Strategies

The 2009 Furnace War has finally become serious, since a couple weeks ago when the MD winter decided to stop being completely wimpy. I’m nowhere near having to break the ice in the toilet (I doubt that could actually happen south of the Mason/Dixon), but I’m to the point that I find myself implementing careful [...]

It's easier than you think

to upload a PDF onto wordpress. You pretty much just treat it like an image. There’s even a special place that says “Media.”

It took me about four hours to figure this out yesterday, between emailing friends, poking around on the server, Jared getting rebuked for trying to “sudo” (whatever that means), and typing urls until [...]

I wish yarn sold itself.

Today was cold, but not near as cold as yesterday was! Lots more people came out on the newly cleared roads to buy crafts and what not, and we had a glorious time. Miraculously, we didn’t lose any toes. (Okay so it was only 40 degrees out. I hope no Canadians are reading this. Or… [...]

Slushy Debut

I woke up this morning to watch the sleet coming down outside our window slowly turn into snow.

At first I was worried that the CSA parking lot, where those oh-so-needed customers would be parking, would be a soggy mess. I didn’t need to worry. this is what the parking lot looked like when we got [...]

Time Crunch Causes Brain Injury

You know wool fumes have gone to your head when, in between working at a yarn shop and trying to start your own wool business, you start adding to your Christmas knitting.

This is a terrifically inaccurately colored picture of a hat for our church secretary. I’m calling it the “Crap, Becky has Cancer” hat. It [...]

Co-Creativity

Joyellen and Caleb always prayed for their bread. These two precocious bilingual children belonged to the director of the study abroad program in Mexico that I attended during the fall semester of 2005. My mom used to make whole wheat bread for our family almost every week, and as I learned from her example, I [...]