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Knits With Cats

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Diverse experiences, retired from high tech (mostly start-ups). Adventures keep you young! Knitter, quilter, cat wrangler, gardener, HAM-adjacent, wife, reader, economist, techie, former pilot and motorcyclist, not necessarily in that order. 🧶🧵🧩🌊🐈🌹🌻🍁

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. And I don't really care which team wins at this point - I just want the Dodgers to lose eventually.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 8h

Detroit - Seattle game is quite the battle! I wasn't planning to watch this late, but can't stop now.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 8h

She actually works for the old one, who sent her to me with minimal instructions and no notification to me. She did ok, and was practically on time which has been an issue with her "boss" (30 mins late vs 2.5 hours late). I'm just annoyed at having to train her - 1st world problem for sure.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 9h

A bit of NH scenery from our drive today. Color wasn't outstanding although the sky was incredibly blue! All photos taken through the windshield of SOs little Toyota truck.

One of many granite outcroppings on the way to Warner on the left side of the photo. There are trees growing out of cracks in the rock. The sky on the right and center is incredibly blue. The road is a major north - south highway, all 2 lanes of it, and there is no traffic at 2 pm.

The courtyard of the business that has our CSA box for us. There's green wooden park bench on thd lower left, and a circular rock wall in the center background with seating and plants. The grass is covered with leaves from the tree that frames the upper part of the photo. There's a white building on the right side.

On the left side are the most colorful group of trees from today - green, gold, orange, and a tiny bit of almost red. Blue sky and a couple of cars - there is a bit of traffic in NH!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 9h

TGIF! Trained a new housekeeper today, not happy about it. Then SO and I took a drive (50 mile round trip) to pick up our CSA box - pretty but not outstanding color due to drought. Did stuff around the house, then dinner out and more baseball. Started a new book, knitted. Damn I'm boring!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 13h

Or if you're a little plus sized, 5'3" tall, with long legs (per the accommodations dude at work) then petite pants will be 2" to short and women's pants will be 2" too long. I've been hemming pants for 40 or so years. I used to sew my own pants because it was just easier!

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 14h

Our favorite dive-y fish place closes for the season next week, so we had one last wonderful dinner tonight. There were several children running wild who made me think retroactive birth control should absolutely be a thing.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 18h

Mine all came from outlet stores, where it's much less than list price. No way I'm paying full price. The colors are great, and every time I think I've decided on the best one, they come out with another winner.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 18h

It comes back quickly!

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 18h

I love the few pieces I have and they do have to be hand-washed. That's ok; SO does the washing up because he doesn't like the way I do it! Won't be buying more because the bigger pieces which I prefer are just too heavy and I don't want to drop them.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting that the photo shows 5 1/4" floppies but the sweater yoke has 3.5" floppies 💾 . I still may do this as a first real fair isle project because of the wonderful nerdiness!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 23h

So perfect and so geeky!

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 1d

👋Oh, hello #OpenAccess @universitypress.cambridge.org text challenging #EarlyModern historical gender assumptions through primary source materials.📖

We've been waiting for you. ❤️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I have way too much yarn and fabric! I donated 7 large trash bags of yarn before moving 6 years ago, and still moved 93 boxes of yarn and fabric. I take yarn to knitting groups every week - this week I got rid of yarn for 3 sweaters and 1 shawl. It was too easy to buy every year at Stitches West!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhat busy day: early yoga class, put Instacart order away, did one load of laundry, knitting group. Sorted cables and cords into appropriate bins, found lots of adapters and cables, so I think we're set for a while (or until they change designs on us), cooked dinner. watched baseball.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I had a t-shirt with that on it!

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

My husband just suggested I turn the living room into a 2nd yarn and fabric room! I already use the adjoining parlor and upstairs walk-in attic for yarn I'm not going to use soon. He's a keeper; also has 2 upstairs rooms for his ham radios and computers.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! I solved that by only texting my sister!

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I like the hot pink buttons best, and I don't like hot pink! They really pick up the colors in the rick-rack.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I use Discord to very occasionally chat with my ex (appropriate, no?) but only as a 1:1 chat tool. He prefers it to Messager or texting (of course he does) but there was virtually no set up required, other than choosing a user name. I'm unlikely to use it for anything else so haven't looked further.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

...flatly refused the deb invitations (rather to my parent's dismay) and chose college instead. I was comfortable around wealth and was able to fit in and make my own rather different choices.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't go to prep school, but did have the very rich and powerful influence (future president, for example). My parents were both dirt poor and were determined that we would fit in with the rich - charm school started at age 10, cotillion at 14, debutante prep at 17. Fortunately for me, I...

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

I have a few online friends that go back to the late 80s/early 90s. Never met them in person but watched them fall in love, marry, have kids, become grandparents. They are no less friends just because we haven't met face-to-face.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

Let me see what I have that isn't wool! Most of my acrylic was donated in the Bay Area before we moved, but I do have a fair amount of cotton - would that work?

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

Well, damn. Yankees are out of the playoffs this year. Not sure which team I'll follow for the rest of the season but there will be one (and it won't be the Dodgers).