Sunset Cat

Dave painted the other living room window last week — it looks great! Now I just have to decide what I want for curtains….
I’m starting to hunt again for rocks & boulders for the front yard. Eventually I’d like to have salvaged enough rocks for some sort of low fence.

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Recent acquisitions from LYS include

Magnificent Mittens by Zilboorg
Ethnic Socks and Stockings by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts
(both at cover price)
and
Meg Swansen’s Knitting
the most recent summer and fall Rowans
Two-end Knitting
by Anne-maj Ling
Jamieson’s Simply Shetland
Sweaters from New England Sheep Farms: 26 Original Patterns in Hand-Dyed and Natural Colored Yarns
(those latter all at 60% off cover price)

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I’ve started working on Dave’s Irish Moss again. I doubt I’ll meet all of my February goals but I do want to get at least one FO, however small.
Small.
If you think about it, scarves really aren’t that small. There are many, many stitches in a scarf, unless you’re using the bulkiest of yarns. [...]

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I really hope things are back to normal. In December I found out my pap smear was abnormal — that led to multiple biopsies including a surgery the end of January. Everything is apparently okay, but training was on a hiatus til 2 weeks post-op, i.e. nothing til last Thursday.
Thursday Mel and I [...]

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Ceanothus
Originally uploaded by stephannie_t.

Verbena
Originally uploaded by stephannie_t.

Leptodactylon — Prickly Phlox
Originally uploaded by stephannie_t.

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I’m sure we’re considered the neighborhood wackos in our town for ripping out our grass and putting in native plants (and even doing the vast majority of the work ourselves, including all the maintenance, planting and hardscaping). However, the yard is finally getting to the point where the plants are growing well enough (California [...]

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Another assortment of markers! I made these a couple nights ago. I think my favorite is the set with the Day of the Dead skull. Mel looked at them in disbelief and said ‘So they’re useful too?’ She did think they were very pretty.
I’ve started swatching with the Mule Deer and [...]

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