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Hat = Done
What do you think? This new pattern knits up a lot longer than my last one, so next time I won’t go up as high before I decrease, but I like it generally. Sciarrino had a go with it too: What a goof, being choked by paper samples is probably how she will end up …
My mom is cool!
Happy Mother’s Day moms! This morning Brent and I drove to Salem to hang out with my mom and grandma. We had a really good brunch at The Wild Pear yum, yum, yum. Of course we had some good conversations, as is our custom 🙂 We talked about a bunch of stuff but one thing …
Baseball and Blythe
I’ll deal with baseball first. Well baseball and Bj’s birthday, yay he’s 23!!!! On Bj’s birthday we drove up to Seattle pretty early (as soon as I dropped Nick off at school). The drive was really rainy and pretty gross. However when we got close to Seattle God smiled down and the sun came out. …
The Scary Story
Okay, this is my scary story about Black Butte. My family used to have a vacation house there that we shared with two other families. Our house was in the Glaze Meadow section of Black Butte. Our place was one of a few on a little cul de sac called Salal. Behind our house was …
Free Association Wednesday
slime Comment on the first thing that comes into your head when you see this word, for more help see the first free association Wednesday. …
Mentos and Yarn
Okay so I was looking at my stats for this blog and I had a super high number of hits. PEOPLE IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE MENTOS COMMERCIAL, I DON’T HAVE IT YET, SORRY! But I am seriously trying to get it still so check back. Okay enough of that. So it’s about five …
Knitting is like, so totally awesome
Okay I love these kids that I am looking after. After a busy weekend with lots of friends and fun things I said I wanted to do something just us three like we used to do on our days. I didn’t even have to pull anybody’s leg. Nick has been wanting to learn to knit …
Too bad I’m too old for prom…
Because it sure would be fun to get all dressed up. Lacey and I headed to Portland today to pick out her prom dress. I am staying at Nick and Lacey’s until Wednesday. Nick and Lacey are my all time favorite kids from my Summer Sitting Service I had many years ago. Every Wednesday we …
Potato Corn Chowder
This is my favorite all time thing to make and eat. I am pretty sure I could live off of it: 2 onions7 strips baconlots of potatoes (I think I used a whole bag yesterday)1 can creamed corn1 can not creamed cornsaltpepperand I don’t think it is complete with out Johnny’s Cook bacon in little …