Me too, the commenting-I've been so bad! I blame bloglines. Why not? They deserve it. Happy New Year. And your holistic advisor is probably trying to punish you. You know how she is.

Happy New Year!! Wishing you a quick recovery.

The hat is gorgeous. I am sure you will be able to work out the top of it.

I'm glad you're starting to feel better, I hope that cough fades soon. The hat is beautiful, even if it is a conehead, could be a new trend. Happy new year

Happy New Year Sandy! Hope you're feeling better!

I don't think I've ever seen you lurking about my blog, but that's ok, that's not why I come here. I love your "upness", your cheery blue and yellow. I love Sandy's outlook. Really, where would we be without Hurlyville. Glad your sticking around.

It's true I miss you when you don't come around and I think you don't like me any more. Not really;-) I miss you and know you are there...secretly. XOXOXXXXXX

Congrats on getting a JenLa award. I am so happy for you. May this New Year bring more skywatching photos and bloggers to meet!
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Happy New Year Sandy! :)

Happy new Year!
I've been feeling the same way lately: not blogging much, not leaving comments on the blogs I read daily, and feeling guilty about it. so here you go, you're one of my favorites and here's a comment! Now we both feel better.

Happy New Year Sandy! Glad you're feeling better- I was starting to worry. It was wonderful meeting you this year and spending time with you going to Rhinebeck and back. We'd miss you WAY too much if you left. Did you see that gorgeous pink sky this morning? We even got a full and a partial rainbow too! Thought of you the whole time!

Too bad about the top of that hat. Is it an error in the pattern? The contrast between the dark and light makes the design really pop.

I'm glad you're feeling better-I've been a bit sick myself and it's no fun. I'm glad you've decided to stick to blogging, I would miss you if you didn't. Don't worry about leaving comments-we all have the same time deficits and know the love is there. You take care of yourself and knit, that's what's important here.
What a pretty hat-good for you for conquering it one more time.

I'd miss you if you quit. Here's an idea: make Fig earn his kibble. A picture here or there would keep us entertained and cut you a bit of a break. How about a Friday or Sunday Fig to go with the Saturday Sky?

"You can't see him or touch him but you can smell him." That is not really making me look forward to Jesus coming around.

I would miss you too--though I don't comment often I check for you every day.

Happy New Year1

Okay, I don't think I have to talk you into not giving up the blog -- I think you did that yourself -- so I'm hardly even going to address that. We'd all miss you. You can't go. Done deal.

Sorry, feeling bad about blogging/not blogging, commenting/not commenting, and/or falling behind in blog-reading is not allowed. I have had the same bad feelings myself from time-to-time, maybe even quite recently, but I'm not falling for it, anymore, either. Okay? No feeling bad about that stuff. You do what you can, give what you can. It is enough.

Happy New Year Sandy! I hope you keep blogging because...

*jane hangs on to sandy's handknit-sock-clad foot as she tries to edge away*

...you wouldn't want to see me make a fool of myself, now would you?

Happy 2007!
Don't go. We'll miss you.

Happy New Year Sandy!!! I hope it's a great one - and that you feel tip top soon.

It's always good to take a break sometimes.

Like others, I would miss your blog if you give it up. But I can also understand the pressure to post ... I don't have a blog but I do email/write letters to friends and can't keep up with them. Got a question ... where do you buy myrrh?

Happy 2007, Sandy! (I'm still looking around for where my 2006 went!!) Great looking hat - I hope you can make a quick fix and de-cone head it.

Well, I echo the thoughts of others also - I would miss your blog. I think it is pretty evident you are pretty special by the number of comments you get - as to commenting - sometimes I devote my week to making sure I comment on everyone I visit, if I can - it takes a little time, but when I am feeling as though I don't have much to blog about, that's when I go commenting!
Happy New Year - and I always enjoy your blog!

Oh no Sandy don't give up the blogging. When you do post I so enjoy reading them! Love the hat. Have a very Happy New Year Sandy!

Don't stress over not leaving comments or not blogging, we all know you have a life besides the computer and sometimes there just isn't time or the desire to blog or comment. You can't give it up though, we'd miss Sandy's Saturday Sky and news about the college girl and all your knitting. I'm planning on a lot less stressing this year. I want to be around a good long time.
Happy New Year.
Sheri in GA

Happy New Year, Sandy. Don't even THINK that we might disappear. Or that you might either.

Apology accepted. Now stop that unattractive wallowing. You're gonna be leaving salty tear tracks all over the internet if you so much as think about giving up blogging. You don't want that do you? ;-)

Just think what she would have sent you if she didn't like you. o.0 I think you got off lucky.

I think we all go thru those times when we question why we bother to have a blog. Then something happens and we return... hopefully.

What a great hat! Your work always amazes and inspires me.

Happy New Year!

That hat is awesome! Happy New Year, Sandy!

I'll admit to being a lurker here on your blog. I enjoy reading, and it would be a shame if you stopped blogging. I'm glad you've decided to stay1 I think that trying to keep up on comments is a good idea, I think I'll follow suit. I'm terrible about it, too.
Anyhow, I'm glad you're feeling better, and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the club of so many of us (I suspect) who periodically reconsider our blogging and decide in the end not to throw the whole thing overboard, but, instead, readjust our expectations of ourselves and hope others will continue to come along for the ride.

You're a bright star in our bloggy sky, Sandy! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you too. Glad you are mending. Those celebrations do go on, don't they? That is one of the reasons I love January ( winter is my favorite as well). It is calm and peaceful ( I hope). Geez. I have not played scattergories in a long time, but I loved that game! Gotta get back to my earwarmers. The niece's bday will be here in a flash. Just like I will be back to work in a flash-tomorrow! Yikes.

I'm sorry you were sick. I'd have brought you chicken soup if I'd known.
I'm grateful for our friendship, Sandy.
Happy New Year!

Don't go Sandy, you've single-handedly brought Sky to supermodel status :)

Blogging is the activity you love to hate, I never feel like I'm posting enough or interesting enough or joining enough or whatever but blogging has given so much more than it's taken so I blog when I can and what's in my knitterly heart and try not to let my OCD get the better of me :)

Thanks for the words of comfort about Dad, it means a lot.

No guilt, okay. Do what you want; when you want -- we'll still love you :-)

Happy New Year!

Glad to hear you are feeling better and the poison/medicine didn't do you in!! LOL!!! Sounds NASTY indeed!!

No need to feel guilty about the whole blog thing....I believe the majority of us are all in the same boat, so to speak, and we all understand. You are right, blogging has indeed opened up connections that we otherwise would not have made. I try to take advantage when I do have time and when I am too busy to check in regularly with those that I enjoy the most it gives me something to look forward to!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year! Glad you feel better. I love the hat. I got sick 2 days before my vacation started, and got bronchitis. I don't think I could stomach myrrh. I still have that annoying cough. I have missed your blog, but then again, I don't have the energy to read them.

I am glad you are feeling better and survived taking myrrh. BTW, thanks for the warning about the myrrh;) Take a break if you need it and watch the sky, especially if you need it.
Have a Happy 2007!

Excellent hat for Andy. Too bad about the conehead fit. Damn those patterns that don't work out the way we wish.

You do make the world a more beautiful place. persay.

I know. I'm evil.

So sorry you ended the year being SICK, but here's to 2007 . . . happy new year, Sandy! (And congrats on the JenLa blog award, too, by the way!)

I would miss you. Your talk of family and what's important, as well as your Saturday skies and your wonderful knitting.

Give yourself some permission. Why not post just three times a week, and leave time to visit the blogs you love?

I hope you don't feel that unless it's breathtakingly brilliant, there's no need to blog. Everyday stuff is what makes blogs so wonderful.

Happy New Year. Yes, I read the poem, copied it, cut it out, and gave it to the guests who came here on Christmas evening. Thanks.