Astrig and Dad Fly Home from Peru on Tuesday !!

My lovely wife and her dad have been visiting textile museums and weaving communities around the country of Peru these past few weeks.  Each day has been full of new adventure, which she will write about after settling in back home for a bit and before we’re out raking the leaves mashed into the ground…

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What Makes You Happy?

I’m supposed to be working on all of the administrative set up for this year’s Fiber College…and it’s so tedious…the computer end of life…so I decided to procrastinate found myself procastinating for the umpteenth time…and lately that means hanging out on Ravelry (I’m Astralgipsy…an anagram for Astrig Plays).  Anyway, one of the millions of discussions…

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Shipping in Penobscot Bay

It always takes me a day or two to find out what’s going on here in the Bay…right now there’s a HUGE ship coming our way and I found this story on the Village Soup Website this morning: ROCKLAND (March 5): The deep draft cargo ship Pac Acrux was seen anchored outside of Rockland Harbor…

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