Midnight Maven

Oh, how lovely are the lilacs, are the lilacs….oh, that’s another song, isn’t it?  But today, bright, sunny and cool, and the lilacs are opening, bud by bud…….I can verify that because I just buried my face in them!     Daffodils are about finished, as are the tulips.  Come on, lilies and iris!!

Did anyone miss Betty White on SNL a week or so ago?  Outstanding!

For those of you who are book-hungry there’s a nice current coupon for Better World Books.  Just insert “THANKS844″ at the coupon line and receive 15% off when you buy 2 or more books.  Not sure when it expires – in a few weeks, I’d think.  And don’t forget – most of the books are $3.87 postpaid.  I’ve about written off ALibris and Amazon, even for textbooks …..now pricing the Anishinaabe workbook for next fall.

Here’s the finished first of a tricky pair of socks – it was a KAL last winter, with over 600 other knitters, on a favorite yarn site.  This pattern is called Girls’ Night Out, or Dancing Girls.  Can you see them?  Oddly, only the first sock is finished.  SSS taking over, but soon it will be on the needles.  There’s another KAL starting at any time here – a gorgeous pattern that will partially benefit the SGK Breast Cancer fund. Not released at this very (1 p.m. CST) moment, but it begins 5/25, per Wendy’s schedule, so she’s under the gun!

Last week I watched again – on a no-commercial channel, thank goodness – my all-time favorite movie…..”Lion in Winter” – lost count of the times.  Took 2 or 3 viewings in the theaters years ago before I understood every one of the snide, British comments.  Yes, that’s Peter O’Toole and the great Katherine Hepburn.  And imagine – a young Anthony Hopkins, too!

Fresh rhubarb from Sherry the other day.  Haven’t figured out yet why she has rhubarb and we don’t.  She DOES live about 17 miles south of us, though.  Now we have sauce and a luscious pie!  DS tasted the pie yesterday after hamburgers at the local cafe, and pronounced it too tart for him.  Fantastic!  More for me!!  8^)  Oh, my – I’m suddenly hungry!  It’s snack time!  (The baker assures me that no real sugar was destroyed creating this product……) 

We’d hired DS for the day in his handyman guise.  He works pretty cheaply, although he kept telling us that since he’s been “edumacated” (= degree received last week) his rate would be going up!!  I have a UFO for him with an H-D logo that’s creeping out of the knitting basket….which I’m ignoring for the present.  Well, it’s all wool, and it’s summer now…..(whine).

Oh, that is so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Good!  Have to give that baker a longer contract – - – - - 

You know you knit too much when you know you would take knitting with you in an ambulance.   -   Stephanie Pearl McPhee

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A Note of Welcome…… Of course The Ridge doesn’t look like this at the moment – there’s still about a foot of that Minnesota white stuff on the ground. But I like to think that this view is not far away! Winter has been a bit long this year, and spring begins in 2 days or so – - doesn’t it?? The adventures of my cosmopolitan daughter have finally pushed me into building this blog. It’s been lying doggo for some months, after a class last fall that was so brief that I haven’t remembered much at all. Certainly her current activities to leave her mark on yet another part of the world have provided me with a good bit of material. More topics will be completed as I become better-educated in the ways of this particular blog service. Oh, such as knitting connections and pictures, photo galleries, favorite sites, etc. In spite of all those years around computers, I am not completely ready to put this out to all of you in the whole world just yet. But the vagaries of my gmail service are really driving me to get ‘er done. So a bit of patience, please. All the info will be here – and may even be here two or three times, as I play with the substantial functionality!! You can leave comments…….. careful now ………….on various pages, as you wish.

Onward!!