Deep background:
Over a decade ago (holy crap, am I that old?), my sister was engaged in an ill-fated romance while we were both living at my mother and stepfather’s house in Kerrville. Sis would share her concerns and heartbreaks at the dinner table, and one night I lapsed into a Marlon Brando impersonation and [...]
Here’s the gist of my weekend.
Details once I’ve recovered.
In 1979, my family went to see a movie called Alien. I’m not sure whose idea it was. But within the first 20 minutes, I screamed my nine-year-old head off so loudly that we left the theatre and went to see Escape from Alcatraz instead.
(Since then, I’ve become a great fan of the [...]
All the tricky work is done on the bunny butt hat. Now there’s just a crown decrease (in the purple of the brim) and some dangly carrots that hang off the top.
I usually make fun of other knitters when they make patterns like this. I am not a fan of animal motif Fair [...]
While the satchel is on hold, I am keeping my knitting time full by working on a hat that someone asked me to make a few months back.
I am knitting bunny butts.
When we were picking out the yarn for this, I told her not to worry about getting any in a white colorway because you [...]
After using a laptop as my primary home computer for several years, it’s kind of intimidating to sit down in front of this monster when I want to work.
Woof.
I spent yesterday in Fredericksburg at the Oktoberfest celebration there. My stepfather’s band, the Band Aids, played a two-hour set of some get-down boogy Dixieland jazz. [...]