the Crafty Biker

Knitting Stash: an app for Android

2010-04-06T08:40:00.000-07:00

I've been doing more programming than knitting lately. What have I been working on? Why a knitting app, of course. It is for android phones. It has sections for keeping track of your projects, your knitting needles and crochet hooks, and also a section for row counters. Here are some screenshots:

Here's the QR code to download the app from the Android Market if that's how you roll:

Steven pondering while wearing the Fog of Existence Sweater

2010-03-05T19:45:00.001-08:00

Steven pondering while wearing the Fog of Existence Sweater
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

Its finished and it fits!

Progress on the Fog of Existence Hybrid Sweater

2010-02-27T19:58:00.001-08:00

Progress on the Fog of Existence Hybrid Sweater
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I'm knitting another hybrid sweater, this one for Steven. I named it the Fog of Existence. That sounds like a sweater Ingmar Bergman might've worn.

Rooster Oven Mitt

2010-02-18T22:53:00.001-08:00

Rooster Oven Mitt
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

We had craft night at our house tonight. Bonnie and her friend Sonya made A-Line Skirts. Lindsay worked on a billfold. Steven worked on making a dress shirt pattern and I made an oven mitt.

The oven mitt pattern is from the book Simple Sewing by Lotta Jansdotterfrom the book Simple Sewing by Lotta Jansdotter

Owlz Grocery Bag Holder

2010-02-14T20:30:00.001-08:00

Grocery Bag Holder
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I made a grocery bag holder with some awesome fabric I got at Fancy Tiger. Owlz! This project goes out to my Aunt Kay and my friend Kyle, both of whom have an owl patronus.

The pattern is from the book sew what! Bags by Lexie Barnes.

Valentine's Day Catnip Heart

2010-02-13T20:20:00.001-08:00

Valentine's Day Catnip Heart
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

My friend Zach from Fancy Tiger, gave me two catnip hearts, unfortunately we have three cats so I had to make a few more. They are simple: cut out two hearts from a sheet of wool felt or quilting fabric, sew them together except for a small hole, stuff them with catnip (I used a funnel), sew the hole closed. If you have a pinking shears, cut along the border for a fancy look! Bossy demands the Fancy.

Here's a couple of pictures of Bossy's reaction. (the other two cats had similar reactions.

My First Sweater is finished

2010-02-13T11:20:00.001-08:00

My First Sweater
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I finished my sweater. Its a "hybrid sweater" by Elizabeth Zimmerman. All of it was knit on circular needles. First I knit the two sleeves and the body separately, then I joined them on one large 32" circular needle. With the three pieces joined I knit the yoke. With the hybrid sweater, you start by decreasing on the first and last stitches on the front and back of the body like a raglan sweater and then once you get to the shoulders you create a saddle, like EZ's saddle shoulder sweater. (So its a hybrid between her raglan and saddle shoulder designs.) Its a very fun design--I will definitely make another one, (probably right now!) but her directions are a bit sparse at times.

I've been wearing the sweater pretty constant since I finished blocking it. Its a bit baggier than I was planning, but I like it.

Mushroom Nook Sleeve

2010-01-26T13:22:00.001-08:00

Mushroom Nook Sleeve and Vonnegut
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

My brother and sisters got me a Nook for Christmas! Its sweet, so I busted out the sewing machine to sew a protective sleeve for it. Its been quite a while since I've used the sewing machine so the finishing is a bit rough in one or two places, but its functional and the mushroom fabric rocks!

Tin Woodsman's Socks

2010-01-15T11:24:00.001-08:00

Socks blocking!
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I finished my Tin Woodsman's Socks this morning. I gave them a soak with my lavendar shampoo and am blocking them now. I made some sock blockers out of old wire hangars.

The pattern is Woodsman's Socks from Elizabeth Zimmerman's book: Knitting Around.

Socks, again

2010-01-11T10:12:00.001-08:00

Woodsman Sock
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

My latest project is the Woodsmans Socks, from Elizabeth Zimmermans Knitting Around. These are thick, heavy wool socks. I'm using Cascade eco-wool, which is undyed and minimally processed.

I finished the first sock, it fits both Steven and I. Its very warm and surprisingly soft. I immediately cast on the second sock last night (best defense against single sock syndrome) so hopefully we'll have a finished pair of socks this week.

I've been on a double pointed needles kick, My last three projects have been skinny tube/dpn projects. And I'm really kind of enjoying it. People have all sorts of strategies for avoiding the use of dpns, including magic loop and knitting on 2 circular needles. Perhaps its because when I knit with dpns I use warm and more flexible wood needles instead of the nickel plated circs, but my hands seem to be enjoying the switch too.

I've seen a lot of archival pictures of knitters walking around, fetching water, etc. while knitting socks or mittens on a set of dpns. There was a device called a gully hook that you wore on your belt and it held your ball of yarn and you were free to walk around while knitting. Multitasking didn't start with the computer.

The project on Ravelry.

Dashing fingerless gloves.

2010-01-11T10:00:00.000-08:00

Finished Dashing Mitts
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

My first cabling project. Cables were a little tricky at first, but nothing to be intimidated by. And after a while fun to knit.

(Its hard to take a picture by yourself of two gloves in action. I finised these a few days ago. They are the ever-popular Dashing pattern from Knitty, knit in cascade heather yarn in the mallard colorway. )

I've worn these quite a bit around town, and they are nice and warm.

The different colored section of yarn in the above photo is the future home of The Thumb. You knit about 6 or 7 stitches on a 12 inch piece of waste yarn, then you slip those 6 or 7 strange colored stitches back on to your needle and knit them again. You continue knitting and finish the body of the glove. Then afterwards you come back, pull out the waste yarn and knit up the thumb on those loose stiches.

First Sock, so lonely...

2010-01-05T12:12:00.001-08:00

First Sock
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

Notice the singular. Now I understand second sock syndrome. This is just a bootie sock, there are only about 2 inches of rib before I started the heel flap. The heel, turning the heel and picking up stitches were all a blast! I loved the tricky parts. Then I got to the foot, and knitting that seemed to take forever, around and around and around: granted I have large feet... Then I finished the toes, and suddenly the socks looked like mitten tops! I'll have to add the picture, it made me want to knit a pair of mittens. And on to the second sock, but--these kind of sag at the ankles so I may make a new pair with a smaller weight yarn. This was worsted: cascade 220, on size 6 needles..

It was a fun project, especially learning the new tricky parts, but it also made me think, I have a lot (A LOT) of wool socks from REI already, whereas what I really need is to knit some gloves and a sweater or two. And maybe I will come back to knitting socks in the spring and summer when small light weight knitting projects are handy.

Tractor Hat, Christmas present for George

2010-01-05T11:57:00.001-08:00

Tractor Hat
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I knit this for my nephew George, who loves playing with tractors, especially John Deere tractors! He seemed to love the hat and wore it inside whenever he was playing with his farm set.

For his birthday in the fall, I'm going to knit him a Christmas stocking with this same tractor pattern.

The tractor pattern comes from the book Hat Heads. I improvised the rest of the design. Half way through the tractor pattern I learned how to twist the two strands on the back of the needle, which is good because there are several places where one color is carried over 8 stitches (that means long floats in the back of the hat.) The technique I learned prevents this.

The yarn is spud and chloe, so its a washable wool/cotton blend.

Gandalf's Ski Tuque

2009-12-20T12:34:00.001-08:00

Fake Isle Hat
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

I give you "Gandalf's Ski Tuque". Everyone else's knitting project names on Ravelry are much fancier than mine, so I figured its time to step up the Naming Embellishments!

(Steven has taken possession of Gandalf's Tuque.)

I finished this up a couple days ago. Its from a pattern called "Fake Isle", because you are supposed to use 2 colors of yarn, one of which changes color on its own, so the colorwork looks even fancier than it is.

The stranded decreases were cool, but were a bit too wide at places. I had to carry the white floats behind 8 stitches in a couple places, not fun!

Bart and Seamus Knitting

2009-12-18T21:35:00.001-08:00

I look sort of like a severe knitter.
Originally uploaded by denverfiddler

Bonnie and I have been knitting today, she snapped this picture on her phone. Seamus loves the yarn.

Stranded Knitting

2009-12-06T09:04:00.000-08:00

I started knitting two-handed! (Also known as Stranded Knitting) Its a good way to knit with two different colors of yarn: you hold one color (usually the main color for rh people) in the right hand and one color in the left and alternate knitting between your two hands, making a pattern. Its pretty fun. I kind of thought I'd be tense and nervous the whole time I was knitting with two hands, like when I first started knitting, but it was just pretty much relaxing and fun. You just knit a couple times from the left hand, then the right, nothing to worry about. Sweet! Now on to the Norwegian Sweaters!

Cowls for Bikers

2009-12-03T11:25:00.000-08:00

I love this cowl pattern. When its cold its great to wear biking around town: no more worrying about your scarf getting pushed down or coming loose and getting caught in the wheel (ala Isidore Duncan.)

Here it is in Malabrigo Worsted in the color Azul Profundo

and here in Vaa

Started Knitting Again

2009-11-23T12:05:00.000-08:00

Its a seasonal thing.

Here's a hat I finished. Sadly it turned out too big, I may try to shrink it.

and here's a new blanket for Bossy, which Seamus has decided he prefers:

First bread of Autumn

2009-09-27T21:46:00.001-07:00

Winter Commute

2008-12-04T11:55:00.001-08:00

this morning it was snowing and the temp was 20°F with the wind chill putting the temp at 10°F. The commute was a blast! I took the bike path most of the way because this is the first time I've ridden through snow on the roads. It wasn't icy so I didn't have to deal with that. And the city of Denver was plowing the bike paths! Awesome.

My bike with the wide 32 tires performed wonderfully. My commuting clothes were plenty warm as well, except that my finger tips were starting to get cold. Also I really need to get sunglasses for biking, the wind and blowing snow was distracting. Squinting into the snow is a bad idea when winter biking.

What clothes did I have?
Starting at the top, I have a Novara under helmet skull cap that was warm enough, it covers my ears too, although, 15 minutes in, the bottoms of my ears were starting to get chilled.

Next, I wore my Marmot wind and water proof coat, a wool sweater, a thermal long sleeved shirt, and a t-shirt on my abdomen. I need to get a balaclava or a neck warmer, as my neck and chin were cold in the wind! But otherwise the 4 layers were plenty warm.

On my legs, I wore my Novara headwind bike pants and long underwear. They were plenty warm down to 10°! And then on my feet, wigwam wool socks and my hiking boots/shoes. No complaints there! Warm toes!

So what do I need to add for these cold days? balaclava or neck warmer... sunglasses... and glove liners, or warmer gloves. Awesome!

I'm a little leery of commuting home tonight after dark, I'll just having to keep reminding myself to take it real slow and easy. Last night I rode through Denver with Kyle and because we took an easy pace, I spotted a red fox cross the road in front of us. Which reminds me I used to occasionally see myself biking through traffic as a trickster fox riding amongst a pack of brutish hunting dogs. Go Foxes!

Also two other people here at work commuted in on bike through the first week day snowy commute! (would've been hard to live down had I taken the bus...)

Creepy new Terrorism Theme Park in Denver

2008-10-10T09:55:00.000-07:00

I biked by this on my way in to work this morning. They claim its privately funded, but that's of course bullshit--its part of the new Denver Art Museum complex which was built with tax money, so now school kids can spend an hour at the Art Museum and the rest of the afternoon learning how to be paranoid suburban-americans. Great use of tax dollars!!

Seamus on his new Blanket

2008-09-24T19:55:00.000-07:00

The blanket is my first knitting project of the year. Very simple, but Seamus seems to like it.

The Condom Song!

2008-09-22T14:09:00.000-07:00

Spring and a compost bin

2008-03-03T15:13:00.000-08:00

We got a compost bin! I'm so excited! I put it together last night after work and then this morning, I cleaned up the garden and found a place for the bin and started filling it with leaves from last fall and food scraps. I want to paint it. I want to paint purple spirals and a green man on the top and perhaps a unicorn too. Its just all dark plastic and I want it to look less like dark plastic.

I biked for awhile today it was so beautiful out (and 70 degrees). I biked down along the cherry creek bike path down towards REI and then biked off west. There were many bikes out and kayakers too.

Last Wednesday as I was biking along the Platter river I saw this robin and I was so excited I said "Hi Robin!" out loud and completely unselfconsciously. It was an amazing faerie/hippie moment. Then as I continued biking I saw three more robins. I did not speak to them however. I did wave.

Riot Austerity

2008-02-19T09:56:00.000-08:00

I just re-read the post below, which I backdated to November of last year... Hmm did we follow through on the Riot Austerity? Nope, not really. We are not composting like we should, that's my biggest guilty secret. We don't have a compost pile set up and I feel a bit strange always dumping our old food in our neighbors compost pile. Why?

Back to the Kill a Watt

2007-11-25T09:53:00.000-08:00

(this post was from another blog I started and posted to once.)

So I was reading about the Riot Austerity movement, which intended to reduce consumption by 90% over a year and I was inspired and after talking to Bonnie she was also inspired and excited. So I decided to start using the Kill-a-watt to see what electricity hogs there are in the house.

Reducing by 90%? That seems huge.

Granted not for transportation, as I bike everywhere and ride in a car perhaps once a week.

But as far as how much I throw away every week? Bonnie and I decided we definitely will weigh our garbage to see how much we are throwing out each week.

Bonnie is excited by this but I don't know about Steven. We'll see how reacts this week...

Heating fuel. That's where we are going to be screwed as we rent a 100 year old house and our landlords are not interested in improving or insulating this house. So what can you do? Cut back on garbage and buying new goods, I guess.

Food: We should be ahead here as we are vegetarian and eat alot of organic, locally grown food from a CSA.

the Kill-a-watt
so I started the Kill-a-watt tonight (at 6pm) on the new computer desk (that Steven bought used from Sun.) Actually, Steven of course, is as green as I am just in different ways, he bought the desks and the couches downstairs, both used.

moth picture from bike ride

2007-09-29T17:52:00.000-07:00

I stopped on the bike trail to take this picture and then as I picked up my bike to ride off I noticed a goat-head thorn stuck in my tire. Ah, the dread goats-head thorn, by the time I got to my office, my back wheel was flat. But it was worth it for the ride and the pictures.

honeybee on the basil

2007-09-29T12:26:00.000-07:00

wow I love this new camera, the details in macro mode are amazing.

I love my new camera

2007-09-28T22:44:00.001-07:00

(yes, finally a camera that can take macro pictures! ah yes just as insect season is over.)

I just finished watching An Inconvenient Truth, which I quite liked and was moved by, and which freaks me out. I started watching it last night with my roommates and Dean and they started mocking Gore and his mannerisms and everything he said and so I got crabby and went up to my room to bed. (No, I don't have a crush on Al Gore.)

cat picture:

my new favorite show

2007-08-23T21:01:00.000-07:00

I love feathers

High price of cashmere

2007-08-23T09:34:00.000-07:00

I found a Really depressing story at the Chicago Tribune about the high cost of cheap cashmere.

My co-worker, who has family in South Korea and plans to return someday, was especially distressed by this story and the environmental damage caused by the cashmere goats. She says China's growing deserts are really frightening, that especially in the Spring and Fall in Seoul for a month it is so dusty you have to cover your face when you go outside. And she says in China at that time its much worse you have to cover yourself fron head to toe to go out and when you get back you are covered in a thick layer of dust and sand.

from the story:

The country's enormous herds of cashmere-producing goats have slashed the price of sweaters. But they also have helped graze Chinese grasslands down to a moonscape, unleashing some of the worst dust storms on record. This in turn fuels a plume of pollution heavy enough to reach the skies over North America.

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Every product--every T-shirt, every SUV, every child's toy--has a global footprint defined by the resources and energy used to make it. In the case of cashmere, America snapped up a record-smashing 10.5 million Chinese sweaters last year, 15 times as many as a decade ago, and far more than every cashmere sweater imported last year from Italy and the United Kingdom combined.

It's impossible to say how much any single product contributes to China's choking air pollution. But the spike in demand for cashmere is taking a toll on the soil, air and water in China as well as the U.S.--a cost that never appears on any store's tag. And many consumers are unaware of the link.

somedays, I miss the midwest

2007-08-11T12:41:00.000-07:00

If You Grew Up in the Midwest......

…You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.

…You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.

…You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the reception and wedding dance.

…You know the difference between "Green" and "Red" farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
[ahem, lets not forget the orange]

…You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.

…You spent more on beer & liquor than you did on food at your wedding.

…You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't break into uncontrollable laughter.

…You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at the county fair.

…You know that "combine" is a noun.

…You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.

…You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.

…You know that "creek" rhymes with "pick".

…Football schedules, hunting season, and harvest, are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.

…A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining for deer.

…Saturday you go to your local bowling alley.

…There was at least one, if not several, in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.

…You have driven your car on the lake.

…Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.

…Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.

…The local gas station sells live bait.

…At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing plant.

…You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.

…You actually understand these jokes and will forward them to all your Midwestern friends!!!!!

Go Waterbuffalos!

2007-08-09T16:42:00.000-07:00

I shaved the 3 week beard

2007-08-09T09:55:00.001-07:00

Yes, I shaved the 3 week beard. I couldn't take it anymore. (hmm maybe the august heat had something to do with that?) It felt so patriarchal or something. It's kind of strange how much a simple beard affects ones identity. On one hand it made me feel pretty non-mainstream, un-middle class, which was cool. (People definitely treat you differently. In walgreens I was the crazy misanthrope with the beard, the cashier said: here let me do that for you, when I fumbled swiping my card.) But it wasn't really the sub-cultures I'm into. Ah, the strange worlds of beard culture: from hippies, to daddies, to orthodox patriarchy and wild crazy-eyed mountain men. Okay, now I'm starting to miss it. But as my co-workers say, "Oh, Bart, the beards just 2 weeks away," and I still want to be blackbeard for Halloween ...

finished knitting a new hat

2007-08-08T22:47:00.000-07:00

first of the season... its almost fall...

that's Steven modeling it.

Ethanol fueling higher farmland prices

2007-08-08T22:38:00.000-07:00

Well, there goes that pipe dream for a while. The NY Times has a story about how the ethanol boom is fueling sky rocketing farm land prices.

“For everyone who doesn’t own an acre of land, these prices mean it gets a little harder to get into,” Mr. Aupperle added. “For an entry-level land owner or a renter, there’s a bit of a thought right now that the train is leaving and I’m not on it.”

In Iowa, which produces more corn and is home to more ethanol plants than any other state, farm rental prices are mimicking purchase prices: they were up about 10 percent this spring over a year ago, according to a study by William Edwards, a professor at Iowa State University who said it was the largest jump since he started tracking farm rents in 1994.

In the back of my head, for the last few months has been the idea of renting a farm for a year and seeing if I somehow liked it better than IT. I thought perhaps I'd find some farm, buy a Jersey to milk, a flock of chickens, and a few pigs to raise for market and grow some vegetables. But the ethanol craze is looking like it may put a lot of people off of that idea. Pretty much anyone that isn't directly related to a farm.

Well, I'll keep my I on this.

Fox Attacks Bloggers

2007-08-07T11:54:00.001-07:00

Sweet! judge silences navy sonar

2007-08-07T10:59:00.000-07:00

from the BBC

The US Navy has been ordered not to use mid-frequency sonar equipment during training exercises off the coast of California until the end of 2009.

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In a statement, the navy said it already took steps to minimise risks to marine mammals.

It added that it had monitored the waters off southern California for 40 years, and had not seen any whale injuries resulting from the use of sonar equipment.

This is utter bunk. There is no doubt the sonar kills whales. This is from a Mother Jones story from last year:

The pilot whales began coming ashore last January, on North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore, not far from Whalebone Junction, where fishermen make the turn toward the marina at Oregon Inlet. Short-finned with distinctly rounded heads and long, stocky dark bodies, some were almost 20 feet long, weighing up to three tons. By the time they were discovered in the surf near a lonely five-mile stretch of beach, 15 pilot whales—6 of them pregnant—were dead. Seven more had to be euthanized by veterinarians. During the next two days, a newborn minke whale and two dwarf sperm whales also died in one of the largest beaching events ever documented along this coastline.

Scientists arrived to gather tissue; after the necropsies, the whales were buried on the beach. “It’s curious to have three different kinds of whales strand, and a number of possible causes are being examined. Sonar is certainly one of them,” said Connie Barclay, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

On the day the strandings began, several Navy ships conducted submarine-hunting exercises off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, using loudspeakers to send mid-frequency sonar sound waves across ten or even a hundred miles of ocean. Sonar devices can locate an enemy’s sophisticated, almost-silent diesel submarines by, ironically, making a deafening noise—sometimes above 230 decibels, as loud as a Saturn V rocket blasting off. (Underwater noise of only 120 decibels—a level billions of times less intense—has been known to disrupt whale behavior.)

Why we're in Iraq

2007-08-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

(from Jim Hightower)

camping, fiddle lesson, csa

2007-08-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

We (Steven, Bonnie and I) went camping up in the Poudre Canyon over the weekend. We had car trouble fri and had to stay overnight at Steven's dad's house and then borrowed his jeep on Saturday. It was a fun experience, we just car-camped up in the Roosevelt Natl Forest and hung out around a campfire in the evenings, (Bonnie's very talented with camp fires, just so you know.) We broiled veggies wrapped in tinfoil (buried in the coals.) They were so good cooked that way (green beans, potatoes, summer squash, red onions all from the CSA).

Sunday we came home, and I harvested the first big haul of tomatoes and jalapenos.

On Monday night I had my first fiddle lesson in years. I'd been really looking forward to it too. It was kindly disappointing. We basically went over my bad, self-taught fiddle form, (no hold your thumb this way, no bend your right thumb,) and then she had to take a cell phone call in the middle of the lesson, WTF? Granted changing habits will be good and make playing easier, but its still lame.

Last night we got a huge haul from the CSA Farm, including 3 muskmelons and 4 watermelons. (that would be the full shares weeks supply.)

Books on Deck ...

2007-07-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

okay I may be pushing my luck putting the rise and fall of the third reich and A Peoples Tragedy, those books are huge. I also need to re-read Vonnegut soon. (He was sort of my high school sweet heart.)

I just finished Death in the Haymarket, which was really good and really depressing. There was great momentum in the 1880s for an eight hour day, thousands and thousands of people were on a general strike, and many, many major employees had given in to their unions and given them 10 hours pay for eight hours work even, and then a bomb went off in the midst of the police who were illegally and stupidly breaking up a peaceful demonstration in the Haymarket district. This bomb kicked of the first red scare in the US and killed the 8 hour day until 1938.

week 3 csa

2007-07-03T13:34:00.000-07:00

just picked up this week's veggies. I'm so happy I joined the CSA! But with that now there is responsibility and I have no idea how we are going to cook this many veggies in a week... well the potatoes, eggs and onions will be no problem. okay neither will the broccoli and lettuce. That just leaves the beets and snow peas (I guess it will be a week of borscht and stir fry!)

(by the way this is a full share at Monroe Organic Farms CSA who are unfortunately sold out for this season. A CSA is a farmer-consumer partnership where consumers buy a share of the vegetables upfront in the spring and then receives a bag full of veggies each week. This helps the farm because it has a guaranteed market for the vegetables and the capital risk is shared in case there's a weather disaster .. and it helps consumers because we get a bag of fresh organic veggies each week picked the night before).

the bunny sleeping in the garden

2007-06-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

I bought ingredients for a pale ale today tentatively titled Bunny Kicks Pale Ale in honor of the bunny that looks like its sleeping peacefully on the outskirts of my garden this afternoon. I am such a softy, I'm like: I don't think he'll eat any lettuce, he prefers the weeds on the outside. Plus its so cute, I walked quite close and it just looked up peacefully, with this " Holy Shit! there's plenty for everyone" look on his face. (and No I am not projecting.)

Garden Picture

2007-05-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

I like the Green Man peeking out from behind the grape vines.