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I made this wrist distaff by crocheting single-ply yarn spun on a top-whorl drop spindle. (click on thumbnail for larger image)

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At the National Weather Service Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm KENNETH is in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Who knew I was on the list!

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Kage Baker’s Company series is one of my favorites. (Time travel, cyborgs, mysterious mysteries with hints and revelations doled out book-by-book. Not for everyone, but then that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla.) My friend Barbara also likes the Company novels, and didn’t like The Anvil of the World, a fantasy number. On that poor [...]

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A member of my meeting has a new book out. Today is "Amazon day", when she’s encouraging people to buy the book from Amazon (to boost rank). Margaret will donate $1 for each book purchased today to Grayston Family Support Services, one of the organizations profiled in the book. As some of you know, the [...]

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Here’s what the Guardian has to say about the upcoming UN summit: World summit on UN’s future heads for chaos. The British government is mounting a huge diplomatic effort this weekend to prevent the biggest-ever summit of world leaders, designed to tackle poverty and overhaul the United Nations, ending in chaos. . . . Ricardo [...]

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On our drive home we decided on the spur of the moment to visit the Bread and Puppet Museum in Glover, Vermont. It was time for us to have lunch, so we stopped at the general store in Glover. Generous deli sandwiches. And stuffed animals. Lots of them. One aisle has freezer cases on one [...]

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Bonsai is the Japanese word, penjing the Chinese. I decided to try the photo album capacity of typepad, so there the link is to photos over on the right.

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I’d like everyone who reads my blog to know about this retreat I’m leading in November. It’s open to anyone who wants a knitting retreat. You don’t have to be a Quaker to come. HANDWORK/HEARTWORKA Weekend Knitting RetreatNovember 4-6, 2005 We’ll have time for uninterrupted periods of knitting, both with conversation and in silence, as [...]

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One of our priority destinations in Montreal was Jardin botanique de Montréal/Montreal Botanical Garden , since we didn’t get there last year. Here are a few photos of greenhouse plants and the nearby Olympic Stadium with and without clouds. And some photos of the koi in the pond in the Japanese Garden: Finally, a lotus [...]

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Yes, I’m descending into travelogue. I figure, if I use a blog to keep track of books I’ve read (usually with minimal commentary), then I might as well use it as an aide-memoire for trips as well. Bob and I left for Ottawa on Saturday, August 27. We had a pleasant drive up through Franconia [...]

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