Archive for July, 2008
TdF SAL at Cross Eyed Kat
Contest alert! There’s a Tour de France Stitch Along over at the Cross Eyed Kat blog. I haven’t started my project yet, and I don’t have a camera at the moment, so taking pics could be tough, but far be it from me to pass up a challenge. There’s even a prize! I know what [...]
What do I do with a turnip?
The garden survived my absence. A few of the strings were down, but nothing was trampled and nothing was eaten. The soil was dry, that’s all. Well, that and the plants were substantially bigger. Perhaps watched plants have attitudes like watched pots. No one told me that turnips are vegetable egomaniacs. “Look at me! Look [...]
Book Truths
I’m reading Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson, and am enjoying it so much that it’s keeping me up at night. Hattie is a sixteen-year-old pioneer, single-handedly proving up her dead uncle’s homesteading claim in Montana. If you’ve read this blog the past week or so, you know me well enough to understand how much [...]
The New Puzzle Pattern–MIA
I uploaded the new puzzle pattern to the printer’s Web site before I headed out to Aialik Bay. They were to send the proof to Seward so that I could (I hoped) approve it and get the printing going while I was away. I imagined picking up the very heavy box at the PO on [...]
Canoeing
The work day is long out at the lodge, but we took time between dinner and bed to get the canoe wet. The lagoon is protected, so the water is often smooth and glass-like, just the way I like it. I’m fond of water reflections as you might guess from Termination Dust and the H [...]
Kitchen Setup, for Steve
Steve asked to hear more about the kitchen setup at camp. The cook tent is a large plastic-tarp canopy over a metal frame about 12′ x 24′, and the floor is dirt and gravel. Notice the brown metal cabinet and the blue metal chest. Because this is bear country, all food, toiletries, and smelly items [...]
