My resolution is to post something here at least 2ce a week that is something I'm grateful for, a favorite thing or something that just makes me happy.
See you soon!
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Happy New Year!
My resolution is to post something here at least 2ce a week that is something I'm grateful for, a favorite thing or something that just makes me happy.
See you soon!
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving Morning, 2013
We talked last night about all we are thankful for. We are very fortunate. Here's our list.
- Employment
- Health benefits
- Health!
- Stock market is booming.
- We have a new car this year -- and specific features we like a lot are: better gas mileage, easy to park, remote key entry, and when you unlock the car to get in it at night, the inside lights come on.
- We are grateful for Mom -- she is an amazing, delightful person, a source of deep love, and helpful in so many ways. (case in point: after her last visit, I had 3 pair of fleece-lined tights in my drawer).
- We remember in gratitude the lives and the influence on us of my Uncle Vic and Duncan's Aunt Mary.
- We love our crazy cats, Fred and Ethel.
- We both have immersed ourselves in new interests this year -- Duncan in the Coast Guard and me in knitting. These things make us happy and we are happy knowing the other one is also happy while we are immersed in our own happy place. -- Added benefit: Duncan has become an even better cook!
- Guilty pleasures -- Cook-Out Milkshakes and every other week assistance with housecleaning
- Tech Support
- A good night's sleep is not to be taken for granted anymore.
- those grippy hair rollers
- Movie nights
- Shopping in Cary
- Fleece (anything fleece. . . it doesn't get very cold here often, but when it does, I love my fleece!
- My multi-talented fiber arts friends
- Friends in general, of course.
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
Bon Appitit, ya'll!
Monday, November 4, 2013
Speaking of Knitting
And speaking of knitting, this went in the mail today -- the first garment I've made to actually fit someone. She's 16 months old so I hope she hasn't hit a huge growth spurt since I got her measurements.
Next up, a sweater for her older brother. It's going to have red and gray stripes, a collar and a zipper -- so more challenges ahead.
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| Cables! |
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| Cute button. I added the ribbon in the neckline, but it might just feel scratchy and bumpy. Eagerly awaiting feedback from Mom. |
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| Turns out the sweater is on the big side. She'll probably be able to wear it next winter, too. | She would look cute in anything! |
Friday, October 18, 2013
Art, Literature, and Knitting. What's Not to Love??
I stumbled across this blog post by Terri Windling at Myth and Moor today. It is a lovely meditation on Art, Literature, and Knitting.
I love this little bit:
". . .Like writing, knitting has a finite number of raw ingredients. There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. Those letters can combine to give you David Foster Wallace or freshman composition papers. There are only two basic stitches: the knit and the purl. Those stitches can add up to a gorgeously complicated sweater or a pastel pink toilet paper cozy . . ." Adrienne Martini, Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Here is the link.The
art is very nice and the quotes range to Stephanie Pearl McPhee and
Harry Potter. I shared it with several knitting friends but I think
everyone would like it.
I love this little bit:
". . .Like writing, knitting has a finite number of raw ingredients. There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. Those letters can combine to give you David Foster Wallace or freshman composition papers. There are only two basic stitches: the knit and the purl. Those stitches can add up to a gorgeously complicated sweater or a pastel pink toilet paper cozy . . ." Adrienne Martini, Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
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| The Sock Knitter by Grace Crossington Smith (Australian, 1892 - 1984) |
Monday, September 16, 2013
Quick Postcard
A few pics from the last few days -- for one reason or another everything has a yellowy-greenish glow:
My Aunt Doris has new cats: Marsh(mellow) and Yum(Yum). Are they cute or what??
Last week was spent determining I have no signs of heart disease so that is good news:
And here's my latest knitting project -- a sweater for a little girl we know.
That's all for now!
My Aunt Doris has new cats: Marsh(mellow) and Yum(Yum). Are they cute or what??
Last week was spent determining I have no signs of heart disease so that is good news:
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| ooey ooey oow oow1 |
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Sailing Sailing Over the Ocean Blue. . .
This little blog, in which I used to take great pleasure and care with, will just lay here mostly dormant until I can disengage from this stupid church committee. I'll say no more about it but it is making me lose my religion.
The news here is really Duncan's -- he's thrown himself in with the Coast Guard Auxiliary and is now consumed with classes and meetings and reading navigational charts and -- amazingly enough -- cooking!
They offer, and he attended, an Auxiliary Chef course back in February, and now he is a USCG Auxiliary Food Service Specialist. He went down to Clearwater Florida with another fellow, Joe. and they had a great time together. They are like the grumpy old men, -- Joe is the sunny one and Duncan is the curmudgeon. But now they are cooking buddies and work some weekends in the galley at the Coast Guard station here in Charleston which is down on The Battery -- and a couple of times they have gone out on working cutters for 3 - 4 day stints. Duncan can actually take up to 45 days a year as "military leave" from his job to do this. He is a happy boy.
Joe is a Public Affairs guy and travels with camera -- so all of these pics are thanks to him.
Here are some of the boat's crew. Duncan and Joe were cooking for about 15 all together. All these young guys called Duncan and Joe the FOFs -- Funny Old Farts -- so I take it everyone had a pretty good time.
The news here is really Duncan's -- he's thrown himself in with the Coast Guard Auxiliary and is now consumed with classes and meetings and reading navigational charts and -- amazingly enough -- cooking!
They offer, and he attended, an Auxiliary Chef course back in February, and now he is a USCG Auxiliary Food Service Specialist. He went down to Clearwater Florida with another fellow, Joe. and they had a great time together. They are like the grumpy old men, -- Joe is the sunny one and Duncan is the curmudgeon. But now they are cooking buddies and work some weekends in the galley at the Coast Guard station here in Charleston which is down on The Battery -- and a couple of times they have gone out on working cutters for 3 - 4 day stints. Duncan can actually take up to 45 days a year as "military leave" from his job to do this. He is a happy boy.
Joe is a Public Affairs guy and travels with camera -- so all of these pics are thanks to him.
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| Here they go, off on a 4-day assignment. |
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| Here's how their days started. |
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| Getting Busy |
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| This is what they came for. |
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| Mission Accomplished |
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Cleaning House
I am cleaning like a fury today. Throwing away. Putting up. Rearranging.
I have this little pile of quotes by good women from one of those calendars where you tear the page off every day. These are the ones I could not bear to throw away. I have been keeping them and pushing them around on my desk for . . . 3 years now, I think.
The fury tells me I must throw them away. I'm going to record the quotes here so they're not really gone. Random order. No explanation why it struck me.
June 18, "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest". -- Florence Nightingale.
May 29, "My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?" -- Erma Bombeck
April 20, "The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." Angelina Jolie, academy Award-winning actor and humanitarian (interesting in light of Jolie's announcement this week. . )
July 16, "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. . . Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." -- Hannah Moore, author
March 9, "When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom. Insight. Strength and protection. You stand in peace." -- Oprah Winfrey, TV personality, actor, and founder of O Magazine
February 22, "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." -- Indira Gandhi, political leader
February 9, "If we were to judge nature by common sense of likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed." -- Annie Dillard, writer and poet
September 13, "If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma." -- Theresa Bloomingdale, writer
September 7, "Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. -- Mignon McLaughlin, writer
July 19, "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. -- Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winnning writer and poet
March 16 (Canberra Day in Australia, by the way), "It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows." -- Erma Bombeck, columnist
June 9, "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake." -- Marie Beynon Ray, writer
September 22, "Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." -- Grace Paley, writing and social activist
June 22, "Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground." -- Christina Rossetti, poet
July 31, "When you love someone, say it, right then. Out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by." -- Julia Roberts, Academy Award-winning actor
July 9, "All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." -- Anna Quindlen, author & Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
June 8, "The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have." -- Anna Quindlen, author & Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
June 1, "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." -- Rita Mae Brown, writer & educator
There you go. Now I can throw away one more thing that's been cluttering up my life. I hope you saw at least one little bit of wisdom that you liked.
I have this little pile of quotes by good women from one of those calendars where you tear the page off every day. These are the ones I could not bear to throw away. I have been keeping them and pushing them around on my desk for . . . 3 years now, I think.
The fury tells me I must throw them away. I'm going to record the quotes here so they're not really gone. Random order. No explanation why it struck me.
June 18, "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest". -- Florence Nightingale.
May 29, "My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?" -- Erma Bombeck
April 20, "The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." Angelina Jolie, academy Award-winning actor and humanitarian (interesting in light of Jolie's announcement this week. . )
July 16, "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. . . Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." -- Hannah Moore, author
March 9, "When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom. Insight. Strength and protection. You stand in peace." -- Oprah Winfrey, TV personality, actor, and founder of O Magazine
February 22, "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." -- Indira Gandhi, political leader
February 9, "If we were to judge nature by common sense of likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed." -- Annie Dillard, writer and poet
September 13, "If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma." -- Theresa Bloomingdale, writer
September 7, "Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. -- Mignon McLaughlin, writer
July 19, "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. -- Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winnning writer and poet
March 16 (Canberra Day in Australia, by the way), "It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows." -- Erma Bombeck, columnist
June 9, "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake." -- Marie Beynon Ray, writer
September 22, "Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." -- Grace Paley, writing and social activist
June 22, "Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground." -- Christina Rossetti, poet
July 31, "When you love someone, say it, right then. Out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by." -- Julia Roberts, Academy Award-winning actor
July 9, "All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." -- Anna Quindlen, author & Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
June 8, "The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have." -- Anna Quindlen, author & Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
June 1, "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." -- Rita Mae Brown, writer & educator
There you go. Now I can throw away one more thing that's been cluttering up my life. I hope you saw at least one little bit of wisdom that you liked.
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