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  a few days ago it looked like this Today is beautiful – sunny, warm.  Too warm, truth be told.  But we had some rain last week, and we are finally seeing a drop in wildfires – from a high of over 400 to 317 when I checked the BC Wildfire site this morning. We…

    Got started weaving this warp yesterday.  I’m pretty pleased with it, although I’m still uncertain which side will be the ‘right’ side.   As a design, it could have used a bit more tweaking, but otoh, it’s ok.  The two circles are slightly different not identical, and I decided that I was ok with…

  seen in the ‘wild’ Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada.  I am working on Gratitude. There are so many things ‘wrong’ in this world it is sometimes understandable that we forget to be grateful for what we have, while we work towards making things better.  For others as well as ourselves. It’s been a…

  Once again, I have made plans.  Careful plans.  The way I do, because for my entire life I have had to be extremely careful about expenditures. So we thought carefully, decided that really we did *need* to replace the furnace, and – given current goings on  – changing to a heat pump with natural…

  Once again, I have made plans.  Careful plans.  The way I do, because for my entire life I have had to be extremely careful about expenditures. So we thought carefully, decided that really we did *need* to replace the furnace, and – given current goings on  – changing to a heat pump with natural…

  One more sleep until I get the SI injection.  Frankly, it can’t come too soon.  This week has been ‘extra’. I am transitioning from opioids to a new pain medication, one which cannot be taken *with* opioids, so for a week I had no effective pain control.  Now, I’m in the introductory dose of…

  Persistence Yesterday I had a fairly long chat with my physiotherapist who has been encouraging and supportive of my current ‘journey’ in a body whose ‘check engine’ light has gone on (again).  I gave her an update on the journey since seeing her last, the new pain meds (still in the introductory dose stage,…

  I had thought to teach one more in-person workshop but what with one thing and another…I won’t be teaching in person again. As of this morning there were just 3 people signed up for a workshop that is supposed to happen in 3 weeks, and there is too little time now to get at…

  Life, like weaving, is full of decisions. The above cloth is the Snail’s Trails and Cat’s Paws threading/treadling, but woven ‘star’ fashion, while the more traditional way is ‘roses’.  (I change the tie up, not the treadling because that’s the easiest way to make the change.) A simple change of perspective, a different choice,…

  autumn colours We are headed into Thanksgiving (Canadian) soon, and the trees are beginning to wear their autumn splendour.   Living where I do (around the 54th parallel N) we have (or used to) have distinct seasons.  Winter was frequently ‘too long’, but we had definite winter, spring, summer and autumn.  The transitional stages between…