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Steven's Tivo:

  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Witness
  • Charlie Jade: Betrayal
  • Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Unrated)
  • High Plains Drifter
  • Charlie Jade: Devotion
  • Hang 'Em High
  • Charlie Jade: Diamonds
  • A Fistful of Dollars
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Body Heat
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • The Notorious Bettie Page
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Man of the Year
  • Miami Vice

Sarah's Tivo:

  • The X-Files: Alone
  • Nature: Underdogs
  • The Red Green Show: Mr Clean
  • The Red Green Show: The Statue
  • Northern Exposure: Soapy Sanderson
  • The New Red Green Show: The Not-Chicken Franchise
  • The Red Green Show: Rites of Passage
  • Northern Exposure: Brains, Know-How and Native Intelligence
  • Under the Tuscan Sun
  • Northern Exposure: Tranquility Base
  • Northern Exposure: Let's Dance
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Northern Exposure: Balls

Seen at Snoqualmie Railroad Days

Posted by Sarah on August 2nd, 2008

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Vintage fire truck

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Unicyclists

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Horses

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The “drill team”

And after the parade, we stopped by our neighbor’s alpaca farm and made a few new friends.

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Alpacas…

Posted by Steven on August 2nd, 2008

Visiting our next door neighbors after the Snoqualmie parade…

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Balls

Posted by Sarah on July 27th, 2008

Yarn balls, that is. I finished dyeing the second cone of ugly pistachio silk yarn yesterday and starting rolling the first hanks into balls last night. Can I just say I’m loving this color?
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My next dyeing project? That fugly drab olive wool from Uruguay. The online seller promised forest green. Not sure which forest this green came from, but it’s not a forest I’m familiar with. It’ll be interesting to see what over-dyeing will do to that color since it’s a bit dark already.

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Emily Awry

Posted by Sarah on July 26th, 2008

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No, we don’t have a gray cat actually. We have a black cat. Usually. Emily’s discovered the joy of rolling in the dirt at the end of our drive. Above is the aftermath.

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Cool find…

Posted by Steven on July 26th, 2008

Since leaving Seattle proper we’ve been longing for a real, quirky independant coffee shop. We just happened upon Front Street Cafe in Issaquah and absolutely love it…

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More music…

Posted by Steven on July 25th, 2008

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Music…

Posted by Steven on July 25th, 2008

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Out in downtown Snoqualmie…

Posted by Steven on July 25th, 2008

The town has live music night tonight at various businesses. This is the third place we had to hit to actually find music playing on time..

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Awesome, not so awesome..

Posted by Steven on July 24th, 2008

Awesome: I just found a well-maintained trail that goes directly from my work to within a few blocks of my house…

Not so awesome: It appears to be already occupied:

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(if you still can’t tell, that’s a 150-200lb black bear…)

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Silk To Dye For

Posted by Sarah on July 20th, 2008

I purchased this 100% silk yarn from colourmart in pistachio.
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Very much not my color. But I bought it intending to try over-dyeing using the crock pot method. I found a cheap 5 qt crock pot on eBay, purchased some Jacquard acid dyes and a few other necessary utensils and set to it. I ended up doing two dye baths to cover up some of the spots that didn’t dye quite evenly the first time around. Mainly where I had tied yarn to keep the hank nice and neat.

The results? Well take a look…
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It’s a lovely deep teal color. The photo doesn’t do it justice. It has a lovely depth of tone and overall, I’m fairly pleased with my first yarn dyeing experience. The yarn is still slightly wet in the photo. I’ll have to post an update once it’s dry and I’ve wound it into neat balls.

Steven: Sigh… I think the pistachio is a much prettier color…

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