Without and With Mountains. So here I am, busily typing away at one of the zillion projects I have going and suddenly I smell something you just don’t smell here in Tucson all that often: rain. I just had to tell you. I look out the window next to and behind me a bit and sure enough, it’s raining! Not a lot, but enough to release a little of the oil on the Creosote leaves. If you haven’t been in a rain storm in the Sonoran...

OHMAWGAW It’s a DINOSAUR!!!! Beautifully done touring show! No Nigel Marvin but you can’t have everything, can...

Originally uploaded by hordover Nearly two years after the first surgery, here’s the boy’s “new” ear. More pics can be found at the Ear Extravaganza...

Ah! The new year! Last year I spent the First doing little more than spinning silk. This year I did that on the 31st. Heaven. Finished off a pile of Polworth from the last SOAR I went to. Light worsted. I have very little faith that I’ll be able to spin regularly this year either, but perhaps now that the wedding knitting is done… I have learned that ANY fiber prep has to happen during the cooler months. I just can’t seem to...

…six shots of some kind of steroid infused into your neck? Yeah, until an hour ago, me neither. And yet, now I have. Here’s how it feels: Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Here’s how they tell me it will feel tomorrow: Aaaaaah… Knitting hurts. Turning my head hurts. Supporting my head hurts. Typing in a semi-prone position…oddly this doesn’t hurt. Could be the heating pad I’m lying on… So...

This is all that’s left. Waiting for more scarlet yarn from Meg at The March Hare (Etsy) to finish Thing 1’s Gryffindor Scarf and about to finish Bubby (Knitty) for Thing 2–he asked for a fuzzy brown bear?!. Thing 1 shouldn’t mind the wait…he’s awful good that way....