Heading West

It's time to pack up the car and head to Tombstone AZ for the winter. It's getting so we've less and less light and lots colder temps here in NH. Gray, overcast, wintry-like days just give me the shivers. Tomorrow I'll start cleaning the studio and packing the beads into their travel bags.

This week I'll be putting the house into cold storage mode and hope to be on the road by next weekend. It takes longer to shut the NH house down for the winter than it does shutting the AZ house up for the summer. So many little details of things that might freeze.

We're going to try again to do the Chesapeake bay bridge and hope that nasty weather doesn't shut us out of that route like it did last year. Then we'll do a swing through the Carolina's. Georgia, Alabama and visit friends in Memphis. From there we'll head mostly west to Arizona. I've never visited some of the Eastern seaboard, so it'll be a good change of route.

This was my NH yard in 1997 and I'm getting too old to navigate in these conditions any more.

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This blog will probably lie dormant for the next month, but I'll post travel updates to FaceBook as I progress across country.

Triangular Bead Crochet Ropes

It's done

Triangular Bead Crochet Ropes

A Pattern Book of 3-Dimensional Bead-Crochet Ropes

is now complete and available from Bead Patterns as an e-book for $19.95.

It has take me 5 years of procrastination, trial and error crocheting, and collaboration on a software design program to bring this book to actuality. It contains a new way of graphing rope patterns; one that allows you to see your patterns as they really are. This is a stepping stone to being able to design patterns that run parallel to a rope, especially dimensional ropes. Flat Caterpillars, Triangular ropes, Square ropes and other parallel patterns will be easier to see on the Zipper Graph.
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Comments and photos of what you crochet using this book will be welcomed. As it was designed as an e-book, I did not include a gallery. I would like to put a Gallery on Bead Line Studios web site. So, please let me see what you come up with using this information.

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Enjoy

...and now I can pack for Arizona and a couple of weeks vacation on-the-road.

I Had Plans . . .

later . . OOPS, new motherboard, etc. Date and clock was wrong! Yea, it's still Friday. Duhhhhh

It's Saturday already and I had plans for a special blog post 2 days ago to celebrate 5 years of this blog. Murphy's Law of Computer failures took care of that plan. I've been without my desktop for several days.



Other than the inconvenience of it all, Lenovo has stood behind their warranty. As of yesterday they have now replaced every danged component in my black desktop except the hard drive. And, I'm going to replace the hard drive myself this winter as I'm running out of storage space. I still think it would have been cheaper for the company to have just given me another computer than have an on-site tech replace components one by one. One more thing goes wrong though, and they're getting it back, in itty, bitty pieces in a great big box!
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Book 3 is in it's final editing round. It's looking good for the eBook to be released before Nov. 15th. I forget just how much work all of this takes and then sitting and waiting for others to do their piece - making me look good, real good.

Keep an eye on this blog for the announcement.

Yellow wood road

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

This view from my bedroom window reminds me of the Robert Frost poem. This is very much a yellow Fall here in NH. I ran rural errands earlier. Trash got taken to the dump and things left in the "still-good" building there. Needed stuff was bought from the hardware store, where things crowded the aisles and the uneven floor in the old building creaked under foot. Then I took the time to kick some dry leaves down this same path in the woods. Chilly with the sun in and out from behind the clouds. It's a good afternoon to bake and use up the last of the peaches in the freezer for a peach/pear kuchen.