Last year about the 15th of June we went out on the deck in Casco around midnight and saw six luna moths. Last Friday as soon as we got to Casco we turned on the deck light to see if we could attract some. When I went outside a little later I thought I saw …
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Hmong bedspread
Several weeks ago (news flash! early May. The Fast Lane (= Easy Pass, automatic turnpike toll deal) statement says we got off the Maine Turnpike in Portland on May 12) Arlene found a bedspread advertised on the Maine Craig’s List. Someone had brought it back from Thailand years before but never used it. It looked …
Maine report – garden
The pear trees seem to be doing fine. At least, they’re still alive. If they don’t make it, it’s not the fault of the nursery nor UPS. Here they are with lots of new leaves (maybe hard to see against the backgrounds): Not only did I not murder four pear trees, but I also didn’t …
Whale-watching pictures
Gene Harriman of Plymouth MA posted these pictures of a bird club trip to look for sea birds and whales. Whale watching enthusiasts (this means you, Maimun) take a look!
Music animation link
I haven’t linked from here to the Music Animation Machine, for some reason, mostly not thinking of it sooner. I must have found it by searching for Claire de Lune, and finding links to a piece of music by that name by Debussy, one of which was a YouTube clip of a video generated by …
Portrait mode
I broke my digital camera on Memorial Day when I dropped it on my Aunt Mimi’s patio. It won’t extend the lens and keeps telling me I should take the lens cap off, but it’s already off. I’ve had the camera for over five years. If I had been buying film all that time, and …
Progress pic
I haven’t gotten much farther on my sweater than the last time I wrote. It’s warmer, not so motivating to work on a sweater as in the winter, and there are more other things to do. But I am doing a little on it at a time, and the sleeves are about halfway up from …
Inkle Loom Plan
Someone left a comment recently asking if I had a plan for an inkle loom. I didn’t then, but I do now. An inkle loom is good for weaving narrow pieces of fabric up to about four feet long, or longer if you build it with more zigzags than the one in this plan — …
Trash picker — not
I’m turning in my dumpster diver credentials. On the way home from work I passed up, out on the curb, one bicycle. Years ago I would have taken it to Bikes Not Bombs, but I don’t travel in that direction much these days. two gas-powered lawnmowers. After fixing my electric mower, maybe I could try …
Dark Materials
I’m reading Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. I’m a quarter of the way through the third book, The Amber Spyglass. Don’t tell me how it ends. When I was a kid I read a Tarzan book, Tarzan and the City of Gold which greatly impressed me at the time because it switched among three …