Monthly Archives: June 2025

Toys & Souvenirs

Posted on 2025-06-27 by Holly

I have mentioned that I purchased inaugural season ticket to the GS Valkyries?  We have good seats. Up just high enough to be able to see everything without the use of the Jumbotron and not so high that I get … Continue reading →

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Done Haunting.

Posted on 2025-06-24 by Holly

The Haunted House is done. and so I moved to the July Country Cottage Needleworks. I finsihed up the first half completely, both people figures and started on the second red house. Progress.  

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Strider

Posted on 2025-06-23 by Holly

Is an extremely simple, almost mindless scarf pattern from Martina Behm. I have knit two or three of these in the past. Garter stitch, wraps perfectly. What is not to like. This one is knit of 100% bamboo yarn which … Continue reading →

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Hazards

Posted on 2025-06-21 by Holly

there are literally dozens of bad jokes about men, women and the issues of toilet seats. Up? Down? both? Well, let us add in the issue of animals in the house. Anyone who has a decent size dog knows that … Continue reading →

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two boys and the cat

Posted on 2025-06-20 by Holly

And the boys were by far easier than the cat. First, he didn’t want to take the sedation medicine. Then, he REALLY didn’t want to take it. The end result was a combination of sneaky and just jamming it down … Continue reading →

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Bad puns

Posted on 2025-06-19 by Holly

At first it was cute – the renaming of the basketball court to Ballhalla. But it is starting to get old for me. Yes, the team is the Valkyries. I went to look at the Wiki article. There are obviously … Continue reading →

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House with two faces

Posted on 2025-06-18 by Holly

Remember I said that the house looked grumpy or cranky?  The update at the end of today – So now we have “two faces” and I am not sure what excuse the upper face has for being cranky. Now at … Continue reading →

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Chubby puppies

Posted on 2025-06-17 by Holly

the eight of them are about four weeks old. Vizsla in case you were wondering. Not mine, they belong to Mako, who in tern belongs to daughter and son-in-law. The puppies are cute, they are a lot of work.

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Cranky House

Posted on 2025-06-16 by Holly

Ok, really it is supposed to be the Haunted House, also from Cottage Gardens. But partway through the house, it most definitely has an attitude. This was after a morning zoom meeting. I will say that the upgrades in Zoom … Continue reading →

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LightHouse

Posted on 2025-06-14 by Holly

and a squeak by win for the Valkyries. I think I mentioned that I have season tickets. The home games are in Chase Center, SF in one of the revitalized areas of the city. Yes, I think a lot of … Continue reading →

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A knit finish

Posted on 2025-06-13 by Holly

Yes, I do still occasionally knit something. The something in this case is a very basic garter stitch blanket out of something or other fuzzy from from either JoAnns (remember them?) or Michaels. It started with a garter stitch square, … Continue reading →

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Wrong Number

Posted on 2025-06-12 by Holly

Not just the spam calls, of which, as far as I am concerned, are all wrong numbers. But inserting 729 in place of 927. Now, obviously if you are a fellow dyslexic, that mix up seems obvious. Same numbers, different … Continue reading →

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Another early Wednesday

Posted on 2025-06-11 by Holly

The good thing about an every three month schedule for my forever is that q3mo is better than q2mo. OTOH, it means that I am up at O’dark-a-clock to to make the drive into SF. Obviously there are much worse … Continue reading →

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Yes, stitching

Posted on 2025-06-10 by Holly

It is about all I had the energy to accomplish today. So we have more progress on the Lighthouse (Cottage Garden Samplings) which is on the standard Smoky White Zweigart 18 ct and the threads are (splurge) silk from BeStitchMe … Continue reading →

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Dr Who Snail

Posted on 2025-06-09 by Holly

Every once in a while I get suckered in by one of those mystery stitch boxes. In this case it was a Tardis related collection. If you aren’t familiar with the long running British Dr Who series, all I can … Continue reading →

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Nothing is Amiss

Posted on 2025-06-08 by Holly

I just haven’t dredged up the energy to release the posts from the last few weeks. Promise I will do so this week…

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Fishy’s going on

Posted on 2025-06-05 by Holly

Is complete! The pattern is from LongDogSamplers and is stitched on a 16 ct something or other printed by Fabric Flair. The thread is 12wt Sulky # 4016. It was only about 17k stitches plus a few hundred. The only … Continue reading →

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