Author: Annie

And the list ain’t my Christmas list. It’s the list of sh*ttiest things that can happen to folks. And you, Cancer, are at the top. Number one, numero-uno, Primo. So after my own brush with Ovarian nonsense (I’m the luckiest person in the world, my tumor was caught in a pre-cancerious stage – I’ve heard…

I could survive for 57 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor Created by Bunk Beds.net Well, it IS funny… Sort of. I stayed in bed until 9:00 with this wretched cold, but no velociraptor was in sight. Gerry’s in bed, he’s been aching and hurting for a few days, although I think…

I’m Twittering… Follow me if you’d like!* I’m also staying put. I am not driving to WV, I am staying here in St. Paul. It’s for various reasons, mostly health (mine and Gerry’s) Mine is just an annoying cold – but I feel ratty enough that a 16-hour drive looms large against the horizon. Gerry…

I was idly thinking, “What would I do if I could start a totally new career, as if I were 20 and fresh as a daisy, right now?” There are so many things I’d like to do – to have done. These are the tops on my list today: Really buckle down and BE a…

I’ve been twittering. This is how I feel my day is going 6:27 am: Woke to lightness in room, realized it had snowed.6:32 am: Rose, put on PJ bottoms and shuffled down to kitchen6:35 am: Put on oatmeal (in crock pot) and put tea kettle on6:36 am: Let dog and cat out6:38 am: Let dog…

I got to show off a lot last night; I showed my house off, I showed off my cooking (mixed results) and most important I got to show off my friends to each other. What a lovely evening – just wonderful! We wanted to have some friends over, but I know from experience that the…

Okay, we all know that I have no problem tooting a horn that has my name on it. I’ll toot anyone else’s horn, too, but I’ll be certain to wipe off the mouthpiece. Or I’ll use my own. I used to play trombone – one more thing you probably didn’t know about me… So Kim…

Maybe it was the cut ends of the Brussels Sprouts? Or the gallons of potato & apple peels? Maybe it was the celery ends? Whatever it was, our disposal is clogged. It runs, it creates a whirlpool, but the water ain’t going NOwhere. Various fixes were tried, including Gerry’s foray with his snake (he looks…

Here are two fun sounds for the holiday First, me doing a Turkey Call. I discovered I could do this when I found myself at a Turkey Shoot in Gallatin, Tennessee in 1982. Don’t ask. Next, a little tune that Norah Gaughan and I whipped up on our favorite luxury fiber. I added the instrumental…

Just about this time last year I wrote a post about Interweave Knit’s proposal to designers to sell our patterns on their online website. The designer’s cut? 10%. I found this absurd, but I also had found IK to be an amazingly wonderful magazine to work with, so I wrote about it at my blog….