Vignettes
Lorena
The UPS lady almost gave me a hug when she got out of her truck the other day. “I *love* your new driveway!” — she settled for a high five,…
2015
Love is looking in the same direction
It’s a good thing that Tim likes puzzles, because the sheer amount of things that need to be done, all seemingly at the same time, is starting (starting? HAH!) to…
Rocking the Ice Cream
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre Pattern: Fissility by Lorena Haldeman Started on: 5/15/14 Completed: 12/18/14
We have 3.5 bathrooms out there, you’d think ONE of them would be fully functional
I’m pretty sure by this point that if you put all three and a half bathrooms together, you’d get one single working one. This is the master bath. Both sinks…
Them’s the pits
Have we told you about the clay pit? About why this property was up for sale in the first place? As near as we can tell – and a LOT…
A quick update from my last moving post
Let’s see… when last we left our intrepid heroes, they were pretty sure they’d finally worked out the last of the plumbing problems. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH sob. Well, let’s see. Let me…
Birdhead
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Lois Pattern: Sockhead Hat by Kelly McClure Started: 11/2/14 Finished: 11/25/15 Notes: With God as my witness (holds up turnip to sky, a la Scarlett O’Hara), I…
Whitby
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre Pattern: Whitby by Nancy Bush Started: 5/3/14 Finished: 11/20/14
Gilda Radner was right; it’s always something.
If you read this post, about a month ago, you know that the water was an issue/non-issue (in that it wasn’t on the first time we had the place inspected,…
Untitled Socks
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre Pattern: ….. Started: 10/31/14 Finished: 11/14/14 Notes: Pattern coming… eventually…
Maybe we should name the place “Tortuga Haven”
One thing I was ecstatic to see the first time we went out to look at the property was that there were gopher tortoise holes. I’ve been a fan of…
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
OK; in re-reading this before publishing it, it’s turned out much more introspective than I originally intended. Just be forewarned – I ramble! — Have I told y’all about The…