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Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?

08 Sep

Trent Edwards Under Fire
What a fun game! Very entertaining, with so many highlights. Here are my faves:

Roscoe Parish’s punt return
Lee Evan’s great catch
Marshawn Lynch running, and running, and scoring
Trent Edwards does it all

As for the garden: I did a little research on cucurbits, primarily because all my early squash blossoms have just fallen right off their stems*. The answer helped with the cuke-bounty problem in my last post: many or most of the cucumber blossoms are male blossoms, and cannot produce fruit. However, a quick check revealed over a dozen fruits growing, and there’s still 6-8 weeks till the first frost.

 
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Like Mother's Day

11 Nov

Two evenings in a row now, all my children have been here. In this house, at the same time, watching videos together. It’s like a wonderful present. They found the Home Videos from the late 80′s, when Sean was three, Lisa was seven. What fun!

So, it’s a homebody weekend. I’m plugging away on some new socks (variegated red Artyarns Supermerino) to free up the needles for the new Cherry Tree Hill that found me yesterday, from Village Yarns.

Hey Mom, I kept meaning to tell you last night – Village Yarn & Fiber moved out of Midtown, to ER right on Commercial St, opposite the piano works. Check it out! They have a really nice selection of sock yarn, gorgeous buttons (worth the trip all by themselves) and I think, every knitting book ever written. Check out their newsletter (PDF) too.

Also finding its way home with me, some Spindrift for Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts. Lisa has a pair, and they are darling. I’ve been hankering after a little something to keep the hands warm, esp. at the office.

Today: Bills vs Miami. We’ll have a taco salad, I think – I’ve got all the makings, plenty of tortilla chips, and all gluten-free. Lisa is having dinner at Johan’s tonight, then back to FL at o’dark-thirty tomorrow morning. The red socks (plain, no pattern, given the stripe-y nature of the yarn) will be perfect gametime knitting.

 
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At work, already

02 Feb

Well, not exactly at work. Yet. My assistant’s mom had a heart attack late last week, and she’s scheduled for a multiple bypass today. [Sending good thoughts in a general westerly direction.] So with Linda out for the duration, and her back-up going to part-time this week, I’ll be spending a couple of days training a new backup.

Serendipity: when you’re formulating a job posting in your mind, just having gotten approval for it, and exactly the right person walks in out of the blue and asks for it.

Go Pats! It was a win/win last night – they won the game, but Paul won his bet due to the 7 point spread. He and a co-worker have bet $5 on one game every week this season, and at the end I think they’re exactly even.

And during the hoopla, the needles were flying. 34 teeth are now done on The Shawl – 6 to go. At the coin toss, I switched to Fulmar; that’s now 10″ up the back. Best commercial? The Mitsubishi ad, to “Ballroom Blitz”. I replayed that one twice. Most dissapointing? The NFL said it best: “It is unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime.” Not that I was looking forward to Janet, or even watched it. But I did see The Moment, as it will be known. Unscripted, my ass. And they’ll get the buzz, which is what they really wanted anyway. Overall, the ads were disappointing. The funniest moment was a local news teaser: “Rochester remembers the Challenger – after Survivor.”

 
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