On Saturday Blogless Sharon and I headed to the Parker River Alpaca Farm for a spin in. I’m not sure that words can convey what a fabulous time we had! Picture this – a very large fenced in area of alpacas with spinners and their wheels within that enclosed area. Yup, we were amongst the…

Let ’em eat cake. Chocolate cake, of course. Want the recipe? You can find it here.

This is my 300th post! I can’t believe I’ve found something to talk about 300 times and yet, the proof is in the numbers. So, in honor of this milestone, let’s talk about knitting, shall we? I’ll bet you’d like to see what’s on my needles, in fact. Here is Wing of the Moth. If…

Okay, let’s face it, there has been enough bad and ugly in my life the last week or so. This post is all about Good Things. Good: As you may recall, before I had that Life Changing Thing happen, I finished the Adamas Shawl. I blocked it one day last week (it’s sort of a…

We had a Labor Day Cookout/Birthday party for Hannah on Monday. There were chicken wings and sausages. Beer and Mojitos and hamburgers and hot dogs and, of course, chocolate cake. All the kids and grandkids came over, plus Don and Lois. The guys played horseshoes and the kids played bean bag games and the rest…

Top Ten Things About Hannah At 14 10. Hannah is now old enough to get a job in Massachusetts. She probably won’t. But it still cheers me up to think about it. 9. Hannah doesn’t trip over nothing quite as much as she used to. She’s still a klutz, but it’s sort of cute now…

Thanks once again for all your kind words, thoughts, and sentiments this past week. Have a terrific Labor Day weekend, everyone.

I am completely verklempt at the outpouring of support from all of you. I knew there would be comments and concern and caring. I knew you would all respond to my news with kindness. But I had no idea how much better it would make me feel. I have this image of the world in…

I had a whole day of knitting planned for yesterday. Dale was going to be leaving first thing in the morning to go to a living history in Connecticut. Hannah was still on Martha’s Vineyard and I was looking forward to a day to myself so I could knit, with occasional breaks for spinning and…

This just in . . . the winner of the “Guess When Carole Will Finish Adamas Contest” is: Anne! She was the 11th commenter and that’s the number the Random Number Generator selected as my prize winner. I don’t have any fancy way to prove this, you’re just going to have to trust me on…

Remember last week’s tomato? I turned it into this. It was wonderful. P.S. I’m in!

I really don’t have time for this whole blogging thing. I’m supposed to be finishing Adamas, you know. And the competition for the Wing of the Moth Shawl is getting greater by the minute. Beth has huge amounts of knitting done and Cheryl is offering prizes and now Julia is donating to her favorite charity…