Wordless Wednesday
Month: October 2025
Aspinwall River Park
On the Allegheny River Monday afternoon.
Guess the Pumpkin’s Weight
Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium on Saturday afternoon.
If you want to know how much the pumpkin weighs, watch the 8 second video.
I think it will weigh more than you think. Hard to judge size in this photo.
Silent Sunday
Once a Shrub Now a Tree
Turns out it’s an invasive species now. it was here when I moved in 1991.
Cutting Bread on Pennsylvania
My grandson Jack made this cutting board and I posted it before but I’m so proud of his handiwork and craftsmanship I’m posting again.
Now that loaf of sourdough was not a pretty one but it tasted good. I think the dough was too wet.
Throwback Thursday Zito’s Bread on Bleecker Street
Zito’s Bakery is just a memory now. That’s a bread bag my sister gave me. I took the color photograph and my sister gave the b & w postcard with Berniece Abbott photograph
I posted about Zito’s and Strawberry Rhubarb jam 11 years ago. Mary would go buy two warm loaves while kids were still asleep, camped out in her apartment.
6 Cider Mill Sweaters Oct 15, 2022
Here is part of our Knitting Buddies Zoom group who met in Rhinebeck NewYork at the Duchess County Sheep and Wool Festival. It’s happening again this weekend but only Karen, Patty and Rachel are attending.
We all hail from Pittsburgh, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Florida
Rachel (on the right). Did your mom give you her Cider Mill Sweater? I gave mine to my DIL Nataliya and Randi gave hers to her mom.
Say Six Cider Mill Sweaters six times fast!
Sweet memories of a fabulous fiber filled weekend.
The pattern is by designer Jen Geigley who joined us with other Cider Mill Sweater Knitters. Karen C found the pattern in Modern Day knitting Field Guide
Our Knitting Buddies Group started in the Pandemic matched up with knitters via The Woolly Thistle store in New Hampshire. Karen C and U are the only two charter members left. We still zoom and knit together Monday nights. And we’ve a few more members not pictured.
Meeting an Alpaca
At the Pennsylvania Sheep and Wool Festival in Dayton Pennsylvania on Saturday. My granddaughter liked all the animals at the festival but I think she would have liked to take this one home.
Black Mission Figs
Photographed at Idylwilde in Acton MA while on vacation. They likes so inviting to me
