One man with questionable taste should not be able to unilaterally change the essential architectural characteristics of the nation’s capital.

Trump wants to paint the granite exterior of the Eisenhower Building white. What’s going to get that cheesy trump touch next, the Washington Monument?

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

Unlike many of the other tropical rain forest residents at the National Aquarium, the Scarlet Macaw was quite easy to spot right next to the path. The Screaming Piha was in fine voice (i.e., LOUD).

Spent a nice afternoon at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Seems a little unusual for a water taxi #baltimore #innerharbor

I might have to search for these.

#Libraries #Librarians

#showmeyourknits purple This is the Gretel beret by Ysolda Teague. I don’t have a picture of it, but the way the cables grow out of the ribbing was really clever (here, go check it out 🙂 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...) #knitting 🧶

So, high school reunion, when you‘ve moved away from the home town right after college and haven’t seen or been in touch with anyone from high school in decades ... yes or no?

The same logic that has them saying that trump’s ballroom is necessary should also lead them to concluding that trump shouldn’t attend political events, hold rallies, golf at his golf clubs, or dine at his restaurants. BTW, 1) security worked, and 2) the East Room still exists in White House.

I actually like traveling the PA turnpike. Once you pass the Blue Mountain and Kittatinny tunnels westbound, you’re driving in valleys with farms between the ridges, or skirting the tops of ridges looking across valleys - it reminds me of the road trips my father took us on all over the Northeast.

This has to be one of my favorite pictures from our recent trip.

Sadly, this is neither the Onion nor SNL News.

I upgraded iOS before my trip, and saw the previously decent battery life disappear. If Apple thinks making the performance suck will entice me to get a new phone, their strategy failed. I kept my 5C until work issues forced me to get a 13. I’ll be bitching about this phone until at least the 21 😏

This guy points out the obvious … you tax the 1% more, and it will have 0 impact on their lives. youtube.com/shorts/6pPTo...

I needed a new travel/mindless knitting project, so I cast on with the new 16” circs & I’m glad I did because boy, do I hate the shorter needles! Switched to circs with longer needle tips & my hands are much happier. New travel rule - always cast-on before the start of the trip. #knitting 🧶

One of the first signs of spring here - the high school cross-country team training on my hilly cul-de-sac.

Text message from an unknown number several states away: “how about you come to my place for dinner tonight? Me, as I reach for the screen: “how about I report this message as junk?”

And they want to make autonomous killing machines with this sh*t? youtube.com/shorts/gPthZ...

This is a beautiful photo, and it also gives me the impression of someone in the middle of a tremendous sneeze.

🧶 #knit #goodreasonstoknit

This confirms what I suspected - that there was no invitation to the women’s hockey team until the back-handed invite when the men were lauded and invited. So the president is a jerk, no news there. www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/s...

Living in a winter wonderland today.

Getting the knitting ready to take along for a trip … a newly cast-on long sweater vest, a shawl halfway thru 1200 yds of fingering weight yarn, and fingerless mitts about 2/3 done. A month+ of knitting projects sounds about right for a 4 night trip, doesn’t it? #knitting 🧶

The Super Bowl commercials range from meh to uncanny valley. Can we have a Cat Herders reboot? youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE?...

Me: Makes some pattern mods. Casts on 214 stitches. Works first row of ribbing. Ummm, the row isn’t finishing the way I expected. Counts stitches. Pulls out original pattern, fiddles with some numbers, draws some stitch diagrams. Counts again. … Me: Casts on 212 stitches #knitting #knittinglife 🧶

“i‘ll make this straightforward cardigan” she says, then she proceeds to lengthen the cardi, recalculate the rate of decreases on the front edges, convert it from seamed to seamless, and change the pockets to incorporate them into the body as knit instead of added later. #knitting 🧶

I stumbled across a site with the covers of Columbia-Minerva knit and crochet patterns from the 60s & 70s. Love the nod to reality in naming the “Don’t Go Near the Water Sunwear”. I wonder if any ”Fun Shags” projects still exist in the world? #knitting 🧶 www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/retromusings...

I figured that the the Woolmark symbol was part of a wool industry response to the introduction of synthetics fibers, but I never thought about how the promotion of synthetics often incorporated an implicit bashing of wool. #knitting 🧶 youtube.com/shorts/I8uAm...

With the impending start of the Winter Olympics, I find the Dale of Norway site irresistible. You have to check out this page with Dale Olympic sweaters through the years. Anyone else have the urge to start a Dale of Norway design? #knitting 🧶 us.daleofnorway.com/Editorial/De...

Was just looking at a travel site and realized it was using AI-generated pictures. Might be just me, but I’m only interested in seeing pictures of REAL PLACES when I’m looking at a website that has “travel” in its name.

Trump admin secretly rewriting nuclear safety rules. “But perhaps nowhere are the cuts more obvious than in the new order on safeguards and security. Seven security directives totaling over 500 pages have been consolidated into a single, 23-page order.“ www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

My little solar light valiantly trying to shine a light.

#showmeyourknits - garter stitch. Miss Winkle pattern by Martina Behm (www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...). This is the one that made me call asymmetric triangles my favorite scarf shape. #knitting 🧶

We’re getting a crap-ton of snow today and The Norwegian and I are ready for it. No, silly, not my husband … my sweater. I occasionally wore this to work, but only on the coldest days, and even then I’d have to take breaks to go outside for a couple of minutes (no jacket) to cool off. #knitting 🧶

If you’re using AI for important decisions, watch this and you’ll understand why you shouldn’t rely solely on AI. It’s the latest new shiny gadget, but don’t let that distract from the fact that it has significant flaws. youtube.com/shorts/7sRZN...

That Eskie smile! ❤️

It’s snowing, cue the hot chocolate.

Trump posing like he thinks Frank Underwood is a role model

Mr. Rogueknytter is watching Road Warrior, so of course this brings to mind the IMHO far superior series Miracle Workers: End Times, and I just discovered that I can stream all 4 seasons of Miracle Workers. People, I am stoked!

The best advice I ever read about parenting was by Sir Terry Pratchett

Did pom-poms ever have a functional purpose? 🤔 My reflexive first thought about every hat pattern I see with a pom-pom is “wonder if that would look ok without a pom-pom?” #knitting 🧶

Last minute holiday setup, and one of the new things I’m using came with this warning.

I will never have a more perfect package/giiftwrap combination than this.

Knitting Helps Us Embrace Life’s Messy Imperfections Documentary and text by Samantha Moore ❤️❤️❤️ #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/1CtQNlAe5Wk?...

Here’s a freakin’ ray of sunshine for today 👏👏 youtube.com/shorts/qtQmY...

At a new (to me) restaurant. Me: how is this chicken dish prepared? Waitress: it’s grilled chicken with some kind of a sauce over pasta. That … didn’t help.

Watching a package shipped 7 days ago from NH (about 300 miles away from me) travel to Indianapolis, IN (550 miles away from me) then to Rochester, NY (300 miles away). Having a nice scenic trip, package? Wow, did DeJoy screw up the postal service.