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  Borrowed table top loom From time to time I hear/see newer weavers exclaim that they can’t wait until they don’t make mistakes anymore. Yeah, about that… Well, not all of the challenges I had to deal with for this warp (and I’m not even finished dressing the loom – yet) were of my making.…

  I must be a pagan from another age because the solstice as ‘end of year’ makes a lot more sense to me than Dec. 31. For decades I would arrive at the solstice completely exhausted.  The bulk of my income for the year would be generated, one way or another, by the time of…

  From time to time Blurb will offer a discount on book purchases.  Just now got an email saying that if someone uses the coupon code GIVINGTUES25 between now and Dec. 11 they will receive a 25% discount. Considering that they do NOT take the discount away from the authors, this is a very good…

  north wall south wall Doug and I don’t need much and if we need something we go buy it.  So gifts generally amount to us saying ‘what do you want?  OK, happy birthday.  Or Christmas.  Or whatever.’ My office is the smallest bedroom in the house and since there are a shit tonne of…

  I suppose if I want to sell more books/classes I need to keep reminding people of how and where to find them? As usual, 3 of my books are available in either pdf or print versions at Blurb.  I’m actually quite proud of this one, but it doesn’t seem to have gained much traction. …

  Still no snow to speak of, but we have been having hoar frost that sparkles and glints when the sun manages to come out. The past 3 weeks (approximately) was filled with a bunch of personal maintenance appointments.  I seem to be running out of options for making life more ‘comfortable’, and now I…

  Dad and his plough Here is my dad standing beside his plough in the 1940s.  He was a ‘utility’ driver for the BC Dept of Highways (as was) for over 20 years.  He would not drive dump trucks because he got ‘sea sick’ when the shovels were loading the box, but he drove everything…

  Dad, in larger photo, wearing his Canadian uniform in WWII; smaller photo about 10 years old Dad served in WWII, first in the Aleutians, then being sent to England to prepare for D-Day.  He was pretty much a pacifist, but he did his duty. He was born in 1919 in Red Rock, BC.  The…

  I’ve been ‘quiet’ this week as I have been dealing with more ‘stuff’ than I have energy for.  But I have been so grateful for the good wishes people have been sending. Times are definitely ‘interesting’ right now, and on-going health issues don’t help.  I can say with some tiny amount of certainty that…

  Some of my pain ‘meds’ sitting beside The Golden Thread and the Jack Lenor Larson biography.  Hopefully I’ll begin feeling well enough to read more than just posts on Facebook. I have been battling peripheral neuropathy for years, on top of the damage to my back.  For over a year I had been trying…