dirty dishes
Originally uploaded by kamsarmer
Since I have trouble remembering if it's been done or not, a dishwasher reminder was in order.
A utilitarian design--very helpful to me in the kitchen.
A dabbler's diary. Blah, blah, blah.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
Nine men
Just on a whim, here are some I like quite a lot.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Ray Davies
James Mcavoy
Sam Elliot
Tom Petty
Hugh Laurie
Gabriel Byrne
Jerry Garcia
Fred Rogers
Alan Rickman
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Ray Davies
James Mcavoy
Sam Elliot
Tom Petty
Hugh Laurie
Gabriel Byrne
Jerry Garcia
Fred Rogers
Alan Rickman
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Saturday in Sells
Day trip to Sells to visit wonderful family. M is researching the Tohono O'odham tribe for a school report, so we took a trip to the new Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum just south of Sells. It's free and quite beautiful; go see!
The sky was constantly changing; overcast, brilliantly blue, and flinging down torrential, short rainstorms.
Delightful.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Lazybones
I had big plans for a long post this morning, but, as usual, time is slipping away from me. Here are some tidbits...
(Question for anyone who stops in--remember my Frog-athon from last year? Anyone interested in playing along this year? If so, do leave me a comment--I'll try to get it together if there's some interest!)
Toolkit for my knitting bag-DONE!
Camera case--lacks strap...
Pincushions
I do really love elephants.
(Question for anyone who stops in--remember my Frog-athon from last year? Anyone interested in playing along this year? If so, do leave me a comment--I'll try to get it together if there's some interest!)
Toolkit for my knitting bag-DONE!Camera case--lacks strap...Pincushions
I do really love elephants.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Saturday, August 04, 2007
a couple of quick snaps
I've always called Marion my sweet potato. Now I've made one for her.
(You can see it in the sketches, too, if you look for it.)
Molly Chicken blogged her sketchbooks a while ago--here are a couple of my pages. (You can see them better if you look at them on my Flickr page.)
If you see this anywhere, buy it and savor it. Delightful!
Please to be having a loverly weekend.Cheers!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Did 'ja miss me?
Well.
What a long, strange month it's been.
My softball team went from worst to first. (Yay Black Sox! I may have a photo to put here soon.)
Work sucks so badly (in some ways) that it's leaving marks on my ankles.
Miss M has left for a 2-week trip to the East Coast with her doting grandparents. (Boston, Cape Cod, Connecticut and The City) (Yes, I'm jealous.)
It's monsoon season. We've had much dust and a bit of rain.
Our new-to-us car has returned from it's trip to the shop adorned with a bright, sunflower yellow pinstripe and no one has hit it yet. (Yay! Photo to follow soon)
Bec is blogging again (Huzzah!) (It's a slow link, but give it a minute, she's worth it)
Here are photos.
Hey! There are Cheerios under here! Score!
Stuff on nose again.
This is what happens when your DH asks if any more crap can fit on the coffee table and there are two (smart-ass) females in the house....
A pincushion for a nice person. (forgot to take a photo of the Chakalaka basket it went into...
This is the quilt that sat on the piano at my Nana's house for many years. I don't remember if she made it or not. Mom, you'll know--leave a comment for me, OK?
What's up?
Post-ice-cream sandwich fingers.....
Do not waste good stuff....
What a long, strange month it's been.
My softball team went from worst to first. (Yay Black Sox! I may have a photo to put here soon.)
Work sucks so badly (in some ways) that it's leaving marks on my ankles.
Miss M has left for a 2-week trip to the East Coast with her doting grandparents. (Boston, Cape Cod, Connecticut and The City) (Yes, I'm jealous.)
It's monsoon season. We've had much dust and a bit of rain.
Our new-to-us car has returned from it's trip to the shop adorned with a bright, sunflower yellow pinstripe and no one has hit it yet. (Yay! Photo to follow soon)
Bec is blogging again (Huzzah!) (It's a slow link, but give it a minute, she's worth it)
Here are photos.
Hey! There are Cheerios under here! Score!
Oh, I hate the camera.
Stuff on nose again.
This is what happens when your DH asks if any more crap can fit on the coffee table and there are two (smart-ass) females in the house....
A pincushion for a nice person. (forgot to take a photo of the Chakalaka basket it went into...
This is the quilt that sat on the piano at my Nana's house for many years. I don't remember if she made it or not. Mom, you'll know--leave a comment for me, OK?
I love this mattress-ticking fabric. It might have been from my Uncle Brud's shirt ("Brud" short for brother), but I'm not certain. I love it nonetheless.
What's up?
Post-ice-cream sandwich fingers.....
Do not waste good stuff....
Mothra loses in battle with Gecko:
I had a lovely phone interview with an eyeball office in Canada, but the weather precluded the plan to head north. Now begins the siege on Vancouver. Shh, don't tell anyone.
I'll try to be back soon.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Found Weekend
Miss M was off visiting family near Tucson last week, so S and I planned a short trip for ourselves so as to involve picking her up on the tail end of it. We drove down to Nogales, Mexico for some shopping, browsing and noshing on Saturday (Knit In Public Day), then crossed back and stayed the night at a nice place in Green Valley. We procured the childie the next day and headed homeward.
We (mostly I) took pictures! Aren't you glad????
(My Lizzie has great Knitting In Public Day photos on her blog. She's in England, the lucky sod. Go visit her blog and leaver her a nice comment. Then come back, 'k?)
This dude was trying really hard to find the beach.
We stopped at a nice little espresso stand in Nogales (first one I've seen in Mexico--and nary a Starbucks in sight-YAY!!). I liked the warbly look of the Coke bottle reflected on the cool blue tile table top. S and I both liked the real flavor provided by cane sugar in the drink rather than corn syrup. Yum.
Actual knitting content! And how's this for international: I am of Irish heritage, wearing a hat shilling a British lager, a shirt emblazoned with the Cyrillic alphabet, knitting with Turkish cotton yarn (Oh Lion Brand! Who knew?) on US size 7 needles, being photographed by my mixed-breed hubby using a Chinese camera whilst standing in Mexico. *whew!*
Here's the Nogales K-9 unit. Such sweeties to let me take their picture! Look at that baby!
Lunch at the Hacienda Caballo Rojo.
Coming back into the U.S., we drove up I-19, through pretty mountains,
past little ranches with LOTS of horses,
and a big outcropping that I think is known as Elephant's Head. I can't quite make an elephant out of it,
but maybe we were just driving too fast.
We arrived at our destination in Green Valley. The room was lovely, but this was the best part:
Later in the evening, after dinner, more knitting was done. (I was setting up the shot when my DH plunked down my empty beer glass and said, "You gotta get this in the shot!", so I did.)
This shop has everything you might have forgotten to get in Mexico.
The Longhorn. Very well-known restaurant/bar/landmark. When I'm a better photographer, I'll go back and get a photo that shows you that the eyes glow red at night. On second thought, Gale, you need to come to southern Arizona too, don't you?
Sunday morning, I awoke early and had coffee on the patio. There were lots of birds--here's a curve-billed thrasher. This one took off after a lizard and chased it all up and down the wall of the next cottage--didn't catch it, but it really tried. I didn't know they ate lizards!
Then we come to the bunnies. They're cute and cuddly, and...
WEIRD! After hopping about, nibbling choice morsels here and there (including a couple of Cheez-Its I grudgingly parted with as bait), these two scampered off and began some sort of bizarre rabbit ritual whereupon Rabbit the First stands still and stares down Rabbit the Second. Rabbit the Second then runs full-tilt at Rabbit the First, who jumps STRAIGHT UP. This is repeated many, many times. Then they stop and hippity-hop off into the creosote bushes. Ok, whatever makes you happy, guys.....
(click on photo for larger view of cwazy-wabbit-behaviow)
Nice shadows on the trunk of the mesquite (I think) next to our patio.
Seedpods of same.
On the way home, we pass Picacho Peak. Sorry about the poor photo.
There are pecan groves on either side of the freeway just before you get to Picacho. They're lovely, mature trees. I'd like to live in one when it isn't brain-frying temperatures outdoors.
And that's about it! Next time, I'll share some of the fun that Della sent me...whatta love.
We (mostly I) took pictures! Aren't you glad????
(My Lizzie has great Knitting In Public Day photos on her blog. She's in England, the lucky sod. Go visit her blog and leaver her a nice comment. Then come back, 'k?)
This dude was trying really hard to find the beach.
We stopped at a nice little espresso stand in Nogales (first one I've seen in Mexico--and nary a Starbucks in sight-YAY!!). I liked the warbly look of the Coke bottle reflected on the cool blue tile table top. S and I both liked the real flavor provided by cane sugar in the drink rather than corn syrup. Yum.
Actual knitting content! And how's this for international: I am of Irish heritage, wearing a hat shilling a British lager, a shirt emblazoned with the Cyrillic alphabet, knitting with Turkish cotton yarn (Oh Lion Brand! Who knew?) on US size 7 needles, being photographed by my mixed-breed hubby using a Chinese camera whilst standing in Mexico. *whew!*
Here's the Nogales K-9 unit. Such sweeties to let me take their picture! Look at that baby!
Lunch at the Hacienda Caballo Rojo.
Coming back into the U.S., we drove up I-19, through pretty mountains,
past little ranches with LOTS of horses,
and a big outcropping that I think is known as Elephant's Head. I can't quite make an elephant out of it,
but maybe we were just driving too fast.
We arrived at our destination in Green Valley. The room was lovely, but this was the best part:
Later in the evening, after dinner, more knitting was done. (I was setting up the shot when my DH plunked down my empty beer glass and said, "You gotta get this in the shot!", so I did.)
This shop has everything you might have forgotten to get in Mexico.
The Longhorn. Very well-known restaurant/bar/landmark. When I'm a better photographer, I'll go back and get a photo that shows you that the eyes glow red at night. On second thought, Gale, you need to come to southern Arizona too, don't you?
Sunday morning, I awoke early and had coffee on the patio. There were lots of birds--here's a curve-billed thrasher. This one took off after a lizard and chased it all up and down the wall of the next cottage--didn't catch it, but it really tried. I didn't know they ate lizards!
Then we come to the bunnies. They're cute and cuddly, and...
WEIRD! After hopping about, nibbling choice morsels here and there (including a couple of Cheez-Its I grudgingly parted with as bait), these two scampered off and began some sort of bizarre rabbit ritual whereupon Rabbit the First stands still and stares down Rabbit the Second. Rabbit the Second then runs full-tilt at Rabbit the First, who jumps STRAIGHT UP. This is repeated many, many times. Then they stop and hippity-hop off into the creosote bushes. Ok, whatever makes you happy, guys.....
(click on photo for larger view of cwazy-wabbit-behaviow)
Nice shadows on the trunk of the mesquite (I think) next to our patio.
Seedpods of same.
On the way home, we pass Picacho Peak. Sorry about the poor photo.
There are pecan groves on either side of the freeway just before you get to Picacho. They're lovely, mature trees. I'd like to live in one when it isn't brain-frying temperatures outdoors.
And that's about it! Next time, I'll share some of the fun that Della sent me...whatta love.
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