Thanks so much for all the well-wishing.  I do feel a lot better, and booked an appointment for April for a physical where I intend to ask the doctor for my x-ray results.  He’s off snorkelling in the Caribbean somewhere for the next few weeks, so I’m not even going to try to pry any [...]

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Ribbing

You may have noticed that things have been quiet here on the blog.   I’ve been busy doing odds and ends,  but mostly I was waiting for a phone call before I could write this and hopefully elicit sympathy from someone somewhere.
The phone call I was waiting for was from my doctor.  You see, two weeks [...]

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Diet Derailment in Progress

Some of my blog friends have been posting about packages they get in the mail, so I thought I would get in on the act.
The doorbell rang this morning, so after subduing the dogs  (Wallace in particular doesn’t realize that I can actually hear the doorbell, and don’t need any additional warning.  What a loudmouth.)  [...]

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Well bless my buttons! I have to thank Kyle for this most auspicious of honours!

I’d like to thank my mother and father, my sisters and their families, the girls from dinner club, my husband – my husband Mike who has put up with my moods forever, my darling children Geoffrey and Andy, my two [...]

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A thousand thanks…

WOW!  When I posted my query about needles a few days ago, I had no idea that so many people were actually reading my blog.  It turns out that all I have to do is ask for an opinion and you come right out of the woodwork!  (Hi May, don’t forget your sunscreen.  and why [...]

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Lazy Person Needs Help!

Since I am basically a lazy person, I would like to enlist my huge readership (all four of you) to help me with a little bit of knitting-related research.  Since I embarked on this sock-knitting thing, I have decided that the circular needles I am currently using, while right on track budget-wise, are less than [...]

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Re-integration

We had a lovely time, thanks. Two weeks in sunny Puerto Vallarta, and I managed to relax for four days before I got twitchy. To be sure, some of the twitch was due to the sunburn and the heat rash, but I have never been very good at just sitting around and soaking [...]

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