Sweet Meadow Knits

05/30/2026

Getting Ready for the Estes Park Wool Market June 13th & 14th, 2026.

05/14/2026

Blocking my Granny Square Vibes jacket on the patio.

05/08/2026

Yay! Blocking the lace sleeves for my "Granny Square Vibes" jacket. Soon close to finished!

05/06/2026

Enjoying the snow ❄️. May 6th... the latest snow I can remember.

05/06/2026

May 6th - a good day to knit!

05/04/2026

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Kimberly Queen fern, coleus, caladium..and Creeping Jenny… perfect for the shade of your porch.

05/02/2026

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This is one of the most charming experiments in linguistics.

The “wug story” comes from a classic experiment by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. She wanted to figure out whether children actually learn rules of language, or if they just memorize words.

She showed the creature in the image below to a child nd said:

“This is a wug.”

Then she showed two of them and asked:

“Now there are two of them. There are two…?”

The child didn’t hesitate:
“Wugs.”

The word wug is completely made up; the children had never heard it before. So when they correctly said “wugs,” they weren’t recalling memory. They were applying a rule, namely adding -s to make plurals in English

This showed that even young children have internalized grammatical rules, a huge point in debates about how language is acquired (especially in the era of Noam Chomsky and generative grammar).

This little experiment reveals something very fundamental about how we learn languages: we don’t just memorize language — we build it. Even children are quietly extracting rules, patterns, and structures from the chaos around them.

04/30/2026

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04/26/2026

This weeks'

Two mule lambs snoozing the afternoon away, taken by 📷