Coughs, Consolations and Messy Tuesday

In the absence of knitting, blogging, photographing of messes (or knitting), working on Summer Sky, keeping up with online friends & their activities, and possibly most disappointing – a trip to one of my favorite annual activities, MDSW – there has instead been coughing, aching, sniffling and general yuck. I am almost never sick, but [...]

Sylvia

Everyone, meet Sylvia! Sylvia, this is…… Everyone! She was a bit of an impulse – the need for a body double coupled with the not-flattering thought of myself wrapped in duct tape, added to a good buy equals a new friend for me! Sylvia was so dubbed by her former owner’s spouse -so Sylvia she [...]

Remington

Shirley May (Beasley) Remington Linda May (Remington) Chase Melinda (Chase) Hunt I love how our names are tied to one another. I love how my knitting ties me to them. Though the exact history of this sweater has been lost over time, it holds no less importance or sentimental worth. It came to me nearly [...]

Saturday is for…

Saturday is for sleeping in after a very satisfying concert Friday night (Bright Eyes at the Millenium Center in Winston-Salem – I was very much looking forward to it, but they were better than I anticipated!) Bad cell pic of Heather, Tess & I (Tad’s the photographer) grabbing a bite and a drink before the [...]

Pi2R or Math Works (when you use it right)

Sorry folks, this is a picture-light post, if you’re looking for the meat, scroll down to where it says “announcement!” I am math challenged. Don’t tell my boss (she’s an engineer). I would be lost without Excel and Access in my worklife, and sometimes my daily life as well. I would certainly be lost without [...]

A Good Day

Today was a very good day: A sure sign of Spring – my Carolina Jessamine is getting ready for the party, along with the early blooming trees budding all over the place: A near-completed project at work (or at least the light at the end of the tunnel for phase 1, each phase is so [...]