January 2011

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 16, 2011

Today was another beautiful day – just a tad cold -10C but: 1. Fortunately, I managed to work out the short row increases that I needed to attach a border to a triangular shawl. I won’t tell you how long it took me to do the math. I’m just going to say that when I […]

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 15, 2011

It’s Saturday and fairly relaxed so I should be open for some good luck to-day. Let’s see. 1. Fortunately, I just had to ask the 17 year-old once to go up and shovel a neighbour’s walk. In others years, it would have taken 5 or 6 requests. There is light at the end of the

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 14, 2011

So, Friday, being Friday, is always a little luckier than the other days of the week except maybe Saturday and Sunday depending on your work schedule.  That being said, I am hoping for some very lucky occurrences today! 1. First I have to say that I felt very lucky after reading Cat Bordhi’s post on

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Sock Hop Socks

Latvian Wedding Socks from Red Bird Knits I was talking to a store today and the owner asked me how she could reduce her pattern inventory. Anyway, I put my thinking cap on and came up with a few strategies. Here is the first idea. You could group patterns and create a themed event around

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 13, 2011

I think that I may have to work a little harder at being lucky today, because it’s the 13th – fortunately not a Friday. 1. I did get up a little earlier today because I wanted the shower first. It is the only way to insure that the water pressure and temperature stays the same

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National Rubber Ducky Day

Hen and chickens from Fiber Trends To-day is national Rubber Ducky Day. The link is actually to last year’s listing – but things don’t change much in the world of rubber ducks. I’m really not sure why we need a day to celebrate a bath toy – but it is a toy with staying power.

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 12, 2011

OK, this is shaping up to be a lucky day!  An earlier horoscope suggested that Wednesday of this week was going to be good and so far – it’s 10:00am – it has been. 1. The 6 or so inches of snow that fell last night and is still falling was fortunately very dry and

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 11, 2011

Well, today’s date certainly looks lucky either way you present it – 11/01/11 or 01/11/11 and today: 1. I was lucky enough to have left some gas in my car so the gas lines didn’t freeze over night and I could start the car to-day.  Must get to the gas station p.d.q. 2. Things were

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Chuck Berry and the next generation(s)….

Line Dance from Red Bird Knits Dinner conversation with late teens and early twenties can be a challenge; but when the nineteen – year- old remarked on a recent performance by Chuck Berry which was all over Facebook – we found a common ground!  I must see if there is a group on Ravelry following

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Lucky Day Jan 10, 2011

1. Well, so far to-day, hasn’t had the lucky hits that yesterday had. Still, my meeting tomorrow, which I was dreading, has been cancelled – yeah! 2. It was still a lovely sunny day and a cheque came in. I always like those surprises. 3. I found out that two of the designs that I

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