This Doesn’t Look Like Thursday To Me

And yet, it’s raining.  Had I known it was going to rain this morning, I would not have watered my plants last night.
Yesterday, I got a text message from Plimco in which she announced the reception of her afghan.  She confirmed to me what I suspected was true–that no matter how good it looked in [...]

In Bloom

My sage is blooming.  I need to take a picture to show y’all but I just want to say, for the record, that I cut that plant down to the ground last fall with nothing but some dried up stubs of twigs left to show for itself.  And now?  Now it’s blooming.  Amazing, really.
And the [...]

Wet Blanket

So, see, I’m totally justified in spreading out my completed, but sopping wet afghan on the Butcher’s bed to dry, not because he’s going to be gone for a few days only to call and ask what the name of the diamond building in Chicago is named (Smurfit-Stone) and not to tell me he got [...]

Things on the Verge of Being Amazing

Here’s a couple of pictures of the front of my afghan (which, at the time, was not fully pieced together) and the back of the afghan. Both sides have their own charm and I trust that Miss Plimco will find occasion to treat both sides as the “right side.”
Also, here are a couple of [...]

Just Some Squares on the Couch

Thanks to a relatively bland Ghost Hunters and a kind of eh, but sad episode of Law & Order, I am done making squares for the Kool-aid afghan and they are all stacked in two piles.
It will not be an enormous afghan, but it will be wild and I cannot believe that I did everything [...]

Sidelong Glances

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A Couple of Quick Things While My Internet is Working

–Considering what a piss-poor job AT&T does of keeping the internet flowing to my house, I don’t think Comcast has to worry about losing me as a cable customer.  If I had TV as infrequently as I have my internet connection, I might pass out.
–Guess which Flying Spaghetti Monster got a shout out in Rolling [...]

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. How Does Your Garden Grow?

Well, because a girl should think twice before not doing what nm tells you to do, I’ve acquired a couple of pepper plants and a couple of pots to put them in.  I got a cayanne pepper plant and a purple bell pepper plant, which, when I told my dad about it, required him to [...]

Cats in Slacks!!!!!!

Oh, holy sweet Jesus, I am about to have to fall over.  I just got an email alerting me to this site–Cats in Slacks–in which this artist has a bunch of prints of Cats in Slacks.
I don’t think I have to tell you, America, what a short path it is from a cat in small [...]

With Slight Modifications

My crochet cooter instructions could also be used to make crochet abalones.
Just saying.

Oh Kool-aid Afghan!

I swear, I’m very close to the novelty of the afghan wearing off, so you won’t have to hear about it every five second.  But can I just say that now that I’ve started on some of the squares (I’m going with a modified granny square, I’ve decided.  Just the small squares from the pattern [...]

Kool-aid Yarn Pics

Rule 1:  Wait for things to stop swinging.

Anyway, obviously I found the blue.

Lost Cooter Found

Speaking of yarn crafts…

Kool-aid Dying is Easy; Living is Hard

I want to run around singing the praises of dying yarn with kool-aid.  It is so easy and so fun and you really can get these vivid, vivid amazing colors.  And the orange… Oh my god.. the orange.  I’ve never been what you might call a fan of orange, but the orange you get from [...]

Maybe a Yellow Afghan?

Now that I’m done with the Tiny Cat Pants afghan (which, for all you doubters–Jim Voorhies–was declared beautiful by my boss), I’m thinking about what I will do next.  I have a vague memory of promising the Missus an afghan, and I’ve been mulling over in my mind making an afghan for Plimco.
I hear you [...]

Please Don’t Unravel

The Tiny Cat Pants afghan is done and in the wash as we speak because someone, you may recall, was using it while he had the flu and I would rather not give the flu to the one person who’s bound to appreciate this ugly afghan which I am in love with.
I will take a [...]

The End is Near!

I’m putting the border on the Tiny Cat Pants afghan as we speak and I must tell you that, somehow, the TCP afghan has ended up being both shockingly hideously ugly–I’m talking breath-takingly ugly, unapologetically ugly–and the most awesome afghan I’ve ever made.  This is an afghan that demands you throw it over you while [...]

Crossville Flying Spaghetti Monster

Y’all, today I received an email so awesome that I’m a little in awe of the fact that people this cool think to write me and tell me about their coolness.
Before I get to it, let me just give you a little background, for those of you who are not from Tennessee.  Because, while I [...]

Someone Stole My Cooter!

Y’all, as you may recall, I sent Rachel from Women’s Health News a crocheted cooter through inter-office mail two weeks ago.  It has yet to arrive.
I think it may be time to acknowledge that the cooter is not going to get there.
One wonders if someone in the mail room confiscated it.  Or if Rachel’s boss [...]

The Tiny Cat Pants Afghan Is Already in Use

My only goal for today, aside from doing laundry, is to try to either finish up the TCP afghan or get it much closer to being finished.  Because, if I don’t soon get that puppy out the door and into Georgia’s hands, the Butcher is going to steal it.
He’s already taken to sleeping under the [...]

Make Your Own Crochet Cooter!

After having perused the internet, I see that no one has bothered to post a pattern for crochetting your own girly bits. I, dear readers, having done it myself once, now share with you how to do it yourselves.
There are a few things it’s helpful to keep in mind. 1. When crocheting [...]

A Crochet Cooter

I had to put the Tiny Cat Pants afghan on hold for the evening (but I worked on it at the car dealership while they were changing my oil and rotating my tires, so it wasn’t completely neglected) because I’m having lunch with Rachel from Women’s Health News tomorrow and I wanted to have something [...]

Interesting Things from Around the House

I tried to wander around the house finding all the stuff I’d want to show you if you were wandering around the house with me.
My Great Grandma Teckla was a writer and painter.  Here’s a portrait of my mom she did.  I have no idea what the characters in the upper right hand corner are, [...]

You Know, This Contest Was Supposed to Be Difficult for You, Not for Me

Okay, I see no way to declare a winner, since I’m still not sure whether it’s John Barrymore or Errol Flynn, myself.
I did, however, learn that someone kidnapped John Barrymore’s corpse and left it at Errol Flynn’s house, for reasons that I’m sure make sense to the folks involved, but kind of weirded me out.
I [...]

Announcing the Tiny Cat Pants Afghan Contest!

I’ve been searching for a contest with just the right amount of ridiculousness and opportunity for cheating in order to give away the afghan I’m working on.  I’m not very far along on it (it’s been vexing me), but I have enough now for you to get the general gist of where it’s going and [...]