Category: retirement
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Final Throes
We called it Puff. It served us well, pressing hundreds of yards of textiles in the time we had it. We are still hoping to find a new home for it, but things have gotten complicated. As in…the weather. Suddenly it’s winter and it’s wintering hard. First we (the entire province almost) got slammed with…
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Tortoise/Hare
There is a meme I’ve seen on Facebook that says something to the effect that so far ‘your ability to survive a bad day is 100%’ Or words to that effect. Today is a difficult day. For a number of reasons. We all have them. Some have them more frequently than others. Some have worse…
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Tortoise/Hare
There is a meme I’ve seen on Facebook that says something to the effect that so far ‘your ability to survive a bad day is 100%’ Or words to that effect. Today is a difficult day. For a number of reasons. We all have them. Some have them more frequently than others. Some have worse…
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Tortoise/Hare
There is a meme I’ve seen on Facebook that says something to the effect that so far ‘your ability to survive a bad day is 100%’ Or words to that effect. Today is a difficult day. For a number of reasons. We all have them. Some have them more frequently than others. Some have worse…
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Patience, Grasshopper
Lots of reflecting going on in my life right now. Here is Mary, standing in a beam of sun, her hair aglow. This was an emotional day for me. We were both on a quest, testing ourselves to see if our activity horizons were actually expanding. I was about 5 months post op from triple…
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Patience, Grasshopper
Lots of reflecting going on in my life right now. Here is Mary, standing in a beam of sun, her hair aglow. This was an emotional day for me. We were both on a quest, testing ourselves to see if our activity horizons were actually expanding. I was about 5 months post op from triple…
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Winding Down
More steps towards closing down my business. Yesterday Doug went pressing one last time, then started taking the heavy duty wiring apart in preparation for disassembling Puff. I will really miss the ease of hard pressing my textiles, but on the other hand, I used a small flat bed press for about 20 years before…
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Snow Day 2020
2020 is off to a snowy start with over 6″ of snow overnight and more coming down. All up and down the street people are moving it out of the way because we have more snow in the forecast for the next 10 days or so. Road clearing will be difficult and it will be…
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I Had a Dream
In my 20s I discovered weaving – or actually the universe or whatever worked really hard to get me to a loom – and I decided to make weaving my life’s work. Long time readers will be familiar with the trajectory of my life – buying a new house with room for a loom, quitting…
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State of the Studio
from doorway – Leclerc Fanny, library, cone winder, wall of shelves to the right and to the left from other end of the room – Leclerc Fanny, shelves at the end of the room and at the side middle of the space – warping board, storage cubby, shelves to the right with things that have…