape! After the yarn store we went over to…
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Liam and the dirty sheep
Several years ago I bought a pair of Haflinger slippers with a sheep on them. The sheep is gray. It started out gray. But Lee and Billy thought that it started out white, and that I just took such bad care of my things that they turned gray from dirt. They didn’t tell me that for a long time, it came out years after the fact. Of course, I still have the sheep slippers. We now refer to the slippers as the “dirty, dirty sheep”. Last week Joey was taking care of Liam and I was working in my home office. Joey, Liam and Elanor came in to visit for…
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Liam at the Grocery Store
I got Liam a onesie with a picture of a dump truck, and the words “Tipper Lorry” on it at the Brooklyn Flea back in July. It was way to big for him at that time, and he has finally gotten big enough to wear it. Billy sent me this photo while I was traveling yesterday.
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Trip to Austin and visit with friends
While I was in North Carolina I had a bit of a scratchy throat, and some allergy type symptoms. Nothing too terrible. Then I got on a plane and flew home. While I am glad to be home, the airplane air, and the pressure that flying put on my ears pushed me over into really congested and uncomfortable! I landed back in Austin later than expected due to a delayed flight out of Raleigh-Durham airport this morning. The flight delay was due to “crew rest”. Sujata commented on that, “crew rest = hangover”. In any case, the flight took off late enough that I missed my connection in Dallas, and…
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Travel knitting
I had some time on my trip to North Carolina to do some knitting. I had made great progress on Liam’s hat over the last week, and on the plane I got the body of the hat finished. I am a little worried that it will be too small for Liam. He has an 18 inch head. My head is only three inches bigger than that, and I have 35 years on him! I will try it on him when I get home. I will keep it in any case. If it doesn’t fit Liam, I am sure it will fit someone with a less giant head. I also got…
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Plumbing revisited
Joey fixed the drain basket of our kitchen sink a few days ago, as I mentioned in a previous post. A couple of days after that the faucet started leaking a little around its base when we turned the water on. Sunday that small leak turned into a spray, if the faucet was in just the wrong position. Since I am in North Carolina this week, Joey decided to take the opportunity to fix the faucet. I love my husband! He worked really hard,and got it all fixed and put back together. When he turned the water on, the new seal he had put on the main faucet worked perfectly.…
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Organizing the stash
Yesterday I spent time organizing my stash of yarn. I pulled everything out of the closet. I re-wound a bunch of yarn that had been partially used, or squished out of shape. Then I took pictures of all the yarn individually, and added it all to my stash list on Ravelry. Not a small project, but I am so happy to have it done!
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Walnut Creek Park
Kay, Daniel, LisaDiane, Ela, and I went for a walk through Walnut Creek Metro Park this afternoon. Ela was almost invisible as she led Daniel through the tall grass.
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So I had an orange at lunch…
… and I cut it open. Across the axis of the orange. And it looked like this: A little strange. So I cut open another just to check. Cut across the same axis as before. Same kind of orange from the same box at HEB. The second orange looked like all of the other oranges I’ve eaten this week. Here is a picture of the two oranges next to each other. And some video of the oranges 🙂 Unexpected appearance, and both oranges were tasty.
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Breakfast delayed and plumbing repaired
This morning Joey got up early and cleaned the kitchen. He also prepped for making breakfast. We had planned to have scrambled eggs with spinach and sausage yesterday morning, but the universe intervened. Tuesday night while Joey was doing the dishes, we noticed a puddle of water near the sink. Upon investigation, Joey discovered that the seal between the sink and the drain basket had failed. It was fairly late, so Joey had to wait until the next morning to get the supplies he needed to finish the repair. The fix was pretty inexpensive, thanks to the fact that Joey is extremely handy at home repairs! Also, Joey got to…
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Chuy’s and a Pub Quiz
Joey and I had a big social afternoon and evening. We started off joining Rachel, Debra, Asher, and Chiara at Chuy’s for a dinner and a lovely visit. Asher was wearing the shirt I brought him from Japan, and Chiara was wearing a hat that I made for her. I felt very special! Joey, however, was the favored guest because he gave Chiara a new copy of They Might Be Giants Here Come the ABCs. Years ago we took a copy of the original DVD so that we had a copy for the kids to watch at our house. The original had since gotten lost, and Joey made a copy…
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Salt crystals
Joey and Lee had vestry responsibilities at church, so Billy, Liam, and I hung out together for the evening. Once Joey and Lee got to our house, we had steak, asparagus, salad, and salt potatoes (see recipe below) for dinner. If you have never had salt potatoes, don’t let the amount of salt freak you out. The large amount of salt changes the boiling point of the water enough that the texture of the cooked potato is quite different than regular boiled potatoes. The skin gets a nice salty crust, and the inside is creamy and smooth. Although you can serve salt potatoes with a meal as we did, they…
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Finishitupitis
As you most likely know, I love to knit. Like many knitters, I occasionally, all right, possibly more than occasionally, come down with starter-itis. This is a disease that leads the knitter to get extremely excited about starting projects. Then the knitter has all kinds of unfinished finished objects (UFOs – to steal a cute name from the Yarn Harlot) lying around. A few weeks ago, one of my favorite writers, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot, posted on her blog about a related disease that could actually counter starter-itis – finishitupitis. She describes the symptoms in her post. Basically (because I know, despite the fact that you totally should,…
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Old huck, new huck, yellow huck, blue huck
Elanor has several toys made of natural rubber from West Paw Designs. She loves them; she fetches them and chews on them. Joey and I are fond of them because, despite the fact that Elanor is quite a strong chewer, it takes her a long time to even put a dent in them. One of her toys is a oddly shaped ball called a ‘huck’. We sometimes play outside, and the huck was left outside at some point. It got quite gross. Sunday after church Joey decided to clean up the huck. He washed it, but it still had some nasty black stuff on it. He decided to boil it,…
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Seder Plate
Years ago Kathlyne and Ross invited Joey and me to celebrate the Passover Seder with them. I want to say it was the spring of 2000, but I could be wrong. Celebrating Passover became a tradition. Joey and I would go up to Fort Worth, or Kat and Ross would come down to Austin. We invited others to join us over the years. Sujata, Troy, Christinne, Kay, Lindsay, Don, Misty, Brian, Robert, Laura, Jason, and probably some other folks I am forgetting joined us one year or another. When Ross and Kat got married in January 2001, I found a beautiful crystal Seder plate. It was awesome. We used it…
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KatyDog
I posted about KatyDog just after her fifteenth birthday. MadPriest posted a comment requesting pictures of the old lady. That was right around the time that Etherlimits was taken off line, so I was not able to post the photos until now. Many of you already know that KatyDog passed away in the very early morning on 28 November 2010. She lived a wonderful long life. She was fairly active and quite happy right up until the day she died. Joey and I were with her when she passed. She added so much to our lives over the thirteen years she was with us. I cannot imagine our family without…
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Fawkes
My personal computer is a mac. I have had one since 2004. Joey built me an iMac out of five dead iMacs. Because my computer was revived from previous incarnations, I decided to name him Fawkes, after the phoenix from the Harry Potter universe. The original body was a bubble iMac G3. Joey upgraded his computer, Mindy, to a new body in 2007, and Fawkes got upgraded to the 12-inch, G4 Powerbook body. Only a few months later we realized that the USB 1 port was an untenable way to sync my iPhone, so we upgraded Fawkes body to a G4 mac mini, which had a USB 2 port. Fawkes…
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No, you cannot log into your own blog
Back in at the end of 2010 Joey did a bunch of work to get Etherlimits transferred to the latest version of WordPress. The day he finished, I posted to share that news with the world. I was so excited! The update was done just in time for the new year, and I was thinking how awesome it was that I could start the new year with a blank page, so to speak. Etherlimits had other ideas. I could not log in. I could visit the public side of Etherlimits, but when I went to the log in screen and entered my user name and password the screen would just…
