Judy’s Magic Cast On
Provisional cast ons over a second cable needle
Techknitter’s 3 in 1 jogless join
Magic Loop
SpindleCat’s plain, hammered copper stitchmarkers
Ravelry (duh)
Top down sweaters, in the round
Hemmed, picot edging
Tubular cast ons & off

I finished the Bronte mitts — they are extraordinarily soft & fuzzy & warm.  I finished Dave’s house socks (pictured in the previous [...]

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…the violence of the lambs….Black Sheep!
Weresheep?  There sheep!  40 million of them.  And they’re hungry.
One memorable scene Dave couldn’t even watch, he buried his face in the couch.  (I was laughing so hard I was crying).  Then he sold my copy of the movie on eBay.
I think it’s a funny movie.  Lots of gore, lots [...]

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So far I’ve finished a pair of Husbeast and have cast on for Thuja and am about halfway through the first sock.
October goals:

Thuja done!
self-designed man socks
basic, ribbed house socks (though I could do these and have them count for the November SKA KAL)
finish the 2 pairs of in progress fingerless mitts
one pair of women’s fingerless [...]

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I have no clue what happened to September. It’s gone.  Even here in SoCal the mornings are finally a bit cooler.  I was still in a t-shirt and shorts for Rigel’s 6 a.m. walk, but the 68 degrees house temperature felt toasty and welcoming when we got back.
September, other than finishing up some sock WIPs [...]

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After the experience of one (yes, just one) of our solar lights disappearing from our frontyard, Dave & I are a little leery of putting out anything too nifty out front.  However, we can decorate the backyard and have been thinking about what to get.
Decorating the backyard primarily means, in our case, putting something up [...]

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….with my mom-in-law Rosemary (wearing the Lady E I gave her).
La Lana is a must-see if you are in Taos.  Hand-dyed, handspun and millspun wool, silk and mohair (and various blends), with primarily native plant dyes…..

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‘nuf said.

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Finally, finally, finally I have the domain name I wanted!  It matches the name of my blog, of my bloggy alterego — Sunset Cat.  For whatever reason, someone else had bought (and not even used) my domain name.  I stalked it for awhile, and even after it was supposed to be available, it wasn’t;  but [...]

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So, as I type, Mr Greenjeans aka Mr Sunshine is drying/blocking.  (Actually it’s been doing so for several hours.) I’m planning on mailing it this week to its intended recipient…..for once, I’ve gotten something actually done on time.
We had a stack (well, three) of Netflixes:  Disturbia, The Contract, and Venus, which we watched this weekend.
The [...]

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Quick update on the Independence goals:

Plant something:  nada but we did clean out the garage and I have identified several sets of bins to make into homemade earthboxes (PDF here)
Harvest something:  ate some Santa Rosa plums;  ate some plums from a coworker off her Santa Rosa plum tree
Preserve something:  nada, not enough to harvest
Plan/Manage:  does [...]

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