Another year gone, I can’t believe it. It’s been quite a year!

• Started the year off with some baking–really good pound cake
• Tried to do the right thing over a customer-service mix-up
• Dad’s birthday
• Finished my Harvest Cardigan
• Cupcakes
• Soup! Muffins! More cake!
• New President–whether you like the man or not, his Inauguration Day was full of hope and possibility, not to mention historical relevance.
• Got my haircut
• Remembered why I love baking bread, and what got me started in the first place
• Celebrated my blog’s 4th anniversary
• Shared one of my own poems for the Blogger’s Silent Poetry Reading
• Had an earthquake.
• Went spinning and knitting at Jessica’s
• Mom’s birthday
• Spun my MVFF cormo
• Finished my Briar Rose sweater (and serious progress on my Sylvi afghan)
• Shared my Vegetable Soup recipe
• Nostalgia from when we were all cute and little
• Got a Chappy-shaped shawl pin
• Had my picture, entirely incidentally, in a magazine
• Had our picture taken on purpose for a newspaper article
• Went to Martha’s Vineyard in April to dog-sit
• MV-2
• MV-3
• MV-4
• MV-5
• Worried desperately about my favorite TV show
• Easter
• Took this absolutely stunning picture of Chappy
• Finished my Sylvi afghan
• More gushing about Chuck, plus some great pictures from the park
• Surprised Susan for her birthday,which was great fun except for the part where Chappy was attacked by a goat!
• Shearing Day at MVFF
• Remembered Katy
• Finished my Fountain Pen shawl
• Rejoiced to hear that Chuck was renewed. (Yes, I do love that show)
• My nephew’s birthday
• My niece’s birthday
• Started the weekly “Chuck Me Mondays” in support of the show.
• My sister’s birthday–and her gift, the Fountain Pen Shawl
• That article we were photographed for made it to the local paper
• Redesigned the header to the blog–I think this is my favorite one yet!
• My DVD-recorder really DOES hate me (or did, the thing is history now)
• Father’s Day
• Saw Jessica and really started my granola-making kick
• Chappy’s birthday party with lots of romping in the yard
• Started weeding out my library
• Chappy shared some of his hidden talents
• Got pulled over by a very nice police officer.
• Chappy had a bad reaction to a bug bite
• Which I made worse by feeding him bad meat
• Actually went to the movies (Harry Potter #6)
• Made my very own yogurt
• Finished my Maplewing shawl
• Want Ad: New Home
• Chappy’s Anniversary
• Finished spinning my MVFF cormo–all gone!
• Katy’s 10th would-have-been birthday
• Started selling off some of my books
• Saw Risa and the twins and got some great pictures of them playing with Chappy
• Finished Chappy’s blanket to match my Sylvi afghan
• Found the original floorplans for our house
• For Sale sign went up
• Ramble the sheep left on his adventure
• Found my grandmother’s old, felted afghan
• Found our new home, and gave away my newly-finished Gray Cardigan
• Mom’s wedding dress
• Sold 6 boxes of books to a used book store
• Of course, went to Rhinebeck!
• Rhinebeck loot, and getting rid of still more books
• Moving
• Moving
• Moving
• Moving
• Moving
• Death by Moving Van
• Moving In
• Unpacking
• My birthday, sort of
• Scratch on my eye–luckily a small one
• More house pictures, because apparently I wasn’t posting enough
• Real downstairs unpacking progress
• Thanksgiving
• Pictures on the walls!
• New baby Christmas tree
• Christmasy stuff and one of the most adorable Chappy photos
• Finished my Ribbed cardigan
• Stollen
• Chappy lost a friend
• Christmas with the family
• Christmas in our new home
• Finished, finally, the first draft of my second book.

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