Author Archives: robbiemct3

Posted on February 13, 2021 by robbiemct3

Messages: When the cat woke me up this morning and I dropped my feet over the edge of the bed, my eyes went to the clock on the nightstand. The answer, revealed from beside the dark stack of other things … Continue reading →

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Welcome Winter!

Posted on December 17, 2020 by robbiemct3

Well we got the snow, and the wind, and the sleet. One of us had to go to work at the hospital so –down the unplowed (as yet) lane. Slip and slide and shuffle around. Once daylight comes and I … Continue reading →

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Some Progress and a Loss

Posted on July 26, 2020 by robbiemct3

Yet another sweater for some purpose- likely sale or gift- is finished. It’s a large, drop shouldered wool and alpaca casual style with some collar detail. I have (with the help of enablers in our local fiber guild) discovered over … Continue reading →

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Follow -UP! ISS interesting info.

Posted on July 16, 2020 by robbiemct3

I randomly typed in “astronauts who knit” today. Found this tidbit.   Sewing (knitting?some confusion there) at 17000mph…..How did I miss the years ago? Karen Nyberg Back on earth at the Houston Quilt Festival Quilting in space   Ironically – … Continue reading →

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Early morning transit: Right on time!

Posted on July 15, 2020 by robbiemct3

  If you’ve seen the space station fly over, you’ll understand different perspectives. From our view these brave folks appear to be flying in a bright point of light, somewhere close to twice Jupiter in size brightness right now. Twenty … Continue reading →

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Frequency

Posted on June 17, 2020 by robbiemct3

So today my self-directed lesson is in life and time patterns: knitting uses patterns, of both time and visualization. Plants have them. Clouds seem to be random and chaotic, but they appear as dictated by the flows in temperature, volume, … Continue reading →

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Another walk for the socks

Posted on June 15, 2020 by robbiemct3

The weather’s been pretty good lately. Put up hay. Everybody that needed shearing has been shorn. The garden- and the weeds- have been doing pretty well. Rabbits are happy. Socks are wearable. Shaping the insteps and toes differently has been … Continue reading →

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Taking the socks for a walk

Posted on June 3, 2020 by robbiemct3

With staying home, there are some new activities that one develops. The dog and cat daily saunter, the attentiveness to weather, cooking more than normally done pre-Pandemic, and a new one- taking the socks for a walk. Photography and fair … Continue reading →

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Pi Day and the Blizzard

Posted on March 14, 2017 by robbiemct3

Daylight Savings time, our fifth set of goat kid twins and now a blizzardy noreaster have all altered this week since Sunday began at its forwarded-by-an-hour morning. The snow coated GP and I just returned from our dark morning stroll … Continue reading →

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Soon the Fall

Posted on September 4, 2014 by robbiemct3

Another moment to pause and reflect on the passing seasons…Why do we only slow to make entries when the changes are noticeable? Daylight is growing shorter, daily average temperatures are falling, leaves too. The farm’s wooly inhabitants grow longer overcoats, … Continue reading →

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