Is There a Sock Yarn Patch?

A strange, mysterious twitch has developed recently above my left eye, along with a trembling to my right hand.  At first I blamed caffeine withdrawal.  But as the caffeine headaches waned and then disappeared all together, I realized something else was the cause.  
What could be causing these problems? My blood sugar levels are better than [...]

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Pet My Pretty!

I think I may have finally found my Holy Grail of sock yarn: Socks That Rock Raven Series: Rooky The picture does not do it justice.
STR Raven Series Rooky

The goth chic in me is screaming for joy! (I thought I left the goth chic in high school but obviously she still exists.) I [...]

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Make Hay While the Sun Shines

Today was the long overdue hay moving day.  Every year we put in between 5-8 tons of hay to feed 3-4 horses.  This year the anti has been upped to 10 tons of hay for 5 horses.  And normally this yearly ritual is done in August, September, even occasionally in October but never has this happened in [...]

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Hip-Hip Hooray!!!

Thanks to the lovely, amazing Gina (may the knitting goddess bless her) who figured out the comment problem, the blog is now open to everyone!  Yes, she even tested it for me so I know it truly works instead of me thinking it works.
So, with that said, the contest is back on, slightly modified to make it [...]

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Grrr…

WordPress hates me at the moment. I have spent the entire evening trying to figure out how anyone could comment. I thought I had it fixed but obviously I haven’t because people are still having problems posting. If anyone has any ideas to fix this problem, I would greatly appreciate your assistance [...]

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My Humble Apologies

Someone kindly pointed out to me they were having problems posting because they did not have a WordPress account.  After digging around, I realized the default settings needed to be change.  So if you tried to leave a comment before, I’m terribly sorry. 
Hopefully, everything is fixed now so that anyone; blogspot, typepad, person off the [...]

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An Ebay Store and A Contest

In honor of my family and I opening up our Ebay store with knitting accessories, mostly handcrafted custom stitch markers at the moment, I’m holding an blog contest. The person to leave the 50th comment wins the following:

A skein of ONline Highland Supersocke 100 sock yarn in colorway 838, 2 skeins of Regia Tweed 4-ply [...]

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I Think I May Recover

Thank you everyone for your advice, comments and suggestions. They are all greatly appreciated! On payday, I will go out and get either some cheap flip-flops or tennis balls as I did not have anything to agitate the green flying saucer. If that fails, I have a backup plan inspired by bruisinraincloud’s [...]

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A Knitting Disaster

Someone get me a Pepsi, some rum and some chocolate. (Trying to get off the Pepsi kick be damned here at the moment even if I am doing really good!) And quick, please! I have a knitting disaster of epic portions.
Of the 4 kitty beds I am making as kitty beds for Christmas [...]

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Cutting My Loses

Author’s Note: I ended up staying home today just because I nearly died at the thought of walking the 5 very cold block to the bus stop when I ache this much.
Five times a week I ride specially provided buses for the workers of the Idaho National Laboratory (aka The Site). [...]

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