Tower Hill
The Sunday before last, we piled the kids in the car and headed west by north west. Our first stop was the Stow Airfield in Stow, Massachusetts, were we ate breakfast at Nancy’s Cafe while watching little planes fuel, taxi and take off. The kids loved it and the breakfast was good. With bellys full we headed west by south west to The Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston. This hidden gem, located just outside of Worcester, is breathtaking. The grounds are fairly extensive, but we began inside at the orangery.
This was such a peaceful place to be on a cold, blustery November day. We then took a walk around the grounds, DH took this photo of me overlooking the Wachusetts Reservoir, modeling my new wardrobe staple, the purple sweater.
See, I promised knitting content! I’m still working away on my corsett, but school has kept me quite busy and I find I spend my knitting time learning to design better web pages. I’m quite jelous of all the people who are able to actually knit holiday gifts. Not me, not this year. I think this will be a very Target Christmas
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I hope this new look works better on your browser. If it doesn’t can you let me know [don't forget to tell me which browser you use] and I can look into debugging.
I took the kids to the Worcester Art Museum today. They were hosting a family day and had a children’s chorus, a scavenger hunt and a really cool hands on activity for kids using painter’s tape and the walls - the kids created their own installation, which was excellent. The museum itself is wonderful and if you are in New England and looking for an off the beaten path afternoon, combine it with a trip to Tatnuck Booksellers for lunch and your day is made.
knitting news tomorrow - i promise
on hold
This Friday is a school weekend, which means that I’m busy working on projects and not knitting. I know this site needs a major rehaul, as I’ve heard a few people can’t see it or it falls apart on certain browsers.
Rather than troubleshoot for browsers, I will strip off the fancy coding later this weekend, when I return from school.
If you aren’t reading Cathy Young over at The Y Files, you are missing one of the wisest women blogging. Be warned, she makes you think, never a bad thing.
Have a great weekend everyone!
I put a spell on you.
I’m a little late to the party, but if you haven’t checked out the new site The AntiCraft, you might want to link on through to Curse Your Boyfriend. This is the perfect antidote to the knit boyfriend sweater = destined for a breakup urban legand. In my knitting news, I’m back to Annie’s Corset, and am up down to the waist shaping. I just started my third to last skein and am crossing my fingers that I’ll have enough.
Last night I was out at my book club’s revival meeting. The two other original members and I all brought 2-3 new women to the group, we dined on a lavish spread, drank plenty of wine and picked Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt for our December meeting. I seem to remember having read Graham Greene in high school, and am exited that we picked an author I’m not familiar with.
My primary recommendation last night was March: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks. I think I may add it to my library list for the new year, after I finish up Crimson Petal and The White which stalled out on my nightstand when I picked up Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin, which had me laughing out loud in a public coffee shop.
Carnival!
I’ve been sucked into an online vortex over the past few weeks, researching a project for school [I am taking 4 classes, Online Research, Pedagogy and Curriculum, Conceptual Web Design and Legan & Ethical]. All four classes are at the point where they are bleeding into each other and my individual projects are becoming entwined. For example, I’ve been researching the current state of feminism in the academy, using all my newly fine tuned online research skills and putting it together in a web site that will be constructed following fairly rigorous guidelines [but right now is just my sandbox]. I’ve been paying particular attention to Creative Commons licenses, because you can use the information in keeping with the intent of the copyright provisions orgininally intended by our fine ancestors, as well as open source software. The one thing I haven’t been able to melt in, but keeps claiming some of my attention is the sudden explosion of Carnivals on the web. Carnivals are essentially collections of “best” posts on a particular subject from the blogosphere. Historians are doing a fantastic job of bringing their writting to the edge of the ivy tower, letting others peak in on their experiences and thoughts and generating tremendous debate. Carnivals don’t have to be strictly academic, as The Feminist Carnival shows us - or, surprise, surprise Knitting. There will be another knitting carnival in the next few weeks, so if you see an exceptional post, send The Knitting Fiend a link and nominate the blogger.
Second, if you blog, you might want to consider adding your site to the ecosystem. The ecosystem rates the blogsphere by links, and there has been some criticism that the big guns [men political blogs] get linked to by everyone, leaving a lot of bloggers by the wayside. We can stand on the outside and hold protest signs or we can join in and have our collective [womens] voice included.
“Where are the women bloggers?” someone asked at a recent conference. My answer is that we’re already here, and you are welcome to join us, we just like to mix our politics up with some fiber.