I ordered a ball winder from Dharma at their sale price, just as they came back in stock. It will be here any day. Yay! I don't know if i can use it to wind thread on sticks but will experiment.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html is an interesting commentary on Google and international cartography.
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Re Christine and the three mandolins: she's selling her oboe at a specialty reed instrument shop, but her guitar is on Craig's List. Need a classical guitar with a pickup installed? She also picked up the
Paper Jamz Drum kit #6 on Sunday. I keep trying to play but ....
Christine goes back to her Italian mandolin instructor on Friday, having replaced the "Americanized abomination" of a f-style flat backed mandolin with a over one hundred year old bowl-backed mandolin. (Yay Craig's list.) I think the mandolin is suiting her well, although i imagine there will be a hankering after a mandola or mandocello in the future. Also,
http://www.sfmandolin.org/ .
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The new screens came on Monday. The cat door is very highly designed, with flap inside the flap of heavy black rubber. The inset flap is for the exit; that flap, plus the frame flat, is for the entrance. Little magnets hold the flaps in place. Since we have been sans screens for ages, allowing the cats to come and go on the deck, the nigh hermetic seal this super design produces seems overkill. We've binder clips propping the flaps back from the magnets so they flaps move with a little more ease.
Greycie Loo is coming and going. Edward might be: i'm not sure. Mr M doesn't like the flaps at all.
The important thing is that the screen on the side we never use as a door is replaced, so we can leave that glass door open and have a breeze all night. The arrival of the screens has, of course, coincided with a cooling trend.
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