Ordinary Time

Where to begin? How about with my new weaving project. I'm going to be making B. and HC a lightweight blanket as a wedding gift. They requested it be the colors which were in the bridal bouquets. I think I matched it pretty darn well. After quite a bit of thinking and cuddling, I now have a weave structure and a plan so I can begin measuring the warp anytime I have a free moment. Here is one of my charts so I know what I'm doing. This was not my first attempt. I thought I had completed it yesterday, but evidently something didn't seem quite right because I woke up this morning thinking about it. The numbers were just not adding up. I finally did figure out where I had gone wrong and redid my charts.  Sometimes weaving math makes my brain hurt. I think I have things all figured out, but then I realize I was making some sort of mistake and have to figure it out all over again. This will be a project with 960 ends to thread on the loom. While that is a fairly large number, it

I wanted to brag about my son-in-law, MC,  for a moment. He doubles as my designer and tech support for my business, for which I am extremely grateful. Not only do I not have to do any of it, but he is extremely talented as well.  A couple of weeks ago I sent him a very long email with some changes and additions I needed done on my website. I'm afraid these were no small things because he ended up needing to reconfigure more than a few parts to make it work. And as always, it looks fantastic!  So if you've never visited or haven't in a while, head over for a bit and admire his work. And if you wanted to share it with anyone you thought might be interested, I wouldn't mind that, either. (At least for the parent coaching, you don't need to be in my area because I do a lot of parent coaching remotely.)  Bittersweet Farm LLC 

Listening to the Mrs. Polifax books has been the perfect escape this past week. I know I mentioned them a few days ago, but maybe you need some escapist reading, too.  Set during the Cold War, Mrs. Polifax is a widow in her 60's whose two children are grown with families of their own. She realizes that she is so bored with her life that she decides to go to the CIA and apply to become a spy. Due to an unfortunate (or fortunate depending on your point of view) Mrs. Polifax becomes s a CIA courier on what is supposed to be a simple job. She is perfect for it because who would expect a 60+ year old grandmother to be a spy? This premise is upon which the entire series turns. Mrs. Polifax is charming and brave and intelligent and has the very happy knack of acquiring very interesting friends. Good fun is the best way to describe them.  A note of warning, though. The first book was published in 1966, so they are not recent. As a result, some of the verbiage, especially pertaining to peop

I don't know about you, but the closer we get to November 5, the more my stress level increases. When I lay down in the other night, I realized that my shoulders ached from the amount of tension I am holding in them. And it doesn't help my ability to relax when the Republican candidate suggests that executing Liz Cheney is a good idea. Well, that doesn't surprise me, but the absolute silence from his party is staggering, as well as the absolute silence from his supporters. That is what I find terrifying. After years of being lied to, it seems his followers have lost any moral compass they might have once had. Oh, but I should amend the statement about his party. They did respond by saying he didn't say what he says, even though there is video that he said it.  J. and I have voted. Many of our children have already voted. K. voted for the first time. We have done what we can. It feels like so little. Lord have mercy.  You probably need to look at cat pictures now as much