Monthly Archives:January 2007

Scarf Brigade

January 5th, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / 1 Comment »

Lolo mentioned making neck scarves in her post yesterday. I commented that wouldn’t it be fun if we all made a scarf (or two – twenty?) over the next ten months and then exchange them for Christmas next year.

So far, it looks like a couple of folks think it’s a good idea – Lo, herself, and Raspberry Fruggy. Oh, and then the Ladybug said she could maybe sew something. 😉 I love it when an idea begins to come together.

So, friends of mine, consider this YOUR invitation, too. If you would like to join in, just be thinking about what scarf you would like to knit or crochet (or sew) over the spring/summer/fall. Let me know that you’d like to participate so I can make a list. Then, along about October I will make another mention of this to check up on y’all and make the final list. Then, I’ll do a super-secret matching process to see who gifts whom with their chosen scarves.

Maybe everyone can take photos of their creations – well, the maker AND the receiver, maybe . . . this can be fun. One of my friends (she is a special prayer partner sister in Christ) gave me a “calendar” for my coming birthday (you January babies, said she, are easy to buy for . . .) It is a box filled with 365 daily knitting patterns. Well, some are two day carryovers (yes, I peeked ahead) but there is generally one set of instructions per day.

There are some GORGEOUS scarf patterns in there! I am really looking forward to making several scarves this year. I feel a need for a trip to the fancy yarn store – sadly, we only have one in the area. Maybe when I go back to Anchorage on the 15th I can look up there??????? Yup, I am feeling the need.

Hey, everyone . . . have a wonderful weekend.

:moose:

Promised Pics

January 2nd, 2007 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 4 Comments »

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coming home from Anchorage –

check out the snow load on those trees!

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starting to clear though.

Of course, now the forcasts include a LOT MORE SNOW over the next week. Whoopie! Who would think that I live here, huh? I am SUCH a wuss about the snow – well, I don’t mean that I don’t go out in or anything like that, cause I do. That is, my CAR goes out in in. I don’t go out and PLAY in it – that would mean putting on LAYERS of clothes and BOOTS for pity’s sake, you know. And, it c(w)ould mean getting COLD and/or FROSTBIT or something like that, you see.

I am MUCH too fond of my skin just where it is, dontchaknow? heh.

Anyway – enjoy the pictures. In fact, why don’t you all come up here and enjoy the weather, too? There’s plenty to go around.

weather, that is.

and, to think, I might HAVE to go back to Anchorage next week – for a one day conference – maybe – we’ll see – hopefully soon – maybe not. How cryptic is THAT?

see ya!

:moose:

Suggested Reading

January 2nd, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, Reading List / 1 Comment »

I picked the book up in Anchorage. B&N didn’t have the first of the two, but I was able to put my happy little grubs on @Home for the Holidays by Meredith Efken.

If you have ever been a part of any sort of email group – (you know the sort – someone sends and email, and then the group responds to it, each adding their own little twists and turns along the way) – well, you will certainly understand the humor behind the words.

I have laughed so hard today while reading it – and I am nearly 2/3s of the way through it now – that hubby moose surely thought I was losing my mind. I would wipe the tears from my eyes and put my hand over my mouth (thus to stifle somewhat the loud GUFFAWS bellowing forth – too little, too late!) and mutter “sorry, honey” and then read the next section and have to do it all over again.

Lessa is waiting to read it and I am sure that Ladybug will want it as well. Sadly, in this account anyway, I have to go back to work tomorrow. And, I have to find a Soldotnan willing to be interviewed sometime tomorrow also . . . So, I will probably not finish it until Wednesday – at the earliest. Well, we will see, won’t we?

It really is a page turner.

Now – go and buy – and, if you find a copy of SAHM I Am also by Meredith, pick that one up, too. I am still looking for it.

Tall – Taller – Tallest

January 1st, 2007 / Categories: Family, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

the biggest question around the moosie household is:

Who is taller – the Boy? – or Gramps?

You be the judge:

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hmmmm – pretty darned close!

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HEY! how did THAT happen?

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funny, Gramps, REAL funny!

Yes, the men in my life are a barrel – or stool-full – of fun! Heh.

 

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