Today gave me opportunities to practice for Thanksgiving, providing opportunities to be grateful.
The day started with my needing to have some blood work done at a new-to-me lab. I was later leaving my house than I had planned but I met mostly green traffic lights on my way there so I got there in plenty [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Practicing for Thanksgiving
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Attending seminars
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Tuesday, October 21, I attended another Senior Seminar offered through the local community college. This was the last one I had signed up to attend. The title was “A Walk Through Italy.” Well, it was more like a jog or a trot. The speaker is an Italian teacher at two local colleges. She also [...]
A disappointment
Posted in Knitting on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My new vest is a disappointment. I tried it on and it doesn’t hang quite right. I think I now know why the designer had the bottom bands knit separately on each piece, thereby creating side slits. I did mine all as a continuous band. I think that has distorted the “hang” of the garment. [...]
It could have been worse
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today could have been worse. It was chilly and raining almost all day. (So I gave up and turned on the furnace. The chill damp just went straight through me.) I had an appointment with my allergist this morning. I carefully thought about the route to his office since I had heard the traffic reports [...]
A FO — almost!
Posted in Knitting, fashion on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I almost have an FO (finished object). I completed the knitting on my mitered square vest yesterday. I just have to weave in the yarn ends and sew on the button. Mine looks different than the one on the September cover of Creative Knitting magazine because I used a regular variegated yarn rather than the [...]
The Steamboat Arabia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday morning after a breakfast at McDonald’s, I made my way to the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Everyone I talked to about my trip to Kansas City had said I had to visit this museum. All I knew about it was that a steamboat had sunk and this museum was about that.
What a great place to [...]
Goin’ to Kansas City
Posted in Knitting, travel on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I read on her blog that Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (the Yarn Harlot)) was going to be in Kansas City, MO on October 13, I opened my calendar to see if there was any way I could attend her book signing. I had been wanting to go away for a few days and just hadn’t found [...]
Finding a song
Posted in music on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week a friend invited me to attend the performance of Godspell being put on by the students of a community college about 30 to 45 minutes drive away. Last night we went. Neither one of us had ever seen Godspell so we didn’t know exactly what to expect. We learned it was based [...]
Reading tutor tales
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the things I do during the school year is volunteer as a reading tutor through the OASIS program. I work with two students for one hour each in a local elementary school. Usually the students are first graders but this year I’ve been assigned two second graders. Without a doubt, all the students [...]
ISO breakfast ideas
Posted in food on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m in search of breakfast ideas, specifically low carb breakfasts. I’m working on a weight management program with my doctor. We’ve identified one of my problem areas as being a love of carbohydrates which he would like me to limit. Breakfast is a prime area where carbohydrates play a significant role in the menu. The breakfast [...]
