Sunday, September 28, 2008
Yesterday I went to the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival in Canby. Once we got back, I could’t resist starting to spin right away. This was my one indulgence from Dicentra Designs (obtained from the 50% off bin!), and I’m regretting that I didn’t pick up a few more rovings. It’s an absolute dream to [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Our friend Santiago is going to have an art show at Tender Loving Empire in Portland, October 2 to November 15.
Monday, September 22, 2008
A few years ago, my parents cleaned out their garage and sent me pretty much everything that had anything to do with me. I got rid of a bunch of stuff and kept one bin that now contains a few items of clothing, a couple of dolls (remember the vinyl Kewpie dolls?) and teddy bears, [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Behold, our first hazelnut harvest: Hard-won spoils from our battle with the blue jays and at least one squirrel. There’s one jay that likes to fly overhead as we leave for work and point and laugh. “That jay is mocking us. It knows we’re leaving for the day!” Yeah, well, I just roasted my first [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
Mr. Wolf and I were having a conversation about something this morning and I mentioned that quote about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results as being applicable to the situation. I couldn’t remember to whom the quote is attributed. Turns out it’s Albert Einstein, who (supposedly) said, “The definition of [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
A “where were you” kind of day. Reflection felt… urgent today. Is it because we are on the verge of something here? Because we stand poised on the brink of fear and hope? Seven years ago, I was working in Southern California and carpooling with a friend. We left the radio off in the car [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
This house we moved to is out in the sticks, but not actually. It’s, like, fake-rural. We live right off a relatively busy highway, but we have a little under half an acre and it’s a dead-end street with not too many houses. The bugs like it here. We have wasps building nests way up [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Now that I’ve deleted everything that was on this blog prior to July, I was trying to decide if I should re-post photos. What do you say? If you’d seen a photo before, but it was deleted, would you care if I posted it again? Would you still continue to come here and read and [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Well, damn! OR Blogs has been closed for five days and I didn’t even realize. I could see that I wasn’t getting updated posts in Bloglines, but I didn’t go over there to see why until today. Now I’m sad… it was such a wonderful creation & resource. I understand his reasons, though, sorry as [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Armed with information from the International Seed Saving Institute, I have attempted to save some seeds. Only time will tell if I have had any success with the cantaloupe (it’s actually muskmelon, I guess) and the jalapeños. Once I get the seeds in the ground next year, we’ll just have to wait and see if [...]
