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Monthly Archives: June 2006

The flood.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Thanks ladies for the sympathy! With all the flooding here in the northeast, we are thankful that our basement only flooded a few inches instead of a few feet! We have some friends who had finished basements and lost all of it … their basements ruined by 3 or 4 feet of flood waters. There [...]

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Leaks.

Monday, June 26, 2006

It’s been raining here quite a bit and I’ve discovered that the basement floor in our house leaks. It didn’t look like it leaked when we looked at the house. The inspector that inspected our house didn’t notice. He said the walls showed some evidence of getting damp and told us how we could fix [...]

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Dial up.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

I have very little patience for dial up. Children, lots of patience. Dial up, nope none. I do not like it. I don’t know how people do it. DSL will be installed/turned on June 20th. Yay.

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Goodbye Internets! (For a just a bit anyway!)

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Tomorrow is the move. Not sure when we’ll be back online.
A day. A week. Two weeks.
The phone company said it would be two weeks before they can come out and hook up the DSL, but in the meantime, I’ll try getting online with a free dial up service. Netzero said there were no local numbers [...]

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Wednesday we move.

Monday, June 5, 2006

I. Hate. Packing. And unpacking for the matter. Big sigh. Can’t wait to be done with it!
Eve asked if I came up with the slipper pattern myself. Indeed I did. Then she asked if I would be posting it. I will, but it’ll be a couple of weeks as I’m still working on the sizing [...]

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Yarn and a Slipper

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Some lovely BFL hand painted and hand dyed by… ummm… me!

Slippers for Hannah (now I just need to knit a pair for Mina… and Molly… and Sarah):

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