Powned!

Last night we had a fast supper, as we had driven all day to get back from Grandma and Grandpa's... we had pasta shells, Morningstar chick'n strips, Dragonfly's Bulk Dry Cheeze sauce and steam in the bag broccoli from Target. It was good to eat at home again!

Right now I am just plodding along with Sword of Shannara... it sucks. Read the reviews at Amazon. Really, I don't know if I'm going to make it... and I have a lot of tolerance for bad fantasy! Such a blatant LOTR rip off!!! The mind boggles!!! And so poorly done!!! I have not enough exclamation points to continue.

Finally, I am working on my short row mitts. I am struggling with figuring out how to reverse the instructions so that I can make a left hand version. I would really like some Koigu KPPPM to make these, but the nearest store that carries it is 45 m away! I should just order some online, but I hate paying shipping.

Ah well.

In other news, Scholastic finally owned me. I succumbed to their ways finally and broke down and bought a set of Bob books for my almost 4 year old daughter. I resisted all through, but the pervasive Scholastic book order people will not be denied!

This morning I woke up and all I could remember from my dream were cthullu and parachutes.
So I give you my pseudo-haiku;

Cthullu,
I ask you,
What color is,
YOUR parachute?

I am here for your rhyming needs.

Oh yeah, a linky link for you- dontclick.it

I love this pot! And when my friend gave me the little ceramic one for Christmas, I just thought it was the coolest coincidence.

The burst of red is so lovely, it makes me happy to serve meals out of it. Tonight we are having Dirty Rice- my husband hates tomatoes, but ah well...

I guess I don't have much to say. I was thinking about the impermanence of life today. Here I am, driving my daughter to preschool and I'm looking at all the people in their cars or walking up to the Post Office and I'm like "Man, everybody dies in the end!". I guess it's because it's been a long winter, plus my Uncle Wally died and so that's getting me thinking.

He was a simple man. Like, literally, simple. In the old sense of the word. But I think it's cool that he lived and was married and had his moments, I'm sure. Just that he existed. But it's got me thinking about what my contribution will be. It's nice to think about leaving something behind. But I've also been thinking about how MANY people there are. Ravelry has brought this home to me, oddly enough. I mean, not even all the small population of what knitters there are are on there, and then you see how many many people are knitting the same things, it just boggles the mind. I guess I'm having a craving for offering something unique.

Okay, here are a few links for you;
- Trent Reznor has offered one of his four disc release "Ghosts" for FREE.
- a You Tube video of Five Minute Artisan Bread. I think I'll try this out, but the keeping it in the fridge part will squigg out my husband...

p.s. did I ever tell you about the time I said I was going to Homecoming but then we went to see NIN? ooooh, I was a sneaky one...

um... is this thing on?

Man, it's been a long time...
I recently found out that you can raise/have miniature sheep! http://www.agrisupportonline.com/minisheep.htm

Don't they look cute! I wonder what kind of bizarre health problems they have, though.

I've started working at a yarn shop and I'm starting to wonder if it will sap all desire to knit. At least I'm building a great stash for when I leave the Cities to live up North in the Nort' Woods, ya der hey.

Now you too can have a barcode!Barcode Yourself - Scott Blake

Hey, check it out!! You can adopt a rare breed Cotswold sheep and at the end of the year you get it's fleece! What a good idea!Mountain-Shadow-Ranch

Mmmmmmm. Fiber

Oh, and for you spinners out there, Bellwether offers fleece and rovings too! Bellwether .

If you go here and click on Gallery you can see lots of the beautiful projects sent in by people made from wool from their (or others) rare breed sheep.

I just posted a review for Cestari yarn by Chester Farms at WiseNeedle dot com (yarn review site) because I went there to see if it had been reviewed and it had been by this cranky person so I wanted to remedy that. Ha. Whoever goes there next will not know who to believe. But this yarn is PROCESSED WITHOUT CHEMICALS and the sheep ARE NOT PUMPED UP WITH FOOD SUPPLEMENTS and there is LANOLIN LEFT IN THE YARN! I mean, hello, people, these are great things to have in a yarn so I'm all for Cestari, baby. PLUS you can wash it in the machine. I'm making a scarf using Fuzzy Galore's reversible scarf pattern. I just washed the swatch by hand and it fluffed up and 'bloomed' so nicely.

For Christmas my knitting friend got me Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools so I'm all gung ho about these rare breeds. Check out this blog Carson Woolies to get an idea of what life's like when you own these sheep.

Oh yeah, here's the post for the definition for knitting!-- someone surely could add their two cents (rave rave).Knitting - Wikipedia

Hey, add your open source definition to the free encyclopedia!! I know some of you who are on the fiber ring could manage this, right? Here's your chance to add to posterity. There is no definition for theSpindle

Mmmmm. Me want sheep. When come back, bring sheep.
Icelandic Sheep

Hey!! It's Rama, the cross between a camel and a llama!! And quite possibly the source of the most expensive fiber around!!
The ARI Journal - Spring 2000 Vol. V #1 - Camel/Lama Cross

check outLBEvans Hand Knit Bags

Scroll down to see the children's sweater inspired by this mosque

you must buy this so as to help support getting knitting needles back onto the planes!!!!!
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Check this out! Masochistic knitting, unparalleled!
Insane Knitting

Read the Warning! (also the piece on Beatrix Potter is good)
Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria Inc: Newsletter 2000