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AFK SkittlesStepping Stone FarmJuly 2025Photo by Greg Walcott Getting groomed before the show starts. [Summer Showing, July 2025] Onwards!Katherine

Surgery today. [Wrist Wreport] Posts scheduled. Away from keyboard (AFK) for the week. Plan to return, with update, next Monday. Using the time to take a mental as well as physical break from the blog. Dinner in the back of the truck before the show starts. [Fireworks] Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. “Our mission is to make fiber arts accessible to everyone.” Alabama Fiber Arts Foundation, Sponsor My Event: AFF. The organization behind the Fiber Festival. Instagram: AFAF. Facebook: AFAF. ~~~ Folks were invited to contribute to the decorations at the Alabama Fiber Festival. I found out too late to participate, butContinue reading “Yarn Bombing At The Alabama Fiber Festival 2025, Fiber Art”

Writing of the outside world. Archeonews: A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Inkwell Found in Portugal Contains a Technological Recipe That Shouldn’t Exist, Oliveira et al. 2025. Hat tip to G. ~~~ #15 Ageless Ambition, 0 words Fiction wasn’t happening. Fiction is the point of this exercise. Instead of marinating in a fog of frustration, I wrote whatContinue reading “November Writing Challenge Week 3, Fiction Fragments”

Photography of the outside world. Cary Norton: Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks ~~~ Autumn in the CityBirmingham AL USANovember 2025 Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside inside world. The Bone Museum. ~~~ Follow up to initial post. [Cursewords!] My solution to childproof caps. What Happened I blame the cold snap. Had put blankets on the fenceline to act as windbreaks for the run-in area. Got my feet tangled. Down I went. Mildly displaced compression fracture to endContinue reading “Wrist Wreport, Short Version”

Awareness of the outside world. “A free, fully-seated, home-based, aerobic and strength training program. Open to all ages, fitness levels, and mobility levels.” SitGrit. Person who spoke of this had a positive experience with the program. Hat tip to M. ~~~ BoogieSaddle seat lessonStepping Stone Farm12 November 2025 Boogie was kind enough to humor myContinue reading “A Lovely Lesson That Will Have To Last A While”