http://briankharmon.com No chicken escapes from Tweedy's farm! Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:14:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While it's slowed down a little bit lately, I've been doing some knitting. Here are my recent(ish) Finished Knitted Objects: 1. Toe Socks for David David has a big list of "stuff Brian is supposed to knit for me." Toe socks were the first thing on his list, so ... http://briankharmon.com/2008/03/three-fkos/ Recently, the Hillcrest Residents' Association made me feel annoyed and guilty all at once. A while ago, they left a letter in my mailbox. Basically, it said that they had some money and were going to plant some trees in the neighborhood. If I didn't want a tree in ... http://briankharmon.com/2008/02/so-i-guess-im-on-the-blacklist-now/ David was wonderful enough to get me a Wii for Christmas. Love it. I'm about 1/4 of the way through Super Mario Galaxy, about 5% through Metroid 3, and am prepared to beat any of you at Tennis or Boxing, should you wish to come over and be defeated. Wii would like to ... http://briankharmon.com/2008/01/hello-my-name-is-brian-and-im-a-wii-addict/ In the light, this Grim Reaper looks pretty terrible. I thought I wasn't going to be able to use him. But not bad in the dark with a candle, eh? While we were carving these, David said he thought this year's pumpkins seemed different from last years.  A different ... http://briankharmon.com/2007/10/happy-halloween-3/ David and I have started geocaching. My friends Jeanette and Michael got me interested in it. Geocaching is a game in which you use a GPS receiver device to find caches that other people have hidden - throughout the world. There are lots of caches hidden in ... http://briankharmon.com/2007/08/why-am-i-covered-in-ticks/ Prudence uses the litter box. But she also uses the corner in the living room. And the quilt lying piled up in the floor. But then she will lie on my stomach and stretch out and meow and look so cute. I must destroy her. Later, maybe. http://briankharmon.com/2007/06/these-dumb-cats/ I was eliminated in the first round on Saturday from the first annual Central Arkansas Adult Spelling Bee. I could spell all the words which the other spellers were given, even into the third or fourth round. (Examples include "leisure" and "fajita".) But I couldn't spell the one they gave ... http://briankharmon.com/2007/06/i-cant-spell-pleurisy/ So, Wilhelmina is a pretty, fuzzy yellow-orange charmer, who often won't sit still for very long, because she wants to go bite or swat something. Prudence was apparently the runt of the litter.   She's a dark tortoise-shell, shorter-haired cutey (ugly-but-cute) who mostly just likes to sit on your lap or ... http://briankharmon.com/2007/06/kittens/ During the Eucharist on Pentecost, in the silence after the bishop said, "The gifts of God for the people of God," a little girl in the back shouted "YAY!" Everybody laughed. http://briankharmon.com/2007/06/funnycool/ A long time ago (like a month), JTB asked Episcopalians who are former members of the Church of Christ to answer these questions: Why the Episcopal Church? Why not something closer to home--like Disciples of Christ, for instance? - Well, the first church I was a member of after the ... http://briankharmon.com/2007/05/campbellites-nay-cranmerites/