by StephCat | Sep 13, 2010 | Knitting
Garden News Last week we cleared out the earthboxes & refilled them as needed with fresh potting soil. The tomatillos are still doing okay, so we left them, but I cleared out a lot of no-longer-productive plants. We had a head of volunteer Lacinato kale ready to...
by StephCat | Sep 10, 2010 | Knitting
Dave’s first day of the new school year is today. No students today, just teacher/department/etc meetings, but he went in at his normal time (rode his bike to work! 20+ miles one way). What with budget cuts, there wasn’t any summer school to teach,...
by StephCat | Sep 7, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
Scottish Highland Knits by Sarah Dallas, Wendy Baker and Catherine Tough, Trafalgar Square Books, 2007, 96 pp. If nothing else, Rowan produces really, really pretty books. The photography is gorgeous (though not all pics show the garment as clearly as...
by StephCat | Sep 1, 2010 | Knitting, Travel
On the Thursday of our visit to Austin, I visited Sustainable Fibers in Elgin, TX. I brought my mom along — she’d never visited a mill before, and we were planning on going to lunch afterwards. We had a lovely time! I’ve visited small mills...
by StephCat | Aug 29, 2010 | Knitting
One thing about being self employed is that you set your own hours & days. As a relief vet, of course, if I take a job at a clinic, the hours I’m there are dictated by their needs. As a tech editor, I work on jobs as I have them, regardless of the day of...
