Please forgive me, as today, I’m going to kind of cheat and not write a full post. Hopefully, you’ll forgive me as I share that I feel a tad famous. Observe.

TH’s dad was over recently and asked if we were growing dandelions. Growing dandelions? If by that you mean, not mowing them, then yes, we are growing dandelions. Had we thought about it, perhaps we should have harvested them for dandelion soup or at least claimed to have such a plan.

Austin hadn’t had any rain for a long time and then suddenly it rained quite a bit. The weeds were out of control….and TH and I had gotten so used to not mowing the nearly dead native grasses in our “lawn” that we didn’t jump right on the mowing thing when it began to be an issue. Observe.


Some people take pretty pictures in bluebonnets, not us, we take pictures in our weeds. That’s how we roll.

This pic is for Rebecca, who says that TH’s face is shadowed in all the pictures I have framed of him on my desk. She seemed to be caught between the ideas of him being fake or a spy.

Everyone else, don’t worry, we didn’t let the weeds get so out of control that we lost Syd in them. TH mowed right after I took the pics. That is after all, where I draw the line. If you can lose a 65 pound dog in your weeds, you need to mow. :)

I’ve been participating in the Iknitarod on Ravelry and was pretty happy with what I accomplished while the Iditarod racers were pushing towards Nome…more about that later. It was a lot of fun to “race” via knitting with the mushers!



Susan’s Spinning Bunny shop has a special March only colorway available that I wanted to call your attention to in case you’re in the market for something a little different but very cool. The colorway is Sled Dog! I ordered the Clackamas and can’t wait to see how it knits up!

Ps. This yarn kind of matches my blog…..not a big shock that I like it. :)

Pps. Congrats to Dallas Seavey(1) and Aliy Zirkle (2)! …Mush!