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Monthly Archives / September 2006

A Week Late and a Dollar Short.

Or something like that. I’m feeling better now [although the cold is still hanging on a bit.] This means it’s past due for my Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival Report. I drove up with Fyberduck and Emily to Canby. After a short mishap finding the place, we arrived early enough that parking spaces were still read more

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Bleh.

Flock and Fiber Festival update is forthcoming. Once my head drains enough to be comfortable again. After not having been sick all summer [with the exception of allergies and some dehydration] I am sick enough that I have to miss day one of my class this term. Luckily, it’s a professor I know and I’m read more

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Right ‘Round Baby, Like a Record

It’s Fiber Friday and here’s what I’ve been spinning this week. These photos were taken with my new camera, I’m very excited to now own a DSLR. A thick and thin merino single with white and black beads spun in. Each bead was tied in the center of a piece of thread and held together read more

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Not Clean Enough.

I read Cute Overload regularly. Today, I stop by and see this: If you look closely you will note that this child is licking the snout of that pig. Full on, flat tongue to snout-end licking. Now, readers of TheBlog, you may not know that I was raised on a small farm. We had goats, read more

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An Open Letter to ODOT

Dear ODOT,I know that the city of Eugene is spending something like 13million dollars to take out a perfectly good and important lane of traffic on Franklin in order to decrease the bus trip from Eugene Station to Springfield Station by a whopping 4 minutes. I appreciate that people could better spend those 4 minutes read more

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