KnitBot

Leesburg VA reports 27.5″ of snow from the storm.
I’m still miles away on
a different continent, but, here are the reports I’ve gotten from
home — digging out.

08h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010 –
the sun does come up, post-snowpocalypse

16h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010
– dug out, to the road,
anyway

Read Full Post »

Here’s how the current winter storm  is playing out in the
Washington DC area:
Reporting from the LA
Times (!).
“As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles
International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National
Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record,
compiled during the blizzard of January 1996, the weather service said.”
I’m [...]

Read Full Post »

… and don’t you ever forget it!
We were driving by Castalia Marsh at high tide, the other day, and were astonished to see that it was completely flooded.  It’s winter, high tides tend to be at their highest, and we did just have a wicked storm system come through, that did significant damage in Port [...]

Read Full Post »

Many buildings in Amsterdam are old.  And they have a “native population”, that survives transfer of ownership.  To help deal with this, it is not unusual for restaurants to employ “peace keepers” of the four-legged sort.
I recently met Mavis:

Mavis was not above supplementing her rodent-chasing diet with handouts from the restaurant’s kitchen:

While I’m not naming [...]

Read Full Post »

When looking at grey November vistas, stunning in their simple beauty…

there’s only one question:  guess who’s coming…

… to dinner?

And a fine dinner they were, too.
Didn’t stop me from playing with the “Ducka la Something or Other” recipe — browning the cabbage and onionbefore adding it to the duck in the slow cooker to braise for [...]

Read Full Post »

Here’s a fine example of something that should be seen, and not heard:

These pheasants make a noise that sounds something like a car starter being turned after the car is already running.

This guy & his missus have taken over our property, strutting about in full ownership mode.
They might be even better tasted than seen, but [...]

Read Full Post »

988 miles, blue carrier, pink blankie…
Window!

No, really — quite happy:

Read Full Post »

When is a (meeting) table not a table?

When it is a Rube Goldberg implementation of a table:

Yes, those are vise grips and hinges you see under there.

And it all looked so innocent with the table clothes!

Read Full Post »

We share an office here, so the rule is that someone who has a
teleconference has to wander off to some other part of the house to
have it.  It’s not all bad — the views are pleasant, and watching
the waves (”~~~~~”) is fun:

Sometimes, there are added distractions — the teleconferencee is not
necessarily the only one getting [...]

Read Full Post »

Best wishes, from Grand Manan.

(Stanley Beach; -12C (-23C with windchill)).

Read Full Post »

… but, thankfully, no fire in the sky.

This is -10C air over salt water.

Read Full Post »

Let me explain something. 
This:

is a cheese plate.

And this:

is a wanna-brie .
Opening up the familiar wood box, I was astonished to find a sealed
plastic tub inside.  Think of the “hankie” scene from the opening
of “The Commitments”.
Look more closely at the labelling — from the country that has to
label when its cheese is food:

It is, indeed, [...]

Read Full Post »

We had a pretty good blow last night/this morning, on Grand
Manan.  Winds were sustained at 50km/h, with gusts up to
70km/h.  A night to appreciate a well-insulated house!
It was windy enough that the ferry didn’t run last evening or this
morning, until the 11:30am departure from Grand Manan.   A
good day to plan to be going nowhere.

Read Full Post »

Dashing home from a week of meetings, sliding in by 7pm, time to
unpack, do laundry, repack and take care of some work deliverables, so
that at 6am I’m on my way to our favourite place on Grand
Manan.
We transited Halifax, which is still digging out from 30cm (a foot) of
snow.
      

And clambered onto the Beechcraft
18-seater for the flight [...]

Read Full Post »

Read Full Post »

Exhibit A:  FromCuteOverload

Exhibit B:  DowntownMinneapolis

No, really — any questions? ;-)

Read Full Post »

Some words of wisdom you might have occasion to take advantage
of…  if you are hanging around in the home turf of these guys

these are not the proper
footwear

unless you really like to share your shoes with lots of this

If the depth has been lost in the digital photograph, let me assure you
there’s a good half cup [...]

Read Full Post »

Geez! The grief I got for displaying non-handknit socks :-)

So, here we are again — with socks
handknit from Fleece Artist SeaWool that I bought at Cricket Cove,
St.
Andrews, NB, when we visited this part of the world last
year. (Yes — yarn does occasionally get used within the year it
was purchased… :-) ).
Still — my [...]

Read Full Post »

Metaphorically speaking, of course…

But, this view is hardly hard to take — looking down Flagg Cove from
Grand Manan Island, in New Brunswick, Canada.

Read Full Post »

Tosca!

Read Full Post »