Pocahontas County Fare

I got a new knitting book--the first one in a year. (I've been showing great restraint, always reminding myself that I don't play w...

When I was putting together the list of Web pages for Tony Hillerman a while back, I also found a few for another favorite genre author, J...

When I started this web log, I resolved to post every other day, to not natter on endlessly and self-referentially about the blogging proces...

Labor Day was a good day for caterpillars. I found a couple of these sphingids ignoring the tomatoes and potatoes and chowing down on a sol...

You might expect from the title that this post will be about Linux, but it is actually just another finished hat picture. Knit of an intere...

On Labor Day, I rested from my canning labors long enough to check the garden for more tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. What I found there ...

It's been a few weeks since I read a book, but the last one I read was Tony Hillerman's The Sinister Pig. I have been a fan since ...

I've been enjoying the This Week In Tech podcasts since they began in the spring. Living on top of Droop Mountain, I don't have ma...

I've been on an Internet fact-finding mission, looking for anything that could make computer use easier for people with limited mobility...

In hat-knitting mode, I've been using up a small stash of Chelsea Silk (65% silk, 35% wool) in a sort of natural heathery brown-blue-r...

The store I was minding last weekend is called Appalachian by Design. Their stock-in-trade is knitwear made by rural women at home in Green...

Over the weekend, I minded a store on the grounds of the swank Greenbrier Resort. It's an amazing place. I had no idea how old some of ...

I've been trying to get a few hats ready for Morning Star Folk Arts for this fall. This one is 70% silk, 30% wool. I wasn't sure th...

When I was casting about for something to call this weblog, this song came to mind. It's a nineteenth century traditional ditty about ho...

I was cleaning out the pantry the other day, making room for my newly filled pint jars of calico relish, spaghetti sauce, and tomato preser...

Fred First, of Fragments from Floyd , over in Floyd County, Virginia, has been troubled by a Bully Bee on his white butterfly bush. In turn...

I always have some knitting project going forward, but lately, my knitting has been, well, boring. I've been re-styling some of my old ...

I just returned this book to the library: Best of Hillbilly: A prize collection of 100-proof writing from Jim Comstock's West Virginia H...

A neighbor gave me some fleece he had stored in his barn from the days when he raised Suffolk/Dorset sheep. Some of it was very nice, some...

A new book for my Recent Reading list is Kenneth Silverman's 1991 biography, Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance Pap...