Home again

Posted on June 20, 2007 by karen

We had a great time visiting T and M at their new home:

It stands where in the previous post’s picture there is an empty lot; it’s wonderfully comfortable and has a terrific pool; and loads of beautiful orchids. Retirement sure looks good!

Saw lots of wildlife: bald eagles, all types of herons, sand hill cranes, etc etc, alligators on the golf course, and this speedy gopher tortoise:

A few hours at the beach and I added to my fossilized shark tooth collection; or rather, if I ever get the others back I’ll have ‘more’:


The last night we saw the Sarasota Reds play; the ‘Mike and Mike’ team played well; this is Mike DeJesus, the second baseman, who helped make the eighth inning a thriller; they won 4-3 with all of Sarasota’s runs coming in that one inning; good fun.

Back to work today; retirement is much more fun!

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Flying South

Posted on June 14, 2007 by karen

Tomorrow I wake up at as early an hour as I can manage to get to the airport and meet up with my sisters for a flight to Florida. I hate hate hate to fly, but I will. We are visiting my brother, the oldest of us all, who has built a new house. We will sit by the pool, eat, go to the beach, eat, maybe I’ll work on a sock, we’ll eat, visit the botanic gardens, and no doubt eat again. The photo is of the DB and SIL, and behind them in the picture is now a grand house.


I am only sorry I won’t be able to spin, and don’t anyone suggest the spindle, I haven’t gotten past park and draft.

Today was one of those days at work that makes one question the whole fabric of one’s being; it’s good I’m getting away, if only for a long week-end.

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Where this comes from…

Posted on June 13, 2007 by karen

This is my first blog post — I hope it will not also be the last!

The ‘Foothills’ are nestled into the Berkshires, the large mountains in SW Massachusetts; large only to those of us who live here, I suppose. I am in NW Connecticut, where the foothills keep trying to fall away into the piedmont. I can see a mountain from my backyard — therefore I claim to live in the foothills.

There is no ‘Folly’ in the backyard yet, although the idea of one being built there is strong. Perhaps it is my life that is the folly.

I run a picture framing business and gallery; I paint, hike, garden, knit and spin; I love road trips and reading; I’m thinking this blog will focus on spinning and knitting, but who knows.

This is my first homespun, spindle spun, thick and chunky— oh, I guess that is called bulky.


When I spin some more of this dark blue Colonial roving and some raspberry colored I have, it shall become a hat. Maybe even with earflaps! The fiber was from annie may’s ebay store;
I must learn how to do links.

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