Action Figures

I started a new baby item last night, a soft, white baby blanket in moss stitch on size 6 Harmony needles.  I don't know how many stitches I cast on, I just grabbed about a yard of yarn and cast on stitches till there was no more yarn.  How's that for being specific?

Moss stitch  baby blanket

It's like when your mom or grandma tells you how to cook something and she says, "You know, just a pinch" or "a handful" or she pours something into a pot and says, "about that much".
Everybody wants to know exactly how to do something to save ourselves the trial and error.  Well, in my experience, that's a great big No-Can-Do!  Experience is the only way to learn, except in skydiving and bomb testing.

Harmony needles

I am learning as best I can, how to weave.  Here is what I've done lately on my rigid heddle loom.  The weave is getting better and more even.  The edges look better, too.
This is all warped with dark brown cotton crochet thread.

brown

purple

red and blue variegated

And I dyed a pound of white wool last week. Lavender!

The crimp is great and the staple is pretty long, too.

We have entered the dog days of summer and today is May 2nd. What does that say about the summer ahead?  We slept in the guest room last night because the air conditioner went out again downstairs.

We just paid nearly a thousand dollars to patch a leak and refill the freon and now it needs more work. We had an independent repair guy come by today and he was adamant that our existing unit should last 20 years and its only been 10. He said we should demand that the current repair folks stand behind their repair and not ask us to replace the unit yet.  Thank you Lord, for an honest repairmen!  Thank you Lord, for an honest anybody.
Why is honesty so hard to come by these days?  Didn't Billy Joel write a song about this already? Do we need to write another one?   C'mon ya'll, lets step it up a little!