On our way to Charleston, while waiting at Logan for our flight, I had my first substantial knitting-in-public-related conversation. I was working on the entrelac scarf, which was just about in the same state as the picture I posted recently, when a woman about my age walked over and asked what I was working on. …
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were away
We just got back (well, yesterday, after getting up at 3:15 AM to catch a 6:00 AM flight) from a week on Hilton Head Island, where Arlene’s sister & brother-in-law had invited us to a timeshare condo. I have lots of pictures to post — I took 98, of which 36 survived the first cut …
Blue Ginger
Somewhere along the line there — alright, it was the 21st — we went out to Blue Ginger to celebrate Charley’s birthday. Blue Ginger is a restaurant that you make a reservation at two weeks in advance, and that calls you the day before to confirm. It’s sort of an Asian fusion nouvelle cuisine place …
More progress pics
Here are updates on Matt’s sweater and a kind of new project, the Danica entrelac scarf (but in different yarn, Garnstudio Alaska, and different colors from the pattern) from Knitty. That was last weekend. By now the second sleeve is all done, all three pieces are connected, and I have a half-dozen rounds done above …
Puzzle
The weekend of Dec. 16 we did a Springbok jigsaw puzzle up in Casco. It must have been a really old one, judging from the copy on the box. It seemed to be written for people who had never seen a Springbok puzzle before. The picture is not our normal style, but if we have …
Hanukah update
Monday Charley, Nicole, and Emma were over at our house for latkes. The gluten-free sweet potato latkes didn’t hold together at all. The ones with flour in them tasted pretty good with sweet potato pie-inspired ginger and cinnamon in ’em. On Tuesday the 19th our hanukiah looked like this — That’s a modular hanukiah, nine …
Hanukah – first night
Last Friday (that’s the 15th) we went over to Charley’s condo for the first night of Hanukah. Nicole and Emma were there, too. Pictures of Hanukah menorahs almost always show you eight candles going (or really, nine). Just because that’s only what they look like on the last night of the holiday, here’s how it …
Kinda quiet weekend
So let’s see, it was relatively uneventful, especially compared to driving all the way to Orono. We did go to Casco. There was no snow there, except for a few little sheltered places. Really, it’s unnaturally warm so far this winter. We walked all around our trails. Without the snow, we had no way of …
Swim 2
OK, so today was my second time in the pool. I did eight lengths in a row (in about 5:20 — a little slow. A goal for midway through the winter is to do 32 lengths in 20 minutes, that is, four 5:00 sets of eight lengths without any stops), rested about a minute and …
Swim
I swam this morning. I think I didn’t get to the pool once last year, so this is something of a breakthrough. Once I’m started I’m likely to keep going. I only did eight lengths, six in a row and then two after a short rest. I was good and out of breath. I looked …