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Thanks to all for your patience.

The site has been updated -- and that part is almost done.
We've made sure that everything is working -- and everything seems to be.
What remains is to tweak some things -- give you several other features and make it easier to read.
Stay tuned.
Send me an email if you have any questions or problems.
geoff gevalt

Hi there 8.29

Here is Remy..... our sweet new puppy.....

helper needed-mentor for the pages

8/26. I was thinking, it would be great if we had a mentor who could help those who find it a struggle to post ads, possibly with photos,... someone who has it down, the process. Does anyone want to help a little bit, via email.... and have email conversations coaching those who are new to placing ads? Let me know... kbruce@together.net.

Martha's 21st birthday!!!

Today is Martha's 21st birthday..now she's legal, and can buy liquor, etc, and boy, I'm so sure that's right at the top of her list, not. Actually, dear Martha is in Hot Springs, Va, and is playing chamber music at Garth Newell Music Center......

And the other thrilling news here in Vermont is.............


RAIN

. It's going to rain for the next week straight. We are molding.

Kathleen

PS anyone got an ark?

Sat July 25. Corgi puppies.... knitting gone wrong..... etc

July 26. well, I've just frogged a lace weight merino scarf where the pattern was messed up...way messed up. I am not able to count it when I can't see the pattern developing. It was like knitting with thread, and somehow, I could not keep track of the pattern, and it was messed-up without a definite viewable pattern..it needed blocking to see that, and so I frogged half of it, and kept the wool in a ball ...in case some day I want to continue.

Maybe I am not a lace knitter.??? ARGH.

Sat July 19-thunder, humidity, and heat

July 19, Sat. Well, we've just returned from a week on Lake Caspian. It was marvelous ....Jamie and I spent the week alone, on a beautiful lake, with no one around except for us, and the Scrabble board. Now we are back, and our daughter Emily is here, harvesting our bumper crop of raspberries to make jelly. She is just beginning medical school in the Bronx (Albert Einstein) and is in the midst of a histology class, her first there. Going well, thankfully.

July 11-Jamie's 52 birthday

July 11, 2008. Thank you all for reading, and keeping up with me. Summer is rolling along at a slightly slower pace than normal, though it can be really busy at times... especially on days where I work at the hospital as a staff nurse on postpartum. that has been VERY busy lately. Too crazy for me some days...but I like the work. How are you all doing on the Tour de Fleece? Anyone make any cool goals of working with yarn or fleece?

July 2- Take two- tourdefleece.com

July 2 I saw this today on Stephanie Pearl McPhee's pages.... and thought I would mention it...
There is a Tour de Fleece. 2008. It's a wonderful challenge.... see this

O so thankful to my community of knitters and spinners....

July 2. Hi all. Just returned from Moving Emily into her first real apartment in the Bronx, at Albert Einstein Medical school, where she will live for 8 years getting her MD PhD. We painted, and scraped, and polished, and nailed things up, and made it PRETTY, and like home, painting it in the colors of her room at home, to help her feel like she is indeed in her own home. The movers showed up at 7 pm, YIPES, and we are all exhausted, but there is food in her fridge, and clothes in her closet (clean), and her bathtub is clean, and her bed is made with fresh sheets. Life is good.

June 25 Remembering Ollie, and contemplating puppies, and grape socks

Hi all. June 25, and I am still missing my Ollie dog. Thinking of getting one, thinking of the work involved, and not being at all sensible about it. It gets COLD here in winter, and here I am thinking of getting another dog, who has to go OUT at night. Am I nuts?

And the vet bills, And the barking... And the pet sitter needs.... because dogs are nearly people.

Oh dear.

June 5 wool hats for babies

June 5. In my work as a lactation consultant, I am always going into mothers' homes and I always like to bring a little something for them when I go. I am looking to a source of handmade newborn hats. If anyone feels that they would like to make some hats, at a negotiated price with me, I would provide the wool, and the pattern, if you like, and you can provide me with the hats. I don't have time to knit that many baby hats, though I wish I did.... I am knitting for my girls now, and this is more of a business proposition.....

May 7, 2008 Ollie has passed

Good morning all. It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that Ollie the wonder corgi has passed into heaven. He was in profound kidney failure, and this morning, there was just nothing else we could do for him except for give him an ice cream cone, and some water, and a last bit of a walk in the sunshine, then lay down in the sun and go to sleep. It was incredibly painful for us all, and for my children who are away at school. I hope this feeling I have goes away or softens sometimes soon, as it is really hard.

Love, Kathleen

April 29, back from Cambridge England

April 29,2008. We are back from visiting our oldest daughter Emily, who is studying at Cambridge for her Masters Degree on a Gates Fellowship. (Thanks Bill). We took some great shots of the lovely Botanical garden there, and of me knitting a sock for Martha, who was home sick as a dog, and the only one not with us on the trip. Poor Martha. Here is a photo of me knitting the sock, as well as the sock communing with some lovely purple flowers, (not sure of the name). England is glorious at this time of year.

4/19

Good morning from wonderful and springy Cambridge England. Jamie, Sally, and I are visiting our daughter Emily, who is studying on a fellowship here at Cambridge. She will finish her masters' degree in June, and will then return to New York to begin MD Grad school at the Albert Einstein Medical School in the Bronx, where she also has a full scholarship, thankfully. Life is blessed.

4/6 Appleton Crewel wool, Paternayan Wool

4/6. I have been doing some crewel embroidery, with Appleton wool that I have gottten. I am embroidering old linen hankies with little flowers, but also, I am looking for some extra colors of wool in either Appleton or Paternayan. Let me know if you have either that you'd like to sell ....maybe you have some extra skeins that you don't need?

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