Eloquent Pedestrian

Glorious weather aside, this hasn't been my best week. Suddenly I have developed allergies, and this has paralyzed me with fear. What if allergies mean that I cannot garden this year? I have received so much joy from my time playing in the dirt, I have been so excited about seed catalogs and plant budgets, I don't know if I could survive indoors with nothing to do but watch the green things growing outside. But things have improved to the point where I can survive, both indoors and out, with minimal inconvenience. Still not ideal. BUT. It's the end of the month, and that means new Who Club yarn. Now, I must make a confession. While I have absolutely loved all three colors from the winter Who Club, none of them were the beautiful project yarn I'd hoped I'd get out of the club. Meet my new best friend: Big Flashy Lighty Things and a Cloud Belt. In case of monitor fail, this is a light purple to periwinkle to light blue colored yarn, and it is luxuriously gorgeo...

Hit play on this before you continue to read: Things have gone a little crazy here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. To some degree I expect this. At some point in March it gets warmer here, and in my twenty-five years here I have often seen people running around in shorts and flip flops in fifty degree whether with piles of snow still on the ground. But come on, Mother Nature, this is just ridiculous.  On Saturday we didn't just break the record high temperature, we did it by ten degrees*. People have gone insane. There are women in bikinis by lakes, the parks, zoos, and ice cream shops are packed. People are not only wearing their sandals and shorts, but their tank tops and sunglasses.  I have not been immune to the madness. I grilled outside, I walked places, I hung out in the park. Don't worry, no bikinis. (There's a mental picture you can all do without) It occurred to me some time last week to check under my leaf cover. I've been nervous about my t...

When last I posted I was pretty excited about my Who's Your Doctor Yarn Club through  Nerd Girl Yarns . I'd received my first yarn, Boomtown, and had knit some beautiful gloves out of them. I've worn those gloves every day since, through the coldest this strange Minnesota winter had to offer. I have since received both of the other yarns in the Winter Who Club. And they are beautiful. First there was "The Scarf": If you aren't familiar with the Who-verse, it may seem strange to refer to a scarf without any description. But if you have any knowledge of Who-dom whatsoever, you know exactly what this is a reference to. I started watching Doctor Who because a couple of casual mentions and a front page link on Hulu caught my interest. I watched all of the current series' seasons before realizing there was an older show that all of the episodes referenced. The old series is harder to catch up on. It began in 1963 and ran until 1989. Seven actors portrayed...