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... )

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Maybe it's not just my imagination that I'm a human barometer.

For the past few days we have had cooler, rainy, calm weather. Halfway through this morning I suddenly felt so gross I could hardly stay on my feet. I just had to go sit in the bathroom: general body aches, fatigue, an intense mood swing, lack of concentration, irritible bowels. A few ( Read more... )

Today we learned how to thread a loom. It took all day for a roomful of us to get the knack. I have the impression this part of the job is not particularly popular among weavers. It takes a long time. The weaving itself is almost an afterthought.

For me it is like foreplay, meditative, compassionate and tactile. I don't mind delayed gratification. ( Read more... )

I don't remember ever being affected this badly by heat. In Atlanta three summers ago it literally made me sick, but at least I could escape to dakoopst's air conditioned apartment. This week my apartment seems to trap the heat, and I can't get a cross breeze. I can't move. If I get out from in front of the fan for two minutes I am dripping with sweat.

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Tonight's homework was to tidy and reorganize the living room to make space for the loom. I was successful at reorganizing, not so much at tidying. There is too much clutter. The only solution will be to get rid of stuff.

The biggest limiting factor was the heat. The only break I've had this week has been in the air conditioned car, driving to and ( Read more... )

Dad just called back on his new iPhone. Their land lines are out and hydro is expected to be out for two days. Dad said the storm hit about 2 a.m. and it sounded like a fire hose washing all over the house. Neither his house nor Betty's were damaged but a tornado probably touched down along Erie Road and Ridge Road (the route my school bus used to ( Read more... )

Environment Canada has confirmed an F1 tornado hit Leamington, Ontario early this morning. Meanwhile nearby "Harrow, Colchester and Oxley were inundated by the storm." That is where I grew up. Dad's friend, Betty, lives in the hamlet of Oxley and Dad lives just outside. The place is so small it must be bad for anybody to even mention it, especially ( Read more... )

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