Black long sleeve hand knit sweater with a blue-purple yoke that looks like wheat sheaves

Finally finished a big project, yoke is from something I handspun. I hope it fits my sister

Brown dog with warm brown eyes and her tongue out showing off her new green and yellow booties.

Sabie got some new shoes for her birthday today. She’s now very excited about future walkies.

Rhodesian ridgeback with sad, soulful eyes

Sad eyes for a birthday girl

Two Rhodesian ridgebacks review the dusty climb through the catalina mountains

Happy, tongue out dog face with a trail sign that says Alamo above her head

Saguaro cactus with many arms showing its age and endurance in the Sonoran desert

5km hike this am in Catalina state park, dogs helped (most of the time)

White fair isle hat and mitts in Bonnie isle pattern

#showmeyourknits #knitsky finally finished this set, I had my first experience with pattern creation for the mitties

Cloudy sky over the desert, threatening spring rain

Ocatillo starting to bloom against the clouds

Harris hawk on a cactus against a cloudy March sky

Blue-grey gnat catcher flitting in the trees

Another visit to the Arizona- Sonora desert museum

White hand-knitted fair isle beanie with various patterns in different colors.

The more I practice fair isle knitting the more I learn about the construction of the pattern with the knitted object. Mitties are next!

A brown hound with large expressive eyes wonders when picture time will be over.

Sabie says hello!

A hat and fingerless mittens set in dark blue with a flower motif. A gift knitted for my sister

Finally finished this set and onto the next one #knitsky

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“Enchanted archives” handspun merino fiber still on the bobbin

“Dream of me” hand spun singles still on the bobbin, turquoise and raspberry

Filling up bobbins for #spintogether, these will eventually be chain plied

Big brown eyes 💕

Blue Mesa view on a walk through the canyon

More stratigraphy in Petrified Forest NP

I think these are the tepees in Petrified Forest NP

Layers of rocks in Petrified Forest NP

I would say that Petrified Forest NP is “other-worldly”, but this is our planet and places like this exist here and now.

Two liver nose ridgebacks stick their heads out of the back window of a blue car, wondering what they’re missing.

Great traveling with these two, it’s like a back seat of FOMO

I wish more of these stories got out! I was a few times partially funded by USAID and CDC and I think the on the ground stories aren’t being shared enough.

I had two amazing, exciting job opportunities: 1) digital health systems management across Africa and 2) working with injectable HIV PrEP. Both gone because of USAID and CDC funding gone. 1% US budget. I felt I was contributing to global health; now I’m just trying to pay rent.

Sabie in a green harness and Dinaledi in a blue harness safely led me through Blue Mesa as newly appointed Bark Rangers

Petrified Forest NP has been on my list for awhile. My two #barkrangers in the lead.

I knit because I can’t find stuff I like. It’s called #slowfashion

Buggifloorie beanie hand knit in dark blue, light blue, white, purple and grey

Always show your knitting float work, reverse aspect of beanie showing floats that carry the color through the knit work

Buggiflooer beanie done, right side and float side to show my work ;) #skykal

The brim of a hat takes shape in alternating blue and light blue stripes against a box of assorted yarns

Cast on! #skykal (ignore the first row, I’m not going back)

A brown hound dog with a turquoise tag and collar ponders whether at 4 years old she should consider behaving a little better.

This wretch is now 4.

Five colors of yarn, dark and light blue, white, grey, and lavender, waiting to be knit into a hat

Can’t wait to cast on my next #skykal

Saw some eels today at the Sonoran Desert Museum. They’re just happy little creatures.

I've gotten a few new follows lately and i want to reassure people i do work in ID/HIV. I just pulled more visits to review for our anal cancer screening study, since there's no current data around this for southern AZ.

i just finished 100 years of solitude (Netflix). i read it 25 years and i don't remember it being about the revolution. i'll need to read it again.

practice, my friend.

20-30 min powernap (set alarm) in the middle of the day can be glorious! rejuvanating!

fuckin' hella

I’m having trouble typing?! I used to type very well and fast but now… disaster

It can also felt some types of yarn. I’ve seen people put baby powder on hands an needles to prevent friction when knitting