I was saying, every so often during November, “The hunters must be bummed out that there’s no snow. They like an inch or so to see the deer tracks.” Well, there was snow on Friday, and there were tracks in it on Sunday. We walked around our trail system (by now we’re beginning to think …
Daily Archives: December 11, 2006
Basket acquistions
So, here’s (most of) what we came home from Orono with. Apple basket, ash, made by Eldon Hanning, the man who was demonstrating splitting ash. He’s Micmac, from fairly far north in Maine. He set one of these baskets on the floor behind me and told me to sit down. The basket handle supports my …
Bottles
I ran my attempt at crabapple liqueur through some cheesecloth. Arlene had just had a bottle of orangina yesterday, so we fished the empty out of the recycle bin, washed it out, funnelled the liqueur in, and put a wine cork in the top. It just fits. To the left is my progress on limoncello. …
Impressions of the Hudson Museum
The basket sale was right among the exhibits in the Hudson Museum at U. Maine Orono. We were very impressed with the museum. It’s bigger than the Idaho State U. Museum, we thought, and seems more concentrated on just a few topics, mostly in ethnology. One of the exhibits I liked most, though I didn’t …
Basketry – I
What we did on the 9th was to go to the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance sale at U. of Maine in Orono. It’s an annual event there, the second Saturday in December. Arlene spotted an article in the Boston Globe travel section last weekend and had been looking forward to going. Orono is pretty far …
You title it
Near Bangor, on our way up to Orono on the 9th, there were some birds circling a dump to the right of the highway. I glanced over and saw one much much bigger than the rest, with long rectangular wings in a straight line. “Tell me that’s an eagle,” I said. Arlene looked for a …