Pocahontas County Fare

I was cleaning off my desk the other day (to make room for quilting project overflow) when I found the application form for "Membership...

You might assume my long absence from my weblog reflects holiday activities, but such is not the case. I've been here, at home, with ele...

I'm not unique in enjoying the works of Annie Proulx. She's been very successful, especially with The Shipping News . I think her ...

I've been trying in vain to write a non-quilt-related post. I can't seem to write and make quilts at the same time. I'm hopin...

I've been on a tear this week, trying to tie up some loose ends on a variety of projects. I've been revising my Web pages, updating ...

Report from the Scrap Fabric Reclamation Project (aka Let's Clean Out These !@#$%^ Shelves!): I've been looking around for ways to ...

The Pocahontas County Humane Society ran this photograph in the November 17, 2005 edition of The Pocahontas Times , along with this descrip...

It's been a long time since I've made an interesting knitting project "from scratch." Aside from knitting hats for oth...

Despite my knitting disphoria, I have completed a few hats for Elaine Diller's Morningstar Folk Arts shop. The two Fair Isle patterned...

Lorianne of Hoarded Ordinaries has run plumb wild with the English language this month. I have been enjoying her students' blogs, index...

Rifle season for deer began here at dawn. In Pocahontas County, this is a bigger holiday than Christmas, even for kids. The schools are clo...

It seems I'm not quite done with Wendell Berry. My last post about him kept growing, and I finally just stopped, rather abruptly. Prev...

Somehow, my spinning process has been "stuck" the last few months. My current batch of wool was heavy-laden with vegetable materi...

In spite of Philip Greenspun's advice to "'just say no' to formatting your documents instead of working on the content,...

I've spent quite a bit of time the last few weeks learning more about Web design, and experimenting with revisions of my Web site and we...

Ever since I posted Princess's photo and biography, I have felt guilty for not giving Conrad equal time. Born in 1990, Conrad is a dist...

Last week I read a Wendell Berry essay I'd not seen before, and I had an "aha!" moment. The book was The Hidden Wound , 1989,...

Here's another Pocahontas County knitting reference, from Louise McNeill's wonderful memior The Milkweed Ladies (1988, University...

Here is the obligatory cat photograph, apparently a requirement of every personal weblog. This is Princess. She came with the house. She lo...

I spent more time that I meant to recently reading about RSS, news aggregators and something called Web2.0, the "living Web." I...