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Weave and spin, weave and spin
Mar. 4th, 2008 08:42 pmGot the threading error corrected, now I have to sley the individual threads into the reed before I can begin weaving. Or should I be working on the cotton spinning presentation? That requires more thought, I think I'll put it off for tonight.
Much of the ice has been left floating in the air as the water drained away under it. All along roads and in fields you can see great sheets of mirror ice cracking and sagging because they can't hold up their own weight much longer. Unfortunately, the roads are doing the same. Apparently this freeze and thaw cycling has been too much for many of the country roads around here. Just a mile or so north of me, on the route I usually take to work, the asphalt pavement is developing huge potholes. Some of them are twenty feet long and three feet wide. It looks as if running water carried away the gravel or sand beneath the paving and it is caving in. Some of these are parallel to the road's direction, while others extend right across from one side to the other. Those are the worst. You don't want to hit one at speed or you'd definitely risk damaging your vehicle or worse. It's necessary to slow right down to 15 or 20 mph. The longitudinal ones can be avoided by hugging the edge of the road or else straddling them, at least at the moment. I expect though that these are going to turn into real holes soon. We saw similar on some other roads in the area last spring. In fact, some of those holes still haven't been patched. They filled them up with gravel, and each time the gravel started to get kicked out, they'd just add more.
Went through a mountain of "donated" books today, and consigned most of them to the trash or the book sale. Why do people think we can use old dictionaries? There were at least a dozen in there. Random volumes of encyclopedias. Reader's Digest "condensed books". Forty year old text books. These things are worthless. We can't even sell them. I just have to throw them away, and they could have saved a lot of time and trouble by doing that themselves instead of hauling them to me so that I'd have to do it. Grrr.
Much of the ice has been left floating in the air as the water drained away under it. All along roads and in fields you can see great sheets of mirror ice cracking and sagging because they can't hold up their own weight much longer. Unfortunately, the roads are doing the same. Apparently this freeze and thaw cycling has been too much for many of the country roads around here. Just a mile or so north of me, on the route I usually take to work, the asphalt pavement is developing huge potholes. Some of them are twenty feet long and three feet wide. It looks as if running water carried away the gravel or sand beneath the paving and it is caving in. Some of these are parallel to the road's direction, while others extend right across from one side to the other. Those are the worst. You don't want to hit one at speed or you'd definitely risk damaging your vehicle or worse. It's necessary to slow right down to 15 or 20 mph. The longitudinal ones can be avoided by hugging the edge of the road or else straddling them, at least at the moment. I expect though that these are going to turn into real holes soon. We saw similar on some other roads in the area last spring. In fact, some of those holes still haven't been patched. They filled them up with gravel, and each time the gravel started to get kicked out, they'd just add more.
Went through a mountain of "donated" books today, and consigned most of them to the trash or the book sale. Why do people think we can use old dictionaries? There were at least a dozen in there. Random volumes of encyclopedias. Reader's Digest "condensed books". Forty year old text books. These things are worthless. We can't even sell them. I just have to throw them away, and they could have saved a lot of time and trouble by doing that themselves instead of hauling them to me so that I'd have to do it. Grrr.
