It’s a time when sprinters fall out and endurance runners take their mark. The semester has begun, the first round of assignments comes in on Monday, handbooks and lessons need writing or updating, graduate students need responses (i.e., I need to do some additional homework on their topics and questions), and the Polwarth is on [...]
. . . and I swear the stuff could have been the blob that ate New York! The lighting is so bad lately that I can’t get a good shot of the color, but it’s a very dark grey made warmer by the chocolate-bleached tips. This fleece: But, it’s done. 1200 grams of carded batts [...]
I’d say the new year is off to a good start. (The camera flash washed out the batts in front; they’re all as dark as the ones in the bin.) There are 18 batts, weighing 40-50 grams each for over 740 grams (over 26 ounces). It’s this Polwarth fleece: There are about 600 grams left [...]
If you haven’t guessed, it’s been a tough semester. I’m afraid the blog simply had to sit and wait until life returned to some degree of normalcy. Of course, that only took three months, but hey–who’s counting? Christmas was, I’m afraid, a thing to get through after a very hard week, but I’ve had the [...]
My husband is very very good with directions. He can go somewhere once and usually find his way back again without trouble. He generally knows which way is north, south, east, or west without checking a compass or the sun’s direction. He knows which way he wants to go, and always seems to know which [...]