From B’s Computer

Lili, my 9 year old granddaughter, is off to her first taste of overnight camping for a week!! The Girl Scout camp is on The Lake of the Ozarks, about two hours southeast of Kansas City and it’s the same one her Mother went to when she was 9! Her parents dropped her of fyesterday and her Mother said the camp was just the same… only smaller to her grown up eyes! Lili was excited and in a rush for them to leave.
With prodding from Lili’s aunt we have started writing short letters to Lili… no “we miss yous” and no tales of fun adventures she is missing! Lili’s aunt was homesick when she went to camp the first time… something we didn’t tell Lili … and are hoping Lili won’t be!

Here the GS camper is on her birthday earlier this month!

After camp….well she was homesick but just for a day and worked her way through it!  Good for her! And she wants to go to camp again!

Lili ... the birthday girl

Regretfully I didn’t take the camera when we took a jaunt out to “2Sculpt”. …. but we are at it again. 2Sculpt is “the place to go” in the KC area for  stone and tools and two times a year  workshops.  It located south of Lawrence, Ks. on his own personal “mountain” ( a mountain in Lawrence is different from from a mountain in Colorado but a mountain to someone from Flushing!)…. and the driveway is steep and graveled.

But onward… we bought more tools, alabaster and limestone rocks. Myles taught us lots about his stones… their hardness, places of origin, type, characteristics etc. Bob is in the planning stages for building a work table . We will set ourselves up in the flat area of our backyard as soon as the table is built.

Here’s a link to 2Sculpt

So as Bob works on the table… we’ll be reading about sculpting/carving and planning! And designing!!

I’ve gotten the occasional spam comment before but this latest one ( about 50 so far and all to one post)  is the pits !!

The address is the same for all… though the heading and content vary a bit.

the address is:   national-furnishing  dot org/ info  at  national-furnishing  dot org

The content is all full of links and can be as long as a page each!!!  AArgh.  Luckily I have to approve comments and can deem them spam and delete!  But this is very tiresome!!!

I finally figured out how to turn off the comments on that post!!! No more spam since then!Hope that does the trick!

It has been a long time since I knit anything bigger than a bear sweater… but decided to knit one for Lili.  It was to be a surprise… so had to guess the size! I found a pattern.. found some cotton yarn in a dusty lavender and went to work. All the time hoping it would fit and that she’d like it!

Success!  It fit and she likes it…. one for  Dominic is next. Lili told me no cardigans for him! A pullover it is!

We were in N Central Iowa this past weekend and drove past hundreds of windmills! We estimated the blades were about 30 feet long (each). It was a late cloudy/rainy day, so I wasn’t able to get great photos… but wanted at least one with buildings for size comparisons!

After avoiding flooded Nashville,TN. on our was to Deep Valley RV Park and Trout Farm ( my brother-in-law’s place) I wanted to see how much water would be coming out of the mountain and into his trout raceways and catchout pond….

This area under the bridge is usually just a small flow!

Thus huge amount of muddy water is bad for the trout… too much and too full of mud.

here are our two carvings in situ.. the rock garden in our backyard!

It feels funny to be posting about this when I’ve already posted on facebook and my bear blog…. but here goes anyway. Bob and I “exchanged” stone carving classes for our birthdays. UMKC ( University of Mo. Kansas City) has a really great non-credit adjunct called Communiversity. Anyone is eligible to take a wide variety of classes from cooking to arts and crafts to religion to just about anything. We’ve taken classes before… book binding, letterpress, fencing… but stone carving tempted us this time.

We had two 8 hour classes… held outdoors on the grounds of the area Renaissance Festival out in Bonner Springs, Ks. We couldn’t quite manage the full 8 hours but did 6 the first time and finished the project  at fours hours the second time. We enjoyed the classes. We have some stones and the tools  so we can give it a try again…. and found out where to buy more stone and  where more classes are held. Will this be our new “hobby”?

Easter always makes for interesting photos… and then digital scrapbook pages. Here are the first two…

Lili is really growing up and Dominic is becoming a long and lanky little guy.   Both enjoyed hunting for eggs.