Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Year: 2008

  • Good Riddance 2008.

    Let’s just face it. 2008 sucked. Big time. And not just for me, it sucked for almost everyone I know. I am so ready to just move on. But first, I thought I would take a look back at the past year. Let’s look at the laundry list of suckage, if you will. The bad…

  • Crafty Monday: A couple of scarves

    I haven’t posted much in the way of my crafty endeavors for a couple of weeks but, I assure you, I am crafting. Knitting, specifically. As you know, this has been a challenging couple of months (It’s been a challenging year, but that’s a whole other blog post). Knitting has really, really helped me get…

  • snowpocalypse

    Here are some photos I took a week ago today when Raf and I went for a walk in our Neighborhood. We were having a snow day and still trying to dig out from under the 24 inches of snow that was dumped on us the day before. This is an intersection. Yeah, the side…

  • Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas!

      I just wanted to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas. Hope you are all keeping safe and warm wherever you may be.

  • The Hood

    Um. Yeah. We got DUMPED ON. In the past 24 hours 2 feet of snow accumulated. Apparently this is a record. I had to shovel the driveway 4 times yesterday. I went out every 2-3 hours until the snow stopped and each time I went out there had to be at least an inch of…