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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, August 2006

Lace swap

I’ve taken the plunge and signed up for my first swap:

and I received my partner’s name yesterday.  I’ve been reading her blog, and I’ve gotta tell ya, I’m totally intimidated.  I’m sending lace stuff to someone who actually knows what she’s doing and is miles ahead of me with decades more experience.  Whoof.  Cross your [...]

Not quite “the dog ate my homework,” but . . .

This story even made the Norwegian news.  The Norwegian text-TV news blurb was just a teaser and we had to go to the BBC site in order to get the rest of the tale.  Written with a brilliant touch of British humor, T and I just had to laugh.  Poor Barney.

Passions and soapboxes

I’m passionate about many things.
I have an entire set of soapboxes about animals and what should be done with people who abandon, neglect, abuse, or mill-breed them—but I’ll save that for another day.
I believe that family and friends need a higher priority than we (I) tend to give them.
I believe that adding coffee to chocolate [...]

Hitra

. . . is a very large island off the western coast of middle-Norway. It’s not quite due west of Trondheim, and while I admit I’m not keen on the hassle of getting there (twisty roads = car sick) or on hauling stuff from the car to the cabin (no path, all uphill = a [...]