-
Recent Posts
Archives
All Pages
- Home
- Cross Stitch
- Blog
- Projects
- TFME
- Kuwait Diary
- Knit & Spin
- Knit & Spin
- 2007 – Finished Projects
- UFO’s 2007
- 2008 – Finished Socks
- Finished Socks – 2007
- 2006 – Finished Socks
- Prior to 2006 – Socks
- Orphans and Odd-Balls
- The 1995 Sock Yarn Review
- 2007 – Finished Projects
- UFO’s 2007
- 2008 – Finished Socks
- Finished Socks – 2007
- 2006 – Finished Socks
- Prior to 2006 – Socks
- Orphans and Odd-Balls
- The 1995 Sock Yarn Review
Meta
Category Archives: Home
If it is Tuesday
it is not Belgium. (reference – the 1969 movie – two links for you – Wiki & Internet Archives. Instead this is packing day. We leave tomorrow for two weeks in Morocco, so not Belgium either. But first – the … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Travel
Leave a comment
Phone do-loops
There are a number of Filk songs about computer programing, stupid programing, and getting stuck in an endless do-loop. And then there is the VA phone system. First, you have to listen to about 2 minutes of “gratuitous mental health … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Octopus
I have new towels. Ordered from Calamityware during one of Don’s kickstarters. I have a number of their fun things and have purchased more than a few items for gifts. The quality is excellent, but I find their shipping costs … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Kiting checks
I was thinking this morning, which is always a dangerous thing to do. I was placing an entry in my check register this past Tuesday and thinking out how infrequently any of us use a checkbook anymore. And certainly not … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Plateau
Looks like I was a bit too optimistic yesterday claiming I felt better. Then I spent all of last nght coughing which has continued into today. So not fun. All of this is compounded by the presence of a mid-week … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Getting better
each day that is going by. Coughing a bit less and my energy level is a bit more. Today was good enough that I ran a couple of errands before conducting a search and seizure in the garage. As it … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Stitch, Home, yarn
Leave a comment
What was the old story?
Oh, yes the brave tailor – seven with one blow. He meant flies…. But anyway, I count today as a success with managing to accomplish two tasks with one trip to SF. The first was to pick up my new … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Roll ‘Em!
Before I get into my plans for this coming year, let me provide a quick summary of the last two weeks. UGH! Someone brought COVID home, I got it + a secondary pneumonia. Did I mention that this was within … Continue reading
Posted in Home
2 Comments
Sleeping in
Late enough that the coffee at my bedside was stone cold. I took today as another day on which not to push myself. Just did a few small tasks, sorted out some floss, and looked at a list of projects … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Set for January
Back to the stitching stuff – which is extremely boring for a few cruisers and non-stitchers reading this. So, I will be polite and cover those areas first. It was laundry day. Aren’t you just thrilled? Four loads pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Stitch, Home
Leave a comment
Coughing isn’t fun
No one needs to listen to me whine, which is all I have felt like. Also explains why I am not bothering to send out mass emails. It all started perhaps on Saturday night, but certainly by Sunday I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Stitch, family, Home, Medical
1 Comment
Old Stitcher
from Longdog Samplers. Started on the cruise, finished today (the 343 remaining stitches). One of my friends provided the background on the pattern: it is a smaller piece extracted from Jules new Fisher King Pattern which I love but it … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Dragged ourselves out
of the house and to Haas Pavilion. Two women’s basketball games today, two tomorrow. I had figured to walk into Berkeley, then up the hill to Haas. George had a memorial service to attend today at 1000 in Palo Alto. … Continue reading
Posted in Basketball, Home
Leave a comment
Ears
The Oakland VA clinic has a PA who has done additional training in ENT. I had an appointment this morning to get my ears checked, cleaned out as necessary etc. Did I mention that I have had serious hearing problems … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Turkey Day
And US Thanksgiving rolls around again. Unlke when we lived in Germany, we don’t often have extra people at the table. Invitations were extendewd but schedules conflicted. We hauled out the “good dishes” (Troubador pattern from Villery&Boch which we bought … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Stitch, family, Home
Leave a comment
Some Idiot
decided that it is a good idea to start placing their SPAM calls as early as 0800 US East Coast Time. So my phone rings with what is obviously a spam call at what is 0500 here. I had not … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Stitch, Home
Leave a comment
Poppies
No, puzzles haven’t comletely falled off my radar – this small one was purchased in Portland (Maine that is) on our cruise this fall…
Posted in puzzles
Leave a comment
Better Late
Than never. That is what I decided at about 0900 this morning when I realized that there was one, sadly empty laundry basket in our bedroom. Since we have another basket, and it was missing – well there was the … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Among the flamingos
I am not sure what she was thinking – or even if she was. But all my lawn ornament flamingos really don’t provide much cover. And they certainly don’t make for snacks.
Posted in Home
Leave a comment
Still working on the wall
I mentioned, didn’t I, that we were having some retaining walls repaired. Other than a couple of places, nothing had been done to any of them for years and years. Which means long before we moved in. Everything was fine … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Leave a comment