Holly Wade Matter

Gasp!

Screenshot of a Banana Republic item: wide-legged blue jeans that bow out at the knee.

The bow-legged look is in, I see.

Yesterday's Advent spice: granulated garlic. After an adulthood of shunning such things, I bought a bottle of this, and a bottle of onion powder, because some days I can't be bothered. It's tasty stuff. I used both in a broccoli/cream/fusili thing last night. Delicious!

Today's: Italian herbs. Yay!

Two bagged, 10-count balls of Rowan BIG Big Wool in colorway "Shadow." The color is a faintly blue shade of gray, really beautiful.

Bunny Bowl of New Arrivals? Fuhgeddaboudit. 20 balls of Rowan BIG Big Wool. I can't wait to knit with this. All I need are the needles.

A skinny scarf or wide headband knit with Camp Color yarn. The colors are red, slate blue, and ochre.

While waiting for the needles I need to finish the purple cardigan, I'm dinking around with mystery-box yarn from when Camp Color and Shibui went out of business. I love the vertical striping. I have never seen a yarn do that before.

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This morning's exciting agenda:

1) blood work
2) pancakes at Portage Bay Cafe

Get in loser, we're losers. This is the loser bus

I just about choked on my coffee.

My house in Duluth has just become even more attractive. Not only does it have an independent bookstore within short walking distance. It's also a block or two away from a cat cafe called the Wired Whisker. I cannot win the lottery quickly enough!

I would pay good money to hear Dark Matter Bathtub. It could be a new Christmas tradition for us.

This little one surely needs those face-snuggles.

New Word doc with a field that says "Describe what you'd like to draft with Copilot."

What if I want Copilot to describe it for me?

Purple squares represent major floods, red squares moderate, orange minor.

The National Water Prediction Service is forecasting 18 major floods and 15 moderate floods in our state. 

Catastrophic flooding is likely. Please pay close attention to local officials and sign up for emergency alerts with your county. Find a list here: mil.wa.gov/alerts

River from a rocky shore, flowing past wooded hills. Blue sky, white clouds, sunshine.

The Skagit River at Rockport, being idyllic as can be. I can't imagine what it looks like flooded.

I just got off the phone with the National Weather Service and am alarmed to hear that the Skagit River will peak 4-5 feet above the record crest level. Please please please stay alert and follow evacuation orders. This is not just another flood.

Happy knitting!

Form rejection this morning. Onward and upward!

Only one font is good enough for me. Thy font of every blessing

Gsnorgathon with his feet on a Fender amp.

You know how, in Victorian novels, a character will sit with their feet on the fender?

Aw, shucks!

Are you knitting these days?

You reap what you sew, after all.

Aaaaand yesterday's story goes out again.

Speaking of yesterday, the Advent spice o' the day was Sandwich Sprinkle, which we already have and have never used. And the day before that was cinnamon (can't remember the variety.)

I always wanted a pair of Fluevogs, but they were hella expensive.

I don't know. They were around at the same time, so maybe? The boots certainly would have matched their quiffs!

What our atmospheric river(s) hath wrought.

A pair of extremely pointy-toed Oxford ankle boots. Shiny!

A blast from the past: @gsnorgathon.bsky.social's OG Fluevogs, reemerged today. Still extremely cool, IMO.

Thanks! Good point about the button.

The problem is that I'm in knitting mode, not finishing mode.

Front/side view of the author wearing Norah Gaughan's cabled bolero knit in white, with elbow length sleeves and a centered big white button.

Back view of said cabled bolero.

Not actually hideous! I'll definitely be wearing this today. But I'm not sure about the button as an ornament.

Thanks to @gsnorgathon.bsky.social for the photos!

A sleeve and body of a turquoise and orange striped sweater.

A year ago today. Google Photos decided it was high time it shamed me into finishing this sweater.