Spring Is Busting Out All Over!

It’s been pushing 70F here in western Minnesota. I haven’t gone for any walks because I’ve had indoor duties but I did take Edda and Freya out on their cat leashes to see the bird feeder and I washed and aired the two afghans I’ve been working on. The second still needs to be bordered but I need to wait to get the yarn for that. In the meantime, I’ve started my next project with some of the leftovers from the donor afghan. I’m working on squares and once I reach 64, I’m going to make them into a blanket. I haven’t quite decided the color scheme yet — all I know is that it will be a black and [insert color] checkerboard pattern. I’m leaning toward blue so that it matches our sheets. I’m also still working on squares for the exchange.

Tomorrow is supposed to be stormy but that gives me an excuse to work on my book (which is probably more interesting as a Silicon Valley native and UCSC alum because I get all the inside jokes) and make more squares. Sunday is church and the annual klub dinner for one of the churches. (Several members have explained to me that klub tastes like ham-flavored wallpaper paste but I’ll “like it once I acquire the taste”. Well… when they explain it so… interestingly…)

Testify!

Rice seeks another private meeting with commission

She has granted public interviews with dozens of papers including the Irish Times but she won’t testify publicly under oath to the commission. There is something not right about this. EVERYBODY including Rice and Dubya should be required to testify publicly under oath — no special treatment. If this is as heinous a crime as Dubya claims it is, shouldn’t he be the first to publicly testify about what he knew so that something like this doesn’t happen again?

Refusing to testify really gives the impression that they’re hiding something…

Oh yes… and in case anyone wants to complain that Clarke is dissing Bush to be partisan, the guy is a Republican. Hardly partisanship.

Cindy’s Friday Five

Heather is taking a break today so Cindy created her own.

1) What’s your favorite thing to do when it’s raining out?
Curl up with a book and a cat and watch the thunder and lightning.

2) How often do you go to the library?
Whenever I need a new book.

3) When was the last time you sent an actual letter or card via snail mail, and what was the occasion?
When I responded back to the letter a family friend sent me. (She writes me frequently to encourage me in my pastor’s wivery.)

4) What is your favorite radio station?
The local NPR one.

5) What is your favorite kind of hot tea?
Lipton Lemon n’ Honey!