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Knits With Cats
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Diverse experiences, retired from high tech (mostly start-ups). Adventures keep you young! Knitter, quilter, cat wrangler, gardener, HAM-adjacent, wife, reader, economist, techie, former pilot and motorcyclist, not necessarily in that order. 🧶🧵🧩🌊🐈🌹🌻🍁
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Indulgent girl dinner tonight: scrambled eggs with lox, cream cheese, red onion, and capers and a buttered English muffin. Perfect on a cold and snowy night. #BlueSkySupperClub
A yellow plate with blue border and decorative lines (also a sun, a lion, and a palm tree under the food) holds scrambled eggs and an English. It's on a wooden table next to a puzzle spinner with green felt and the beginnings of a puzzle on it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Split pea soup simmering, lunch done. Kitchen island almost clear; deep cleaning is working. Laundry still drying, cushions by the door, ready to go. Time to start the jigsaw puzzle. Staying home is kinda fun, but I do miss my mah jongg group.
Split pea soup is simmering - ham, red and yellow onions, carrots, celery, lots of garlic, and the prettiest bright green split peas ever. Lunch was tostados - green chile tortillas, white Vermont cheddar, Ieftover Spanish rice and beans, topped with green chile. Not pretty, but quick and good.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Still snowing, probably for at least another 8 hours. We have about 6", I think. The canal has a thin layer of ice, but the river is still flowing. Forgot to turn on the greenhouse heater but nothing growing in there yet, so it's ok. So pretty!
View of the river and canal from my wooden deck. There's about 6" of snow on everything, including the greenhouse on the left. Lots of bare maple trees. The canal has a thin layer of ice, the river is still flowing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas Party
Carol Burnett's green velvet drapery gown
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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And my other 2.
Frankie-who-hates-me because I put her in the carrier when we moved from San Francisco to New Hampshire. She has lovely blue eyes. Johnnie is very independent and friendly even with me. She's sitting in the center of a wreath I made that needed repairs.
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Well, yeah!
GingerSnap using his one brain cell to stare at me.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Starting our holiday movie viewing with White Christmas - yes, it's hokey and I love every single minute of it. Guaranteed to make me laugh and cry, sing along with all the songs. And that's the white Christmas I dreamed about as a little girl in the desert southwest.
Poster for White Christmas with a snow scene background and Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, and Danny Kaye in their red and white costumes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Suddenly and unexpectedly it's snowing! Glad I wasn't planning to go anywher3 today.
Gray bare sugar maple trees near the river. There's also a fir of some kind, all getting snowed on - big, fat, juicy snowflakes that probably won't last a couple of hours, but it's pretty.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Dark green background with Happy Thanksgiving in orange, white, and gold lettering. There are autumn leaves, and other symbols of the season on the border.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#ShowMeYorKnits Indie Week
My favorite indie dyer is @knitivity.bsky.social He does small batches of hand-dyed yarn weekly and will also dye multiple skeins to order. Below are just some of the hundreds (I'm guessing) skeins he's dyed that made their way to my stash!
The tonal turquoise and teal is one of Ray's hand-dyes. The other is a MadTosh speckled yarn, and the pattern is Dragon's Net. These 5 green-based hand-dyes are becoming the Rosemary and August Cardigan. If I need more different colorways, never hear - I have several more! GingerSnap is modeling a Willow Cowl from an autumn-toned colorway. Note that the cat did this himself; I found him napping this way!
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits
Progress on the cinnamon wool sweater. Finished both sleeves during the World Series, and have just a few more rows of the front to complete. Details in alt text. I'm going to love it!🧶
Cinnamon Peruvian wool textured sweater front. There are lots of markers on the v-neck to track decreases. Pattern is Seed Stitch Simplicity by Kennita Tully from the Fall 2000 issue of Knitter's Magazine, one of the best ever. This is the 5th or 6th project I've made from that issue.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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First snowfall of the season! Just a dusting and it's predicted to end in 15 minutes; won't stick around as tomorrow will be in the mid-40s.
A wooden deck with railings overlooking bare maple trees and a river. There's a big of snow on flat surfaces and the vertical lines are snowflakes captured in the porch lighting.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A movie that was made where I'm from, or close enough. Shot at White Sands (which really isn't another planet) just over the mountains from Roswell, NM where I was born.
Poster for the David Bowie movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth" which was partially shot at White Sands, which is just over the mountains from Roswell,NM where I was born.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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First mug of builder's tea with maple syrup this morning. Bteakfast at home today just because and that means good tea!
A white mug with red and black letters: MWOBS Mount Washington Observatory and the logo, filled with strong milky tea. Sits on an oak table.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits theme this week is floof! I've not been a floof knitter because it made me sneeze and got under my hard contact lenses. I am working on a slightly floofy mohair shawl of my own design. It's well-aged stash that I love - looks rather Christmasy.
Emerald green mohair shawl with little shiny nubs of yellow, blue, and red that remind me of Christmas lights. There are garter stitch ridges randomly inserted, kind of when ever I think about it since I originally made a mistake and it's too hard to rip back!
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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#BlueSkySupperClub
Pot roast for dinner tonight - chuck roast braised in red wine and garlic stock, with potatoes, carrots, onions, and a head of garlic. SO was happy and ate well, and there are leftovers for 2+ meals.
Slices of Pot roast with little new potatoes, chunks of orange carrots, wedges of onions, and halved cloves of garlic in a Pyrex dish.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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#BlueskySupperClub
Success! New recipe from NYT and Jaques Pepin: Chicken with Mustand Sauce. Of course I added spinach because SO loves spinach and I love a one dish meal. Just the right amount of mustard, quite easy, and good enough for company.
Blue bowl with white vaguely middle eastern designs. Chicken flavored brown rice with a chicken breast filet and mustard sauce with fresh spinach.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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GingerSnap helped me place holiday orders on the computer this afternoon. He really wasn't that much help.
An orange cat cuddled on my arm. I'm wearing an off-white long sleeve top with the cuff folded back, a black Fitbit, coral nail polish and my hand is on the mouse. Cat is on a sage green blanket and my desk is a mess! Orange cat trying to get my attention while we are shopping online.
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Autumn is definitely here and it's getting cold at night - freezing or near. Still some lovely color to be found in the woods.
Woods just off the Currier and Ives Byway. There are many gold and orange leaved trees, probably small sugar maples. The blue sky and shining sun can be seen through the trees. Some of the trees on this ski area have turned. There are many evergreens as well. Several ski, snow board, and sled runs can be seen on the mountain. There is a wooden split-rail type fence in the foreground.
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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2 more rows and the 1st sleeve will be finished! Thanks to 18 innings last night and 7 exciting innings so far tonight. Taking a short break to rest and massage my sore paws before knitting a little more. 🧶Color is a rich cinnamon, not the washed out tan I'm seeing in the photo. #ShowMeYourKnits
Cinnamon wool sleeve knitted in double moss stitch. There is a chain of multi-color stitch markers used to track increases in the lower center. It's resting on a yellow fleece afghan.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Proof of knitting 🧶
This is a tease of the sweater a friend started and I finished, pre-blockimg. I think our gauges matched pretty well.
My hand rests on an olive green heather wool sweater. Shown are the sleeve cuffs and the beaded rib hem.
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Finally getting a bit of autumn color - not as much as in recent years, but good and getting better.
Standard while NH colonial house- not mine, but across the street. Mine is very similar, with 6 additions over the past 235 years, including a 4 car garage which totally ruins the colonial look! There are large maple and oak trees, forsythia bushes and other foliage which are turning colors - yellow, russet, deep red. A favorite enormous sugar maple tree with gold-orange leaves. There's a bit of an evergreen on the left, and lovely blue sky. Amazing clouds and blue sky after a day of rain. There's a highway with a couple of cars and trees with red leaves. A reddish maple leaf on the ground with a small plant with soft green leaves and little purple flowers.
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#BlueSkySupperClub
Started making Potato Leek Soup with veggies from our CSA box, and got carried away. Added garlic, onions, carrots, celery, broccoli, and ham; blended it just a bit. All gone!
Light gray bowl with dark green trim filled with a creamy soup with potatoes, leeks, carrots, onions, garlic, celery, broccoli, and ham, and topped with cheese.
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Fancy organic chicken hacked into pieces, then roasted on a bed of potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, onions, fennel bulb, and a while head of sliced garlic. Seasoned with pepper, thyme, rosemary, marjoram; served with fresh green beans. Veggies from our CSA box.
A light gray plate witg dark green border and green, gold, and red abstract designs has part of a roasted chicken breast, green beans (upper right) and mixed potato, butternut squash, carrot, onion, and fennel chunks.
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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A bit of NH scenery from our drive today. Color wasn't outstanding although the sky was incredibly blue! All photos taken through the windshield of SOs little Toyota truck.
One of many granite outcroppings on the way to Warner on the left side of the photo. There are trees growing out of cracks in the rock. The sky on the right and center is incredibly blue. The road is a major north - south highway, all 2 lanes of it, and there is no traffic at 2 pm. The courtyard of the business that has our CSA box for us. There's green wooden park bench on thd lower left, and a circular rock wall in the center background with seating and plants. The grass is covered with leaves from the tree that frames the upper part of the photo. There's a white building on the right side. On the left side are the most colorful group of trees from today - green, gold, orange, and a tiny bit of almost red. Blue sky and a couple of cars - there is a bit of traffic in NH!
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM