We went out early last Saturday to get some lumber. I’ve been wanting to make benches to put around the fire pit. Not fine furniture, something to sit on. Matt had piled some stones up to make seating, so we have a start; but I was still thinking wood seating. I enjoy getting out to …
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Aran sweater – done
I made the collar somewhat bigger than it really wanted to be, I think. Here it is: In contrast to the fair isle one I did last year, the sleeves are plenty big. The tops of the sleeves are more than roomy, I’ll say baggy. But I’m happy with it!
Playing Fantastic Contraption
A few days ago Sheeping Annie blogged about having to stay in her classroom in the evening because it was a parent conference day. All her conferences had been scheduled for the afternoon, so she was very bored. Someone commented, “go play Fantastic Contraption.” I finally had a chance to try it today, and I …
Sweater almost done
My aran sweater is basted together. The neckband is sewn down, and the rest is ready to finish. I couldn’t wait to try it on and take a picture. It’s a little big — better than uncomfortably small like the fair isle one I made last year. I’ll tell you one thing — it is …
Some rubber stamp work
I was a little busy yesterday evening stamping copyright dates on stamp mounts that I had indexed last week and stickybacking stamp cushion. The copyright date is easy to explain. We have a set of stamps with our copyright notice, two (one larger and one small enough for our smallest stamps) for each year we’ve …
Kenken
Did I mention that about a week ago the Boston Globe started carrying a new puzzle, Kenken. It’s a number thing that’s like Sudoku in that one important clue is that no digit may be repeated in any row or column, but it works with arithmetic as well as logic. It comes in different sizes …
Tree farm
The weekend of Oct 25, I guess, Anne said, “darn, another year has gone by and we didn’t plant any Christmas trees.” Neither Arlene, Anne, nor I ever had Christmas trees when we were kids. I wanted one when I was little, but my parents were against it. When I started going to sunday school …
Leisurely ride north
We went to Maine on Saturday instead of Friday evening because we had stayed home for Halloween. We stopped first at Salisbury Beach state park to look for birds. We didn’t see much in the grove, but on the way out I did spot some birds we were looking for — a flock of snow …
Halloween recap
After yesterday’s historic events it seems silly to go back to Halloween. Even though it was just last Friday it seems like a long time ago. If I don’t, though, I’ll miss a good chance to get in an easy post which would help me meet a goal of 30 posts in November. Even though …
Report from ward 6, precinct 6
Our house is less than a quarter of a mile, but probably about 300 yards, from our polling place, the local elementary school. Cars were parked on the street in front of us this morning; I imagine they were people who had driven to the polls and thought that was as close as they were …