Asheville

SB and I went to Asheville for a combined hiking/SAFF trip. I mostly took pictures on the hikes… all taken with my phone.  It doesn’t make sense to carry two cameras any more. We hiked to three waterfalls and visited with an alpaca. The cabin we stayed at overlooked a field of sunflowers. The owner [...]

not much, how ’bout you?

It’s about time I ended this blog break!  No reason for not blogging really, just a lack of taking photos and keeping busy. I finished Avocado Cables – my Blanket for Birmingham! It was a lot of fun to knit (although a hot thing to knit during the summer). I hope it will bring some [...]

the cuteness

Saturday our fiber guild had our meeting at Alpacaramas Farm in Brierfield, Alabama and it was a great field trip!  I took a ton of pictures, but I’ve edited down to just a few. A field of alpacas.  It was funny, we’d approach them (with food) and they’d run away.  They were very skittish! The [...]

one week in

Today is Day 7 on Weight Watchers and I have to tell you, it’s definitely a doable program.  I even made sausage balls for the boy this weekend, did massive amounts of math and figured out that one sausage ball equals 2 points, so I had two!  It’s good to know that if I really [...]

random tuesday

Cohesiveness is something I am totally lacking lately, so these random thoughts are just going to spill out.  I’m not even going to number the paragraphs – even that is too much order. Why I haven’t been blogging. It’s hard to say.  I have lots of projects in the works but I’m not excited about [...]

can you guess where I’ve been?

Yep, the annual family beach trip to Cape San Blas, Florida!  Which, I’m happy to report, is oil free. We had lovely sunsets, beach bonfires (boys and their poking sticks!) and fireworks! It only rained one day, which was the perfect time for me to do this: Yeah, you can pretty much throw out everything [...]

LOST – my crackpot theory

Yes, I’ve become one of those who blog about a TV show.  If you don’t watch Lost, or if you haven’t seen last night’s season premiere, you might want to skip this post entirely. For the most part, I watched last night’s episode thoroughly confused.  I was confused when I went to bed and confused [...]

45

This is the year I turn 45. This is the year I first noticed that my hands are starting to look old. I don’t mind it terribly.  My hands create.  They take bits of fluff and make yarn, then turn that yarn into useful, sometimes beautiful, objects.  This is more valuable to me than remaining [...]

hooping

I have a new obsession. It’s a 42″ collapsible hula hoop from Spirit Hoops and it’s taken hold of me in a way that I never would have imagined.  I woke up at 2:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep because I was thinking of hooping.  I’ve practiced in the back yard for [...]

people really tick me off

What the hell is up with people anymore? Someone in my office routinely turns the thermostat (that controls my air vents) up to 85 degrees.  Yes, it’s chilly outside (if you call 60 degrees chilly), but geez, give a thought about other people, won’t you?  You can put more clothes on, but I can’t take [...]

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