Sunset Cat

We had a wonderful weekend in San Francisco — clear warm sunny days, cool nights, great dinners out, and Dave got to swim in the San Francisco Bay!
The tri was Sunday, we drove down Friday afternoon and arrived a little before 9pm at the Cow Hollow Motor Inn (cheap large clean rooms very close to [...]

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I’ve postponed finishing Lush Greenjeans until I get my DPNs for the sleeves. I tried 2 circulars and magic loop and didn’t particularly like either.
Work continues on other WIPs like Rosemary’s Lady E.
And — I’m getting a spinning wheel! A Majacraft Rose. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile, and have decided [...]

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Body done, sleeves done, all ends woven end except for what will be associated with the neck!
We went diving yesterday at Anacapa, one of the California Channel Islands, on the Spectre out of Ventura Harbor. Despite my Scopalamine patch I was miserably sea sick for most of the day and only made two of the [...]

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I’ve finished the colorwork and started the waist decreasing. I practiced using both hands doing the colorwork; my left hand did fine but my right hand got sore (I’m right handed and usually knit English as opposed to Continental). I am pleased with my tension — no puckering and no excess [...]

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There’s a board topic on Knitter’s Review about whether your blog has become a chore. Occasionally (well, the last few months) I feel like that, primarily because I’ve been doing little to no knitting, and it’s rather embarrassing to try to update a KNITTING blog with no knitting content.
Regardless, work continues on Wavy, albeit even [...]

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Just got back from our girl’s trip to Napa, and, before that, our Spring Break Southwest roadtrip (Taos, Santa Fe, and Sedona).  Lots of hiking (including with llamas!), biking, running, wine tasting! and little knitting, though I did get to visit La Lana Wool in Taos (how’s that for a teaser?).
The pic is of [...]

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Way too long in between updates.
Over the last month training has been so-so, simply because I was sick for about two weeks. Dave and I went running twice this past week, the first times for me since getting sick. I felt pretty good. Since we’ve been trying to run faster (tempo runs, [...]

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…and I’m still working on the second of my mom’s Conwy socks.
I did finish Mel’s present (a square of entrelac Noro a la Lady Eleanor, the same color as my Lady E), a scarf for our friend Arlene (eggplant 6 ply Merino from HandPainted Yarns, Fiesta Chinchilla in Sandstone, and some Cashmerino (I think) in [...]

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Lots to update but no time to do it! We went on our backpacking trip to Yosemite over the 4th of July weekend — 30+ miles over 4 days, including Half Dome (though I only made it to the cables) and Cloud’s Rest in the same day — and now have a slight overuse [...]

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Yep.
Dave and I did a basically flat ride Saturday morning, only about 16 miles, from the park located at Gould and Valley/Ardmore to the bridge between Playa del Rey and Marina del Rey and return. (The only hills are to/from the park to the Strand.) (There is a little hill by the hanglider [...]

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