what’s this lady doing?!?!

what’s this lady doing?!?!

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This photo is from my sisters flickr page. Please feel free to visit and comment (she is a lot of fun). Anyway, we went to a newly opened Whole Foods in the Nashville area over the weekend and she brought her camera (as she is pron to do) and snapped this one of me sneaking bread samples (I prefer the cheese samples but we’d already made that round). The store is huge and the produce section is like a painting! Just gorgeous! She has a picture of the biggest elephant garlic I have seen. It is the size of a softball–you should hop over and check it out.

I know you all will be busy over the next few days with Thanksgiving preperation, so Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!!

Peace and Blessings for you and your loved ones,
Dawn

Watch Us Work It

I saw this commercial and was in a trance. I LOVE the Devo song and the whole entire commercial is so 80’s! I love it!!! (dig the chicks finger-tip gloves–totally impractical but very very cool).

Carry on. Oh, I almost forgot–MORE COWBELL (ha!)

What’s Going On?

Well, here is a little bit of the goings on in my knit world. The first picture is Clapotis 1 and 2. One is being done in the chunky hand-dyed yarn my secret pal sent me (on #10 needles) and two is being done with a dk weight alpaca on #8 needles.

As you can see, on number one I have already begun to drop stitches. On number two, not yet. These could take me a little while but they are great projects for watching t.v. I can’t knit and watch movies, though. I have to pay attention to my movies. Most t.v shows I can look away and still get what is going on.

Next up, we have the ponchette laying on the diningroom table, just hanging out and drying. I think I have it blocked out to the proper size but we all know that until I get it sewn up the side and try it on, the jury is still out. It looks nice laying there, though.

And just a bit of commentary because I can. If you call me “nappy headed” or a “ho”, I will break your jaw. If you do it on a radio show for thousands to hear–well, let’s just say public ridicule is a bitch, man. Deal with it. Also, Pac Man Jones will be suspended for an entire year with the Titans. I am smiling with glee. Okay, enough of that depressing bit of Americana. Go out and say something nice and do something nice for a stranger. It will help to cleanse the collective conscience, I promise.

Block Me

Remember this:

Well, it is done and ready to be blocked. I hope to have it on the diningroom table sometime today. That should cause much fuss with my oldest. Everytime I need to block something he comes in and goes, “what the hell is that on the table?” usually followed by, “I need to do some homework (ha) where can I put this?” shows me his gigantic drawing pad. So, we’ll see.

Oh, the weather has turned to crap. Truely. Since I have lived in Tennessee, I do not believe we have had a decent Easter weekend. It is either raining, cold, or bloody windy. We will surely get 2 out of three this year. They call it a “dogwood winter” because the dogwood trees are in full bloom (gorgeous) and it is freezing here at night. I think the hardy perenials will survive it but we had idiots who planted annuals and stuff when the weather was 80 degrees. Hello, it is still SPRING. Safe planting time is after April the 15th here.

Wow, you really care about the plant and harvest zones of the South, don’t you? I have been making a few surprises for my PRGE secret pal. I can’t wait to send her the next package. It is gonna be full of goodies and quite a few will be homemade.

Happy Easter, Spring, New Beginnings, or in our case, Welcome back WINTER!!

Cheers!

May your glass be ever full,
may the roof over your head
be always strong,
and may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil
knows you’re dead.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! CHEERS!