July was a big month, as it turns out. I got the weekend holiday I needed so much, I worked more hours in the shop than usual, I caught and defeated a Death Cold, and I met one of the brightest stars in the knitting sky, Louisa Harding. If you’re a knitter, you may know [...]
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Row, row, row your boat
Before we made it to the tree, we saw and experienced one of the more prominent features of the Lough Key forest park, the island with the castle on. I believe it is usually called Castle Island, distinguishing it from the islands with the church on (Church Island?). It being an island, the only way [...]
Posted in Stories, Wanderlust
Posted by Dixie on 13 August, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/row-row-row-your-boat/
Arborsexual
A couple weeks ago, several couples and I were invited out to Boyle (Roscommon) for the bank holiday weekend. We were housed, fed, and entertained, and I not only got to hang out with people I don’t see often but I got to see bits of Ireland I never had before. The older I get, [...]
Posted in Stories, Wanderlust
Posted by Dixie on 11 August, 2010
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Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
People love summer here. Where I come from, summer was accepted as a necessary evil but avoided if necessary. People got really excited about spring (Spring Break, anyone?) instead. I know now this difference is because spring where I grew up is about the same climate as the height of summer here. Summer here has [...]
Posted by Dixie on 10 July, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred-minutes/
Roscommon Lamb Festival, part 3
We got really lucky that our day for the Festival had glorious weather. The Wool Craft Village was in the town square in a very large tent with floorboards, so even if it had rained we would have been out of the wet. Since it was beautiful out, Kheldara and I took turns leaving the [...]
Posted in Stories, Wanderlust
Posted by Dixie on 13 May, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/roscommon-lamb-festival-part-3/
Roscommon Lamb Festival, part 2
As you might expect from the name, the Roscommon Lamb Festival is about lambs. Well, lambs and sheep. I learned that County Roscommon “has the highest lamb output in the country,” and that the festival itself is meant to showcase the benefits of locally produced food and craft. Whether you’re concerned about ethical treatment of [...]
Posted by Dixie on 12 May, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/roscommon-lamb-festival-part-2/
It had to happen sometime
This is a post about my cat. If you don’t like cats, if you think the proliferation of cat pictures/videos/blogs on the Internet is a sign of the deterioration of civilisation and impending apocalypse, if even hearing about cats in conversation makes you sneeze, move along. There’s nothing to see here.
Posted by Dixie on 27 April, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/185/
Still quiet
With the shadow of the Sackboys removed, I have moved on to other handknitting challenges and obligations. The Big Commission still looms (haha) overhead, but after meditating on the recent issues with it over the past few days I have more ideas for how to deal with it and get it done and get on [...]
Posted by Dixie on 20 April, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/still-quiet/
My rock and roll lifestyle
Okay, so it’s not all that glamorous. The past few days have been a little busy for me, in good ways, in fun ways, and in stressful ways. Leprecon was fantastic, even though my work schedule interfered with any actual gaming other than the pub quiz. (We came in second place, but it was a [...]
Posted by Dixie on 15 March, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/my-rock-and-roll-lifestyle/
Booze!
I was out drinking both Friday and Saturday nights this week. Friday night I attended a staff meeting, my first with This is Knit. We went over the stuff that needed going over, then we broke out the wine and pizza and crochet hooks. Our all-star crochet teacher had agreed to come and teach us [...]
Posted by Dixie on 8 March, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/booze/
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