So let’s see, it was relatively uneventful, especially compared to driving all the way to Orono. We did go to Casco. There was no snow there, except for a few little sheltered places. Really, it’s unnaturally warm so far this winter.<\/p>\n
We walked all around our trails. Without the snow, we had no way of knowing what animals might have been around. On Sunday Arlene flushed the (or “a”) grouse out of the crabapple tree. I didn’t get to see it. Except for feeder birds, that was the only wildlife we saw.<\/p>\n
Saturday afternoon we went to Bridgton mostly just shopping. We got a couple of books, including a used copy of a book Arlene needs for her book club at EFG used books and a couple of others at Bridgton Books. I got enough yarn (from Down Home & Company) to at least start the Danica entrelac scarf from Knitty. That should keep me busy on an upcoming airplane ride. It’s three 50 gram balls of Garnstudio Alaska, kind of worsted weight. Now I just have to learn when to pick up the stitches, and all that.<\/p>\n
We also went into Studio 302, Craftworks, and of course Reny’s. Studio 302 had a few pieces\u00c2\u00a0 of rustic furniture by Eve Abreu, some beautiful nature photography — I liked a luna moth and a salamander; Arlene was critical of the framing — and gorgeous hand-colored linocuts. Craftworks was (I guess always is) so packed with stuff that it’s hard to see anything.<\/p>\n
I did get a lot done on the second sleeve of Matt’s sweater. Four more rounds, and I’ll have to think seriously about joining the sleeves to the body.<\/p>\n
We did an old Springbok puzzle in pretty good time. We didn’t start until Saturday evening (oh! sometime in the middle we heard the Hanukah hymn “Maoz Tzur” on the radio, in the course of Prairie Home Companion, remembered that we hadn’t lit the candles yet, so we were able to sing along with the radio and then light our candles. Thanks, Garrison!), watched a lot of an Electric Company special, stopped puzzling when SNL came on, and still finished the puzzle in the early afternoon Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So let’s see, it was relatively uneventful, especially compared to driving all the way to Orono. We did go to Casco. There was no snow there, except for a few little sheltered places. Really, it’s unnaturally warm so far this winter. We walked all around our trails. Without the snow, we had no way of … <\/p>\n