Jun 24
I went to the post office today and mailed a couple of things.
First, I sent off this little guy to my friend in New Zealand. Many thanks to Bittersweet for posting the directions to make it. He was fun and quick to knit, and came out just adorable — but he also ended up being roughly 6" tall, which was too big for my original intent — so off he goes to Kim in Kiwi-land.
Sep 28
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I have been knitting some hats at the request of a friend in New Zealand whose breast cancer has, unfortunately, returned.
It was kind of cute: in her email request, she actually offered to PAY me.
Good heavens. It’s been a week and a half. I’m a delinquent blogger.
According to the thesaurus, you could also say, "behindhand, derelict, disregardful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, lax, lazy, negligent, regardless, remiss, slack, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful".
May 11
Oh, happy day! DH has another pair of handknit socks, and I have one less UFO. (Believe it or not, I’m down to just SIX UFO’s. My advice is to keep an eye out for plagues of locusts.)
Ever see a sheep being sheared?
Ever see a sheep being sheared that really wasn’t enthusiastic about the proceedings?
Would you believe it still takes less than 7 minutes?
OMG, this had to be one of the biggest highlights of the entire trip to New Zealand:
Jan 20
I’m sure at least one of you is wondering — "Well, fine, lots of sheep, some yarn stores, but did she actually get any knitting done on the trip?"
Well, yes and no. OK, well, actually, there can only be one accurate answer there, which is YES, I did knit a couple of things on the trip. However, NO, I did not finish 4 pairs of socks for DH.
Jan 16
Nelson, NZ — a town at the north end of the South Island — is kind of an odd place.
It is the nearest town of any real size to Abel Tasman National Park, which is where we had a day of kayaking booked. The kayaking was fabulous — we had a beautiful sunny day, and the water there is this incredible turquoise blue. It is hard to believe it, but I took this picture of a sailboat (with a white sail) specifically for the purpose of showing that it really is, in fact, this amazing color.
Located in Martinsborough, on the North Island.
Jan 3
Ooopsie. Did I forget to mention that there is more stuff about our New Zealand trip over at other-blog.com?
Maybe I did.
DH doesn’t want comments enabled over there though, because he is convinced that certain co-workers will post work stuff on it just to bug him. I may enable comments on my posts, if I can manage it.
Jan 2
Can you blame me for getting all excited when I saw this from the highway on the way into Christchurch?? 
I mean, they have live alpacas out front, for cryin’ out loud.
Dec 31
OK, I admit it — this blogging "on the road" thing is a little harder than I thought it would be. The main problem we are encountering is with accessing the "hotspots". While there are plenty of them, it seems like practically each and every "hotspot" is owned by a different internet access company. So, you either have to (a) choose one, buy an account and then find hotspots to go with it or (2) pick your hotspot, then buy yet another card or account in order to access it.
Dec 30
Well, it had to happen sometime. I had to stumble upon some yarn eventually.
I didn’t expect it to be in the little town of Gore, though. Nor did I expect it to be some lovely handspun.
Dec 27
The "Z" here refers to NEW ZEALAND!! Yes, here I am on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Ah, the magic of modern air travel. Here is how bad it was getting back home in PDX just before we left.
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