In this big old world, there's a lot of systems. And a lot of ways to rebel against them. I've tried many of them, though not all. ...

Was gonna fix that typo in the title, but I thought, no, that's really how it's gone around here. I finished the yarn. Can'...

(Still recovering from the movie. Is going to require a visit with doctors, and may turn into quite an annoyance. Or nothing at all. Still, ...

I'm spinning, and blogging, early today. Later I'm going to see the Avengers and expect to spend two days drooling into a pillow whi...

Or perhaps crankiness. And a shitload of rain. There's a blog post in the works for sometime this week, an international knitting knew...

Such as they are. Lately I've had a major case of Blog Choke. People tell me my blog is fun and they like it, and the more I hear it, ...

Because the hub turned on a show about it tonight, and metal is an ongoing interest of mine. And because you probably have aluminum knittin...

Or rather, kid books. About, oh, six weeks ago, I bought this: It's a book about the periodic table of the elements. It's from ...

Over on Twitter this morning, we were discussing, well, seed stitch and related stuff. And, I don't know if it's a US to UK to Austr...

The way lunatics do! Yes. I drove the Jeep into the back yard, the hub wrapped a tow strap around the pine tree with mange, and we ripped...

Actually, the name is misleading. Because plying is, by definition, strands of fiber wrapped around each other, single ply yarns should real...

(For those new readers I've picked up, hi. I use this blog as a kind of journal, so there's ONE PLACE I know I can always find infor...

Yup. It's my anniversary today. The husbeast and I have been married for twenty years. I feel like the occasion should be marked by some...

I took classes in landscaping and greenskeeping and horticulture and all that. My first, knee-jerk reaction to my house and yard is to bring...

I staggered into OT this morning and asked my guy to do something involving tranquilizer darts and knocking me out for a week. Unfortunately...

I am slooooowly getting back in the groove of blogging. It's really hard to get back in that head space where you think in blog posts as...

If a movie was made of Josephine Baker's life, everyone would say it was too improbable. But it really happened. (I think it was Tom Cla...

Ada Lovelace was born in 1815 and named Agusta Ada Byron. As in Lord Byron. You know, the poet and crazy dude. She was his only legitimate...

But first. This last week of Women's History Month, or whatever the fuck we're calling it in the US, I was going to do a post a day,...

This morning, I saw a link to a history of knitting article go by on my Twitter feed, so of course I clicked on it. Because, hey, ongoing in...