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Eva Skewes
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Yale University Press. Former indie bookseller; loves tea, cider, photography, and sleep
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The Whites are so gorgeous and are a foundation of my childhood and it was drilled into me from the start that: you should be prepared for all conditions and to turn around.
That's so cool of your sister! I finished the 4000 footer list a week after I turned 14. We bagged Mt. Washington a few years prior on a long August weekend of perfect weather while doing the Presidential Traverse, staying at the AMC huts.
It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!
People are so fascinatingly stupid about Mt. Washington.

“Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons
I’m sorry but what were over 20 people thinking:
In the winter you can do overnight education trips to the weather observatory (a snowcat drives you up) and I fantasize about doing this.
My most excellent best friend is now on Bluesky! She is a font of knowledge of all things circus and also I was up until 1:30 this morning reading her book which hopefully will be keeping up many more people in Autumn 2026.
In 2024 I remembered how to blog. Maybe now, at the end of 2025 I can remember how to micro-blog.

Excited to be here! You can read my long-form thoughts (for free!) at the link:
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flinging words and occasionally my physical form into the void
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One of my obsessions is the Gemini and Apollo photography (there are 12 Hasselblads just lying on the moon!), so I feel like this article was written specifically for me: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth
No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated.
www.nytimes.com
It was startling to be at Acadia a few weeks ago and be reminded that it is the first National Park to come as a result of private donations to the public.
Waistband was also widened from 5/8 inch to 1 inch. Still narrow, but a world of a difference.
Back to where this thread began with changes and improvements that were fully worth it. In V1 the waistband was just the tweed folded over, but this is now faced with the cotton/silk voile backed by silk organza (to match the seams). Hidden within is petersham!
Here in CT many people have to have their soil and water tested for radon! You really can't assume anything.
I think the state would handle testing.
Also in cities you almost always have to build above ground plots because the soil has too much lead in it.
I spent $200 on wood and metal fenceposts (for vertical growing) in my community garden plot.
Update: last night I did Hong Kong seams on all vertical seams in my skirt. I used leftover self-made bias binding from a dress I made this summer out of cotton/silk voile.
Some details: air dried black walnut, oil and wax finish. My dad was drawn to making them for their expression of line and form, which he finds free of embellishment or gewgaw.
My dad was the founding president of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and the first meeting he ever lead was about Windsor chairs, so it’s very cool to see him return to chairs in his retirement! I am the luckiest and proudest daughter.
My dad finished making his pair of Chandigarh chairs! If you are in northern New England you should get a chance to see them in early November through the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and their New England Woodworking Competition. They’ll technically be on loan from me!
Yeah, I had frenched the seams so they were enclosed in organza, but forgot about the other effects (4 layers of fabric). Now I know! Sometimes you just gotta commit to reversing for peace of mind.
The waistband is minor in comparison to the chunky side seams, but it'll have to come out to have those pressed open properly, so I might as well make it better!
It doesn't, but I am going to un-do and make it the way it should be so that I never have to think about it again (it'll also make future alterations easier).
Posting about this has now made me question whether I want to undo all the work hand and machine sewing the waistband and re-do the side seams. LOL.
I spent an entire day cutting and thread-marking this. Will definitely make some changes the next time I use this pattern (will not French-seam tweed again as it's chunky; will probably do a wider waistband for better attaching of hook and bar), but it's still a dream skirt.
It is not done (needs a hem facing) but here is the first skirt I’ve ever self-drafted based on my measurements. Made of green Harris tweed and flatlined in silk organza.
A perfect vesper is such at treat.