Category Archives: Extracurricular

Extracurricular

#KnittingNotKnitting

Posted on 9 September 2014 by pattiblaine

In which I should not knit, but do. Continue reading →

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Woad betide, part the first

Posted on 19 August 2014 by pattiblaine

July was an odd month for various reasons. I was away at the monastery for a few days of deep silence with six hours of quiet train travel to and from bookending my stay there We three learned (gradually) not … Continue reading →

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Cease and desist

Posted on 7 July 2014 by pattiblaine

Jack D. Rabbit Sometime visitor to my backyard Upstate New York Re: Cease and Desist Harassment Dear Jack D. Rabbit, I am writing to you this letter to document a period of harassment I have received from you beginning 31 … Continue reading →

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Getting schooled.

Posted on 15 May 2014 by pattiblaine

I have had a Pentax K-r for a little over two years (I wrote about it once here). Because I have a little more time on my hands these days, at some point this past January I finally decided to … Continue reading →

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How does your garden grow?

Posted on 12 May 2014 by pattiblaine

How about a little joy? We have had such a long, bitter winter. But there are sugar snap peas and carrots coming up slowly in the backyard. Our front yard is full of tiny maple trees, outnumbering blades of grass, … Continue reading →

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On the eve of Advent …

Posted on 30 November 2013 by pattiblaine

… and from beneath 11+ inches of snow, I give you a remnant of this year’s glorious autumn and one of my wanderings with Carmen the dog. God’s World — Edna St. Vincent Millay O world, I cannot hold thee … Continue reading →

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We interrupt this programme …

Posted on 24 August 2013 by pattiblaine

Last week, I mentioned my current then-current obsession with sock-knitting. I am nearly halfway done with the second sock of the latest pair which I cast on at one point or another during the 5th of August just after finishing … Continue reading →

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White chocolate-almond macaroons

Posted on 15 August 2013 by pattiblaine

Airy and delicate may be two of the descriptors Sharon Tyler Herbst used in her blurb about these cookies. I baked them on the 28th of June before leaving for Ohio and our first whirlwind of vacation on the 1st … Continue reading →

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Socks

Posted on 14 August 2013 by pattiblaine

I seem to have become, without intent or awareness, an obsessive sock-knitter within a dangerously short amount of time. This past winter, I wore only hand-knit socks. Mind you, I have had only six pair of hand-knit socks in my … Continue reading →

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Spicy cocoa thins

Posted on 28 June 2013 by pattiblaine

So easy it’s shocking. Melted butter, cocoa, chopped pecans, a wee bit of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, and a few other ingredients. One bowl and a spoon, a scraper and a jelly roll pan. And voilà! A nutty thin, … Continue reading →

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