I wish she would get the message
(Dish borrowed from Jesuisleroisoleil)
Blogs I Want to Keep An Eye On March 24, 2011
Back in December 2009, I made a list of the blogs I like to visit. I keep referring to that archive blog to try to keep up with life in the stratosphere. Now it is March 2011, and I’m making a new list. It doesn’t mean I am abandoning the old list, just making a new list. There is some overlap. It’s meant as an aide memoire for me rather than an attempt to steer anyone else in similar directions.
A Bluestocking Knits
Bettina Woolly Bits and Everything Textile
Fed by Birds shop in London
Sue in New Hampshire Life Looms Large
Cliffe Vintage Seattle
Kiwi Dutch Dutch mom friend of Matt’s
Kim Seattle Daily Photo
Chuck Seattle Almost One a Day
Mette Historic Knitting Denmark
Strath interesting photography
Crucibulum James’ cycling statistics
Postcards The Best Hearts are Crunchy
Kristie Kristie in BC – Kamloops
Leigh Fiber and Homesteading
Liz Lovick northern lace
Emperor Orp Susan’s blog
Matt Just Wondering
Jean Miles knitting and life
Joanna Mauselina
Dave in Montana Postal Art
Mary Lou Yarnerinas
Another Lynne Food Fun and Farm Life in East Africa
Shandy in Essex Cheviots
Lynne sockladyspins
Will Cookson blog
Strath
unknown bookmarks in used books
my blog Janet’s thread
Time Warp August 21, 2010
Back in December 2009 my list of favorites, ie. blogs that I subscribed to via an RSS Feed, seemed to freeze at December 19 or thereabouts. I kept checking it but nothing new seemed to be happening in any of the blogs I was following. Strange I thought. That just couldn’t be true – where did all those automatic up-dates go to? Well, wherever they went to, they haven’t come back and that list of favorites is stuck back in December. So I just launched a new list on a blog entry in late December. That list doesn’t tell me when a blog on that list has been updated but I keep referring back to it to check out my favourite blogs.
Now I have looked again at my Favorites List – still stuck in December 2009. It’s interesting to look back at those December entries but now I find I can just click on that blog name and find the latest entry. Some of those blogs I haven’t read since last December. Not all of them got transferred to the blog entry list that I have been using regularly. Apologies. But it is rather interesting now to get caught up on what has happened in some of my previous internet/blogger friends’ lives since before Christmas 2009.
And who knows what is going to happen when this computer gets shipped to Seattle. I hope I don’t lose my whole email address book. That address book is only on this computer, not on either of my laptops. The shippers are coming on Tuesday – eek.
Photos for today will be from an interesting website
The Unst Bus Shelter, Shetland, Scotland
Wouldn’t it be nice if all bus shelters could be so well outfitted.
Blogs I Like To Visit December 28, 2009
We moved house about 6 weeks ago. When we were reconnected to broadband in our new house, I eventually realised that my favourite blogs were not being updated in the list of RSS Feeds that I subscribe to. I can still use the Feeds List to look up my favourites but I no longer know when they have been updated, which rather defeats the idea of having the list. Instead, I only get the blog entry that was made on the date I subscribed to that particular feed. And this becomes rather tedious as I have to scroll through the blog to find the blog’s home page and then I see if there is a more current entry. I tried to make a list of these blogs in my side bar but I couldn’t get that to work either.
So to make a long story short, I’m going to just make a list of the blogs I like to read and then refer back to this post when I want to look up that particular blog – that is if I can’t just pull the name of the blog out of my head. (Sometimes when I do that with telephone numbers I get the wrong friend.) The list is in somewhat alphabetical order. Here’s a start.
Seattle Now and Then seattle now and then
Emily Carr mystery name the other emily blog post
Norwegian knitter norway
Audrey Eclectic Art
Annie Knits O Facto
Lillehammer Toriortot mittens
Art of the Landscape art
Annie aspinnerweave
Astronomy picture of the day NASA
Entomologist who likes to knit knitting in wales
no name shipspotting
Beth geology and family
Bettina woolly bits – everything textile
Birgitta Birgitta’s blog
Boston photos of Boston
Carol carol’s blog
Cat Down Under in Australia
Catherine Dispatches from the Deise
Cathy sketching in South Africa
Charlotte atelier 70N
Cindy the best hearts are crunchy
Cliffe Vintage Seattle
Dave Old Paper Art
Dorothy Lockerbie Scotland
Dot Yarnmaker
Elin Northern Norway
Evelyn Textiles and Stamp Collecting and Drawing
FiberQat FiberQat
Fleegle Fleegle’s blog
Franklin The Panopticon
Freyalynn Freyalynn’s Thoughts
Freyalynn Freyalynn’s Dyepot
Gabrieli Urban Sketchers
Harry Harry in Athens
Helen chronic knitting syndrome
Holly The Literary Assassin
Ingrid Ingrid’s blog
Jack hartford daily photo
James Crucibulum
James fibrealive
Jared brooklyn tweed
Jean Jean’s knitting
Jean Jean From Cornwall
Jeanne A Bluestocking Knits
Jenny Dean wild colour
Jo North Africa
Joanna Joannamauselina
Joe Queer Joe
Julie samurai knitter
Karen the frugal girl
Kate needled
Kerstin from Sweden
Kerstin Getting Stitched on the Farm
Kim Historic Seattle
Kristie in BC North of 49
Leigh Leigh’s Fiber Journal
Leigh 5 acres and a dream
Lene Danceswithwool
Lesley Devon Fine Fibres
Linda Bookwords
Liz Northern Lace
Swedish Liz in Ireland swedish and english
Lynne Sockladyspins
Ma Ingalls What would Ma Ingalls Do
Mariann in Holland
Martin An Englishman in Eugene
Mary Jo Travel and knitting
Mary Lou Yarnerinas
Matt Just Wondering
Mel vet in Maine
Meg unravelling
Midori in the labyrinth
Nyondo Road Blog Ahead
P. J. Taylor Dublin Daily Photo
Roger and Helen connecticut
Rosemary Rosemary’s blog
Renee Art=Life
Ruth Knitting on Impulse
SaRi SaRi’s Mindful Knitting
Seattle P-I archive photo blog
Savita an awfully big blog adventure
Seattle bike blog biking
Shandy Cheviots
Sharon Sage Creek Nevada
Strath Pacific Standard
Sue Life Looms Large
Sue travel fibre
Susan thrums
Susan SusanF Handmade
Susan Emperor Penguin
Suzanne herborium
Tracey Dublin Sketchers
trapunto trapunto
Ward Cunningham state license plates
f from Kerstins Extras to Rag Rug Day in Sweden
Unlike the Tree Stumps this list will keep growing.
Dissectologist June 5, 2009
Dissectologist – a person who likes to do jigsaw puzzles. I am one of those. Here is a a link to a 48 piece jigsaw puzzle made from one of my photos. The photo is of Baby Surprise No. 4
Baby Surprise No. 4
I’m not sure I have succeeded with the link to the above. Here is another photo puzzle.
my photo of Bettina‘s colour wheel of natural dye results
Trouble with Photos May 15, 2009
I have a lot of blogs to write but have been having trouble uploading photos. WordPress changed their system for uploading photos and I can’t seem to make it work. If I can’t resolve the problem, I will have to open up a new blog on another system. I’ll let you know where I am soon.
Five Addictions March 16, 2009
I have been nominated for a blog award. 
Thank you Leigh.
Now I have to name 5 things to which I am addicted – not difficult.
1. Buying new books
2. Buying 2nd hand books
3. Yarn
4. Reading blogs
5. Writing my own blog
And I have to nominate 5 blogs to which I want to pass on the award. That is difficult as there are so many to choose from but here are the chosen 5:
Bettina http://woollybits.blogspot.com:80/
Susan http://emperorp.blog-city.com:80/
Cally http://callybooker.wordpress.com/
Freyalyn http://freyalyn.livejournal.com/
Janet's thread 