The JCC Klezmer Band played a concert last night at the elderly housing building next to the JCC. Between the band and the Temple Emanuel choir, I’ve done at least four concerts there. It’s a good audience. Last night there were three women sitting near the front who seemed to know all the words to …
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Set up with Boot Camp
Charley helped me get my MacBook Pro set up with boot camp so it really dual boots into Windows XP or Mac OS 10.4. It’s working very stably with the virtual network from work on the windows side. That was the real reason for getting the Intel Mac in the first place, to have a …
Animal Tracks talk
We drove to Bridgton after supper (and after planning supper for early enough so we could get there) for a presentation on animal tracks at the Lakes Environmental Association. It greatly exceeded our expectations. When our kids were little, we went to several Canadian national parks and made an effort to go on ranger walks …
Back from the Lake
Also from two weekends ago, Charley walked down to the lake with Emma so she could try out the kids snowshoes we had bought from Craig’s List. I took a picture as they came back to the house. Hey, he’s wearing the sweater I made last year. Maybe he likes it.
Just for fun
Two weekends ago, up in Maine, Charley made some chowder for supper. He requested that I make some bread to go with it. We found a recipe for gluten-free cornbread (from the Land-O-Lakes website. With sour cream) for Nicole. Arlene asked, “Do you have the right thing to bake it in? Do you just use …
Havdalah and Klezmer presentation
Sue, the newish violinist in the klezmer band, told everyone that there was going to be a presentation about current klezmer music at her synagogue this Saturday evening — that is, today. We didn’t go to Maine this weekend, and a quick trip to Brookline seemed in order. The presentation was immediately following a havdalah …
Mushers Bowl
Up in Bridgton last weekend it was Mushers’ Bowl. That’s like superbowl, but it’s about dogsled racing and it’s a smaller scale event. By about a factor of 1000. We were disappointed that the dogsled racing was cancelled last year because of lack of snow. This year it was postponed from the original date to …
Chair-Loc
The reason my spinning wheel didn’t work seemed to be that the wheel supports weren’t tight, so the wheel wobbles all over the place when you apply real force with the treadle. Then the belt pops off. I had heard of some material that’s supposed to make wood swell so joints fit tight. The main …
Love the Lump
I took my new (newly acquired, that is) spinning wheel to Cambridge for a lesson at Mind’s Eye Yarns on Thursday night. The wheel seemed OK when I was practicing treadling it, but the drive belt kept jumping off the wheel as soon as Lucy tried spinning on it. She switched me to one of …
Tooth report
I went to my dentist on Tuesday, knowing that there was decay in one of my upper left teeth and hoping that it was just a cavity that he could fix quickly. It wasn’t. After the dentist did some drilling, he said, “There’s some bleeding. I have to see if it’s from the gum or …