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Blue Light Special

I know I ‘should’ be taking down my Christmas decorations, but I just can’t. I didn’t decorate much this year, a string of white lights around one window surrounding all the lovely cards I got. Then, in an after-Christmas sale, I picked up a string of blue LED lights and put them around another […]

New Soup

I tried a soup recipe from one of my Christmas presents: 400 Soups. It’s a Bacon Lentil soup, supposed to be more stew-like. I make a pretty good lentil soup, so thought I’d really like this. Bacon? Come on, how could that be bad?! Well, I was disappointed. It was just ok. Not hearty […]

Baby It’s Cold Outside

It’s definitely winter in western New York!

I arose this morning to about 6o above (Farenheit). I had to decide if I would do my usual morning walk with dog or wait until later. I decided to put Red’s leather boots on him and see what it was like out. (Anything below 15o and […]

My First Socks

Obviously, these aren’t the first socks I’ve owned. They are the first socks I’ve ever knit.

After all that Christmas knitting of the mug cozies and the baby things, I was in a knitting mood. So I decided I’d try my hand at making socks. I’d always heard how hard they are, but one of […]

2011 (Non) Resolutions

I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions years ago. Mostly because I figured if I had to wait till a specific day to decide to do something, I probably didn’t really want to do it, and it therefore probably wouldn’t really happen, so it was a setup for failure. At least for me it was.

One […]