quick as a wink

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i swear, this has been the snowiest week we’ve had all winter. which was kind of good, because i needed to hole up and get some serious knit on. those pretty sleeves i showed you in my last post needed to become a sweater, so i spent most of monday working out the written pattern. that involved […]

the difference a day makes

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hehe, well, it happens every year during the first week of april but still it surprises me. it’s the same each year—just after the daffodils bloom we wake up one day to see everything draped in a layer of snow, sometimes lightly and sometimes—like today—quite heavily. in fact we had quite the winter storm last […]

out of the old rises the new

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our current weather theme is holding—days that are sunny and warm alternating with days that dip down to near freezing. the plants have been reluctantly opening their buds one by one, only to have their flowers torn to rags by the wind, which is mostly ferocious on any day. the poor daffodils are few in number […]