Full Life/Full of Life

Or, reasons Twitter seems the only online activity I’ve been able to keep up with lately! Traveling – NO, MDSW, Boone (no pics, lots of rain, some hiking, exceptionally relaxing), and Ocracoke. All these have made for very happy times, but very full schedules when we have been home. And now we are planning for [...]

People All Get Ready

Raleigh, Meymandi Concert Hall, May 15. Cat’s Cradle schedule Tad’s review of Once. Suffice it to say we loved it and are so looking forward to this show! —————- Now playing: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly via FoxyTunes

Vacation Installment 1 – Or, a knitterly thing we did!

Our vacation in review will be brought to you in installments. It was just the break that we needed and we squeezed an awful lot into a week and a half (not the least of which – 60 miles!). We made so many happy memories along the way and there is just too much good [...]

Little Things Rock!

It’s funny how a little thing can make your day, huh? Heather of HeatherKnits and Hege of Pine Cone Lodge both nominated me as a Rockin’ Girl Blogger :) Man, it’s just a little pink button, right? But here I am, getting all silly and smiley over the darn thing! Heather’s totally right, it’s a [...]

Mel uses power tools (Rar!!)

Actually, Tad did all the work to expand our vegetable bed while I was knitting (and, might I add, he did a bang up job with the design!). But I did get to have a little bit of fun too. Go check it out and see what we did!!

Exhibitionist 5 – WIP Roundup! (and a touch of Spring!)

A touch of Spring first – even though it we’ve had frost the past two nights, the flowers seem to be surviving the sudden cold snap – These were taken at Foster’s Market (Wisteria) and the Duke Gardens (Helleborus & some kind of cherry, I think) earlier today. It was brilliant and sunny, if a [...]