“Pattern” is David Hinton’s translation of I Ching No. 60. These are a couple of my favorite photos from London 2012.
Archive | April, 2016
From Houzz: Add a shed +++
26 Apr
I love this article from Houzz! To add a personal story, our custom shed was completed in 2010. One third potting shed, two-thirds mower parking, the arbor aesthetically bridges the shed to house meeting the minimum distance required by ordinance. The bonus features are shade to the French doors from the setting sun and obscuring the view of the neighbor’s driveway. Our shed was added long after the privacy fence was built. This called for a custom solution to rework section into a gate for the mower.
North facing window, full glass door and two loft windows.
Walk thru or sit and stay a while!
Look in the lower left corner….additional 3′ to original 16’X16′ concrete patio.
Ours is a “his and hers” shed.
Friday Photo: I Ching No. 20 Heron’s Eye Gaze
22 AprThe translation by David Hinton is “heron’s eye gaze”. I think I got IT! Also from David Hinton’s translation: “Noble and lofty. Reverent, inward, yielding and devoted as a river.”
I originally posted this photo with the classic translation “viewing”.
Blue heron
27 cubic feet
19 AprMy survey of 50 years of accumulated personal files/papers….estimates 27 cubic feet….how low can we go?
“Eat the elephant one bite at a time.”
Left stack: scan and recycle. Right stack: straight to recycle.
I purchased a Brother ADS1500W portable scanner. This was my break through! Compact, desktop, less than three pounds, scans two sides @ a time, sends new pdf files wirelessly to my laptop. LOVE IT!
Tone and shred! Three bags full!
“Are you done yet?” Yawn…..NO.
15 inches cleared/reclaimed of 108! WooHoo!
For folks who are numbers and task oriented, I believe it helps to depersonalize stuff with numbers and the base line helps to quickly access progress.
This project is on HOLD at the half way mark, since higher priorities have prevailed.
Shower Caddie Encore
12 AprBack by popular demand…shower caddies as functional gift bags for the women at Wheeler Mission for Women and Children. Our adhoc group of benefactors delivered 72 overstuffed caddies for Christmas last year.
We have a “green light” and a jump start for 2016. A friend of a friend saved LLBean outdoor seat cushion covers from the REJECT bin. The Plan: Recycle as shower caddies. Enough fabric for 13 of the 72.
Outdoor seat cushion covers undergoing “ripping” or deconstruction.
I asked our group leader (who also has Master Black Belt Six Sigma certification), if there was VOC (voice of customer) feedback to incorporate this year. Her suggestion…”leave off the button holes”. Yes, I put button holes in the caddies last year to drain water that might accumulate in the bottom.
Six equally spaced button holes on a radius is a little time consuming.
I did that without DRBTR! (Design Review Based upon Test Results). Do shower caddies without slots hold water? YES. Is that a problem? Maybe. Search for a suitable mesh fabric bottom was unsuccessful.
Mock up for test: Fill with one cup of water.
- No slots: Drains 3.42-3.70 minutes Over twenty times as slow
- One slot: Drains .60-.70 minutes Four times as slow
- Two slots: Drains .28-.38 minutes Twice as slow
- Three slots: Drains .15-.18 minutes Baseline
The winner is a three slot design for the few occasions when water may accumulate it is a reasonable feature to have. I will use parallel slots to save the time preparing the radial layout.
Here we go AGAIN!
Friday Photo: I Ching No. 22 Elegance
8 Apr“Elegance” as translated by David Hinton. Also translated “grace” or “adorning”.
Mom @ Hampton Court 2012
Journey with a drop of water
5 Apr
Journey with a drop of water
in an ordinary stream on an ordinary farm.
Begin at the rusty barbed wire fence in the northeast section.
Consider tumbling, flowing,
floating, pooling, rippling,
swishing, swirling,
bank left
crashing, splashing,
bank right
movement through sunlight and shadow
embrace stones
waltz around pebbles
glide across sand
dive beneath limbs
carry fish
Emerge at the one land bridge.
Elizabeth Frazee 3-Apr-96 (WOW…20 years ago)
No fooling…that’s a LOT of love
1 AprShipping 80 liners and 320 flannel pads to Days for Girls International
Enough to complete 40 kits! Liners have wings with snaps, reinforced pockets and PUL (polyurethane laminate) middle. Flannel pads are reversible, tri-fold with top-stitching. The design intent is for three years use.
My favorite color/pattern combos from this shipment
Back side of liners
Volunteers provide their materials (often). For me, the joy of sewing comes from playing with the colors and patterns…..the bolder and brighter the better.
It’s awesome how many gazillion graphic designs there are for butterflies.
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