'Personal' Category
Summer Subplot
I’m spending a lot of time in the yard and garden. A couple of weeks ago, we had some fill and topsoil brought in help transform the yard from an obvious work-in-progress to something more pleasant to look at. Eventually. I hope.
While I allowed the local dirt-bringer and -mover to move some of the […]Our Next Job
All right, friends, we need your help.
We’ve applied for another caretaking job–in Australia, what Queensland Tourism has dubbed “The Best Job in the World.” You may have heard about it on TV or Yahoo.
It’s a pie-in-the-sky job, to be sure, but mm-mm, don’t you just love a big yummy slice of pie-in-the-sky now […]Reflections
As far as I know, this is the only mirror currently in camp. I brought it with me. It’s 2.75 x 2.25 inches.
Mike uses it to shave.I use it so I can see how many bars are illuminated on the modem without having to get up out of my chair.
Two bars…we have no connection. […]Holiday Music Gift
I asked my nephews and niece for a holiday gift this year: I wanted a song, sung by the three of them, preferably in harmony. This is what I got.
I offer it to you, with their permission. Here are The Stones. (Really, I’m not making that up.) Happy Holidays!Holiday Mosaic-Part 4
We had a glue crisis for a while–meaning we didn’t have any–so the project was delayed for about a week. You think twice before “running out for glue” when the glue is 100 miles away. I believed my holiday project was destined to be a summer project, and began to think about sewing shades (still […]
Decorating Cookies
The year is 1991. Mike and I are caretaking for the first time at Bristol Bay Lodge. ‘Tis the season; the Dillingham public radio station plays holiday music, but we can’t get to the post office twenty miles away in Aleknagik because while the bay is frozen preventing us from taking the boat out, the […]
Holiday Mosaic-Part 3
I transferred the pattern onto the backing.
Holiday Mosaic-Part 2
Mike cut the 4′x4′ octagon backing from 3/4″ plywood then measured and drew graph lines.
I soaked the tiles off their paper backing, dried and separated them.
Holiday Mosaic-Part 1
For as long as I can remember and into my college years, my family made holiday gifts for friends and neighbors. In particular, I remember making candles, cookies, and ornaments. Candles and cookies we made in the kitchen, but the ornaments were made on the dining room table. We spent hours around that table with […]
Weekend Site-Seeing
This weekend we’re going to the Wordle site.
Wordle is a site with a java applet that creates pretty “word clouds” from text. I’ve copied and pasted a number of my stories, for instance. You can also enter a Web site or blog URL, and I’ve done that as well.
The program sifts through the […]
