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  • Day of rest

    Blame the Romans — specifically Christian Emperor Constantine (321 common era) — for enshrining in civil law the concept of Sunday as a day of rest. Many faith traditions do this though not all have a weekly practice. I decided to take a day off from all of my computer devices, a day of no-laptop,…

  • Better tool

    That moment when you decide to try stretcher bars after four years of embroidery using the classic hoop. Should have migrated years ago. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get the fabric for the owl project, and many others, sufficiently tight in the hoop. For me, the big challenge with thread painting embroidery is…

  • Close observation

    Last week, a Townsend’s warbler showed up at our backyard bird feeder. The picture of this little guy comes from the All About Bird’s website, Cornell University’s ornithology lab, which is an excellent site for birding info. The Townsend’s warbler is a West Coast species, a bird about the size of a chickadee, and it…