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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Spinning again

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

I find that I do a lot more spinning in warm weather. I know that’s the way it worked, like, yore (since you’d shear the sheep in the spring and spin it all up to make the next winter’s woolies), but it still feels like right to my post-industrial little heart. I finished a batch [...]

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Watermelon rind pickles

Thursday, July 19, 2012

I’ve been eating a lot of watermelon this summer. It’s never really blown my skirt up in years past, but for some reason I just can’t get enough of it now. Cold, sweet, juicy watermelon is exactly what I want on these hot, sticky days. Going through a watermelon a week or so piles up [...]

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Begone, Laura Ashley walls!

Monday, July 16, 2012

When we moved into this apartment at the end of February, there were a number of projects I wanted to tackle. Some of them, like painting over the cheap fake wood paneling in the office/guest room or cleaning decades’  worth of gunk off the exhaust hood, we did right away. The latter was a multi-hour job [...]

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