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what Eithne knew ...
Research! All I want to do is find as much information as I can about Florence and the people who lived there 500 years ago. And I keep running into roadblocks. The best information I've found so far is in Italian, and that remains a problem. While I've finally managed to locate the search terms I need to find the tags in modern Italian I'm ( Read more... ) -
Wool, lana, wolle, welna, etc -- What Eithne knew
Breeds of sheep as we know them today didn't exist. The Dishley Leicester was created by Robert Bakewll who set a standard for lock length, size, color, and confirmation, and established a registry that accepted all sheep that met his criteria as members of the breed. Which is not to say that means to distinguish wool types and the desire to do ( Read more... ) -
A & S Challenge - 50 tasks at which Eithne of Canterbury would have been competent
She'd have known good dying from not-so-good. As an upper servant she would not be expected to do the dying herself but she would be expected to recognize the quality of the work she was viewing and to not present vendors of unacceptable work to her employer ( Read more... ) -
Japan Update
We've been back from Japan for about a year and we're still reminiscing about what we saw and did, what we planned to see but didn't. We were blessed as were the princes of Serendip -- we expected to find wonders, and we did ( Read more... ) -
Trip to Japan
Breathing a long, loud sigh of relief. Tickets for Japan were purchased a few days ago. Today my vacation time was confirmed; I won't need to quit my job in order to travel ( Read more... ) -
Trip to Japan
Jack and I have bitten the bullet. We've paid for tickets to Japan and are trying to locate housing while we're there ( Read more... )