Saturday, February 2, 2008
In my last post, I made a brief mention of the Heart Blanket that J. is putting together. You can read the full story here, but the short version is that a young woman she knows is desperately awaiting a heart transplant. J. had the wonderful idea of making her a heart-themed blanket for Valentine's [...]
I live near the arboretum in Ottawa (next to Dow's Lake). I spend a lot of time there, year round, as it's a wonderful place where my dog can run and play off leash.
Earlier in the summer, I came upon some rather odd graffiti on a building there. I finally remembered this past weekend to [...]
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In honour of Canada Day, here are some Canada Geese (and goslings). I could have shown you pictures of many drunk people heading to Parliament Hill to celebrate last night, but alas, I didn't pull out my camera in time to catch the guy puking at the bus stop. So instead, I give you geese. [...]
I saw today over on Poetic Knits that Karin of Pointe Shoes, Punk Rock & Purl has started a National Capital Knitters Webring (that would be Canada's capital, in case you were wondering). So if you're an Ottawa knit blogger, pass the word.
I picked up more Patons SWS yesterday, so I'm back to working [...]
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
It finally feels like winter here in the nation's capital. It snowed through the night, the sun is shining, it's not too cold (-7C), all in all the perfect winter day. I mean really now, if we're going to live in a country with winter, then we should at least have something that resembles [...]
Sunday, November 19, 2006
I know this is a few days late, but last Wednesday I went to the Ottawa SnB Knit Night for the first time. Who knew there were so many fun knitters in Ottawa? I had a fabulous time and will definitely be going back. Although I took my camera, I didn’t take [...]
