Guessing game

Any guesses as to what that pink stuff is that is in drifts allover our downtown?  It lands on the cars and in my hair and shuffles in with me from outside.
In the top picture, all of the pinkish stuff you can see all the way down the sidewalk is this stuff.
Hint?  It’s still harvest [...]

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Dangerous

With a Capital D.

I’m not brave enough to try the Candy Corn flavored Hershey Kisses, but omigosh, I do love me some regular ole Kisses.
Somebody better come visit me and eat some of them, otherwise I’ll eat the whole bag by myself.  Before noon.

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Report card

On mine it would say:
Does not follow directions well.
I was happily knitting away on my sweater and thinking about the instructions and thinking about what I was doing.
And realized I had messed up.  Again.
I groaned out loud and Mark said “How much do you have to rip out now?”
(The boys report cards came home today, [...]

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WIP Wednesday

Many moons ago, Wednesdays were always the day that we posted about our WIPs on our blogs.  I thought I’d revive the tradition and post about what’s been under the sewing machine or on the knitting needles this week.
Quilt Blocks that are in progress:  the double nine patch is a sample for a class on [...]

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Warm hands

About a month ago I was complaining about how cold my hands were (already).  Things warmed up a bit, and I guess I got used to the cooler temps, because my hands hadn’t been quite so chilled.  Until this week.
Brrr.
But now!  Look at what was waiting for me when I got to the shop this [...]

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The other front

Apologies to non-knitters.  But I have to share.
As a quilter, I have done my share of unsewing.  Reverse sewing.  Frogging.  Whatever you want to call it.  Tedious?  Absolutely.
However.  I did not know the meaning of tedious until I had to rip out some rows of my sweater yesterday.
When you are ripping out quilting stitches, you [...]

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Solid rain

Sunday night at our house is movie night, and it’s usually popcorn and cheese and apples in front of the TV.  Last night we split up — the boys stayed home with Grandma and watched Iron Man.  Mark and I came downtown to go to the movie theater (Burn After Reading).  Before the movie, during [...]

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Pet Peeve

I’ve probably  mentioned this before, but my biggest pet peeve is this:
That’s how we’ve always done it
(or some variation on that theme)
It just makes me want to scream or say something obnoxious like:
People used to use outhouses, shall we go back to all of the old ways?
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in learning [...]

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Randomly

1.  I’m surprised by how many hits I get on this blog from people who have searched for Western Salad Dressing.  Seriously.  At least once a day if not more.  I feel like I ought to be posting more recipes using it to provide a useful service to the community of folks who are searching [...]

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Wanted: a new UFO

I finished the machine applique on this bugger over the weekend.  I bought this as a kit, I don’t remember how long it’s been.  Awhile.  Several years. I had trouble thanks to the fact that the kit did not have enough fabric, a fact I did not discover until it was too late to do [...]

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