Author: Annie

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I feel like I’ve been firing on 3 pistons the past few weeks – I’ve been missing 2 of my favorite tools, and I’ve been bereft. Somewhere in my ramblings around St. Paul I lost a knitting needle. Not just any needle, but one of my size 9 stilleto-point Signature needles. My beautiful, shiny, size…

Once again, it’s time to think about submitting classes to some of the larger venues, and once again I think I may pass. I feel it’s important to make public my reasons for not submitting classes to venues like TNNA, Sitiches, or Knitters Connection, because the reasons are clear and have an impact on anyone…

Life is going well, interesting stuff is on my needles, the kids are well and happy, it’s a beautiful Summer. We had our first harvest of our first-ever crop, peas, and almost had enough for a full side dish. Yay! Gerry is getting out every day on a sort of trial/temporary minimum wage training wheel…

It’s been a wonderful week here – culminating in a great concert at the Taste of Minnesota last night, just fabulous! We’d toyed with the idea of going up to Avon, to the Lake Woebegone Park to hear the 35th Anniversary show of A Prairie Home Companion. But in the end we decided to stay…

Due to the amount of work I need to get done this weekend and our budget in general, we decided to stay close to home instead of going up to Avon this weekend, and we’ll be attending the Taste of Minnesota on Harriet Island in St. Paul. We even visited Snyder Drug and got the…

NEWSFLASH: I received an email from my sister in law, Karen, last night. It read, in part: “Alex’s scans show no remnant of a tumor at all – it is gone!” My nephew, Alex, had been diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma last year and the tumor was in a very difficult place – right in his…

The 4th of July is coming up – our family has decided to trek up to Avon, MN for the outdoor 35th Anniversary show of A Prairie Home Companion – and while we’re up there we’ll bike on the Lake Woebegone Bike Trail. We’re looking forward to it – we’re taking the dog and staying…

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post – obviously I needed some time to rest up after my marathon teaching trip. I’m rested – sort of – and working hard. I just finished a delightful swing coat for a new book (not mine, I’m just contributing…) and I’m jumping back into History on…

I’m feeling confused. My mind is in a swirl – not the fun Dairy Queen kind, either – just a bit of a foggy, fugue-y, waltz. While I was on the road for a month I ran out of several of my daily meds and happily picked up new prescriptions, but I’m still waiting on…