January… or April… a RIFF | 1.26.24
It has been a topsy-turvy week here... we went from having temps in the teens on Sunday... to this morning an unbelievable 63°F. It smells like spring outside... and the birds must be thinking so as well because there was so much singing as Sherman and I trekked out...
Museum of Me – Science For Real Life | 3.10.23
If I look back on my school days... which I do with some regularity in my 60's... and I note two key things: If I was good at something, I wanted to do it all the time. If I was not good at something, I found ways to avoid doing it at all costs. Those two things sum...
Unraveled Wednesday | 3.8.23
Greetings Unravelers! It's been a week of incremental making... bits of knitting on several projects. First up, I finished Gnedward! Gnedward has had a wandering life... and along the way if he saw a button, he picked it up! He has an impressive collection of solitary...
Hello March | 3.6.23
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine. ― L.M. Montgomery L.M. Montgomery's quote seems to...
Friday Finds | 3.3.23
The First March Friday... is very March-like. We have winds heading our way... and rain. And windy March days always, always brings Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice book to the forefront of my mind. I especially love the poem for March: So bring on those...
Unraveled Wednesday | 3.1.23
Greetings Unravelers! It's Wednesday. It's March. And I have some making *thoughts* to share! I have been contemplating that gorgeous corduroy I got some months ago... that I have done nothing with. I had the idea that it would work for this pattern and I even made a...
An Authenticity Manifesto | February 2023
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet. I hinted Friday that this month turned into a delightful adventure. But it certainly did not start out that way!...