It’s hard to believe, but five years ago today is the date on the WHOIS record for abbysyarns.com. In other words, today we are five. Dude, we’ve come a long way. Baby. I was going to make this a blog post full of recaps, like “Hey, here, look at this old post,” and be all […]

Well folks, Abby’s Yarns has moved to a new home on the net (you’re looking at it). Chances are it doesn’t look much different to you yet, but the behind-the-scenes work has been extensive and there’s more still to come. Let’s hear it for the fearless Jennifer Dodd for all her hard work making this […]

…and all I got was this funny-lookin’ spinning wheel that isn’t even back home with me yet. I’m way too tired to give the whole story just yet, but now you know: I’m home. More shortly. (seriously, you know you’re jealous about the wheel. it’s all that.)

0640: Past time to get up, really. I let myself linger in bed far longer than I meant to, but man, did it feel good. I told the already-up-and-cerealed manchild that yes, he could have some computer time before going to wait for the bus, and deployed the travel-sized coffee grinder because the big burr […]

A few minutes shy of 0600: Up, and down the hall to my office. It’s late September, so it’s still fairly dark. Not as dark as it will be when Daylight Savings Time ends, though. I have no empathy for people who enjoy mucking with the time of day twice annually. Pick a time and […]

I have officially lost all track of time. In the past 5 minutes, or else perhaps it’s 5 years, the manchild finished school for the year, started summer day camp at the local YMCA, I got my copy of Amy King’s new book Spin Control, I went to Colorado to work on an exciting new […]

Honestly, there are plenty of times — many of them in December — when I find myself thinking I clearly did better living closer to the equator. It’s partly the shorter daylight hours and the sad, oblique nature of what sunlight you seem to get. When you couple that with a frantic rush to finish […]

Omigod, it’s August. How did that happen? Once again, summer drawing towards a close finds me further and further behind on things I thought I’d do. Like, this year, blogging hardly at all, ev en with the whole early-rising thing going on. At least there have been some remarkable early mornings. So, here, have some […]

It’s time for another cop-out entry. These happen when I have essentially nothing intelligent to say, and run around with the digital camera taking pictures. The weather is crap. Seriously, it just can’t decide what to do. Right now, it’s somewhere around 70F, muggy, cloudy and gray, and looks like rain, but it’s not raining […]

This is the manchild, waiting for the school bus. He only has about a month of school left. Okay, 5 weeks. I sent him off this morning with a slip filled out saying I’d totally be willing to share a little bit about my job for his class’ career day type thing. Those of you […]