Author: Annie

I’m home – I got home late, late, late last night, crawled through the door at 1:45 am. But I liked waking up home (with a little red-headed boy in bed between his Daddy and me – heaven!) and being in my own room is a special joy. Yay. I missed breakfast Sunday because I…

The folks here are nuts – in the BEST possible way! I’d forgotten how much I love this shop! The folks here are just crazy fun, happy, nice, and always make me feel like family. This, on top of such a warm and dear reception at Whole Nine Yarns last night, I feel like it’s…

Yesterday the weather was so icky that I had Max ride the bus and I didn’t take my normal walk. I also had a bit of a runny nose, which I didn’t think was a cold, but I didn’t want to take any chances. All day long they’d threatened that we’d get snow – and…

Yesterday was the Blood Drive at our temple, so Gerry and I volunteered to help shepherd the doners through the process, and had a very nice day. Gerry doesn’t get out as much as he’d like – for obvious reasons – and I had thought this might be a wonderful way for him to connect…

Update: Hattie, thank you SO much! I’ll be in Atlanta this weekend, but I’ll definitely come again! And we sold the bike! Huzzah! This morning it’s snowing. And the weather guy on the radio said, “We could have it worse, we’re actually pretty lucky… They got 2 feet in other parts of the state!” And…

The hardest thing about this whole adventure (for me, at least) are the folks I’ve started calling Hyper-Hopers. They’re folks who say, “Gerry WILL beat this, the doctor’s aren’t always right! Don’t lose hope!” They desperately NEED for me to jump on the Hope Train with them. When I run into someone like this, I…

We just got the call. She’s in. We hadn’t expected to hear this soon – we’re stunned! I think the Breakthrough program is just the kind of challenge that will give the next few years a structure and focus which will allow Hannah to concentrate on her future. And make Dad’s health issues easier to…

Since we’ve moved here last Feb I haven’t had any kind of office-ish space. I’ve taken over a corner of the living room where I work, and the front porch where I stash most of my yarn and finished projects, but I don’t have a PLACE for me to work. I’m thinking that might be…

I’ve debated turning off the anonymous option for comments, but haven’t up to this point because often folks choose the anonymous option because they think they need to have a blogger ID to post. You don’t, you can choose to post under any name you like. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to turn it off,…

I’m returning to this topic – as I will again in future – because I believe it’s at the heart of the strong, sustained growth of knitting as a pastime and, for many of us, a chosen vocation. It seems that with the larger show budgets and clout, they do a very good job of…