Hey, let’s talk about Christmas presents!

I finally got to see my mom and dad (Hi mom and dad!  Love you!) this last Sunday and we had out very belated Christmas/New Years visit.  With all the snow over December and the early part of January we just could never get to there house.  It was making me sad because I had [...]

Would you look at that!

I finished something.  A big something too, a whole sweater!  Mind you, this particular sweater has been pretty much done since the middle of March ‘08.  It just needed to have the neck re-knit, the underarms grafted, and the ends woven in.  And yet, it languished unfinished.  Ridiculous I say!  The only problem around here [...]

White Christmas?

We haz it!

Even the bird house is overwhelmed in wintery goodness.

That little picket fence on the right?  Yeah, that’s the fence around our raised garden which means that there is about 60 cms/24 inches of snow over there.  Hubby and I have both started listening to make sure the roof  of the house isn’t making [...]

Grading on a curve?

It’s been almost two weeks since my final exam and I still had not received my results.  This worried me.  I’m the worrying kind.  I got an email back from my marker that the class average for the final had been only 59% and that they had applied to have everyone’s mark raised 5% or [...]

Second verse, same as the first!

Which of course means more snow!  And then, some more snow.  Plus, and arctic outflow warning.  Which just sounds aggressive!
It was sunny today so I did get a couple of picis taken of some recent objects of finishism.  My malabrigo neckwarmer:

And a One Day Beret that was beyond necessary so that my ears would not [...]

Done and done

Phew!  Am I ever glad that is over.  Of course I took some picis while I was there.  I really like SFU.  It’s been called some rather nasty things over the years, (from and aesthetic standpoint) but I just kind of like it.  It’s on a mountain, it’s foggy, it’s rainy, and today it was [...]

Brrrrrrrr

Oh my!  Hubby has decided that he really doesn’t want to turn the furnace on this year.  The gas fireplace is being installed on October 18th and he wants to wait until then before we have any heat.  I’m not really sure why, some sort of Japanese game show torture perhaps?
Me?  I want one of [...]

Getting on with getting on

I’ve been knitting.  It may not even be Hallowe’en yet but I know that Christmas will sneak up and surprise me again.  Like it does every year!  Anyway, the first in law sock is complete:

What you have here is your basic Tesserae sock by Anne Hanson.  Lovely patter!  I did the Eye of the Partridge [...]

Today,

Looked a lot like this in our house:

The dogs were outside and the sun was in my lap which magically led to our invisible cat coming out and being in my lap too.  This is Mo Cuirdh, we call her Mo Mo.  She’s always been a little skittish, even after living with us for the [...]

What does it mean

when the local hooligans tagged a pile of dirt?  Not dirt that was covered with a tarp or anything, they just spraypainted their little ‘namey’ thing onto a pile of dirt.  Weird, right?
In far more interesting news, I’ve finished 1/2 of my first Christmas gift sock and I actually did some spinning yesterday.  Go me!  [...]