Pensive Frog

I’ve been winning up a storm, over here. All I did was recommend a Washington D.C. area inn for Mini at Minestrone Soup, and she sent me a skein of yummy butter pecan Online sock yarn! In case you’re curious, the inn in question was the Woodley Park Guest House. I’ve never [...]

Why is it that I keep having weird shopping experiences at J. Crew? Just a few days ago I was shopping for some new jeans, and had an interesting experience in the dressing room. I’ve noticed that some stores are moving away from Muzak and are starting to play Music instead. You [...]

Yeah, yeah, me and everyone else are making the monkey socks. I’m not following the pattern exactly - I didn’t like the look of the 1×1 twisted rib, so I changed it to a 2×2 regular rib. And when I got to the heel, I didn’t trust the plain stockinette heel, so I [...]

Lucky me won a prize from Big Sister a few weeks ago - w00t! A skein of lovely Fearless Fibers sock yarn in a great berry-purple colorway, and a cute matching Zero Markers stitch marker! Thanks again, Nicole!

I finally fixed my picture posting problem, so I’ll be going back to update previous entries with the explanatory illustrations. To start, here are so pictures from my patio garden. We just got these stripey chair pads, and I love them. Now I can spend hours sitting on the deck, with no [...]

My living quarters are too small to have stairs, but if and when I upgrade to a 2-story abode, you can bet your flip-flops that I’ll get some of these installed - stair drawers (via Charles & Hudson)! I hate wasted space, so I just love the idea of stashing stuff like shoes and [...]

Oh, thank goodness for Seattle in the summer! It hardly ever gets too hot. Of course, it’s only June, and I may be eating my words by August, but in general, Seattle weather is pretty pleasant. I do have a vacation to a hotter clime coming up, so I decided to deal [...]

I’ve been nurturing my sourdough starter for quite a while now, and I’ve come up with a pretty good routine that involves feeding the starter, forgetting about it, feeding it again, and forgetting about it. After about a week I peel back the saran wrap from the incubation bowl and get a strong whiff [...]

Being the hip, with-it folks you are, you’ve certainly already heard of the Envirosax bags. I read about them on Not Martha, and I immediately impulse-bought myself a set of five. It didn’t really register with me that these bags fold up into little bag nuggets, so they’re easy to stash in a [...]

I was just catching up on a little daytime TV, and saw a new Metamucil commercial of dubious taste.

“Clean up your inside with new Metamucil Berry Burst!”
I know eating lots of fiber is good for you, but the word “burst” has no place in a fiber supplement advertisement. None. It reminds me of [...]

I’ve been posting a lot of recipes recently, haven’t I? Well, here’s a quick one for you.
Quick Pina Colada Sorbet
Ingredients
1 large can pineapple chunks in juice (I think this is 18 oz or so)
1/4 C coconut milk
1/4 C shredded coconut
Method
Place the unopened can of pineapple in the freezer until solid. Overnight is good. [...]