That Slug is HUGE. Beer in dishes is supposed to get rid of them - but who the hell wants to waste beer? Let them build their Empire.

I need to see my hairdresser. My hair is a sad state at the moment.

I guess this means we aren't getting married and moving to Jersey to stalk Anniegoddess and eat cake?

When I used to live in Indiana, they would put salt on the slugs and watch them wither and die. This always made me sad, and may have directly contributed to me becoming a vegetarian/vegan at the tender age of 12. I think it would be much nicer to let a slug happily drown in beer than shrivel in salt, don't you?

Because my brain doesn't work correctly all the time this is what happens whenever I see one of your *wondeful* checkerboard scarfs..

"OMG! That is SO Cool!!! I love it love it love ie! I need to make one of those." and then I stare at the pattern trying to figure out how to do it, which leads to the headache which leads me away from the computer, so my DUMBass never found out how to do it... until now! Until you, the Goddess of nifty checkerboard scarves explained it. I'll be happily checkerboarding some night VERY soon and it is all thanks to you, everyone's favorite Crazy Aunt Purl. Thanks.

Drew, will you cook for me? The way you tease me with your fresh garden-picked salad descriptions? Because, by the way, food trumps beauty. I *am* a southerner after all. ;) Plus, you appreciate "stash" and my hairdresser ... not so much.

(See how I cheat? See how I am?)

OMG! My friend and I each started one of these checkerboard scarves this weekend. I'm about a third of the way through. Now I'm tempted to dig out some Noro! Very pretty.

If I saw a slug like that I would have to drink that beer just to be able to sleep. I couldn't deal with a whole empire of slugs like that in the back yard.

Don't they make voodoo candles to get rid of slugs?

Excellent scarf model!

I am not a stalker.

Thank you, thank you for posting how you made the Kureyon scarf. I've been thinking it is beautiful and I want to make one too. You read my mind you crazy ESP mystic person. And be careful not to step on a slug with your bare feet. It is sooo nasty and really hard to get the slime out from between your toes.

as a small child, i was terrified of slugs. bastards like the one on your patio were responsible for this. the scarf is gorgeous, as is the model.

Oh! I forgot to add... it may not be a bad idea to do three rows or so of garter stitch on the ends (like, the very bottom edge and very top edge) of the scarf, since mine rolled a little tiny bit on the bottom edges. I fixed it with blocking, but the very nice lady at my LYS who showed me how to do the pattern suggested the garter stitch edging after I showed her the slightly turned in edges of my scarf.

Wow! Noro is amazing. We have some at my LYS, but I am in severe "buy the yarn and you will be sleeping on the couch" kinda mode right now. Sigh. Some PEOPLE just don't understand the importance of yarn.

Is that for me??? I am so excited!! It is BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL!!!! Wait. What was I excited about?? I totally forget. Can't wait til Christmas!

i am so runnin away from this blog in fear of that slug right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it that of all the objects you could have placed by the slug for perspective, you chose a bottle of beer. You're my kind of girl, I tell ya!

Last night was broiled Mahi Mahi, asparagus sauteed in butter and yep, a salad fresh from the garden. The afternoon snack yesterday was a smoothie made with fresh picked strawberries. Yum!

That scarf is gorgeous! When I get a big box of money, I am going to buy some Noro and make one. Gorgeous. (The cat and chair are also gorgeous.)

Also, how the hell did you manage to get that close to that slug and not completely freak the fuck out? I would have run away screaming like a little girl from the mere sight of the thing. You are a brave, brave woman.

If you want to bring down the slug empire, beer works. They *love* it, get drunk, fall in, and drown. (What a way to go!)

You don't have to waste "good beer"... just use the leftovers from someone's kegger. ;) Of course, my friend had to go and have a high-class kegger (he's German, after all), and now the snooty slugs refuse to go for Bud Light any more. :P (Or maybe I just got them all with the good stuff, so there's none left to get.)

Of course, disposing of the slug-beer bucket is kind of disgusting. :P

ah, man, and here I thought you were going to mail us stalkers some beer. You're SUCH a tease!

You realize you're going to get some crazy fun stuff sent to you in the mail now, right?

that slug is naaaaaasty--but is it nastier than the runaway bride blanket? it's a tossup.

my lunatic sister was doing outward bound in northern cali once and woke up with a banana slug trying to crawl up her nose. after which i swore i would never set foot in california again.

Add a little garlic and melted butter and it's escargot w/o the shell.

mmmmmmm.....

Holy Crap. That slug could probably eat Minou.

kewl.now I can send you dirty postcards! don't forget the meme...

Don't waste the good beer on drowning the slug...get some Colt45 or something, they don't care (and my god, that thing is HUGE!). Love the Noro scarf.

i love kureyon. i am a stalker.

The scarf does look great. Doesn't get better than simple and elegant :) Real mail is the best. I'll have to find something to mail you!

We used to see slugs like that in NC. Salt always worked wonders for getting rid of them, but I couldn't stick around to watch them shrivel. Put a small line around your patio (not too close to the grass) and they'll respect your personal space. Or let the kitties go at him. They might enjoy some fine french cuisine. And on a side note: you know of course that when I finish my voodoo doll for the Mr.X KAL I'll be mailing it to you to do with it what you will. ;o)

I get slugs like that on my front porch all the time - and it is NAAAAAAASTY to step on one unwittingly.
Your scarf is BEAUTIFUL though!
Ive tried knitting a few things over the past year & I have no clue what I'm doing wrong, but I cannot cast on worth JACK I tell you! I end up with these crazy little loopy things hanging off the bottom.

That slug makes me glad I spent less than 48 hours in California.

I read your whole backlog of entries today. (Doesn't that weird you out?) If your ears are ringing, it's my fault.

Cute cat. Lovely scarf. Yucky slug. Very yucky.

Nice slug! Our big slugs like that are CARNIVOROUS! They eat other slugs. Plus we get these funny triangular orange ones - they are freaky!
We get all the best critters in Australia :-)
I wish I had a tame hairdresser though.
Will your mail scam involve slugs, cats and/or scarves?

That slug is bigger then me. Mommy says she never saw slugs in L.A. - maybe because that one ate them all! We have them here though. When Mommy goes running in the morning she has to dodge them all over the road. ICKY...
I'm going to find something to mail you tomorrow.. I will I will I will!!!!!

That is a hugh slug! and my first thought was ohmygod1 wear shoes! don't step on the thing. You will never get it off your foot. My second thought was -- They like cheap, flat beer. which created a memory-- You get those when you are old-- Not a young thirty-something like you! Thirty-somethings make fifty-somethings like me feel OLD and glad I still have memories!! This memory being of slugs by the thousands in Virginia Beach-That is Virginia, y'all- and my beer-bait bowls would be empty every morning. I was really grossed out thinking the cat or dog were having a feast- but no!!! Do you have possums in California?? THEY LOVE Beer-Slug Soup- with just a touch of morning dew to wash it all down--UGH!@! what a sceary site!!!
Love reading your BLOG and ALL the POSTS!!

I once had a huge slug like that on my sleeping bag while i was camping... Glad that yours did not causse any permanant damage like mine did, slug slime all over the bag and I had to sleep in it for several night like that. ICK

I'm a stalker too.

Okay, now for a completely gross story. My best friend was out gardening one day with her somewhat-less-than-one-year-old son toddling around with her. She looked over to see him pick up a slug and got to him just a little too late to keep him from popping it into his mouth!

She had to fish it out with her finger. Frankly, I'm thinking if it had been my kid, he probably would have swallowed it. Protein, right?

Love your blog. It cheers me up, usually. (The Mr. X related entries frequently make me want to throw chairs. At Mr. X.) Gives me something fun to read while I'm slowly dying of boredom at work.

And what do you mean "If I were a writer..." You are a writer and a very funny one at that.

i love noro. and i think your scarf is purdy and ever so elegantly modeled by frankie.

funny thing about the slug. when i was a child, we lived in southern california for a few years. it's the one place in my life that i remember seeing slugs and snails. i have a yard now, no slugs, no snails. why is that?

finally, thanks for the pobox. i may have to send you something random.

Eeeewwwwww! That slug is so huge and disgusting. I wouldn't even go out on my patio anymore if I saw something like that! lol ;-) Love, love, love the noro scarf.

I love the scarf! I am knitting a hat for my son with that same Noro yarn.

Wow, that slug is a fatty! When I moved to LA I was totally grossed out by the huge slugs. We don’t have them back in Wisconsin. I recently moved a couple miles inland from the beach, and unfortunately I think I landed in the Inland Snail Empire. There are entire colonies of these things just hanging out outside my apartment building, and now I’m noticing cockroaches scurrying around the sidewalk and bushes out there at night. I can no longer wear sandals when I take the dog out to go tinkle before bedtime. And I hate that sickening “crunch” every time you accidentally step on one. Not to mention the ant covered snail carcasses I have to dodge everywhere on my way to my car every morning. Gross!

Dude. All this fuss about a li'l tiny slug!

Okay, they're disgusting, but I live in Seattle, where we have nothing BUT slugs. They're our unofficial state animal. (Seriously--most touristy Seattle things mention slugs somewhere!) Which is, of course, all a subversive plot to keep Californians out of our damn state!

Because if Californians moved here, I'd have no excuse to go and visit them. :)

Blame it on my preggo brain, the fact that I've smoked entirely too much pot in my lifetime, or the fact that I am a knob knitter but how many stitches to cast on for the scarf? And is there a garter stitch border? I noticed that there was one on crochetdude's pic in his blog....

When I saw the pic of the slug and the beer, all I could think of was, "Man, that looks like some good eatin'! Of course, that could also be attributed to my preggo brain or too much pot in my formative years....

Aww...poor slug. He is not, it is true, as cute as our yellow ones. I found a six-inch guy crawling through our living room one day, no idea how he got in.

I like the way your basketweave scarf works. I made one something like it, but didn't think to do an even numbered set of chunks. That's some smart thinkin.