Yarnivorous

G'day all! I've been following the Takata airbag issue for a while now.  I drive a Honda, and Honda is particularly badly affected.  But no recalls had been issued for my car so onwards and upwards. Until last Thursday, when I got the recall letter.... the letter that says people have died after deployment of the airbag and here, we will give you a loaner car until your car is fixed. Daffodils and trout lilies in my garden   Well crap.  I rather like my little car - he is small and willing and zippy and has driven us on most of our adventures in this pretty amazing state. And then on Saturday night, some mongrel ran into his wing mirror/side mirror and shattered the mirror and cracked the mirror housing.  Hope they get seven years of bad luck cos it wasn't me who was cretinous enough to hit a parked small car.  Nearly $500 to fix it and it needs to be fixed cos it is the driver's side and I use that mirror a lot! So I took my car in to the...

G'day all! It is almost June already.  Where has the year gone? This May has been interesting.  It is a month of changes, of farewells - both my parents died in May, many years apart - and this year is no different. Dunno what it is about May but if it weren't for the beauty of spring and early summer here, I'd go a bit nuts.  (More nuts.) My love affair with dogwoods continues... A while ago, DH was approached by a recruiter.  This happens quite often - the IT industry is really quite incestuous and they are always on the lookout for good people.  They thought that he was a different person of the same name, but it turned out that DH was in fact the right guy.  They had discussions and then those turned into interviews, and the upshot is that DH is leaving Amazon. We are not leaving Seattle... This means getting new visas.  Yay!  Not.... Every time we have to get new visas, we have to do mounds of online paperwork. Sorry, th...

G'day all! I've been putting off blogging cos I keep hoping I'll have pics of my new knitted FOs to show you all but umm well I don't. A sneak peek of a new top for me. So, you'll have to deal with pics of plants and places we've been and a couple of teaser pics. And a peek at a new cardie. I've been pretty busy recently as my sister, her husband and one of their kids were visiting.  They got a nice place in Capitol Hill, which in extra nice, low traffic times is a bit over 20 minutes away.  I've spent a lot of time shuttling back and forth from there.  It was lovely to see family here and we had my niece here in our place for three extra nights whilst her parents were off doing the Rocky Mountaineer. A touch of family. It's a month since I stacked whilst walking on flat pavement.  I went back to the scene of the crime and honestly, there is one bit where there is a tiny lip on the edge of a concrete block but if it is 5mm highe...