Kiss My Knits!

I wrote to the DMI website folks, and they wrote back to say that they knew the weird formatting was an issue in Schrute Farms reviews, but until they came up with a global fix, they had manually corrected the Mac users weird entries. They also inadvertently removed my paragraph breaks and I guess the system couldn’t handle RübeKinderArbeitProgramm, so it was changed to FreiKinderArbeitProgramm, but hey! Close enough! It does look better and I appreciate the timely response. Go Team DMI!

Pictured at left, by the way, is the beet o’lantern that I made to go with my review. Let me tell you, it is surprisingly difficult to hollow out a raw beet. Did you know that salt gets out beet juice stains? See, you learned something new today, and it’s going to be a better day because of it!

Over the weekend we bought a bike for Emily. She’s been asking for one. Here she is just after getting it, practicing pedalling while her father helps her balance and steer. It’s a fairly complex task, really, and much as I love Emily, I have to say that coordination is not one of her strong points.

Like all children, she wants to know how to do something NOW. Yesterday she wanted to try to ride with her hands off the handlebars. I also let her steer a little, which turned out to be a mistake, because I now have a scrape on my leg from where her pedal gouged me when the bike lurched to the left. Thank goodness I was wearing long pants. The scrape isn’t so bad, but it’s sore and I feel certain it’s going to bruise. I figured she’d be the one getting banged up riding this thing, not me. Oh well.

I had to put up the “if you ain’t in line, you might not get it by Christmas” note on the Jayne hat page. I’m still working on orders from Sept 10th, so I definitely wouldn’t want anybody to be disappointed should things continue to go slowly. So today, it’s stamping up boxes, writing Ma Cobb notes, packing up kits, and mo’ Jayne hats. I wonder what movie I should watch while doing this. Hmmm…

Hats up for: CO, CO, and CO. Go Colorado!