Hi – I’ve imported my blogger blog

and those in which I’m participating (to a certain extent) so, although it looks like I’ve done a lot of extra entries, it’s actually not the case. Most of the entries I’ve imported are done by others.  This was just a way of testing the waters and seeing if I could get all this “stuff” in one place.   For only my blog, see this link.  More to come as I move along.  I will continue to import the fuguestateknits stuff from blogspot, so no one misses anything:) Enjoy the rain this Saturday, those of you in my part of the country – we need it!

UPDATE – I AM DELETING THAT CONTENT WHICH WAS NOT ORIGINALLY MINE.  NOT EVERYONE IS GOING TO SEE THIS BLOG ENTRY, AND IT LOOKS LIKE I’M A TERRIBLE THIEF OTHERWISE, SO OFF THEY GO! MY APOLOGIES TO ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN OFFENDED OR IN ANY WAY INCONVENIENCED BY THE IMPORT OF POSTS THAT WERE NOT MY OWN. I WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SOFTWARE HERE THAT ALLOWS ONE TO IMPORT ONES BLOG AND I MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING INCORRECTLY.  SORRY!!!! 

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I’m off to see the Wizard

Well, that’s what I usually say when I’m headed for court. No wonder I represent children, LOL! Since last we left each other, dear Reader (all 2 of you, LOL), I was headed for a shelter. What a mess yesterday was – had to get a colleague to cover the shelter and he was none too pleased. It got held over and so of course bumped up into the deposition that I absolutely had to attend. A deposition is the taking of testimony outside of the courtroom. There is always a court reporter and in this case, a videographer. The reason for the deposition is that the witness is in her ninth month of pregnancy and will very possibly be in the midst of childbirth or just recovering when the trial date hits. She did very well.

After work, I got back and decided, even though it was a air-as-thick-as-pudding day, that I would go for a walk. I did. It was relatively brief, but it’s funny. I get kind of blue if I don’t get out and move – get the heart and lungs going. I felt so much better after I was done. Sometimes walking outside with nature is a great way to clear the lungs – and the mind.

When I got home, I showered, changed and went to my very first Knitting Meetup at our local Borders. It was fun and I got a lot of knitting on the Cables and Os sweater from No Sheep For You. I had to take a break from the shawl, but will get back to it today when I return from court. It will hopefully be a light day.

It doesn’t appear to be much progress, but when you consider it’s 384 stitches and size 2 needles, it takes a while, LOL:)

I’m glad it’s a short day in court. I owe my family some serious cleaning time. Then I’m going to get in another walk in the early evening when it’s not so hot and sticky (provided we don’t have a thunderstorm, although we seriously need one!).

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Quick note before heading out

Good morning – well, I did a lot of knitting and crocheting last night but apparently didn’t notice the fact that the kitchen floor needed some attention. I hate when that happens. Anyway, got another two motifs done – 26 to go, LOL –
and cast on again for the Cables and Os sweater for the NSFY KAL.

Finally you can see the colors on this – I think the light background helps somehow.

Well, this morning, I’m off to a shelter hearing. Clients of ours have a new baby sib. Then a deposition, then prep for tomorrow’s hearings then maybe some knitting and flute practice. But I must get at least one cleaning task done before the fun!
Back later,
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A Terminal Case of Cute or ‘Nothing You Could Do Could Make Me Untrue To My Guys…."

“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his/her own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him/her a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding “Of Miracles” (1748, edited to remove the sexist use of pronouns)

With the exception of the first picture, some of the above are so funny – they’re logos from another blog: gracenotes over at livejournal.com. I especially love the “f you.” No, the sentiment isn’t exactly sweetness and light, but it cracks me up.

Well, Christmas was lovely. I am sort of kind of taking the day off today, since we had no shelter hearings today and there is really no reason to go into the office.

Dori took amazing photos of the grandbabies and framed them. We now have four lovely professionally done photos of our two granddaughters. Where to hang the pics? Decisions, decisions, but we think in the playroom-which-was-supposed-to-be-a-dining-room area makes sense. A preview of one of the photos is at the top of this entry.

Three of my kids got me a portable GPS system which will come in VERY handy while doing client visits. And yes, it talks to me. How disturbing…. Two of my other kids got me really interesting books, one of which provided the quote you see here today at the top of this post. John got me some cool gifts, one of which was a “regifting” from a customer at the Center Club, unlike John, a fellow Democrat. It is a keychain that gives you the countdown for Bush’s time in office. Kind of like the one you see on the sidebar of this blog, LOL. Also a DVD called “WordPlay” with an accompanying workbook about crossword puzzles. I am in hog heaven:). That and the cool corkscrew set really shows John’s got my number, LOL:)

John got the usual cologne and a few goodies from Restoration Hardware from me. The kids got him a photo printer. He’s not one to view things online – wants to frame and hang up his photos like a normal person:)

The grandchildren were overwhelmed by the time they had to get to their daddy’s house, but this morning, they briefly stopped by for a visit to collect a lot of their “stuff” and they seemed a lot better rested.

As was Grandma. I’ve started to finish that huge sweater for my son, Danny – it could fit him and his wife together, but he wants it anyway. Hmmmm…. they are newlyweds. Not going there, LOL

Well, Nigella Feasts is running for the 110th time on the DVR thingie, so I better get going. And I may just take another look at the Knitty Gritty episode on steaking.

Hope you all are enjoying your holiday:)

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