Lorena on August 25th, 2009

Originally uploaded on March 31, 2004; instigator of probably the funniest comments to ever be left on my blog. Do zombies poop? Inquiring minds want to know. Or is that “enquiring”? No, but really. Do you think zombies poop? Because, they seem to always be trying to eat you. So you think they’d always have [...]

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Lorena on August 24th, 2009

Ah…. memories. The year I learned to spin!

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Lorena on August 24th, 2009

And the Question of the Week is… would you rather work outside with your hands, or inside at a desk job? EDITED TO ADD – if this is your first time commenting on the new site, your comment will need to be approved before it shows up. Once I approve you, though, your comments won’t [...]

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Lorena on August 23rd, 2009

Originally published on March 10, 2004; also referred to by Sharon and myself as “The Thread That Will Not Die” because even though I wrote it more than five years ago, people were still commenting on it – the most recent comment is from about a month ago! The Gainesville Music Scene It’s about time [...]

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Lorena on August 22nd, 2009

I seem to be struggling with Pictobrowser, but if it works, below should be a slideshow of all my finished knitted objects (“FOs”) from 2006– (Here’s a link to the set, for the curious, in case the slideshow doesn’t work)

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Lorena on August 21st, 2009

I joke sometimes that unless somebody comes into the yarn store and tells me something newsworthy – or if it’s not on The Daily Show – I don’t know about it. However, I was checking up on some blog reading during lunch a few minutes ago, and got the willies watching these tornadoes in and [...]

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Lorena on August 21st, 2009

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Lorena on August 20th, 2009

Yarn: Louet Euroflax Originals, which Jag and Antony gifted to me long enough ago as to be embarassing that I haven’t used the yarn yet! (Clearly it was just waiting for the right project…) Pattern: Based on my August Afghan square, but with an extra repeat in there for length. Also added a little i-cord [...]

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Get it? Stumpy? Because he was a tree and is now just a … stump? HAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, thank you; I’ll be here all week. Please tip your wait staff. They came and chopped the tree down on… I think it was Monday (I wasn’t home, at any rate). I left the camera for Tim, [...]

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Lorena on August 20th, 2009

Originally published on April 21, 2006 (and check it – Denise’s first public comment!) The Door to Nowhere I like to imagine things about the people who live in the houses we walk past in the mornings. I like to look at things about their houses and try to guess why things are the way [...]

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