We had our day at the fair today, and I am beat! Will do a full report tomorrow. But for today I will leave you with this news from the world of big Alaska vegetables! You may be wondering “Should I spend my precious time reading about big vegetables?” If so, allow me to tempt… Continue reading Yes, We Do Have Big Veggies in These Here Parts
I’m planning on going to a knitting convention next year, and I’m stuck between going to a Vogue Knitting Live again, or trying out a Stitches convention. I know I like VK Live, but the Stitches conventions might be pretty good too. So I’m looking for opinions – have you been to a Stitches? If… Continue reading Decision, Decisions
My Harney & Sons Tea of the Month club just arrived, and as I was getting ready to write this, I noticed I hadn’t reviewed last month’s shipment. Which actually works out fine, because there is a bit of continuity between the two shipments. 🙂 July’s teas were a Rooibos Chai and Blood Orange Iced… Continue reading Tea for Two: July and August
Wow this year is flying by! I normally like to take a look at how I am doing with my crafting plans around mid-year – so this is a little late. According to the plan, 2019 was the year I planned to learn as many new techniques as I could, while still getting some actual… Continue reading 2019 So Far
For those of you who are not up on their condiment-based holidays, this past Saturday was National Mustard Day. In honor of that day, French’s Mustard decided to do something a little wacky. Specifically, they teamed up with Coolhaus ice cream to make a mustard flavored ice cream. Yes, really. I was immediately intrigued. You… Continue reading Ill-Fated Dessert
There’s not much knitting progress to show you today. Clue 4 of the Perfect Blend shawl has not come in yet, so no changes there. The intarsia-in-the-round socks are in progress! I have halfway through the intarsia part of one of them, but right now it looks like a wad of double point needles with… Continue reading A Floral Interlude
I didn’t get much knitting in today, except a little sock knitting at lunch. But it was for a good reason – movie night! DH and Mom and I went out to see Spider Man: Far From Home tonight, and loved it 🙂 It was a nice break in tone from all the high drama… Continue reading Movie Night!
My flowers have mostly been coming along pretty well this year! We did have one fatality – we drowned a petunia we had in a pot on our porch, which was a shame. Otherwise, all is well 🙂 All the hanging baskets have filled in really nicely! The carnations and lobelias (?) keep on blooming… Continue reading Flower Update
Anchorage has been having quite a week or two. We have hit records with our heat – 90 F the other day in Anchorage – and all the rest of the days for the last week and a bit have been pretty hot as well, although not as bad. This is pretty unprecedented for us.… Continue reading So Damn Hot
Quite A Yarn 