Three-day weekend, due to the Presidents' Day federal observance.
Saturday, Carlos and Bart and I went up to Russian River to spend the day with friends Bill and Fred and their neighbor Eric. Carlos and I cooked a meal (vegan by default) for everyone. I of course fell sound asleep in the back of Bart's Prius and woke up back in San Francisco just in time.
We hiked a nice trail at the River. Muddy as all get-out, but it was such a treat to see the nature. Especially wonderful was getting to see the hills in the distance with their flush of green. Ordinarily they'd be bright green at this time of year, but we've had so little rain...
Sunday I went to see Nyondo and Joy with Tien. We went to Artfibers in Vallejo, which was having its final closeout sale. Not much left, and what was left was either very expensive or ugly. Got to see a nice industrial skeining machine, and a custom-made-in-italy plying machine.
And yesterday I took BART and CalTrain down the Penninsula to see Tien. We dyed stuff in the afternoon in the yard - I dyed a bit of Bryan's silk a truly acidic yellow, and my old linen shirt was dyed dark purple. The train ride back was long, and waiting was difficult because of the cold, despite my nice wool turtleneck. Returned with swag from Tien - software to run the old compudobby, a reed-hook, and a 20-dent reed!!
I took out the mechanical dobby for Millie (the new-to-me AVL loom) and assessed the parts. Looks like everything is there, and I've been able to find some images online to work from since the AVL assembly guide does not include instructions for assembling the mechanical dobby - it explains how to attach it to the loom, but since when this loom was new it would have been already pre-assembled at the factory. Blossom kindly said that he can take photos of his mechanical dobbies for me.
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