Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 29th, 2007
A little perspective
The second-floor window under the protected eave of the roof. The first-floor roof is about 3-4 inches below the window frame. Maybe this next shot will really put things in perspective, though . . .
That’s the back porch. The rail in the background is about 90cm high. The white stuff blocking the door? That’s not […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Small notes
We still have snow.
The contrasts and textures fascinate me.
And in the mail, this:
A Bosworth mini topwhorl .7 ounce spindle for use with this:
The turquoise is an alpaca-corriedale blend, and the glowing caramel is a merino-tencel blend—and . . . Oh. My. Goodness. I’ve never felt anything so soft. It is absolutely incredible and I’m itching […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Yarny stuff
The last SP9 package is bundled and ready to send. Rather, it’s bundled, and would have been ready to send had I realized that the box I picked up in a hurry last week was a tubular-triangular shaped thing which won’t work at all. Clever, eh? It’ll go into a bubble envelope in the morning […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Winter
. . . is here. It was record-breakingly slow arriving, but we’ve gotten a fair amount of the white stuff over the past few days. This is the back porch.
For gauge, the railing is about 34 inches tall. The pile of white stuff on top? That’s snow. From within the […]
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
Two weeks later (long!)
I realized the other day that it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve posted, and it’s time to catch up.
Things have been busy with a lot of cleanup from last fall and some startup for this term, but there’s been some fallout, too.
General Academics/Teaching
I had an interesting conversation with a teacher a little while ago, […]
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
By the way . . .
Yesterday? This was the sunrise. At 0915ish.
