Leaving New York
When we bought this house in 2003, I was sure wed live here forever. Wed raise our kids here. Billy and I would die here, in our sleep, holding hands, in our late eighties. Apparently Billy wasnt sold on the …
Thank you, Paul McCartney
It was suggested in the comments of this post that perhaps my Beatles/Portland dream was an indication that I’d “get by with a little help from my friends.” I’ll admit that when I read that comment I smiled but also …
Yep. Here. Still here.
Sorry for the silence. Thumper and I spent the last three days visiting my mom in Jersey for Passover. Lots of time to-ing and fro-ing on NJ Transit and in cars. Lots of matzoh balls and the like. Not so …
blank canvas
I took a long, hard look at that little robot vest, and though it doesnt match up to the perfect robot head vest that lives in my head, Im not inclined to tinker with it further or knit it again. …
Dr. Robot Head or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intarsia
But the intarsia, she doesnt love me. I had the best of intentions for this little sweater vest. The sweater that lived in my head looked so damn cute on Thumper and all of you were going to want to …
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The sweet sound of someone else cleaning my house
Ah…and the lemony scent of Pledge wafting up the stairs as well… We’re trying to have the house ready to go on the market April 7th, and there is still much much work to be done. Yesterday I had a …
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What I found on the camera today
I’m not sure which one of them took this photo (though I do suspect it was the one with better command of his opposable thumbs). Doesn’t it look like they’re whipping around some kind of vortex? Apparently when I leave …
Thumper, Fit Model
From the looks of things around here, it would be reasonable to assume that I haven’t been doing any knitting at all. Not true! I have been knitting. I just haven’t been telling you about it. Terrible, I know. I …
Thumper’s guided tour of the ducks of Brooklyn
Hello, dear people. Thumper Dogsstealyarn, Esq. here. I heard a rumor that a certain nomadic knitter was in town today, but alas my mother decided that it would be too much excitement for me. Too much excitement! As if such …
The Portuguese widow moves house
In describing his decorating sense vs his husband’s, MC once told me, “He’s a Zen monk and I’m a Portuguese widow.” Meaning that, like me, Michael has a tendency to collect things and like layers and what other people might …