I made the biggest mistake I can remember making. My father was dying. We knew this. Over the last few days he had nearly stopped eating. Th...

September always brings new budgets in our house. Every year, at this time of year, at least one person in the household (and probably more)...

A few days ago I posted a link to a NY Times article about the Endangered Species Act and some upcoming changes the Bush administration want...

This weekend I got a very dramatic lesson in how tire pressure affects gas mileage - from my bicycle. Abelisto and I usually ride our bikes...

Got some advice from Jon (a veteran mead & wine maker) concerning the mead. He said to date it and put it in a dark, cool place for 12 m...

Tonight Eli and I bottled the first batch of mead. This mead was made with honey from a local beekeeper that we got at the Farmer's Mar...

Normally I do not regurgitate content from other websites. However this is something I think needs to be passed along: NY Times Editorial - ...

I have not posted on here for a few days - mostly because I was busy getting some things done. There is this thing about doing and/or writin...

Usually I stay away from Ebay. For a number of reasons - mainly I like to see and touch what I buy before I do so, However this week I found...

Tonight I took the tapestry off of the loom. Once the piece was relaxed, once the tension was normalized, the selvedge issue became much les...

I did not work on the tapestry last night. I had wanted to go to the DFL Tech committee meeting, get lots of work done and then come home an...

Last night I started taking the tapestry off of the loom. Thought I should stop at one point and refresh my memory of how this would best be...

I did not finish the tapestry this weekend. Instead I did some weaving on it, but I spent much of today building a new tapestry frame loom. ...

I have been trying to do a daily photo blog but I am constantly falling behind because of a camera issue that I keep trying to deal with. I...

I just did a major redesign of this blog. I wanted it to more closely match my website . The redesign involved hacking the Blogger template....

Most, if not all of the yarn for the current tapestry project came from Christa's Yarn Shop . Christa's is located in the village of...

Photo of the tapestry (12:14a.m., July 17th) as it is being woven on a homemade frame loom. You can see the saw-horse leg brackets at the bo...

Last night I did more work on the tapestry. I have decided that I need to raise the height of the loom so that I can weave standing up. I sh...

After Nova and I cleaned and organized my downstairs studio I moved the tapestry from the front room (I hesitate to call it a living room - ...

Although I did not take a before photograph, I think anyone looking at our back porch project now that it is almost finished would agree th...