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… but, thankfully, no fire in the sky.

This is -10C air over salt water.

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Merry merry!  Best wishes of the season.
 It’s certainly been merry here.
An important point about message fragmentation.  Here are 2 very
different messages, each starting with the same first chunk:

We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away.
We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away, but it’s
not in fit condition to use for food [...]

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Perhaps — just perhaps — I
am learning.
I have previously
observed, on more
than one occasion, that I really should swatch for colours and
pattern realities before I embark on a project.
I’m now playing with some ideas for a multicolour, textured sweater in
Rowan Cocoon (chunky merino/kid mohair).  I bought the yarn with
an eye to colours that played nicely together, [...]

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Last week, I did my Christmas (cookie) marathon, constructing and
baking 4 different batches of cookies through the week, and another 4
on Saturday.  It’s not like there’s  a lack of other things
going on this month — I just broke them up into stages and wove the
different stages (dough, shaping, resting, baking, decorating) in and
around other things.
Usually, [...]

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Now this is obscure:  the 1904 date system in Excel.
I was working with a spreadsheet in which I was trying to create a
projection of a larger spreadsheet.  I.e., I want to be able to
share just a portion of the larger spreadsheet — so I copied the
relevant cells from the larger workbook and pasted them into [...]

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Let me explain something. 
This:

is a cheese plate.

And this:

is a wanna-brie .
Opening up the familiar wood box, I was astonished to find a sealed
plastic tub inside.  Think of the “hankie” scene from the opening
of “The Commitments”.
Look more closely at the labelling — from the country that has to
label when its cheese is food:

It is, indeed, [...]

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I have found one sure fire way to make 3 lbs of butter seem like not
much of a big deal — and it has to do with Christmas cookies.
For whatever reason, even as there is no time for (m)any of the usual
sorts of holiday things, such as decorating our home, I hang on to
making Christmas [...]

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The other day, DH approached me with a box of yarn in hand, prompting
me to retreat and utter some sailorly language.  The attentive
will note that this is not my expected reaction to yarn; certainly, it
was not what DH might have expected.
The problem was that it was a box that had been hiding in the basement
(no [...]

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Okay, so here is the revised pattern, instantiated in the new sock:

The 2-knit-stitch welt is progressing properly; the stockinette panels
are oddly parallelogrammed, and the moss stitch is setting up in modest
diamond shapes… I think it mostly works.  I think the next time
I’ll keep the stockinette panels diamond-shaped, and let the moss
stitch run amok between the [...]

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After I’d done these
“diamond moss stitch” socks, I chided myself for not having adjusted
Lesley Stanfield’s stitch pattern (for the diamonds) to work in the
round.  You can see the “disconnect” between the segments of welt
here:

I decided to make that adjustment and use the same motif in the current
sock project (which uses Tess
SuperSock yarn — nice tight [...]

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No, not a dromedary — camel & silk blend (YUMMM!) from Hand Maiden Yarns (”Camelspin”, 70%
Silk, 30% Camel), purchased at Cricket
Cove in Blacks Harbour, NB.

I don’t know how many times we’ve driven by that store and not been
able to stop in — either we’re rushing to catch the ferry to Grand
Manan, or just off the [...]

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