Friday, July 04, 2025

Fourth of July

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 I will confess I am not feeling it much this year. It does kind of feel like the people who won are the people who want to inflict maximum ...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Another simple project

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 I spent part of the day yesterday cleaning and putting things away, and I ran across the corner-to-corner blanket I was knitting again. I t...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

some new socks

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 I like to keep a pair of simple socks going for times when I don't feel like working on anything more complicated. I have a lot of vari...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Goodbye to someone

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 I'm working on the last two samples from the second site. I should get them done today (the first one is prepping; you have to wet down...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Monday evening things

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 * I've been working on the vest some again. As I said, I'm still a few inches short of dividing for the back and front, and I'v...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

and some photos

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 I did get down to Sherman; got some lunch out, got yarn for the two Emotional Support Chickens I need to make at some point (biggest deadli...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Taking a day

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 I got the first site's samples done today. That was 12 samples, spread over three days. I can't do much more in a day than 5, it...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Tuesday evening things

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 * I have done eight (of 36) samples in the "sort" stage (this is wetting down the soil and searching through it using a dissectin...
Monday, June 23, 2025

a little larger

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 * I knit more this weekend (and tonight) on the shawl. I guess it looks a little bigger:    these kinds of things go slowly, even though it...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Jaws is 50

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 The fieldwork went OK but I am VERY sore today from all the digging and working in the heat. But tonight, I'm watching "Jaws"...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Reading time now

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 I finished "The Mysterious Mr Badman" (1934, by W F Harvey) night before last. This was a mystery novel about a blanket-company o...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

And fieldwork day

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 Fortunately my newest colleague wanted to go out with me; it was good to have another pair of hands and at a couple points I felt very much...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Monday evening things

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 * Don't like the news in the world (or my own country) at all. Not at all. * Most of today's work-time was spent prepping for field...
Friday, June 13, 2025

A new project

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 I don't need another one, but I wanted one. I had found a shawl pattern (Syyslaulu by Heidi Alander) that would work with that denim-bl...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Thursday evening things

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 would have been a different post had I written it earlier in the day. But it feels like everything's on the brink. I don't like it....
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Checking field sites

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 I didn't have a lot of faith that they'd be accessible, given the flooding of the lake, but my newest colleague and I made plans to...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Shop's new home

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 So my big Saturday thing was to go down to the grand opening of Quixotic Fibers in its new space. I got down there shortly after they opene...
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Friday, June 06, 2025

back to moominhouse

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 I had done that Moominhouse subscription plan starting - gosh,, maybe even back in 2022? I received the last shipment a couple months ago b...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Future of retail?

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 I ran across this story on Metafilter the other day, about "Bin Stores" . It's a business model where stuff - random stuff - ...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Emotional Support Chicken

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 Yes, this is a thing. This is a knitting pattern that came out a couple years ago. Earlier this year there was a knitalong on ITFF but I wa...
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