We drove in to Boston (really, Southie) to the Fort Point Open Studios with Carolyn, Bill, and their across-the-street neighbor Mikki. Leslie, who had worked with Carolyn and Arlene on the national art teachers conference hospitality table last spring and had given Carolyn, Arlene, and me a private paste paper workshop later in the spring, …
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Great Meadows
It was a nice day! That’s news, because it had been rainy for the last week. We went out to Great Meadows in Concord, expecting not to be able to walk all the way around because of high water. We ran into my former co-worker Bill Claff, who had been out with his camera and …
Rainy Saturday
It’s been raining for a week here, not constantly, but a lot of the time. When it hasn’t been raining there’s been a heavy overcast. So we haven’t been doing anything outdoors. I did a little knitting today, went over to Creative Warehouse to ask what’s happening with the Addi I ordered a month ago …
Branching Out pattern repeat
I’ve been worried that the Branching Out scarf I started a couple of months ago might have reached UFO status by now. I did a pattern repeat on it, probably the first I’ve done in six weeks. The yarn felt familiar, and after just a couple of peeks at the chart key I remembered what …
Eric Carle Museum
Have I said that I like the shorter posts you get with a blog, just because I can think of titles for paragraphs more easily than for whole daily entries? No, I know perfectly well that I haven’t said that, but now I have. We stopped at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, …
Tinkertoy Spindle
In the continuing saga of Dean vs. the Drop Spindle, and that’s not a particular drop spindle, more the concept of the drop spindle, the Platonic ideal of the drop spindle,… Inspired by trying a Turkish spindle last weekend on Boston Common, and following the discussion with its owner about the value of weighting the …
Birthday Party
Not ours, a 60th birthday party out in South Hadley for people who lived four doors down from us for 25 years. Lots of people we’ve met at their house over the years were there, and honest-to-gosh mutual friends.
Hello world!
Well, Rolling On One fans, I’ve installed WordPress on the web site here, and joined the real blogging, as opposed to just online journaling, movement. The main idea is to let people comment. I’m not sure about the layout and templates. Expect changes in how it looks at any moment!