The weather in the Boston area has been seasonable for March, or maybe even a little on the warm side, the last few days. It was sunny today and a comfortable temperature for walking. I decided to see if the path around Cutler Pond had dried up after all the rain of the last couple …
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Bonanza book
Sometime yesterday Arlene emailed me at work something like this — “I was at the Mobile Book Fair to get my next book club book, and I found a knitting book by that guy so I bought it for you.” Who was that guy? I hoped she knew that I had got Knitting with Balls …
Any common sense?
I was questioning my judgement for a good fraction of yesterday. For the last half of last week we had been watching the weather forecasts for the weekend with some trepidation. Predicitions called for a storm starting Friday night around midnight and continuing all day Saturday, with about six to ten inches of snow for …
Up on the roof
OK, so I’ll show you what I was doing last weekend. Shoveling snow off the roof in Casco, because the snow was deep enough that we were (or at least I was) worried about the roof collapsing. It’s just the roof over the addition to the house, one story high, that’s a gentle enough slope …
Art show
We were pretty busy around the weekend of Feb 9, between going to concerts the 7th and 8th, the shower the 9th, and one more event, an art exhibit opening on Sunday. Arlene had recently joined the Newton Art Association. They held a show for new members at one of the spaces they use regularly …
Finished mittens
I probably finished these two weeks ago. Maybe one week, but I think it’s been longer. I think I recorded the details, but just for luck, they’re Peace Fleece on number 5s, done top down, magic loop, pretty much taken from Zilboorg’s Magnificent Mittens. I bought the yarn at Down Home Trading Company in Bridgton …
Hard puzzle
This turned out to be one of the hardest Springbok puzzles we’ve done. We started it the weekend of January 26, left it for a week, and finished it the next weekend. It’s one of those good old Springboks that holds together when you pick it up.
Katherine’s baby shower
We were in Newton on Saturday Feb. 9 for a baby shower for Katherine, the daughter of long-time friends (where by long-time I mean Katherine’s mother used to give Arlene rides to work in the winter of 1969 when our car wouldn’t start). I neglected to bring a camera to the event, and was hoping …
Tony Bird Concert
Passim, Friday Feb 8. We went early enough to have supper at Veggie Planet, the cafe there, which was founded by a friend of Charley’s — Didi Emmons (I think that’s the name — hold on a second — yes, that’s right) who used to live in the same building as his best friends in …
Radio broadcast alert
Listen to WUMB radio (U Mass/Boston) at noon Eastern time on Sunday Feb 10 for a concert recorded live last night with John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. You can listen on the web. That was a member concert, for station supporters. Arlene phones in to request tickets to the member concerts whenever …