Laurabelle’s Blog

Remember how good Jeff and I are about misjudging our hikes? (Witness Lena Lake, Mount Rainier, and Annette Lake.) We did it again—but I’ll get to that later.
This weekend’s hike was in Olympic National Park, just south of Port Angeles. There, three connecting trails form a loop that winds up and over mountain ridges for [...]

Last weekend Two weekends ago Jeff and I went down to Bend, Oregon for the Pole Pedal Paddle. One of his friends likes to get a team together for the race, and Jeff was to do the cross-country ski leg and the canoe leg. It was a good trip; I especially enjoyed the positive attitude [...]

Months ago I attempted to get PPTP (pptp-linux) and rdesktop working under Linux but failed miserably. I had no idea what was going wrong, and I eventually gave up. Actually I don't know if rdesktop would have worked or not, because I couldn't get that far. I needed PPTP so I could authenticate myself and [...]

I am Mouse. I see a crack in the wall, an escape. I run in a mad desperate dash. The crack comes closer, closer. I am almost there. Cat's paw lands in my path. Claws sweep me up. Cat chews me up (for good measure) and spits me out. I am back on the floor, but I don't see [...]

I knitted a pair of socks.

Then I cataloged them.
100 1 Melton, Laura, ‡d 1979-
245 1 0 [Cabled socks].
260 ‡c [2005].
300 1 pair socks : ‡b wool, brown : ‡c 54 cm. long.
500 Title supplied by cataloger.
500 Pattern: [...]