by StephCat | Aug 12, 2010 | Knitting, Travel
Back to Random.org to generate the random numbers: Winner of a pattern collection and the skein of Handwerks in Sumac: Comment #80 — Suzie 2nd pattern collection winner: 2 — Amy 3rd pattern collection winner: 10– Nicole Congrats! I’ve also...
by StephCat | Jul 16, 2010 | Knitting, Travel, Triathlon
…as of earlier this week. Our mornings are dawning brilliantly clear. The ocean temp’s gone up a few degrees just over the past week (I’ve been in twice, went body boarding Wednesday a.m. and splashing about (in the June gloom) last week). The...
by StephCat | Jul 1, 2010 | Knitting, Travel
I’m very excited to say I’m going to be attending the Mittens of Rovaniemi workshop at Suzanne’s gorgeous home in Preston, Washington. Suzanne is one of the organizers of the Madrona Fiber Arts conference and offers various summer workshops. ...
by StephCat | Jun 8, 2010 | Knitting, Travel
The Black Water Abbey Haw was waiting for me when we got back from our whirlwind trip. Trip:Â Breakfast at Joe’s in Santa Barbara, beachcombing/hiking excursion at Montana de Oro (found a cool bone, ocean bleached, probably a sea lion humerus, gave it back to...
by StephCat | Sep 28, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Travel
Yesterday we (Dave, me, Rosemary & Curtis) did a day trip up to Santa Ynez and the surrounding area for winetasting, a picnic, and alpacas. We tasted & picnicked at Zaca Mesa, then visited Alpacas at West Ranch (Orsino!) and had a lovely visit. Hayley and...
by StephCat | Sep 6, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Travel
The hiking trip was fun! We hiked around Mountain Lake in Moran State Park. We tasted rose hips (bland), wild grapes (sour) and gooseberries (delicious!) as wells as some greens. We saw banana slugs. Nat had baked some blackberry scones the night before for us...