We arrived home safely at about 11 pm tonight. It was a terrific vacation all around, especially the past four days spent at the Men's Spring Knitting Retreat. Details of the trip have been posted at Speed River Journal:

1. A Day at Presqu'ile Provincial Park
2. Jardin botanique de Montréal
3. Men's Spring Knitting Retreat Joins Community in Nature
4. Diversity in ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Last time I was here I wanted to return soon, but it has taken us more than three years to arrange another visit to Easton Mountain. Our purpose is to attend the Adirondack Fibre Festival in nearby Greenwich NY. I was so wound up leaving work yesterday that I forgot my glasses, then left my headlights on in the supermarket parking lot and had to ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Few things are so disheartening as a sudden, unfamiliar sound emitted by a car in motion. It happened this afternoon en route to a doctor's appointment: something underneath, grating along the road. I pulled over, took a look, and sure enough something was hanging down, but it wasn't the tailpipe.

I found some rope in the trunk and slid on my back ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )