short sweet summers

Father-daughter road trip on a lovely scenic route up the Fraser Valley. Only took 6 hours and twenty minutes to our destination, including 6 pit stops and dinner. Luckily, we are of one mind about the pit stops. Nothing worse than disagreement between passenger and driver about the frequency of such things. Anyway, we arrived our cabin […]

more vignettes from home

my knitting is balled up on the stool the shadows are long when you’re in the north this time of year, so are the days. saw six baby quail today and a baby bunny! napped in the hammock and pondered the space-time continuum in such leisure It seems to snow this time of year, snow from […]

and there

I have been watching the bees buzzing around the raspberry bushes sitting in the hammock listening to the silken whisper of leaves reeling in the heat wave reading about hobbitses and elves reading about Indonesia India and Italy sitting in bed just watching the sun angle change to illuminate another million shades of green there […]

try to see it my way

pernacious: tenaciously pernicious. Home: a reminder of the joy of quiet, company and comfort. finished some fluffy bed socks for Annie. She says they look like fall. I say they look like barf! actually taking vitamins to stave off this cold i’ve got. midterms are over in the space of 2 days I found some […]

sesquipedalian

I learned how to make music with a crystal glass this week…. And a wonderful friend is learning me to bake bread, walking me through the Tassajara method. We on our second batch together.. at the moment, there is enough dough downstairs rising to make 10 loaves of bread. I have a reading response to finish before I can go […]

consensus

I have so many project ideas bubbling about! I’d love to try my hand at knitting a shawl, there are more cases on the go, I’ve seen a lovely pattern for a 3-hour sweater, and have you ever seen smocking?? The new knitty zine came out and I am feeling incredibly inspired. The house put on a St. […]

Inspection!

little drops have been dribbling I love California. the best part about strawberry canyon is the wind I went up to the Berkeley Botanical Garden for a walk yesterday. thinking about production/everyday finishing lots of lovely little projects mailed lots of things this week I wonder who will receive them?