{"id":171,"date":"2005-02-16T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-02-16T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T17:31:45","slug":"blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/scrabblequeen\">Ruth<\/a>, called and invited me and the boys to breakfast at 8am!  Not only that!  But after breakfast, she wanted to have J2 (8) and J3 (4) stay for a visit while I entertain myself for a few hours!  I was giddy with possibilities &#8211; 2 hours kidfree!  So, I decided to head to Davis and hit Borders.  No one asking for anything or wanting me to hurry or whining!  I looked at their very messy craft section but didn&#8217;t find anything I wanted to own or that I thought my SP4 would like so I hit the magazine section.  I think I may have bought EVERY knitting magazine they owned!! LOL<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"mags.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.osbornz.net\/journal\/images\/mags.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nI also got a new Logic puzzle magazine &#8211; I&#8217;m so addicted.  I think I can subscribe&#8230;.I should probably do that.<br \/>\nSo in the next few days\/weeks I&#8217;ll be sharing my impression of each magazine.  If you couldn&#8217;t tell from the picture the magazines I picked up were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkga.com\/caston1.html\">Cast on<\/a> :: Spring 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/cgi-bin\/lionbrand\/knititPatterns.fcgi\">Knit It!<\/a> :: 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeknittingmagazine.com\/\">Creative Knitting<\/a> :: March 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interweave.com\/knit\/default.asp\">Interweave Knits<\/a> :: Spring 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interweave.com\/knit\/default.asp\">Interweave Knits<\/a> :: Winter 2004<\/li>\n<li>and, my guilty pleasure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennypress.com\/order\/logic.shtml\">Logic Problems <\/a>from Penny Press, April 2005 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Off to make tea and read, read, read \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D171&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osbornz.net%2Fjournal%2Fimages%2Fmags.jpg&#038;description=Blessing\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171\" data-text=\"Blessing\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Blessing\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=171\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Blessing&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D171&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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While my house looked like this: My friend, Ruth and I tried our hand at some other-than-knitting craftiness! :) It got a bit messy and... Not everyone understood WHY we would do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":496,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=496","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":3},"title":"For Ruth","date":"January 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ruth said in the comments: Yeah! Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153catch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d her with MagicLoop, too. Guess what? Already in the works! LOL She'd like to do a hat next and I explained the different options for knitting one and told her I was going to teach her the \"easiest\" way -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2806,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=2806","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":4},"title":"When life strands you at home&#8230;","date":"September 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"...be thankful you can knit! ;-)\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking lemons\/lemonade but...ok, it doesn't work!\u00c2\u00a0 But I made it work for me!\u00c2\u00a0 Today we finished our schoolwork and were heading out to Gma & Gpa O's house to swim this afternoon (97 degrees at 5pm!! 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