I'm back!

I am finally back on line! (

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My ethernet card died the death which cut me off from my modem. I could have connected directly to the modem, but then as that would have disconnected the whole LAN everybody else in the house would have killed me dead. This is my second card in 3 weeks, they sent the wrong one the first time. I missed all the news and everything else since before Christmas.

The christmas goodie boxes went out on schedule for a wonder. Not quite as much variety as I usually do, but since I had to have a good bit of help this year it had to do. Feedback was that once again the pwnicorns beat the heck out of the treebears. The pwnicorns are weiser lebkuchen cut out with unicorn cookie cutters. Their first year DD felt they needed eyes and used silver dragees, giving them a harsh and steely glare. That and the fact that whenever she makes them (she did again this year) she manages to get a rather hard cookie, definitely a dunker, they were dubbed pwnicorns. The treebears are the honey gingerbread from the Pooh cookbook, rather delicate for gingerbread. I usually use like any other gingerbread and cut out boys and girls and things, The other DD felt that since they were Pooh gingerbread, they had ought to be bears. Then she thought to try and make red shirts on them with red sugar. They wound up looking rather bloody, so she made a damaged "gorylocks" to go with the "tree bears" Tree bears lurk in trees and jump down on passing strangers to bite their heads off. Apparently these two wholly fictional creatures have taken an immense dislike to each other, for every year there is evidence of an intense battle in the Christmas hampers whereby the treebears are gored to pieces, and a few pwnicorns have their horns broken off. I have suggested to DH that a liberal application of bubble wrap and appropriate isolation chambers might be in order. He insists that if we just pack the boxes tighter all will be well. He is so wrong!

I've gotten some knitting and small scale dyeing done. They have put me on a new NSAID drug that seems to be helping my back immensely. Hopefully we can get this thing sorted out soon and I can get back to hefting massive bed quilts and dye pots about. On that note, I am planning to make myself a few "utility" corsets to deal with this stupid hernia. I've tried some of the more inexpensive support garments and they work, but they wear out rather quickly and are much more uncomfortable than a well fitted corset. Plus over the years I have developed a serious dislike for garments that sproing elastic thread ends out all over. Some of my small scale dye projects have been test swatches for that pictorial quilt I have have drawn out. So I will have a relatively small project to go to if this drags on. Heck I have enough thought and work invested in it I will probably go to it even if the back thing does not drag on.

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