Just a quick update.  Dave finished his race (Vineman 70.3 — 1.2 mile swim in the Russian River, 56 miles of cycling through wine country, and 13.1 miles of running)!
This is the result:

(taken yesterday at Bella)
Actually he had a fun time overall — bonked a bit on the run apparently but still enjoyed the course.
We [...]

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Sometimes weekends just work out wonderfully.
With Friday off (a joy in and of itself),  the weekend started yesterday, which means it felt like a Saturday, and today a Sunday, which means tomorrow is a bonus day.
I had an a.m. appointment to continue hiding my gray, get highlights, and a trim, and a noonish appointment for [...]

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I’ve been searching on Craigslist on & off the past few months looking for another bookcase.  With all the pets, the books are much better protected behind glass, so I wanted to find either another barrister bookcase or a double-door case like we found awhile ago.  Plus, despite our constant decluttering efforts, our books resist [...]

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…has been fairly productive.
I ‘finished’ (in quotes because it’s basically a work in progress) the summer calendar, which helped me identify what seeds I want for the fall….then….
…I ordered the following from Seeds from Italy:

75-91: indiva pancalieri a costa rosata
30-51: Broccoli Romanesco
61-10: Fava Bean, Supersimonia, 100 gram
115-1B: Cultivated Arugula – ORganic [...]

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Knitting
33 out of 50 of the four-row repeats on the first half of Flutter are done!
I’m going to update my books for sale on Ravelry today…. (DONE)
I’ve purged a lot of old saved (free) patterns from my laptop and need to do the same on the desktop. (DONE) I can always just favorite them on [...]

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…the pattern is memorized, I can ‘read’ what I’m doing, Dave and Rigel no longer have to cover their ears!

US 1 circular Addi’s
KnitPicks Alpaca Cloud in Iris Heather
Flutter by MimKnits

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