Fourteen years
August 5th is our 14th wedding anniversary! Paul proposed exactly six months after the first date, and we got married exactly one year after
that.
I love you Hubby.
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Personal
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UKA Karate Tournament
Went to the UKA Karate Tournament on Saturday 18th July in Eureka, about 30 miles from home. Hubby and I turned up on time and watched students perform katas for the judges. I was surprised to see a white belt competing, and some orange belts like me. The white belt
Independence Day
Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens. There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in.
We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day. We got to
Heatwave?
Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat.
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US Citizenship
Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day. Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area. We recognised three people from our citizenship test. A court official got us
State of the Union
NaNoWriMo has proved I work better with goals and a deadlines. I'm looking at the state of my knitting, spinning, and writing for the next few days and thinking about what goals I want to achieve.
Passing the citizenship test was a huge personal goal, thank you for
Civic duties
On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point
Catch up
It's been a busy month.
Knitting
Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'
Hiatus
Our home internet has been shut off because of an oversight by the provider. It would take at least a week to get it back online, which isn't worth fighting for. Things will be sporadic here till May 16th, then all will better.
Everything's fine, there
Random Links
I'm knitting two scarves right now, and they need to be the right length. Isadora Duncan died in a tragic scarf-too-long accident in an open-top car. She was an American dancer in the 1920s.
She would have died in a car similar in looks to something from the