I’m under way on a new sweater, this one for Arlene. It’s inspired by one of the sweaters in Kaffe Fassett & Zoe Hunt’s book Family Album, the brushstrokes sweater. I guess that’s what I should call it, even though I’m not really following the pattern but rather just trying to use what colors of […]
Back in November, the week before the week of Thanksgiving, we went out to visit my mom in Idaho. We got up ridiculously early on Saturday and caught a flight that got us to Salt Lake City before noon. It was a turbulent flight with noisy babies along, but the view out of the window […]
The big wildlife event of the past week was in Newton, although it’s true that we saw two pine siskins in our heritage apple tree, and got a good long look at a pileated woodpecker across the driveway in Casco last weekend. Driving home from work last Monday (Dec 29 ’08) I saw a red […]
Last weekend when we were shopping for something to cook for supper I said, “pot roast.” When the question arose of what to make with it, rice? I said, “No, kasha.” When I was a kid (and Hanna can confirm this if she chooses to comment on this post) pot roast and kasha was a […]
