• Saturday, August 07th, 2010
Erich, Matt and I headed to South County today for theCharlestown Seafood Festival. Lots of great seafood, some interesting raffles, a fantastic classic car and motorcycle show, and some great music. The weather was just a bit hot (due to the asphalt), but we had a great time.
Afterward, we headed a bit further down Route 1 to Quonochontaug Pond and wandered through the salt flats on the southern side of the pond for a couple hours. We saw several crabs, tons of minnows, jellyfish, and a horseshoe crab. The water was wonderful – I honestly wish I would have had my bathing suit so I could have gone deeper. At one point on our way back from a little rock shoal in the flats, we tried crossing through a cut path in the reeds – but I quickly sunk to mid-calf in some very stinky mud… so yeah, backed out of there and continued trudging through the water instead. On the mud trail, we did see lots of bubbles against the water – we’re thinking it was a well-populated clam bed. Several people were walking around with buckets and nylon bags, and I’m pretty sure I saw Quahogs in those bags (a local really, really big clam for those who are unfamiliar).
It’s a fantastic place – the water is brilliantly clear and a great temperature (not too warm, not too cold, with some neat swirling eddies of both temperatures). Great for little kids because there’s no real tide to worry about. There were plenty of people there, but it didn’t feel crowded or chaotic – just a bunch of very friendly people enjoying a gorgeous little nook of Rhode Island on a gorgeous summer afternoon. Can’t beat it!
Matt got very sunburned, and I’m a little toasty feeling – but I think both of us should be okay tomorrow. Erich is just fine – I’m envious of the native blood in him. He just tans.
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I’m redoing some pictures for the Postcrossing of the Day cards – I wasn’t happy with how they photographed (they look very blurry to me). Once I get some done and cropped, I’ll start back up with the feature. Probably will get at least a few done this week.
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Stitching, stitching… it’s been a wild week! On Sunday, I got together with a few fellow stitchers from Rhode Island for our first official Rhode Island Stitchers get together. We hit it off immediately and had a great time. The next meetup is scheduled for Saturday the 14th at the Warwick Public Library (open to all, so please come down… info is on the Facebook group).
I’ve been working on two projects this week – Spryntz‘s RR piece and Astrology Sampler. I decided to restart Astrology Sampler on Thursday. The original fabric I’d chosen just was NOT working as I’d hoped. Even Erich looked at it and went “ugh… no, that looks bad.” So rather than have fun with Silkweaver fabbies on this one, out came the Aida tubes. I’ve restarted it on good old-fashioned 14 ct black Aida, which is what the sample piece is on, I think. It already looks much better.
Spryntz’s piece is coming along slowly but steady. I’d planned on getting some of it done tonight, but I’m too tired after being in the sun. I’ll work on it tomorrow.
Speaking of Robins – there’s a new UFO Round Robin starting up soon, if anyone’s interested. Go over here for the information. Right now it’s in preliminary sign-ups. The plan is to kick it off sometime in September (I’m guessing probably late-ish September).
That’s it for me… time for bed. :)
