I sanded down the rough spots in the table top with 220 and 400 grit paper on Saturday morning and put one more coat of urethane on it. By midday Sunday everyone agreed it was dry enough to bring up to the kitchen. The garage, where it had been drying, is so much cooler than …
Daily Archives: July 17, 2006
FO – hat
I finished knitting a hat from the Sweetgrass Wool extra-bulky yarn I had got at the Denmark Sheepfest in April. I did get enough to turn up a cuff to cover my ears, but there was enough yarn left over that I could have done two or three more rounds. That’s reasonably close to coming …
Listening for Loons
We played Settlers of Catan with Charley and Nicole on Saturday night. Maybe Arlene and I played it one New Years Eve with Sue, Richard, and Katherine, but we’re not sure. I do like that game. There’s a lot of thinking and a lot of social interaction, and it doesn’t take too long go get …
More on Ployes
When I mentioned the mix for the northern Maine crepes known as ployes, I didn’t realize that there was a web site for them. There’s your link. I used up the last of the mix this morning, mixing a cup and a quarter of it with most of a cup of milk, an egg, and …
Yet more on raspberries
One other interesting thing about raspberries we learned at Hedgehog Hill Farm last weekend is that, like apples, they don’t germinate true to type. If you want cultivated raspberries, you need to buy a plant that’s grafted from the variety you’re trying to grow. Wild raspberry seeds have a thick husk that keeps them from …
No ID
We tried again to find the route from Maine Turnpike exit 47 up to River Road in Windham. We took an early turn off the Westbrook Arterial and a left at the end. It wasn’t where we had wanted to be. A couple of right turns eventually got us into a commercial area. I stopped …