Now that summer’s in full swing, here’s something fun that will help others as well: knit or crochet a scarf for the Special Olympics 2011 Winter Games
They have patterns if you need one, or you can use your own. This would be a good project if you have some young, old, or in-between knitters or […]
If you’re anything like me, you’re at the beginning of the major growing season and the end of the school season (with all that entails), so you get how busy things are here. Not to mention two of my kids are in band (a year-round endeavor) and they start into the marching band season next […]
I just ran across The Burning Platform from an article over at The Market Oracle which was picked up on The Oil Drum (great thing to follow if you’re at all interested in energy).
Not only does this guy get the whole generational thing, but he’s not afraid to say what he’s thinking. (better not read […]
Just stumbled across a blog called One Straw, which is going on my reader. He’s saying stuff I’ve been saying for a while now.
One thing I really liked was this article: HOA meets CSA. I’ve been slacking off quite a bit lately, and to see someone else in an HOA taking this seriously is tremendously […]
When I sit on my meditation cushion and (try to) meditate, one of the types of meditation I seem drawn to the most is ‘metta’ meditation. During this type of meditation, you work at cultivating feelings of loving kindness and friendliness to all being…
Just wanted to share the socks I made for my husband during Ravelry’s Ravelympics challenge (which, of course, was during the Olympics):
These are from a discontinued kit I got at KnitPicks.com, called the “sock cocktail”. It has a bunch of different patterns for the sock’s body, heels, toes, and cuffs that you can mix and […]
Just wanted to share the socks I made for my husband during Ravelry’s Ravelympics challenge (which, of course, was during the Olympics):
These are from a discontinued kit I got at KnitPicks.com, called the “sock cocktail”. It has a bunch of different patterns for the sock’s body, heels, toes, and cuffs that you can mix and […]
Our back garden, house and veg garden are on a little hill. The slope (in red) is quite steep, and we terraced the part where the soil had been disturbed and was eroding. We put beds on either side (only the two lowest ones shown in brown) and a path of grass in the middle. […]
A friend showed me this article about the relation between taxes and population movement in the US. Basically, people move when taxes get too high. Businesses move, families move.
The states they leave are usually blue states, those that receive them are more likely to be red states. Good for the states getting them, right?
Not necessarily. […]
If you have the means, please send money to a legitimate relief organization, preferably one that has a presence in Haiti already with people who speak the language. If not, please pray. They have a long road ahead of them. This is 9/11 on a national scale in terms of the destruction the earthquake has […]
