Monthly Archives: March 2008

My first yarn!

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I just want to roll around in that roving.

Handspinning yarn is crazy-relaxing. I can’t believe how good it feels to do something the same way people have done for thousands of years. This is my new drop spindle, a Cascade Little Si, sitting on a bed of super soft roving.

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Bah Humbug

I think we are the only ones in the world that don’t give a single thing to our kids for Easter.  Nope, not a single egg.  Not a single candy, not a single bunny, not one darn thing.  And what’s cool is that they don’t know the difference.  I wonder how many more years we...

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dadk - That’s not a bad thing, but you aren’t jipping them – you’re gypping them! http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gypMarch 25, 2008 – 11:34 am

Crosses

This is cross posted (no pun intended) over in my photoblog. I just wanted to post it here in case y’all don’t visit over there regularly. There are tons more pictures going up tomorrow on the photoblog after I get them processed and uploaded to flickr. *** My brother joined me for picture-taking at the...

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Almost Ours

I would have to say that I was quite impressed with the way this house fared in its inspection today. Don’t get me wrong; there is a lot of work that needs to be put into it, but it’s all superficial (well, besides the garage door opener and gutters) and easy to fix. I am...

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