I was often called upon to explain how the date of Easter is determined each year. It was sort of my party piece – OK I don’t lead a very exciting life. Now, however, with Google being the source of all information, at anytime, I am rarely asked to “recite.” Alas, I did enjoy the […]
I’m embarrassed to say that I use Go-Daddy to register domain names. I knew about their commercials before I went to their site and I thought that I really shouldn’t be supporting a company that so blatantly uses females for “fun and profit.” However, when I was searching around for an inexpensive site to park
Ok I want to know who compiles all this data. This is day 33 in the 2013 blog a day challenge and as I was looking for a blog topic, I thought why not write about the significance of the number 33. Why not indeed. Here is more information than you ever want to know
Tricoter is French for knitting – pronounced “tree-co-tay.” OK with my last post I am “out of the closet.” I knit. And for some reason yesterday was a very busy day for posts on FB related to knitting. Here’s what happened: 1. WWF – World Wildlife Fund has been promoting National Sweater Day – not
I am part of a knitting designers’ group. We meet once a month to network and help each other achieve our business/design goals. Last spring we decided that we would like to host a knitting retreat. It’s a fabulous get-together at a resort with exciting classes, great food and tons of fun from Friday night
I was “doing” some poetry the other day. Obviously, I have let “the verse side” down because I came across a poem by a poet I hadn’t heard of (of which I hadn’t heard) – Billy Collins who was Poet Laureate of the US from 2001 to 2003. I really must “do” poetry more often.
For those of you who do crossword puzzles, you may want to commit to memory this handy list, to save thumbing through the dictionary and maybe spilling your cup of coffee or glass of wine, as a result 🙂 aquiline – eagle asinine – donkey bovine – cattle cancrine – crab canine – dog cervine
I have written before about what we do in winter to survive. One of my “must haves” or “must dos” is to plant bulbs – the bigger the better. I always say that the bulbs get us through to Valentine’s Day and then we are very close to March with milder days above freezing. Spring
Today is Saturday and any day that isn’t a work day, to me, is a holiday!! It is unscheduled time. Yes, there are chores, but they can be done – whenever, and I have to add – if ever!! So with my unscheduled time today, I took pictures of the Art outside my window. I
