Tuesday unconscious mutterings.

1. Textile :: mill.
2. Ginger :: tea.
3. Strength :: through love.
4. Keeping :: up with the times.
5. Beard :: cuddly. (I love beards!)
6. Pregorative :: (I could have sworn this word was misspelled, but google tells me it is right. Duh.)**
7. Closing :: house.
8. Podium :: speech.
9. Rationale :: rationalizing.
10. Secondary :: infection. (Gee, I wonder where THAT came from. Not.)

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Work finished yesterday (yay). Smokey wants to spend a couple days on the North Shore this week, since our planned vacation there in August was sabotaged by his slowish recovery. And then on Friday...

Minnesota Knitters' Days!

Soxanne and I will be roomies at this weekend knitting retreat, and another woman from Knit Night Orphans will be attending, too. Last weekend I googled the site of the retreat...and gasped*.

Villa Maria Retreat Center is in Frontenac, MN, almost on Lake Pepin (if you are not familiar with the Midwest, that's where the Mississippi widens into a lake).

The guest teacher is Lucy Neatby, who happens to be one of my idols. I cannot wait!

* See what I did there? I broke my own rule about not stealing pictures from other sites. Bad me.

Edited to add:

** And DUH again. I read it as "prerogative", which I thought should be "perogative". "Pregorative" is definitely wrong. Thanks, Rebecca!

Comments

[Linda]

Wow that castle looks amazing! Nothing less would do for a knitter's retreat....accent on the "treat"! hehehe. Hope you and Smokey have a great couple of days R&R. I know you'll have loads of fun at the knitting retreat. Think of us less fortunate(sob,sob). I'll be spinning and knitting and dreaming!

[Soxanne]

OMG look at that place! So glad you posted the borrowed picture.

Can't wait...

[bullwinkle]

That castle looks fabulous :)

beard::grizzly adams::dude (just sayin')

[Vicki]

Oooh, that looks WONDERFUL! Have fun -- both on the North Shore and at Knitters' Days!!

[Rebecca]

Hmmm--when I google "pregorative," google immediately jumps to "Prerogative," which is, of course, a real word. "Pregorative" also doesn't appear in my on-board dictionary, which has so far managed to find all kinds of real, arcane words. I'll consult my highest-powered authoritative sources later . . . . . ;) But I think your original response was right: "pregorative" is a misspelling.

[Jen]

Here I was thinking pregorative was "written and drawn before the time of Edward Gorey." I was getting ready to use it, all casual-like, in conversation.

[Cindy G]

Have fun! The castle and Lucy Neatby sound like a *totally* winning combination.

[Cookie]

I'm glad I arrived late because I decided it was a typo/misspelling. *L*