What is it with book and magazine editors? Are they so concerned with the page layout that the pattern completeness and accuracy isn’t import? I’ve finished the body of the Dressing Gown from Romantic...

This past weekend we attended our seventh Whiskies of the World Expo in San Francisco. Tom goes for the tastings, to check out new products and talk with the distillery managers and owners. I...

I had planned to make a new coat to wear on our trip down to San Francisco this weekend. And everything was going swimmingly until I tried to attach the collar facing to the...

Doggie DashThanks to the generousity of friends and a few strangers, we have collected over $500 for the Oregon Humane Society in one week! And there’s still a month to go… Dressing GownI’m making...

Our walking program continues, having missed only one day because we didn’t want to get caught in one of Monday’s many two-minute torrential downpours (I’m not exagerrating.) On Sunday and yesterday, we ventured to...

We are great proponents of adopting rescue dogs. Three out of the four dogs that have graced our family were rescue dogs. We continue to support the Nike Animal Rescue Foundation who brought us...

I am bound and determined to finish either the dressing gown or the reclaimed traveling shells vest, but it’s a bit slow going. My trip to the hand specialist resulted in a diagnosis of...

I use “our” because after walking at my usual early hour, I encountered so much post-spring break traffic—which is an issue when there aren’t sidewalks everywhere—I decided to go out later and Tom decided...

Starting with the faunaWe met at Dianne and John’s house before heading to Abhiruchi for dinner. It was quite a surprise and fascinating to see a hawk sitting in their back yard.   FloraOn my...

DrinkCaprial and John’s Kitchen is a cooking show on PBS that features Oregon foods and wines, and in an episode we were watching last weekend, they had some wine from Abacela Vineyards near Roseburg....