Archive for March, 2005

Just finished spinning my first skein of yarn for the new shawl…

Monday, March 28th, 2005

…and my, is it lovely.
It’s a blend of black satin angora, white bombyx silk, and 15-micron merino wool (gray). A nice, lustrous pewter gray with just enough color variation to be interesting, and obscenely soft. It has a nice soft angora halo to it–a little spikier than regular angora, but still very nice. [...]

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The road goes ever on and on…

Monday, March 21st, 2005

…I got hijacked last Sunday.
There I was, minding my own business, heading down to the pet store to get cat litter. Next thing I knew, I was on the freeway south to, um, well, wherever.
“Uh, weren’t we supposed to get cat litter?”“Yeah. So what? We can get it in Santa Cruz.”“Um, where [...]

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playing with your food

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Oh, lordy lordy.
I can’t claim complete innocence, I ignored the ominously thumpy noises and the cat-scrabbling-across-the-floor scratchings from the living room as Isis downed her second rat in my bedroom. I should have known.
But now it’s happened. Oh, woe is me.
So, now the last 1/3 of Isis’s dinner is on the [...]

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