This is the grave of William Dinnin. He lies beside his wife, Grace, in McTaggart’s Cemetery in the township of Usborne in Huron County, Ontario. (Click on any of these pictures to embiggen them.) He was born in Northumberland, England in 1840 or so; records vary a bit. He emigrated to Canada around 1850 with [...]
The last time I returned from a multi-month blogging hiatus, it was to tell you about a new great wheel I’d acquired. Well, I wouldn’t want to disappoint… A few weeks ago, Himself and I went to the Christie Antiques Show – it’s one of the finest shows around, and we always go if our [...]
Last week, Himself got me up at the crack of dawn to go to an auction with him over the border in Clarence, New York. I didn’t really want to go – I’m not an early morning person, and I’d already scrutinized the online auction catalogue and not seen anything that thrilled me. But marriage [...]
… There is a season (turn, turn, turn)… And apparently, it is blogging season again. I seem to have a finite amount of self-discipline, and I squandered it all on home renovations and business stuff over the last while, leaving my poor blog to languish. In apology, I give you this: …the latest addition to [...]
One my problems when trying to set a goal for the TdF is the sheer poundage of spinnables that I actually have on hand – it’s been making me crazy trying to decide what to do. It’s just too much choice: I keep picking out fibres, sampling them, putting them back… it’s out of hand. [...]
I can’t believe it’s almost time for the 2009 Tour de Fleece already. For those of you that haven’t been touched by that sort of crazy, the Tour de Fleece runs parallel to the Tour de France bicycle race; spinners set spinning challenges for themselves and try to meet them during the course of the [...]
My goal for Le Tour de Fleece this year was to spin at least 500 grams of fibre out of my stash. I thought that was a modest goal, and quite do-able…. and it should have been. I’m not really sure what happened. I thought up a lot of excuses – I did get many [...]
This morning, Himself woke me at oh-my-god:30 to go upcountry with him to a farm auction. Now, I like a good auction… but I’d looked at the photo previews of this one, and not being the one in the family with the blacksmithing hobby, it held very little interest for me. I had no intentions [...]
Yesterday was our traditional July family gathering; I spent it playing with the grandchildren and visiting with people I only see a couple of times a year. Our gracious host, my sister-in-law, laid out a groaning table of hot bar-b-q and cool summer dishes, all of it irresistibly delicious and impossible to pass by without [...]
I pulled out my wheel today and did some thinking about my Tour de Fleece goals. Since the theme this year is stash-busting, I decided that it would be smart to start with finishing what I’ve already got sitting on the bobbin: some lovely natural brown mix romney roving from Custom Woolen Mills in Alberta. [...]
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