Year of Socks – Sock 7 and a Remembrance

And now for some knitting content… as it turns out I have been knitting over the past couple of months… all socks. I have just recently (as in last week) started working on other things but socks have been the focus of my knitting these summer months because, sadly, I never feel like knitting [...]

Tropical Storm Irene

Yup, we got downgraded. The big hurricane we were all expecting didn’t hit us and most New Yorkers are having the “that’s it?” feeling after the storm passed. I don’t. As much as we prepared and bought water and food to last through a power outage – and then didn’t even have anything happen [...]

Hurricane Irene

Just a quick post to let you all know that I’m okay and so are the pups and my husband. We are riding the storm out at home as we have NOT been evacuated and should be safe from any flooding that might occur. We are still a little bit worried about the wind [...]

Jurassic Park and an Interview

I am a huge fan of watching movies on the big screen outdoors (I LOVED drive-ins when I was a kid and am so sad that those are pretty much gone now) so when my sister and I found out that SummerScreen was going to be showing one of the best movies ever for the [...]