Sadly,...

well I can see your stuff, and bring it into the blog, but Google refuses to let me sign in with anything, and it does appear that I am whipped.
Ark, I have a blog at Blogger, but Im terrified to open it.  I just don't have the patience or the ability to futz with it any longer. 

Trouble is (this is whinging) I am so invested in Google at this point it tends to take over every thing.
Flick'r used to be Flick'r. Then it became Yahoo and then Yahoo became part of Google (aha, she says) and it does seem that no matter where one goes, Google is right there with those  big hairy hands, waiting. 

In any case, I appreciate the support, and the time spent here.  Maybe magically the whole thing will get over itself at some point (although I doubt that).  And I do have an email out there in my profile...

dese dem and dose

okay, so here's the deal.  For now, I can make new posts, and you can read them. And comment.

This is awkward,  and if no one minds comments without responses from me, then I'm cool with that. Or I can just comment in a new post. 

Sigh.

I would like to start a new blog, if I can close this one off from rogue posters and actually use a for real password.  I don't want it to turn into Vandal City, by any means.  I have about 9 years of stuff here, and I'd hate to lose it.    Lotta ego there, maybe, but it's like writing the world's longest book, and then seeing it go down (or is that up) in flames. 

if/when I do start a new one, I'll post the announcement here. oh, aren't we all excited, lol.

new post

lets see if this works

To everyone who is responding

It seems that not a lot is getting through,  although Im grateful for the sympathy:  I may just have to junk this whole thing and start over, something I do NOT want to do, after 10 years of stuff. 

I contacted Blogger and I was told this sounded like something that happened last spring (which it does not), and I should go reread that and see if that's the problem (which it is not) and that was the stellar advice I got from the four star help over there.   I have Chrome on this now, and I surely wish I didn't, it seems to cause more grief than not, but it somehow insinuated itself into nearly every program I have, sort of like the stray cat that you wake to find sleeping peacefully on the bed at your feet. 

Chrome is even less helpful as far as trouble shooting goes.

Anything else, I wouldn't mind, but I just can't respond directly to comments, I have no idea why.  So, we do this.

N.ayisha, if I can, I'll post photos of the loom when I get it set up.  This is a 36" 4 harness loom, collapsible for (ho ho ho) easy traveling (if you have stevedore blood) and storage.  What I love about it, you can fold it up with stuff still in it, unfinished, and drag the thing away to a corner.   And it's an amazing way to use up all that accumulated yarn and such.   I really think a nice coverlet blanket thing would work well.  I could back it with a patchwork quilt made to size,  and have it do double duty. 

Right now I'm doing curtains for the upstairs, from a set of cotton sheets that are no longer fitted sheets, but are also neutral enough to work well at the windows. 

I hate to admit it, but the radiators are working exactly the way we(I) hoped.  He has the thermostat set for 62 deg. and when the temps in here drop to 62 or so, the furnace comes on, and voila, you wake up in the morning to dead stoves but a decently warm room.  Considering it was 9 above this morning, and 2 above the morning before...

problems in blogger land /waving at Boud

It would appear that somewhere between here and there my password, sign in and whatever else google can dream up to mess with, has hit the fan.

I can  post, but I can't respond in the proper comment box.  Google is giving me three choices, none of which work.

This is not a good thing, here.

I posted this to Boud, and it won't take there, so I'll post it here.


"Im thinking of a nice easy straight stretch, maybe a blanketty thing, depending on what I have for yarn. 

My former loom is a big old barn loom, this is a nice 36" collapsible one.  The cats really don't pay a lot of attention to it, and if I can close it up between bouts, all the better. "

Thoughts on weaving looms and oil burners

For the first time in 43 years, tonight we let the woodstoves go out and turned on our new  oil burner.  It seems to be working.

My husband, the mechanical engineer, is down there right now with little digital  thermometers,  assessing and testing and generally having entirely too much fun. When it first went on, it really sounded as if the spaceship engines had been lit and we would be whisked off into outer space.

It may happen yet.

After this 24 hour test I hope it doesn't come on again until much colder weather, my fingers are itching to start up the stoves RIGHT NOW.  Habits die  hard. Also brought the weaving loom down from the front room,  now that we will have a place to keep it.  It belonged to a weaver friend of mine, and when she broke up housekeeping she sold it to me.  It's a reasonably small collapsible one, 36",  and I'm waiting for some long winter days to get it moving.  It's been years since I've used a loom, it'll be like starting from scratch again.