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The silver cord lies on the ground...

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Greetings from the North-Country; It's been far too long, and it's December already. The garden has gone from this To this.... While inside we have decorated the tree.. A FO and a project that I have on the needles. The hat is to be gifted, the socks are MINE ;-) The hat is out of Bartlett hand spun that I received as two huge balls of roving. I spun it about a year or so ago and got 280 +/- yards out of one of the balls. It languished in "I dunno what to do with it.." and it finally became a hat. Let's take a look out the back, up the valley. This was in November. Now we have this sight of the other day. You may see the fog that has settled along the water. As the days grow shorter, remember it's not that far from dancing the Maypole..... "When you breathe your last line Will you make your exit stage left/stage right? Well, you might decide while there's still time. You have an angel on your shoulder But you wear the old god's horns. And you danc

Knife in a back and more of the same....

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While out and about at the Southern Adirondacks Fiber Festival at Washington County Fairgrounds I took a few pictures Here are the Sisters, the could not bring their goats... Hoot and a half and all smiles Bad timing on the part of the vet and the rabies vacine did take. They were hoping to sell a couple. Watch out for evil puppets... Yeah, it's a puppet.. unlike this one Yes there are two there..... My Favorite fiber vendor was there I like the curve here This year I actually got to feel the prize winners Wow! For what it's worth, all the fleece sold on the first day. This being the second year, the organizers did something different. There were more vendors ( behind link ) this year. In the first barn..... Merrrrrinnnnnnoooooo A last look up midway Colorful spindles.... I have more pictures but not tonight....

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere ......

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The poster bearer cried...

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I get it, the Linux users all drank the Cool-Aid. Crossover Pro, Wine will not install any version of Corel Office aka WordPerfect Office. For a smack down report of who wins the war see this link Microsoft Word VS Corel WordPerfect In short WordPerfect wins the feature war. but on Linux here in openoffice " This project is a place holder for Reveal Codes functionality. It is currently not being worked on." FAIL!!!! Corel, I challenge you to open the codes. Meanwhile, my main box that I sadly still run on windows xp pro SP3. That I have put spybot on, have a software and hardware firewall; Use Firefox to surf the web, have all the bells and whistles to keep the damn thing secure picked up AV 2010 a nasty little morphing beast that usually takes about an hour to clean out.. except my free AVG activated it... Wiped my boot sector... Trying recovery console.... Tried UBCD4WIN

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor.

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I don't know what happened to the last two months, they just disappeared. Let's get you all caught up. First things first. I HAVE NOTHING on the needles. The knitting mojo left just about the time I got my surgery date. Let's fix this... like yesterday.. I will be down one arm for most of the summer. So, goodbye Sirius Rising, Camping, any heavy lifting and working in the garden. Even Phaedre is down for the summer minus her wheel... It's a sad time here.. Okay, the summer started off great with Clermont. Oodles of fluffy goodness. Then proceeded to Memorial Day and Mass Sheep and Wool (Cummington) Wait a minute, where's the crowd? Somethings off.... But Dave of Merlintree was there with his CPW wheels on parade. All of them beautifully restored. That's where Phaedre's Wheel is getting repaired. I ran across the new Kromski there Simple in execution, lovely in design. I know it would spin well But it does not fold . (vid) One of the simplest things that I

The lunatics are in my hall...

Remember America's Job Bank? Something run by public entities? America's Job Bank I have not used the site since 2006.. Fast forward.... It's no longer run by public entities In fact, AJB.ORG as we knew it shut down operations in 2007 due to cuts in the US Department of Labor of the Bush era, the services were outsourced to something that looked like a company in the US... Until I had to troubleshoot at work today... Behold.... americasjobexchange.com I called and got someone with an Indian accent. Okay, I get this, I too was outsourced in 2004 from BOFA to EDS ... Now here comes the part that should anger every tax paying American.... America's Job Exchange is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NaviSite, headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. I love the stock photo for ALL of their data-centers So I back track some more.. A coupla whois etc... and I hit gold... OrgAbuseName: NaviSite Abuse Team OrgAbusePhone: 1-978-682-8300 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@navisite.com 1-978-682-3

Got to keep the loonies on the path.

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I survived April fools day and not having a car for a week. Yeah, one of the axles decided to loose all the roller bearings and start vibrating to beat the band. It's dark, and greasy, but you can see the outer race and the lack of roller bearings. I went through/broke exactly 3 1/2" socket drivers with handles (ratchets for the mechanical among the readers) doing the job. So when I don't have a car or am borrowing Harriet's I tend to walk more. While I was out and about I met this fellow hanging out on the HQ bldg of SUNY To give you an idea of the scale of that building here is a pic that was taken off the web. Shot from about 350 yards away on the sidewalk, this building is one of the few publicly owned castles in the U.S. There are two more wings to the right and left. A view of it from the bridge. Then we can see the post card It's not changed much. In fact, right across the street is the blacksmith's shop It's not everyday you see what you are missing

Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.

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I have been on a Moody Blues kick lately so bear with me. Let's see what we have been up at the Fort's Ferry house. First of all the bedroom is finally painted. Except for the inevitable second coat of paint on the window frames, I can put away the painting supplies. A quick look at the latest sundown. I can never tire of that view. But as the sun went down on that day, I could also celebrate the fact that our guests can close a door. This was the project my Father-in-law Lester and I had done together out on the deck with a circular saw. The interesting thing about working on such an old house is that nothing is square, and nothing is standard. This door had to be cut to fit a doorway 29 inches and 3/8ths so to have the required 1/8" clearance we had to take a 30" 3/8ths wide door (told you nothing is square) down to a 29" and 3/16ths. of an inch Have you ever cut a 16th of an inch using a saw? That is the width of a blade, also a fair thickness of a pencil lead