Category: Lifestyle
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I am stubborn to a fault
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I have a new yarn nemesis. We could have been friends, but I fear, due to my own waywardness, it is too late now. It all started so well, too . . . A bit ago, I entertained myself while my mother-in-law went to the…
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Well! Look who crawled out of the woodwork!
Well, well, well, if it isn’t December. However did we end up here and with so much still on the hook? And, you might ask, where the heck have I been for months? I would dearly like to tell you that I found a Door. I would like to tell…
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A woolly bag of solace
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes My daughter Adia was an early reader. She stayed up late at night reading the words she could from The Blue Fairy Book by the hallway light until she mastered the magical world of words. Books became her comfort items, so she always carried a…
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A day for weaving ends
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I do a lot of projects with far too many ends. Ends are, after all, the means to greatness, but they are also the means to my destruction when there are 2000 or more of them, and I have left them all for the end,…
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Murder on the lawn
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Allow me to be dramatic for a moment. A murder happened on my lawn three weeks ago. For most of the country, probably the world, it wouldn’t even be a murder. It would just be life, but for my family, and many of our neighbors,…
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Thursday on the Covid train
Estimated reading time: 1 minute With apologies to AA Milne, I present my little Covid poem. There is a window where I sit There isn’t any other quite like it It isn’t open to the outside Behind its glass I must now hide Quarantined yet again Covid is a horrid…
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The tale of the haunted spinning wheel
Estimated read time: 4 minutes Sometimes when you spin people give you spinning wheels. They do not give you priceless heirlooms that are aesthetically scrumptious, they give away tired wheels that definitely need work and may need parts. The wheels may, as my daughter’s did, come with extra parts that…
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