We stopped in the Hannaford’s supermarket in Windham on Friday evening — it’s open until 11, we were there by 9:40 even after standing in a long line at the Burger King at the Kennebunk rest area to get a cup of coffee, and we knew there wasn’t any OJ, milk, nor eggs in the …
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Klezmer Soiree
On Tuesday night, as our last meeting of the year, the Jewish Community Center klezmer band had what our teacher/leader called a musical soiree at the home of one of the members. It’s a big house on Commonwealth Ave in Newton, right along the route of the Boston Marathon (except that part of Comm Ave …
Finished hat
Who’da thunk it, I finished something. Here’s the cabled hat made from Bartlett Mills 2-ply fisherman yarn, Sandstone color, that I got at Naturally Fuzzy Yarns in Harrison ME. The secret of this hat is that inside the cuff is a band of super-soft Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran Tweed wool-silk-cashmere yarn. Look at that, …
More dumpster carpentry
This chair was on the curb down the street on garbage night. A couple of weeks ago we bought a chair with a broken cane seat for $1 at a yard sale in Maine. I didn’t like the chair all that much, but it looked like something I could learn caning on. I like this …
MFF Acquisitions
This couldn’t pose as a part-time knitblog without pictures of what I got at the Maine Fiber Frolic, could it? Here goes. A kit to make felted juggling balls, from One Lupine Fiber Arts of Orono, ME. I told Jodi I was a card-carrying member of the International Juggler’s Association, but I couldn’t find the …
Koleinu Concert
Koleinu gave its year-end concert last Thursday night at Temple Isaiah in Lexington. Here’s a picture from the dress rehearsal — That’s Carol, our director, on the left in the green sweater. We were accompanied by piano on most of the pieces, and harp, cello, and violin on three pieces in the middle. The ark, …
Apple Trees
The apple blossoms are gone and the fruits have just started to form. The little apples are perhaps half an inch in diameter. The amazing thing is that even at that size they look like themselves. That is, you can tell from the shape which tree is the Delicious. Arlene phoned some garden centers to …
Maine Llama Drill Team
We traveled about sixty miles farther in Maine than usual, past Augusta to Windsor and the Maine Fiber Frolic. I’ll start with my best lamb picture: It was a cool (not to say chilly) drizzly day. We parked amidst lots of other Subarus — ideal cars for this sort of parking lot — We were …
Overnight on Cape Cod
Arlene’s old college suitemate Jeannette and her husband invited us and Judy, another of the suitemates, to spend the weekend at the cottage they were renting in Brewster on Cape Cod. We had been there the same way just about a year ago, on a chilly late May or early June weekend. The weather was …
Pocket scan
Just because it was handy, I scanned the old hip pocket that I replaced last night. Would you want to accept a credit card from a wallet that got pulled out of this pocket? I’d hesitate. Oh, continuing on the mending theme, I sewed up an unraveling seam in the sweater Charley brought back from …