Microfiction Monday #59

As Galena calmed the oxen,

King Garret spoke to the cat skin covered man,

"Never touch me, you twit!"

 

 

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Thanksgiving Greetings

May the Lord bless you during this Thanksgiving season.

Our motor home is stocked with food and loaded with clothing so we can leave for Dallas in the morning. It will be a wonderful trip as we travel South. DH and I are looking forward to this special time with our DS and our two youngest grands. We are truly blessed in so many ways. May your holiday be exactly as you want it to be.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Microfiction Monday #58

The deer and I happily frolicked in the field.

 Antelope can play, but not on the playground!

Fall Festival, my hat!

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Deconstructing the Mitered Squares Afghan

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 As I mentioned in this post, http://yarnknitreadlit.blogspot.com/2010/11/mitered-square-afghan.html , I was disppointed in my Mitered Squares ghan. There are knitting errors in it. I do not like the way its laid out. It is too small. So, why did I add the border? Why did I block it? It was the lure of the FO. The almighty FO was so near, within reach. I could smell it, feel it, taste it, see it, knit it!! So, I did! (Did you notice that I omitted hear it? Just checking.)

It was not worthy of 8-yr-old DGS (age approximate)*. I absolutely could not bring myself to give that ghan to him, even though he has been waiting so long. A couple of snips and tugs and the border was off. Now I am dismantling and rearranging the small squares, ripping and correctly knitting. Did I mention ripping? And, knitting?

Lesson Learned: I truly finish the ends quite well!! Had a heck of a time finding them!! Small victories, dear reader, small victories.

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*I have seven grands, a few of them are quite close in age. I usually don't feel like doing the math.

Dogs On Thursday -- New Bed!

Can Lailah change her habits? She has a brand new bed from Petsmart that is cushy, comfy, and has a bolster. She seems to like it well enough when she uses it, but just doesn't use it very often. I'm using treats to encourage her to her new bed, so we'll see what happens!

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The English American: A Novel by Alison Larkin

"My heart hurts terribly, and then the numbness comes back, stopping my tears. Which is a good, because the sign on the wall next to the fridge says, "Crybabies will be shot."

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted at Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read .

Open to a random page.

Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.

Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!

Share the title & author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

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Microfiction Monday #57

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"Yes! I'll wear the poncho & scarf, but I'm leaving the man-bag at home!" he shouted, rushing to find his magic stick. Soon he was strumming & singing Mi Rancho Grande.

Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

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From Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

"All those years of training--linguistics, psychology. a dissertation on workplace behavioral patterns--never quite, it appeared, anesthetized her against sheer human nastiness, however small and slight its manifestations. You could try to understand, it seemed, why people behaved the way they did until you were blue in the face, but it still didn't prevent you from being cast down, almost diminished, when those same people chose to interpret your efforts to assist them as gross interference, only to be punished by malevolence."

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read .

Open to a random page.

Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.

Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!

Share the title & author, too, so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

Microfiction Monday #56

 And I,

I followed the path less traveled

and got lost

and cried for my mommy.

She was never there.









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Teaser Tuesday With THE THIRD OPTION

A good book day! Arriving in the mail today were Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin from Book Mooch, Poisoning the Press by Mark Feldstein and The Privileges by Jonathan Dee from Amazon. I love-love-love getting books in the mail...and yarn. I love-love-love getting books and yarn in the mail!!

From The Third Option by Vince Flynn, "If a call contained enough flagged words, it garnered the attention of a real person. Conversations that took place in Arabic,Chinese, or Russian received extra attention. The easiest way to defeat the system was to talk like a normal business person."

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted at Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read .
Open to a random page.
Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!
Share the title & author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

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Mitered Square Afghan

 The ghan went from pieces to a whole as I finished it for 8-yr-old DGS. I added a crocheted border of a row of sc, then dc, and trc to finish it off. The pattern is at http://pdxknitterati.com/patterns/mitered-square-afghan-project/ I used Plymouth Encore and Cascade WW with an eight needle. There is plenty that I'd like to change about it, but finally decided not to rip and redo, although...

After blocking it, I said, "I just don't like this." To which, DH commented, "That's never happened before."
I am generally displeased with FOs probably because I'm tired of them...or I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I've mellowed with age, but there remains a bit yet. My main error is that I tried Kay Gardener's technique of  starting a new section from a completed one to minimize the amount of joining. That's great if I had wanted to mix all the squares. It didn't work so well, despite my best efforts, when I wanted to place specific sections together.What I'd like to do is to add two more complete squares to enlarge it. That means extensive ripping and re-knitting. The more I write about it, the more I realize that I have to do it. I'll writhe in agony at the very thought of this blanket if I don't. Arrrgh!! Writing can be cathartic! I'll be ripping and blog-reading instead of knitting and blog-reading. Onward! Or, in this case, Backward!

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