InsanKnitty

Harry Potter questionnaire and trivia question of the week

April 30, 2007 · No Comments

Questionnaire

1. What Hogwarts house have you been sorted into? HUFFLEPUFF

2. List your three favorite double-point needle brands, including size and length. I’m not picky. I’ve never knit socks before (this will be my first try), so I don’t have any needles yet. I guess whatever size will be good for the sock pattern. Most of my DPNs are Clover Brand bamboo, short length.

3. Would you like to try a new brand needle? If so, which brand? Size? Length? I have recently tried Crystal Palace straights for my other knitting projects and would love to try their DPNs for socks. :-)

4. If you are a RAVENCLAW, do you prefer the colors in the film or the book? Do you have a strong preference? NA

5. If your pal decides to send candies or chocolates are there any that you don’t like? I like milk or white chocolate, not dark. I actually prefer hard candies to chocolates, like butterscotch, or cinnamon disks.

6. What are your favorite scents? Vanilla, food scents, like cookies, cakes, coffee, etc.

7. Do you have any allergies? Nope

and this weeks Trivia:

“You will have your reward, Wormtail. I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their right hands to perform…”
- Voldemort to Wormtail

Categories: Harry Potter Sock Kit Swap · Knitting

The nature lovers were stumped

April 30, 2007 · 1 Comment

Today while working in the yard, we found a worm that I hadn’t seen (in this size) before… I was stumped… though I thought it looked like a planarian, I had never seen one of this size before and wasn’t sure… so of course, I grabbed the camera and took a few shots, and then, grabbed the laptop and got to work searching…

Introducing….Bipalium kewense Moseley

img_2427.jpgimg_2428.jpgimg_2429.jpg

Officially, for photographic purposes I should have put in an object of known size, however.. I didn’t… but I can tell you, while this guy was moving along the side of our dog kennel, at his full extension he was probably 6 inches long.

Land planarians are voracious earthworm eaters.. AHHH… we don’t want our earthworms eaten up… though I can say that I’ve seen tons and tons of worms in the soil, so I don’t really think I have to worry.
The kids enjoyed investigating our land planarians (we found two of them)… but thankfully they are now out in the yard.. :-)

Categories: Garden · Littles