Too Much Water, Too Little Time, and a Felted Cat Aborning
Computer Woes Resolved
No haiku today - just can't seem to gather my thoughts that way at the moment.
We never did figure out why my offline blog editing software, Zoundry BlogWriter, was failing to load yesterday. Nevertheless, the problem is fixed - it turned out there was a more recent release anyhow, and Gryphon installed it for me last night. So I'm back at full blogging capability.
NH Flood Report
The waters have receded a lot here in New Hampshire. The pictures I posted on Friday, however, turned out to be nothing compared to the water levels on Saturday, which seems to be the day the rivers crested. For comparison, here is the water level on Friday, at which time it was already massively higher than usual:
And here is the same location on Saturday.
High(er) Water
But that's not the most surprising picture I took of the flood waters on Saturday - oh, no. I went around the corner from that dam to check the water under another nearby bridge, and was astonished when I looked upstream and saw a group of kayakers coming down the Souhegan River. Talk about the right place at the right time!
Riding the Rapids - Where There Aren't Normally Any
What's amazing about that is that the Souhegan River at this spot is usually a very shallow waterway, showing almost more rocks than water. There are very seldom circumstances that would allow watercraft of any type to pass here.
I was on the ball enough to realize that the local weekly newspaper, the Milford Cabinet, might be interested in the kayaking pictures. I'm sure their staff was out taking photos of the high water, but I was the person lucky enough to see this event. I e-mailed them, and was asked to bring in a disc. The result - they'll be running one of my pictures of the kayakers (not this one, but another that I considered the best of the lot), in this week's edition of the Cabinet! So watch your newstands on Thursday for my first published credit as a photographer, LOL!
Fiber Content at Last
In knitting news - I actually have no real projects on the needles at the moment. I do plan to start a new pair of socks for Soctoberfest - I feel like I've dropped the ball there. But I've been so busy with recovering from last week's cold; working on charms and dangles for my bottle cap charm bracelet (check for a post later over at www.chantraphile.com ); and running around in cold, damp weather in spite of my cold to take pictures of flooding.
Otherwise, I've been feeling guilty about all these piles of felting wool I have stacked around my studio/living room. I have really been off of the needlefelting for a while, and it's just been sitting gathering dust.
Yesterday, though, I was suddenly inspired to start working on a piece I've been wanting to make - a small figure of a cat with a chenille stem armature. A few hours later, I'd come up with this:
Embryonic Felt Cat
Obviously, this is in the Works-In-Progress category. And I had to set it aside so I could get back to work on bead dangles for my bottle-cap bracelet, some of which you can see under the cat. But I'm pleased with how it looks so far. Somehow, shaping a critter out of wool seems to come naturally to me.
There will, of course, be more pictures and updates as the cat approaches completion.
That's about it for today. It's my craft circle night here, I need to go spend some time getting the studio ready and making sure my project for tonight (the bracelet) is ready to work on. Thanks for visiting!
No haiku today - just can't seem to gather my thoughts that way at the moment.
We never did figure out why my offline blog editing software, Zoundry BlogWriter, was failing to load yesterday. Nevertheless, the problem is fixed - it turned out there was a more recent release anyhow, and Gryphon installed it for me last night. So I'm back at full blogging capability.
NH Flood Report
The waters have receded a lot here in New Hampshire. The pictures I posted on Friday, however, turned out to be nothing compared to the water levels on Saturday, which seems to be the day the rivers crested. For comparison, here is the water level on Friday, at which time it was already massively higher than usual:
And here is the same location on Saturday.
High(er) Water
But that's not the most surprising picture I took of the flood waters on Saturday - oh, no. I went around the corner from that dam to check the water under another nearby bridge, and was astonished when I looked upstream and saw a group of kayakers coming down the Souhegan River. Talk about the right place at the right time!
Riding the Rapids - Where There Aren't Normally Any
What's amazing about that is that the Souhegan River at this spot is usually a very shallow waterway, showing almost more rocks than water. There are very seldom circumstances that would allow watercraft of any type to pass here.
I was on the ball enough to realize that the local weekly newspaper, the Milford Cabinet, might be interested in the kayaking pictures. I'm sure their staff was out taking photos of the high water, but I was the person lucky enough to see this event. I e-mailed them, and was asked to bring in a disc. The result - they'll be running one of my pictures of the kayakers (not this one, but another that I considered the best of the lot), in this week's edition of the Cabinet! So watch your newstands on Thursday for my first published credit as a photographer, LOL!
Fiber Content at Last
In knitting news - I actually have no real projects on the needles at the moment. I do plan to start a new pair of socks for Soctoberfest - I feel like I've dropped the ball there. But I've been so busy with recovering from last week's cold; working on charms and dangles for my bottle cap charm bracelet (check for a post later over at www.chantraphile.com ); and running around in cold, damp weather in spite of my cold to take pictures of flooding.
Otherwise, I've been feeling guilty about all these piles of felting wool I have stacked around my studio/living room. I have really been off of the needlefelting for a while, and it's just been sitting gathering dust.
Yesterday, though, I was suddenly inspired to start working on a piece I've been wanting to make - a small figure of a cat with a chenille stem armature. A few hours later, I'd come up with this:
Embryonic Felt Cat
Obviously, this is in the Works-In-Progress category. And I had to set it aside so I could get back to work on bead dangles for my bottle-cap bracelet, some of which you can see under the cat. But I'm pleased with how it looks so far. Somehow, shaping a critter out of wool seems to come naturally to me.
There will, of course, be more pictures and updates as the cat approaches completion.
That's about it for today. It's my craft circle night here, I need to go spend some time getting the studio ready and making sure my project for tonight (the bracelet) is ready to work on. Thanks for visiting!
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