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On Sunday the Third Sunday Spinners gathered at our house and whipped up two dye pots using onion skins and alum in the one and thirty year old cochineal and alum in the other. Each of the three of us dyed one skein of yarn in each pot. But there seemed to be plenty...
Awakened this morning around dawn to the sound of heavy rainfall and a view out the studio window of one of our creeks swollen with rainwater rushing down the mountainside. It has rained most of the day. Been a good day to be inside. We've worked on scanning old...
This afternoon found Karen at the knitting guild meeting and lending some weaving expertise to a friend while Steve worked on the latest revision to the Thole video and uploading research files to the server. We discovered that phone conversations are impossible when...
Such a fun date! Such a beautiful day! It dawned cool and crisp with the moon setting in the west just as light was appearing in the east. Cool enough that even by late morning we had ice on the deck. We spent a good amount of time today working on organizing...
Spent the weekend with Dave and the girls. Got some one on done time with our son and with each of our granddaughters. Did some crayon art, read stories, tickled, knitted together, cooked together, played ball, played in...
Friday we left home and drove I-40 to I-75 to Cincinnati in the rain and the fog. Stopped to pick up a cousin in Lexington then on to Aunt Mary's. From there we went to the funeral home to pay tribute and say good-bye to...
Gary arrived this past Friday and we have spent the last several days celebrating the autumn foliage of Western North Carolina. We drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway, explored in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, drove local mountain roads, visited Judaculla Rock,...
Karen's Uncle Bob passed away this morning. He and Aunt Nancy were married for fifty-seven years. Karen remembers him from even before the wedding. "He and Aunt Nancy took me to my very first theater movie when I was three years old. I think the movie was Pinocchio...
This is the weekend of SAFF, the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair, at the Ag Center in Asheville. It's a much anticipated annual event dear to the hearts of anyone involved in fiber crafts. We wandered over there this morning, met with friends, gloried in such a...
Work up to a quite chilly morning. Time for a fire in the wood stove! And sweaters. And hot spiced tea. Apples to slice for apple pie. Time to pick the last of the tomatoes even if they are green for it may freeze tonight and to cut the tomato leaves and vines up for...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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The crazy detour, from Illinois to Ohio, for warranty work on our little teardrop camper, has another benefit. We get to enjoy a weekend with family, moochdocking in our son's driveway, lunch out on a summer's day with our granddaughters while the parents are at work,...
The two of us left from üCamp on the 20th of last month to begin our 2021 Summer Ramble and over the course of thirty days had had adventures in just three states. From eastern central Ohio we'd traveled and explored parts of Indiana then on to Illinois. At Starved...
After our short hike to the top of Starved Rock, we headed into the nearby town of Ottawa, Illinois. After learning that the museum we wanted to visit was closed on Tuesdays, we headed to our real destination, Bill Polancic's Meats. Independent food emporiums like...