We’re in Newton this weekend for the Celebrate Newton crafts sale on Sunday. Saturday night we went to Passim, I guess I should say Club Passim these days, to hear Tony Bird. Passim, if you count Club 47 which preceded it in the same location, has been the place to hear folk music in Harvard …
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Knitting needle report – Silvalume
I’m very pleased with the Susan Bates Silvalume circular needles that I got at The Village Knitiot last weekend. The joins are not quite as smooth as Addis should be, but my #6 Addi (it’s busy with the body of Matt’s sweater) doesn’t have as good a join as it should and these are just …
Tooth update
I had my first appointment for the root canal yesterday. I’m amazed at how well I feel today; I hope it will last. These things seem to vary tremendously — some are very painful for a couple of days, and some just not bad. Yesterday I had brought a yoghurt for lunch, and ate it …
More on ruffed grouse
Thanksgiving weekend turned out to be a big time for grouse. We saw one in the crabapple tree again. We got a particularly close look at one in a berry bush (I think it’s burning bush, or barberry, or something with small red berries that aren’t edible by people) just off the front porch — …
Windham Sky
There were picturesque clouds in the sky over the Hannaford’s parking lot in Windham last week. Don’t try to clean your screen! That’s not a speck of dust in the middle of the picture, it’s a seagull. We’re about fifteen miles inland from Portland harbor.
Covered Bridge
One of the alternate routes to Casco is to take exit 47 from the Maine Turnpike and go up River Road from Westbrook to Windham. We’ve seen a sign pointing to a covered bridge off that road, but before last Wednesday we either didn’t have time to explore it or daylight to make it worthwhile. …
FO – by Anne
Anne has been using some patterns from The Yarn Girls’ Guide To Simple Knits. She had this one all done except the collar by early Thanksgiving weekend. She wasn’t sure how to pick up the stitches for the collar. I counted the stitches she had, figured how many to pick up and how many to …
Trail Network
Anne, Matt, and I did more trail work around the Casco house. About a month ago they had started to cut a trail sort of from the far corner of the property back towards the house. Arlene and I lengthened it and then Anne and Matt brought it out to a monster rock near the …
Village Knitiot
I drove down to North Windham and finally got to look in at The Village Knitiot. It has more floor space than Naturally Fuzzy or Down Home, but not so much yarn as either of those. It’s probably the best local source for imported and luxury yarns. There’s a big selection of Misty Alpaca, a …
Wildlife
We had a grouse in the crabapple tree again today. Arlene spotted it walking out from next to our kayak. It crossed the driveway, walked over to the crabapple tree, looked around the ground to see if there were any fallen crabapples worth eating, decided there weren’t, and flew up onto a branch to eat …