Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Refillable Pen and Ink
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Making Raisins
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sidewalk Score
Monday, August 22, 2011
Grape Bounty
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Summer Lizard Rescue
Friday, August 19, 2011
Alaskan Driftwood Scavenging
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Humpback Whales from our Alaska Trip
We saw this whale bubble feeding while on our way to the Alaska Posey's favorite beach. Although I wasn't able to catch it with it's mouth out of the water this is still a pretty cool view of it diving after the fact. I have had a great month for viewing sea mammals up close.
Julia here to add a bit to Eric's post. A day or so later, my sister-in-law, her friend Becca, Becca's lovely mother Nancy, my kids, Becca's kids, a nephew and I followed a humpback down the Narrows between Ketchikan and Pennock Island. We were treated to a beautiful sunset and some spectacular whale watching with a vantage point so close, we could see into the whale's mouth as it burst through the surface, mouth wide open to swallow the rewards of bubble feeding.
the circle of bubbles forms
Monday, August 15, 2011
Crawlspace Door Fix
The Toyon is very hard wood, beautiful and very durable but it could never be commercially harvested. We get just enough around our place from pruning to do small projects like this one with. No trip to the store, natural, effective, made in America (except for the screws probably) and done. Next project!
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Handmade Silk Thread
Here's a pic of the silk thread I made from our own home raised silk worms. I boiled two cocoons for about 5 min. after the moths emerged and stretched out the silk so that it looked like what is showing in my hand. As I metered out the fluff I twisted it and wrapped it onto the half of a cork. I wanted to try to add another cocoon to see if I could make the thread continuous. It worked pretty well. I ended up with two yards of thread and it took about 2 hours to do.