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So many of my blogging friends have taken up a daily posting challenge for the month of November. They will be posting every single day. I am astounded. How will they come up with stuff to say? pictures to take? I admire their stamina. I don’t think I could do it. I don’t think I would want to. I am sure you all wouldn’t want me to!

It is with this spirit – “if you can’t join ’em, be contrary!” – that I present to the world (aka all 10 of you) my new motto ……

Blogging Without Obligation

new motto and manifesto courtesy of Down the Rabbit Hole

Follow that link for a full explanation. It basically says what has been going on here at Chez Swine for some time now.

I will blog when I want to. I will post no entry before its time. Really, I don’t have that interesting a life so you’ll get what you’ll get. Or as many a parent has stated, “When I’m good and ready”. uh oh, I feel a “Do I need to pull this car over and give you something to cry about?!” coming on.

The difference will be that I won’t feel bad about it. That’s going to be the new part.

I have been busy with knitting and spinning …… here is a bobbin full of some corriedale bought at Rhinebeck. Yes, this year’s festival! I am leaning toward leaving this in the loosely spun single stage.

I have other pictures to share, but I can’t quite manage a dual picture posting via Flickr……. stay tuned ……… well, there has got to be an easier way than making another post, then copying the picture code and inserting it into the previous post. Anyway, I also managed to do some Navajo plying on the Blue Faced Leicester that I was working on at Spin Out.

can you see the frost on my railing?

a gauntlet!

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thank you so much for all you gusset input! I cast on again last night and have made great progress — despite the murky translation, this is a really great pattern. Kathleen came to lunch yesterday along with Sue, Granny and Peggy and Sue showed me the way of the gusset. Of course, me being me, I still had to mess around with it, but so far so good. If it actually works out, I will let you know what I did.

The excitement yesterday was D#2 was rear-ended at a stop light.  As a matter of fact she was the fourth of a five car rear ending.  Thankfully no one was hurt.  The Subaru however needs some repairs so Chez Swine is in the midst of a car shuffle.  It is always something.  How about we all channel a little Roseanne Roseannadanna     “If it isn’t one thing it’s another”    ~sigh~

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On the trip up to Rhinebeck, we were discussing cars and how souped up they are these days. How you can even get them with satellite tv’s and while this may seem like nirvana to parents on long road trips that something is lost. What about “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”? What about all of those this-trip-is-never-going-to-end-so-let’s-stare-out-the-window-and-play-a-game games??

Have you ever played the license plate game? Well, we did!

We had a lot of laughs with this and played it both coming and going. Rules were set up – no parked cars, only vehicles with someone behind the wheel. We were all surprised by the variety of plates we saw. And something was definitely up with North Carolina —- there were tons of those cars on the road.

That’s my column there on the left hand side. I almost ran out of room I was so good at that game. ; ) There was some fierce discussion from a certain poor loser in the back seat about what value a Consulate plate should receive. I believe they are the wild card of the license plate game and should have extra points attached. I know I didn’t need to argue about it since I was so far in the lead, but it’s the point of the matter. And check out Vicki spotting another cheesehead on the road!

discuss.