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Dancing Snowball

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Have you seen Snowball dance? Check out the original post here. You can see a long version here.

Marianne, Moonflower sounds like a dream plant! Huge fragrant flowers (6 inches) that glow under the moonlight. It thrives in poor, dry soil. (Can you believe that?) Just plant and enjoy. You can’t ask for an easier plant! :lol: And I can just go on Burpee.com and order the seeds! Yippee for Burpee!!! This is making me want to garden again. Just need to figure out where. CB and I used to do more gardening, putting fresh flowers around our unit. But we have a couple of ladies here that think anything on the property is theirs to play with. They move them wherever they want. They throw their old plants in our pots. One of them waters plants with powerful jets that always damage the delicate flowers. The worst is the sprinkling of chemicals on the plants. We just stopped bringing in new plants because they get killed anyway.

Oh Jane, they have Bleeding Heart (which I love too) on Burpee.com. :-) And they can be shipped to California! It’s out of season though.

Speaking of growing something…

I am letting my hair grow long. :lol: Possibly longer than shoulder length. I’ve never had my hair that long. So, what the heck. If I don’t like it, I’ll just have it cut, and maybe donate it to a charity. Will they take graying hair? :-) Let me tell you something though. I went to the store to get hair product to keep my stubborn hair tidy. Talk about a large selection of stuff. I was totally lost. Oh! And I got this:

SCRUNCHIES! No, not for my hair! :lol: I’ll be using these to replace the rubber bands tensioning devices on the Lendrum. Hmmm… but maybe I’ll save a few for later. :-)

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Aging… Not So Gracefully

Thursday, October 4, 2007

1. I finally got out of the house and went to th SnB at Culver City on Monday. I fully intended to cast on for Spider Queen. I took everything with me… almost. Pattern, yarn, waste yarn, needles, etc. But I forgot an important piece of information I needed. Instructions on Provisional Cast-on! Grrrr… What’s even worse. Lightening condition was not optimal and I was having a tough time looking at my knitting, even with a yarn like Manos del Uruguay. Yikes! I need reading glasses.

2. On Tuesday I went to the doctor’s office to get my blood pressure reading. He wanted to keep an eye on me because my BP was almost the level of Hypertension, and there’s family history. It was better on Tuesday, but still in the borderline range. I ordered a home monitor on Amazon.

3. I got sick. Probably caught something at the SnB, or at the hospital. Funny how you go to the hospital to stay or get healthy, but sometimes you end up taking something home with you.

Better news… I got on Ravelry. I didn’t think I’d want another account on another social networking site. But I got in line for a beta account just in case. Got it last week, and guess what… it is quite good. It’s not another blog or photo management thing. It’s more like a big digital project management for fiber lovers. It links to blogs and Flickr account, making it easy to keeping project notes super easy. You can browse projects and patterns, and with one click adding it to future project queue. I am really loving these features. And of course, there are features that let you easily connect to like-minded individuals. By the way, my ID is midpath on Ravelry. :-)

More good news. I casted on for Spider Queen last night! hehehe I was going to do the usual Provisional Cast-on by wrapping the cast-on stitches around a piece of waste yarn. (Maybe it was a good thing that I didn’t have the instructions on Monday.) But those twisted stitches could easily get out of place if one’s not careful. So I went with the Crocheted Chain method, picking up stitches through the bumps on the back of the chain. I found clear instructions here.

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Hooray For The Weekend

Saturday, September 29, 2007

I am working through work projects and I think I am finally at a point that I can relax a bit. Maybe I am kidding myself. I still have a shopping cart to finish for one company, and CRM and CMS for the other. Eeek! Not going to think much about work this weekend. Oh, how I want more time to knit and spin!

I did take time off to go to the temple this week. It was the 100th day since my Mom’s passing. A few of us went and made offerings to the monks in memory of her. We actually went the morning of the 101st day thanks to my niece’s miscalculation. But it was very good. It was the day of monthly recitation of Patimokkha (the basic code of monastic discipline). An auspicious day. And technically it was still the 100th day if you count by hours. :-)

My sister Angela said that Mom had the days all figured out. She passed on the eve of a Chinese holiday Duanwu Festival. Duanwu is a day of dragon boat racing and eating sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. Angela also said that people with serious illness sometimes didn’t get to live past this day. I remember wearing charms on this day to ward off illness/evil. Some kind of grass was also hung at the door for the same purpose.

The 100th day of Mom’s passing happened to be the Moon Festival, a day for the family to gather together and celebrate the year’s good fortune. I know. We didn’t actually go to the temple that day. But the next day turned out to be auspicious too.

A few shoutouts:

Thank you Aija, Julie, Eikon and Jane. The colors are interesting. I will have about 8 oz. of this yarn. Whatever will I do with it? :-)

Eikon, there’s nothing like making a yarn that’s exactly what you wanted. :-)

Chris, I guess your comment is comforting to me. Or are you still waiting with your fingers crossed. :-) I did wonder about the quality and safety issues. Hopefully Mercure is keeping an eye on the construction since their name is involved.

Oh Jane, I have to turn Bad Behavior on again. Some spammer decided to sell meds on my blog by leaving a comment or two every hour. I had to set anti-spam to maximum for a while. Email me midpath [at] jasonknits [dot] com if you have trouble leaving comment. Thanks! :-)

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So Happy!

Monday, September 24, 2007

I finally got control of my old domain name, forestmeditation.net!!! Took me over a year. Yay! Now it works seamlessly with forestmeditatin.com. I’d suggest that if anyone wants to get a domain name, don’t get it free with a hosting package. There’s no guarantee that they will release the domain to you if you decide to change hosting company. Ask them first before you commit. It’s better if you register it yourself with a registrar like NetworkSolutions or Register.com. I use MyDomain.com. You would be listed as the registrant instead of the hosting company. I learned my lessons!

I also started spinning again! Last time I touched the wheel was at the Bulky Singles Club Class in April. I decided to take the wheel to the guild meeting on Saturday. Had a bit of an embarrassing moment setting up the wheel. :oops: But I was able to find the rhythm eventually.

No particular project for this yarn. The goal is to get the feel of spinning back, and to try to get a 3-ply worsted weight yarn. This is a practice spin for the sparkly denim Merino. :-) I am using Ashland Bay’s Multi Dark Green Colonial Wool Top that I got when I first started spinning with a drop spindle. They call it dark green, but there’s very little green in it. Here’s a close-up photo with some unspun fiber to show you the colors.

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By The Way…

Friday, September 21, 2007

We still don’t know when we will be moving. Heck! We don’t even know where we are moving to anymore. After CB informed our CEO about our willingness to move to Half Moon Bay to be closer to the office, he became unable to give the final OK.  We are so sick of this indecision.

One thing we know is that we want to move out of BH. We will stay put until the end of year. If we don’t hear anything by then, we will decide where we want to move to. We still love Half Moon Bay. Phoenix, Arizona is a possibility. We have a wonderful friend that moved there a few years ago. The other is somewhere in Oregon. We might take a trip up there soon just to check out the area.

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