Captain's Log, Stardate 02.24.2009 I am extraordinarily proud of this. For Christmas, I wanted to knit something for my parents that would be really cool and personal, and sort of an heirloom. So I took the five family crests I had for my family (in Japanese, a family crest is called a “mon”) and graphed the designs on knitting graph paper so that I could knit intarsia panels of the mons. I knit 5 intarsia panels and 4 plain panels and then sewed them together to make an afghan. In Japan, family crests are carried by both male and female, so I used mons from both my parents' sides. Traditionally, mons are passed down from mother to daughter and from father to son, but there are sometimes cases of a son taking a mother’s mon or a husband taking his wife’s family’s mon and things like that. I know we have more than 5 family crests, but we’ve lost some of them. My mom tried to find them all several years ago, but could only find these five. The fans mon was actually...
Right now I just finished Betty Neels, A GIRL NAMED ROSE. It’s a really cute, sweet romance and I love practically all of Betty Neels’ books.
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~Sasafras
I think I was saying that I'm currently reading four different books at the moment. If I get a little tired of one then I just pick up another one, and I rotate between them. Anyways, I'm currently reading a biography of Julius Caesar, which isn't too bad [did you know that once, when he was captured by pirates, he was insulted by the ransom they set for him? He thought it was too small! There's more to that story, but I won't spoil it.], and a set of sermons by Charles Spurgeon, "Farm Sermons." I'm also reading a book by Harry Sinclair Drago called "Lost Bonanzas." It's about lost mines, such as the Lost Dutchman in the Superstition mountains in Arizona. It's really good, Drago presents everything from a factual perspective. I'm also reading a kind of memoir, "Pony Tracks," by Frederic Remington. It's little one-chapter memories from him, and though it's sometimes hard too read because of rambling and grammar issues it's not bad.
But on my to-be-read shelf I have several Trixie Belden books [great brain-candy reads when I need something fun], a Nancy Drew book, "Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland", a book on castles in the British Isles, several books on the Old West and Civil War, including spies of the Civil War, and many miscellaneous fiction books.
Thanks for this post, it was fun. Since I've found this blog, I've actually started keeping a list of books that I want to buy [eventually]. My Christian Fiction list is REALLY long! LOL!
~Sasafras
Camy