* The new Rebecca finally arrived! A lot of the patterns look like slight adaptations of patterns that have appeared in previous Rebeccas, but oh well. I totally love the English version, though, because there is some funny English. Did you know that Rebecca is “The young Knitting magazine with the big pattern section”? It says so on the cover. And one section is called “The girls from the stables” and explains, “All your troubles vanish on the back of horse, which is why we spend every free minute with our darlings.”
\n* I just happened to be looking outside at the tree in our backyard when the little birdhouse that has been hanging there for several years fell off. I even heard it go thud. For some reason that made me laugh.
\n* Mount St. Helens blew! I heard it was kind of anticlimactic, though, just some steam and no ash or huge eruption. That’s probably good. I remember when it blew back in 1980. We all wore masks and tramped through inches of nasty ash, and contact lens wearers like me suffered from attacks of stabbing pain in the eyeballs (volcanic particles are pretty sharp).
\n* Wouldn’t it be cool if there were an Ott head lamp? I would wear one while knitting and crafting for sure.
\n* It’s October 1st, which means it is officially Halloween season! Time to get out the decorations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
* The new Rebecca finally arrived! A lot of the patterns look like slight adaptations of patterns that have appeared in previous Rebeccas, but oh well. I totally love the English version, though, because there is some funny English. Did … Continue reading