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I may have been hallucinating, but this morning I could have sworn I saw a copy of the Magna Carta (Not a reproduction!  The genuine article!) for sale on Ebay.  There had been no bids yet.  The opening bid was a paltry $220,000.00 (US), so I was going to reccomend that you bid early and bid [...]

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Pirates and Ghosties and Knitting, oh my!

We saw the Pirate movie last night.  Good music as usual, but the movie is almost too long to go without a trip to the bathroom three hours long.   There were four of us sitting by the aisle, and four people sitting in our row closer to the other aisle.  You’ d think that when they [...]

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A Roll of the Dice…

We just got back from the hospital, wherer we were visiting our older son’s best friend.  He rolled his car on a country road yesterday morning, and ended up with two stitches on his knuckle, a torn spleen, and some trauma to his lungs.  He looks fine, and is in good spirits.  Ever since our [...]

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On the flip side…

A while back I wrote about an issue that a friend was having about breaking up with her hairdresser.  At the time, I thought it was all a little silly, but lo and behold, I’ve been ditched!  I dropped in at the salon to buy some hair goop, and gosh darn it, my Hair Guy [...]

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Alias Mallaganes

This is what I have decided to do with the Mallaganes:
 
It will be a jacket, with the green garter trim and button bands.  Yes, I am mixing it.  The tweed stitch does tend to hide the texture of the Magallanes, but the “thick and thin” was pretty pronounced, and I didn’t like the feel of [...]

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A rose is a rose…

It has come to my attention that several persons who attend the friendly and supportive knitting group at Prairie Lily Knitting Shop in Saskatoon on Wednesday mornings take umbrage at my reference to the group as “Wednesday Morning S&B”.  I must, first and foremost, apologize to those who take offense.  I certainly did not mean to [...]

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Felted Purse Decrescendo

I am excited.  We went to Prince Albert to take Mike’s aunt for lunch on Friday (She’s 94 and still living on her own.  She never married or had children; I’m pretty sure that’s what’s kept her young.) and after lunch, Mike sulked sat in the car while I checked out Beth’s Yarn (sadly, Beth does [...]

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You like me, you really like me!

I really feel like part of the community- I’ve been tagged for a meme!  (Thanks, Kim and Marjorie.  No, really!  Thanks!)
For anyone reading who is newer than me, a meme is where you get tagged by someone to do a certain thing (in this case, list 7 random things about yourself) and then tag seven [...]

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I am working on my buttons.  Oh, that sounds slightly odd.  Okay, I have the buttons for Knitters without Borders and the Slogalong in my sidebar, and the nice man at WordPress support is being very patient and hopefully will tell me how to link the buttons to the actual sites instead of Flickr. 
On another [...]

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Out of my Depth

I am having a challenge today, trying to get both the Knitters Without Borders button and the Slogalong button into my sidebar.  I am challenged.  So, I will just take a leaf (no pun intended) out of Ruth’s book (or was that off Ruth’s tree?  Dunno) and give you this:

We should have apples this year! 
Happy [...]

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