Category Archives: Journal

…and all other Lydias, at least the ones in Sweden and Norway. (In Latvia my nameday is January 16th.) Evidently we don’t actually celebrate such things here, though the word puzzle in today’s newspaper featured my name, and I’ve gotten a couple of nice email notes. My favorite finding on the subject: in Sweden there […]

It is now officially winter! The snow seems to make the train schedules a little erratic, though I’ve been lucky so far. Happily, the roads and paths are well cleared. On Saturday I went to Stockholm to play with Anders again (yaay!) — all layered up in case the promised 15–20°F temperatures coincided with stranding […]

Our first real snow of the year started on Wednesday, was footprintable by the time I emerged from the main house after class at about 5:30p. It’s pretty much been snowing ever since.

In which Tobo becomes a Christmas market for one Saturday afternoon, yaay! The only indoor venue (or possibly the only one I discovered?) was our main hall, which was full of handcraft sorts of vendors, mostly — jewelers, knitters, weavers, a glassblower,… And then from here, the booth space continued around our grounds, down the […]