Chester the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. --Gene Hill
Tues, Sept 28
» Cute,
fluffy puppies (and a few random kitties):
These 3 are my favorites for obvious reasons: one
little puppy, two
little puppies, three
little puppies. I just noticed how they spell the
breed name...maybe it's a spoof on how Japanese don't
always pronounce L's very well?
» "Hello...my
name is Chester and I'm a Greenie Addict." This
boy needs a 12-step program. Download
and watch this 16
second mpeg video of Chester
diligently destroying a Greenie.
The
video is 5MB and once downloaded should open
in the media player you have set as your default—i.e.
Windows Media Player or Real Player.
Mon, Sept 27
» Nifty
Knitting Technique: How
to Unravel a Sweater. Do you own a store-bought sweater
that's just too big or just doesn't fit right? Then unravel
it and
make a new one! Going to the thrift stores
and buying sweaters for their wool is a really inexpensive
way to get some wonderful wool for next to nothing.
In fact, I just unraveled a J. Crew sweater that Rob O gave me and I'm going to make a Cape Mod poncho out of it (sans the red and purple fun fur). FYI, the "Cape Mod" poncho pattern is in Stitch n' Bitch.
Thurs, Sept 23
» What Dog Are You? Answer
the 10 questions in this game and you'll find out! This site
is in frames so you'll have to click the "Game" link to get to
the right page.
There's a dog inside all of us, waiting to be let out. This game is based on a computer called SUKA built in 1975 by Russian scientist Mikhail Volkonsky and now housed in the London Science Museum. SUKA is powered by CATS (Canine Algorithmic Transfer System™) which is able to determine what kind of dog you are. Simply answer 10 questions about yourself, being as honest and accurate as possible. CATS will examine the data and calculate which breed you resemble the most.
Thurs, Sept 16
» How
cute is this: Skull
knitting tote. I may have to add this to my future projects.
» UK
Author casts doubt on historic legends: Genocide
and tales of chivalry are some of the British myths challenged
by an eminent Sutton St. James archaeologist in this, his
new book Britain
AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons.
We've all heard that the country was left vulnerable to Anglo-Saxon attacks once the Roman army left in around AD 410. But Dr. Pryor, who has also made appearances on the hit television programme Time Team, has disputed the stories of slaughter and mayhem caused by the invaders from Scandinavia... [more]
» Cool
new mix CD: Last night
at Pottery Barn I picked up this 2-CD set called "Margarita
Mix" on sale for $11.99 (regularly $24) and
I love it! Click the picture to get the track list.
As far as I know you can only get this at Pottery Barn stores and I didn't even see it on their website.
» Knitting
Work In Progress: Dog
Gone Cute Classic Aran sweater from Leisure
Arts - A winter sweater for my little Chester!
I've never done cables before, so a small dog sweater will
be a good way to gently introduce myself to the skill! For yarn, I'm
using Lion brand Wool Ease in the"Red
Sprinkles" colorway.
Mon, Sept 13
» Plans
for Iron Age tourist camp—From BBCnews: An
archaeologist plans to offer tourists the chance to experience
life as an
Iron Age villager. Jasper Blake aims to transform farmland
in the Forest of Dean into a working Iron
Age settlement.
Paying visitors will be able to live at the village for a
week, wearing
authentic costumes, foraging for food or learning to weave. [more]
Thurs, Sept 9
» Current
Knitting Project: From the lovely and talented Yarn
Harlot's website: a
very harlot poncho. The pic to the right is from her site but mine
is in a similar (but more orange) goldish color: Berroco Soft-twist
in "Tupelo Honey."
» Vikings' barbaric image is put to the sword... from ThisIsDerbyshire.com: From Wagner to Hollywood to Hagar the Horrible, Vikings have raped and pillaged their way into our consciousness and stayed there. But it seems that popular myth has done Vikings a disservice, as a burial site discovered this week proves that they were in fact settlers with a sophisticated and enlightened culture. Lynwen Davison met a Derby Viking expert who said he is delighted that his heroes can now shed their unjust image for violence.
Think of a Viking and what do you see? Is it Kirk Douglas chopping
braids off blonde maidens with an axe? Is it a horn-helmeted barbarian
looting and raiding from a longboat?
Whatever your mental image of a Viking, you can bet it's probably not a church-going family man with an interest in politics and a belief in the equality of the sexes. [more]
Tues, Sept 7
» Irish
homecoming for Viking boat: A
Viking long boat with an Irish heritage took to the high seas
of Denmark at the weekend. The life-size boat is a replica of one which
was built in Ireland 1,000 years ago. Following ancient Norse tradition,
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II poured water from a nearby creek on
the stern of the 30-metre longship
- billed as the world's most ambitious Viking ship reconstruction.
"Your name shall be Havhingsten (Stallion of the Sea) from Glendalough," she said during the ceremony at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde on Saturday. [more] See the construction of the Viking warship, made according to traditional methods.
» Norse
Burial Ground at Cumwhitton, Cumbria: A number
of exceptionally rare Viking burials, probably dating from the early
10th century, have recently been discovered on farmland
at Cumwhitton, Cumbria in the UK. Excavations carried out by Oxford
Archaeology North found six richly furnished graves, containing swords,
spears,
jewellery and the remains of spurs and a possible horse harness.
Other than a small fragment of skull no human bone had survived
in the acid soil conditions, but the objects found in the graves
suggest that four men and two women had been buried here.