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Here are some links: Durham Weaver --Susan Foulkes makes all the bands--tablet weaving, Sami bands, Baltic and Scandinavian pattern bands, M...

We went to the first annual Highland County Old Time Fiddlers' Convention last weekend, and left our cherry trees unattended. When we...

I think this is the solution to our Bigfoot game camera puzzle. Our cherries are ripe, and along with foxes, scarlet tanagers, raccoons, ...

Our game camera pictures have been plentiful, and much alike. These deer visit regularly. However, Monday morning, the camera caught this: ...

Recently, my Debian "sid" boxen developed a problem during a routine update/upgrade process. There was some incompatibility among ...

I've finished the long-deferred quilt project at last! Here it is quilted but unbound. I hung it on the clothesline where I photographe...

I was really pleased with this "Vogue 8598" blouse with shoulder-princess seams when I altered it and tested it in blue rayon l...

The new clothesline offers an opportunity for displaying my finished projects on hangers. Most of the sewing bloggers I follow have dress fo...

After the latest Debian sid update, Digikam quit working on one of my machines (but not the other). It would flash the start-up logo, then j...

Another holiday postcard from my grandmother's album--an Easter bell with alder catkins and lilies-of-the-valley, postmarked "Presc...

I planted a little patch of lettuce in early February. Most years, such early plantings are unsuccessful--they sprout and freeze, or get w...

The whole "If your Great-grandma wouldn't recognize it as food, don't eat it" seems to assume great-grandmas with limited ...

EQT chief speaks on fracking, coal, greenhouse gases at UC   - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - : The questio...

Some paleoclimate references my environmental science students might find useful: Climate during the Carboniferous Period Evolution of...

Via Northwest History , a selection of negative ads for the presidential race of 1864: The Ads that Could Have Won George McClellan the P...

"To Greet You On St. Patrick's Day." There's no message or signature on the flip side, just the address: "Miss Flor...

phpMyAdmin and MySQL — Drop Tables with Common Prefix | DigitalWindFire : A handy tip for my Wordpress experimentation--this is how I delete...

Here it is, tied, bound, and hung on the clothesline for photographs. This double-bed cover is made from my wardrobe from the 1980's an...

State launches gas-drilling database for public  - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - : "CHARLESTON, W.Va....