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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. : )

excuses, excuses ….

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A game and some explanations – pick the lie ……..

I have been oddly absent from the blog because:

1. The third and final season of Arrested Development came out on DVD. I am a rabid fan of this show and have spent countless hours memorizing lines I find especially hysterical. I insert them into daily conversations and laugh wildly at my cleverness. Naturally the release of this final DVD is tantamount to a high holy day in my house and everything came to a screeching halt as I committed these episodes to memory. Stay tuned for more hilarity!

2. With summer winding down and all the gray and rainy days we have been having, I have been very low key and not felt like blogging.

3. Julia invited me to join her in a game. Not realizing what I was getting myself into, I accepted. So did Cara. After reading both of their entries for this game, it dawned on me what a boring life I have been living and I became vocally paralyzed. No tales of breaking and entering from me folks. I have too much respect for our judicial system for that! No hair raisers about my naked ta-ta’s on exotic beaches. I have enough freckles thank you very much. What could I possibly write about? That time I got the bad grade on my english paper? How about when I skipped class with Tina that one day and we hung out in my back yard pool floating on rafts and feeling very Thelma & Louise? When you are a GOOD GIRL like me and your mother raised you RIGHT, there is very little adventure with which to entertain. ~sigh~ being a pillar of the community can be such a burden at times.

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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.