I lost a couple of posts that I had written, because of some server update. I guess I wrote the posts when the data was partway transferred to the new server, but I posted it to the old server, and it never got transferred. Or some such. So I need to reconstruct what I had. …
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Patsy’s play
Last night Arlene & Charley & I went to see an open dress rehearsal of the play, C. P. Taylor’s Good, that Patsy is directing at the Boston Conservatory. Pix here at Charley’s photo blog. It’s about how someone goes from being a reasonably good person to a Nazi. It was in the Zack Box …
Dinner at Koreana
Last night we got together with Anne, Matt, and Charley for dinner at Koreana in Cambridge. It’s around the block and across Prospect Street from where Anne & Matt live. There’s lots of construction on their street (which is a little surprising for this recession) and the area is getting significantly upgraded. We could see …
Asbestos no more
Yesterday S & S Abatement LLC removed and disposed of approximately 105 linear feet of asbestos pipe insulation from our garage and main basement using the glove bag method. Last autumn (or was it a year before that?) when we had a heating system tune-up the repairman said that our boiler was pretty old and …
Chesterfield ID
I don’t usually leave my photos so big, but I liked this one so much I did: It doesn’t even show up full size in my browser. Right click or something, download it, and check it full size! Chesterfield is sort of a ghost town Mormon pioneer farming community. It was a small but busy …
Idaho Trip Aug 2009
In bullet points — Wednesday Aug 5: Chesterfield ID Thursday: Jackson WY Friday: Shoshone – Bannock Powwow Saturday: All Shook Up Sunday: Breakfast at Perkins, walk dogs on AMI trail Monday: Lunch with Lorenzo and Jo, Scout Mountain, and block party Details and pictures to follow — ciao
Another shirt
This is one of the shirts that I started several years ago. It turned out that all this one needed was buttonholes and buttons. I remembered that buttonholes are ridiculously easy with the Necchi, and there was no excuse. That makes three of those four done. The last one of that batch has the front, …
Water snake update
Once I started seeing water snakes at Cutler Pond, I kept being able to find them. The weather has been a little colder than I think they really like (or maybe I’m just projecting my own feelings) so when it IS sunny, they hang out in sunny spots. I’ve had a camera a couple of …
Hazel and Chestnut orchard
I spent a lot of the Fourth of July weekend with my baby chestnut and hazel trees. The first order of business was to go out to the planting site with the string trimmer and clean out the area. There were lots of ferns growing there, as well as plenty of wild brambles and sweetfern …
Shirt and plants
I was thinking of titling it “shirt and pants — I mean plants.” About a week ago I did buttonholes and sewed buttons on a shirt I had been working on for some of this spring, made from remnant Marimekko from the Crate and Barrel outlet in Kittery. I had selected several colors of the …