It was my birthday. I wanted to organize the small bedroom upstairs. At the beginning it was crammed full of all my weaving, spinning, rug hooking, bobbinlace, rugs, chairs, violin, loom, and lots of various yarns ( Read more... )

I woke up in the night and let myself look at my ipod. What a mistake. That's how to wake yourself up for sure! I lay there thinking about these many projects that are going on around here. It's so slow when one of the projects gets worked on one or two days a week. It'll be autumn by the time it's finished at this rate ( Read more... )

I called Frank to ask how he thought I could fix the no cold water problem. He thought about it and decided the best way would be to use the laundry hose, connect it from the hot to the cold outside taps, then turn the hot on so it would push in to the cold and shove the problem back through and out ( Read more... )

I went to the candle shop and bought two pounds of beeswax that's been strained through kleenex. It sure was expensive. I want to use Aunt Mildred's candle form to make them! I guess I should start very slowly and make sure the wicks I made will hold the wax first! Will burn properly, etc ( Read more... )

I cleaned up the house a bit, sorted out the new soaps that are in one piece and saleable. I stacked up the 100 cans of peaches and pears beside the fridge ( Read more... )

9:15 ( Read more... )

I was working away on the arbour when I heard a truck make it up the road. It was Frank. I showed him my arbours and the plates. He wondered how I'd made the holes ( Read more... )

Frank came over. I showed him all the dogsledding videos. He liked seeing them. He hadn't seen them before.

I made a chicken pot pie and baked apples in pastry for dinner.

Chicken pot pie

chicken broth
frozen fiddleheads
frozen baked pumpkin
frozen cauliflower
dried nettles
onion
garlic/oregano/olive oil pesto
chicken bits

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