National Aboriginal Day 2015
Chips galore
Today (June 21st) is the day to celebrate National Aboriginal Day in Canada. Tansy is celebrating by showing pictures from her visit to Master Carver James Hart’s carving studio near Old Masset. She was allowed to sit amongst the wood chips, listen to the carvers, and admire the partly completed carvings.
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Sprinkles
Flower Tortoise
The first rain in six weeks sprinkled down this afternoon. Umbrellas were everywhere, including this one, which seemed to have been abandoned in the Quimper Hitty’s front yard…
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Hattie Watering
Watering Can
There has been no rain for a long time here and we are on watering restrictions already. Hattie has been making many trips out to the strawberry pots with her watering can…
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Gonzales Hill Evening
Up the steps
On another lovely evening Opal and Agathe accompanied the human and her favourite photographer on a post-prandial jaunt up Gonzales Hill.
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Weekend Textile Projects
Cloth and big Rickrack
The Quimper Hittys had a number of textile questions this weekend, and I did my best to help them figure out the answers…Rose wanted to know if the Möbius Pinafore could be made with ordinary cloth, on the straight grain, and using big rickrack…
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Laurels
Laurel Hedge
On the way home from work last night, Constance and I encountered a cascade of sweetly scented blossom clusters on an English Laurel bush.
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King Kamehameha Day 2015
Sedate Summer Afternoon Tea
Some of the Hitty sisters delight in sedate activities on Summer afternoons, drinking cups of tea and wearing dainty pinafores.
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