Life

To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

Thank you Amber.




Thank you Barbro for the Forest sheep of Värmland fleece you gave me on my trip to Sweden. I love it. Kristin was kind enough to lend me her carder to prep it. I laid some locks on the batt to show the color variation.

There is a funky video on YouTube showing how to use a drum carder. Rexene is pretty entertaining ! It was great to see how to blend, clean, and more.

Started a baby bolero jacket using Queensland "Cotsoy" It's 50/50 cotton and soy. It is sooooo soft. I figured a good way to learn about sweater construction was to knit up various styles of baby sweaters. Not so intimidating as an adult sweater.

We had the shortest summer ever ! Two weeks of nice weather maybe ? As my father said about the climate here " If summer falls on the weekend we all go to the beach !"
No kidding. I miss him so much. He brought so many unique experiences with his Renaissance style of life to me. One of his wood carvings which was carved directly into a cedar stump in our yard. It's from an illustration of the "Tortoise and the Hare" from James Thurber's "Fables for Our Time"


Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?


There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?


He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance