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We had some excitement around here this weekend – and not the good kind. On Saturday Boar got a call from his mother saying that she had fallen and was sure her wrist was broken. Off to the ER.

Angie was coming off a ladder and had one foot on the ground and the other on the bottom rung. Somehow in turning, she lost her balance. xray revealed not only did the wrist break, but the bones slid past one another in the impact. ick. The first attempt was to set it and then re-xray it to see how things were looking.

Things were looking like she should have surgery to set it with pins. So she was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night with the thought that surgery would be Sunday. The cardiologist was not happy with her low heart rate and ordered a stress test before the surgery. MiL has always had a low heart rate, is very aerobically fit and this was no surprise. However the stress test can not be performed until today.

When we went to see Angie yesterday she seemed happy enough, even though she was stuck in the hospital with nothing happening. She does a lot of volunteer work for the hospital and she was checking out what all of her guild’s fundraising had reaped.

why was she on the ladder in the first place? she was painting her kitchen. When I offered to paint her kitchen for her after she gets sprung – she just kind of stared blankly at me. Had I forgotten my place? in the world of our painting life, she is the master – and she hates the way I cut in!

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A little bit of everything today. First off, the home improvement project – a new foyer light fixture! Mr. Boar says, “It’s nice, but what was wrong with the old one”

Next up, the knitting. Ann says, “I am so sick of this I want to take my Addis and stab myself in the eye.”

And to make matters worse, even though I am on the final stockinette repeat according to the directions, I am also at the point where if I want to make this bigger, I should add another repeat. I DO want to make this bigger. I DO NOT want to knit another repeat! argh!

Cara is coming over tomorrow – maybe I can get her to knit it for me?

a pictureless post

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D#2 is away until Sunday and has my camera with her. This was a maternally sanctioned borrowing (unlike many other times) so I have no one to blame but myself for lace of FO pictures. And there have been FO’s!

I completed the Raindrop Lace socks. I knit them using Cherry Tree Hill yarn. Love the yarn, love the pattern It’s by Evelyn Clark, so how could I go wrong? I also finished another mobius – the same Cat Bordhi pattern, but this time using my hand-spun. I can’t remember a thing about this hand-spun, so I must have done it a long while ago. I think this mobius is great for hand-spun because it doesn’t take a lot of yardage – plus is a very cool thing.

Another thing I don’t have a picture of? my new kitchen table – yay! It arrived yesterday and I adore it. Here is a link to Scott’s website. Our table looks a lot like the trestle table on the right. I made a pot roast dinner last night just to christen it (and yes, it has been damp and dreary enough to warrant pot roast in August).

And now for the answer to my two truths and a lie post …… you seem to be under the impression that I am a wild thing. Or that I was a wild thing. And the truth of the matter is that number three was the lie – but not because I wasn’t toeing the line.

The way Cara and Julia did the game was that all three answers were true except one had a small lie within it, so my little lie is within my third answer. I really, truly have led a dull and boring life (although I have a rich interior life shall we say). But I never got a bad grade in English. I come from a long line of English teachers – it simply wasn’t allowed. My educational struggles were all in science and math.

I have to run along now and polish my halo. : )

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Today we are off to take D#1 back to school for her sophomore year. She had a campus job for the summer and spent all of June and July on campus. The job ended early in August and she has been here with us for the past three weeks. It has been so, so nice to have her home and I am going to miss her! I shall concentrate on all the car knitting and try to ignore the fact that my children are growing up and leaving me. wah!

In news from the wood shop ….. John and I churned out three chairs yesterday. I started the day off making a tutorial, complete with pictures. The minute the carpenter’s protractor came out, my confidence began to flag. I persisted. Pictures were snapped, notes were taken. Then the angles and bevels came into play. holy cow.

Is this something you guys would really make? The rip cuts? The angling of edges? We used the following: a table saw, jig saw, radial arm saw, router, nail gun and electric drill. And of course the absolutely indispensible Boar. Have you got yourselves a Boar?

wouldn’t you rather the secrets to my fabulous marshmallows? for those you will need a candy thermometer and a mixer.

Darlings, if a tutorial you want, a tutorial you shall have. I am here to do your bidding.

well, you know, I mean most of your bidding – at least as far as wood shop is concerned. For all that other stuff, I’m gonna need wine. Lots of wine. and maybe some shots.