Late last winter or early in the spring we bought a bunch of plain black T-shirts on sale at a place in Bridgton. The intention was to try something people were doing at the Nature Printing Society meeting last summer, dye release printing fish with soft scrub. The idea is to use the soft scrub …
Daily Archives: October 23, 2006
Poland Spring hike
Arlene wanted to do some walking. I didn’t want to just walk around our loop, so I suggested going over to Poland and looking for ducks at Range Pond State Park. We first stopped at the little park in Webb’s Mills, where Matt and I had seen some ducks in the spring when we went …
Chief Honest John windmill
Out in Leggett, CA, having just caught my breath after an hour of slow driving on winding mountain roads, I bought a kit of a midwestern farm windmill at the souvenier stand at Drive-Through Tree Park. It took me until Saturday evening to start it. As you will see from that link, Chief Honest John …
Return trip from Unity
Across the street from the MOFGA grounds (this is still on Oct. 14) we saw this sculpture marking Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm. It didn’t seem to be open, and we had just got in the car and were psyched for moving a little, but there it is, and if we see them at the Fiber …
BBC story on alpaca raising in Peru
This is what I originally thought blogs were supposed to be about — find something interesting on the web and put up a link to it. The BBC news today had an article about alpacas, so here you go. It looks as though the people in Peru like alpacas even more than the people who …