Tomorrow is Nigel Tufnel day.

So, you know how you're not supposed to do anything for hours at a time? Especially when you're creaky and have a fucked up nervous ...

Yes, THAT book. The original. The Principles of Knitting, by June Hemmons Hyatt, published 1988. I bought it in 1989, when I'd been kn...

It's been a while since one of these, hasn't it? I'm sure it is the cat's fault. Do you know what season it is? If you ask...

You know how picky I am about colors? (As well as being interested in how they're recreated.) You know how I've said my local yarn s...

Been busy all day, so I didn't have time to research anything interesting. Potential topics: drugs, plant anatomy, and colonial history....

(Because we ALL need me to take a break from the news for a while.) For those of you just tuning in, I've got a six year old daughter ...

Sorry. ---ETA: Apparently, while I was writing this, the Senate moved to kill not one, but TWO infrastructure jobs bills. S.1769 basically...

This was supposed to be a post about the culture shock of living in the boonies of Pennsylvania. But then this showed up in my RSS feeds th...

It's November, the month that crazy people try to write a novel in thirty-one days. That's way too extreme for me (good luck to you ...

The Goob was a fairy princess. She wore her wings over her winter coat - it was raining and forty degrees out there. I'm now stuck with ...

And where we're going. There was some concern about the last round of directions. So to answer them, first, a photo of a finished EPS ...

This is one that's been making my brain hurt for a while. The husbeast, since he retired, has been working at a factory that builds tu...

Yes. FINALLY. Really sorry. Having read my blathering post, I've come back to the top and am putting in a checklist of steps, so that ...

You know, I am continually amazed at the drugs that are legal, and the drugs that aren't. I've spent a month going through withdrawa...

Oh my. At this point, I don't know if I'm so fucked up because I'm messing with my main pain medication, or because I'm si...

So I could kick them. Finally off the medication that left me fucked up for more than a year, and within days, I'd contracted the ger...

Right. Since I've been diagnosed with middle age, developing problems seeing things up close (LIKE KNITTING), I've been looking - ha...

These stupid leaf edgings have been kicking my ass for OVER A MONTH. And I know there are knit-alongers waiting for me to move my ass and ge...

I am getting back to normal. How do I know? I'm setting stupid goals for myself again, and sometimes meeting them, thanks to the glory o...