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 [...]

Spring!

I’ve awoken from a sleep or something (Hey! Nice to see you again!) to find that spring has sprung in North Carolina – My favorite season here. In fact, for me, Spring in NC rivals Autumn in New England. Everything comes alive again so early, first showing tiny glimpses here and there, then all of [...]

“Working From Home”

After a pretty insane month at work that culminated in a heinous week and a particularly heinous day yesterday, my boss informed me that I was “working from home” today. In other words – I’m on call in case of emergencies, my work laptop on & at the ready, but I’m really just taking the [...]

Web Hosting for Dummies

Is it bad to trash your hosting service on your blog? We’ve been experiencing some frustrating down-time here at tadandmel & purlingplans, which we’ve been noticing every couple of days recently, and which a couple of readers have reported to us as well (thanks!). So we’re looking for a new host – we’ve gotten a [...]

8 Random Things….

I was tagged by Tasha over at Knitting Fisher – It’s my first meme too Tasha! Probably a good “get to know you sort of thing” – I don’t know if I’ll be able to come up with 8 though! So, here goes – 1. I already left this at Shannon’s site in the comments, [...]

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 [...]