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e watercolor painting than hooking for some time now some of the paintings have been made into notecards and those notecards are for sale in my antique shop they can also be purchased by sending an email to phylblade yahoo com and payment to paypal be sure to include your selection names and your shipping address in your email the cards are 2 00 each with shipping and handling 1 each plain white envelopes are included 1 behind the barn 2 gadget with bagel 3 happy gadget 4 horse knight 5 horse mare 6 horse mare in foal 7 horses in fall pasture 8 pig wilbur 9 pig grazing posted by rughooker at 11 09 2013 01 20 00 am no comments sunday october 27 2013 visit to poland went with some friends to the city within the city hamtramck the city within detroit that once had more polish residents than lived in poland like everything else around detroit this city has changed and has financial problems but there is still a wonderful essence of a past culture available in the form of a new museum a wonderful art center a bakery a meat store and a really wonderful restaurant this was a newspaper ad from world war ii the art center had lovely amber jewelry pottery dolls and rugs the rugs were woven not hooked but very interesting anyway they were hung quite high so i couldn t get a close look at them this rug showed the polish national symbol these trees are some kind of fiber art a combination of weaving and braiding and i m not sure what else this store is a polish grocery with fresh kielbasa and more kinds of pierogies than i ve ever seen i brought some home to try the bakery was amazing such smells and sights i avoided buying anything but couldn t help thinking about eating all of them this last photo shows my half eaten dinner in the polish village restaurant i had kielbasa stuffed cabbage sauerkraut mashed potatoes potato pancakes and city chicken and every bite i had was better than the one before i ve never had a restaurant meal as good every single item was delicious i didn t eat all of it i have a great big doggy bag to have for dinner tomorrow and maybe the next day too posted by rughooker at 10 27 2013 01 08 00 am 1 comment wednesday september 04 2013 the rest of the story i arrived home monday night played with the dogs fed all the animals went inside to rest for a few minutes and woke up tuesday i had to catch up on commitments most of tuesday our new little free library grand opening next to my store for one came home fed the critters went inside to rest for a few minutes and woke up this morning had to catch up on commitments painting class most of wednesday had dinner with friends came home and finally brought my laptop inside my father if he was still alive would absolutely croak if he knew what i did on the way home he planned our trips to the last second he spent the winter with maps a drawing board and a little measuring wheel and planned where we would go each summer weekend plus a three week camping trip he planned where we would eat breakfast lunch and dinner and where we would camp every night and exactly how long it would take to get wherever by the time i was in college and had summer jobs and no more family camping i had slept under canvas in most states of the union and all over canada my dad s planning worked well for us but somehow i have not been able to be that precise did i tell you my dad was an accountant i left old salt early saturday got to amherst ns about 2 00 visited deanne fitzpatrick s shop where i learned there were no more stone handled hooks but there were lots of other great things so i then went to frenchy s where i didn t find any good wool but did get some dog toys and a dick francis book the next time i stopped was at a mcdonald s in monkton nb where i ran my seat back and picked up my dick francis book to read for a while a car pulled in next to me and the driver made a pleasant comment when they came back later they noticed the ann arbor car dealership ad on the front of my car and told me they live in london and have spent a lot of time in ann arbor they said they travel back and forth a lot and suddenly had me talked into traveling home through the states i knew i could go into maine at houlton but followed their advice and went to calais which was a lovely ride through bay of fundy influenced land much more interesting than the houlton route but it put me on a small windy road when i got into maine the two lane road might have been interesting in daylight but a lot of fog lowered visibility early and made driving after dark hazardous but there was nowhere to stop it took hours to finally get to 95 the main expressway that goes south through maine when i found the first rest stop i crawled into the back seat and slept for 8 hours i did that part of the trip without planning or a map or anything and was pretty darned pleased i reached somewhere reasonable but i could picture my dad shaking his head by the time i got down to massachusetts the next day i was doing the same thing i did on my trip to california i was thinking about my family connections along the way at one point i even passed an otis town line and otis is my mother s family name the otis family came from england on the ship that came after the mayflower one of the otis men married one of richard warren s daughters so i can claim to descend from a mayflower passenger there are some great early otis stories one john otis i forget which generation was captured by the french and shipped to martinique where the french promised to return him and then poisoned him to death his son another john otis went to sea against his widowed mother s wishes and was captured by pirates he was such a good sailor the pirate captain agreed to let him free if he sailed with the pirates for a year the captain didn t keep his word so john otis and his friends mutineed captured the pirate ship and turned in the captain to be hanged massachusetts went by pretty fast while i was thinking about pirates so i reached new york and stopped for the night in new york i had a family story that is also part of the story told in rugs in one of the displays in the museum one otis family moved to new york and lived in a block house one night they made a huge mistake and let some of the local indians spend the night in the blockhouse those indians opened the gates and allowed a war party in to slaughter and capture the entire family the youngest child was murdered in front of her father another john otis who was then killed and his third wife and two young sons were marched off to french canada the boys were raised by priests who pronounced their name oddise and their mother was married to a frenchman years later after the frenchman died she left her french children behind and walked alone back to new york there was a surviving son in new york who was later killed by indians when walking home from church another as yet unrelated branch of my family was also in new york and i m reminded of this part of my family when i see signs for the mohawk valley and herkimer new york in germany in the 1600s there was an area called the palatines where for decades people were starving warfare and bad weather had ruined crops and thousands of people left many walked to amsterdam and found passage to england and too many stayed in amsterdam there was a false rumor that england would give them land soon there were too many palatine refugees in london the english queen anne i think solved a couple problems by sending the germans to settle on land grants between the english settlers and the indians a clever buffer or line of defense for the english settlers one of the palatine families was the spanknebles anglicized spelling and they had a son johan our family needed another john who fought in the bloodiest battle of the american revolution the battle of oriskany under general herkimer when this brave young man pioneered in illinois many years later his name had evolved into john sponable his daughter married harris otis and became my second great grandmother her beloved husband was killed by an exploding anvil when celebrating the union winning the battle of vicksburg she took her four childen to vermont to be raised with family back where most of the otis family still lived someday i ll get to go to a green mountain rug show and tell the stories about that era in the family last year i met otis cousins who live on the original sponable land grant in marengo illinois i slept sunday night at a new york rest stop somehow on monday i stayed on 90 all the way to buffalo and found my way to the bridge back to canada in buffalo i thought about millard fillmore nephew of my great grandmother s great grandfather his grandfather would be my sixth great grandfather but that is too complicated to sort out and i quickly got into ontario and forgot all about family stories i was southwest of toronto for a while and even toyed with the idea of staying there overnight and surprising jo anne at her new store on tuesday but the pull of home and gibby and gadget and patches was too strong a few hours in ontario the 403 to the 401 and then the 402 and then the bluewater bridge from sarnia to port huron and i was back in michigan an hour or so from home with lots of fantastic memories of old salt and the hooked rug museum posted by rughooker at 9 04 2013 10 53 00 pm no comments wednesday august 28 2013 ferry to tancook island four of us took the ferry to tancook island today there was quite a bit of fog but the ride was very smooth little tancook and big tancook are the islands i can see from my bedroom window at old salt we boarded the ferry at chester the ferry went first to little tancook then big tancook where we got off and walked to the local and only restaurant at the top of a hill that was steeper than it looks suzanne and sherry had fish chowder while lucy and i were treated to the last two lobster sandwiches in the restaurant very good lobster sandwiches when we returned to chester we went over to suzanne s house to spend some time with hugh who knows more about the history involved with rug hooking than any person alive he is an energizer bunny when it comes to doing historical research and he shared some of that with us today too bad the day didn t hold more hours for the evening lucy richard demonstrated her wooly mason jar dye system by organizing an exact system of measurement lucy has taken complications out of dyeing if you can understand a color wheel with primary secondary and tertiary colors you could become an expert swatch dyer using the wooly mason jar system that was a pretty full day so i m off to bed posted by rughooker at 8 28 2013 10 09 00 pm no comments tuesday august 27 2013 hooked rug museum the pictures show a very small portion of the rugs on display in the galleries of the hooked rug museum of north america the last photo shows a rug hooked with burlap on burlap throughout the museum there are rug collections organized by theme such as rug patterns by edward sands frost or rugs that depict the story of the war of 1812 etc in addition to enjoying the museum today we did some shopping at frenchy s in bridgewater and liverpool which meant lots of driving i ve added more than 400 miles to my odometer since my arrival at old salt tomorrow i m looking forward to a ferry ride to tancook island if rain doesn t ruin our plans posted by rughooker at 8 27 2013 10 06 00 pm no comments mahone bay we spent today in mahone bay the town famous for it s churches there are a number of churches right on the bay three of them have tall steeples and those three often end up as paintings and rug hooking patterns we had lunch haddock chowder across the bay from the churches but visibility wasn t great so my photography suffered after lunch we went shopping at encompassing designs a great rug hooking supply store right on the main street of this lovely old fashioned town we also did some antiqueing during the day found some great old rug hooks and other essential collectibles we got back to blandford just in time to have fish and chips at a nearby restaurant one of my purchases today was a book about the history of blandford my bedtime reading for tonight posted by rughooker at 8 27 2013 12 01 00 am no comments monday august 26 2013 peggy s cove yesterday went by too fast pam and i spent the afternoon with suzanne at the museum i was surprised that two of the visitors were yahookers phyllis smith and her daughter joanne funny when you meet people you ve known for a long time on the internet they don t look at all the way you had them pictured i thought phyllis was a tall willowy dark haired tallulah bankhead esque sort of person but i was wrong she s my kind of person we went to peggy s cove and saw the lighthouse pictured in dozens of mats donated to the museum by the wonderful people in ontario after seeing so many hooked versions of the lighthouse it seemed appropriate to view it in person while we were there we had a delicious dinner of baked stuffed lobster tail we had a corner table in the restaurant so i could see the ocean to my right and to my left wonderful place to eat the early settlers in peggy s cove were given land grants for this area and although it s a very popular tourist area now i think they got the raw end of the stick the land is all rock not rocky rock solid giant rocks of granite no soil for farming no soil to support a shade tree no soil just huge gray rocks fortunately those brave souls could make a living on the ocean because the land sure wasn t going to help them so it was an isolated fishing village on the very rocky coast of st margaret s bay we drove around on the other side of the bay when we drove down the aspotogan peninsula to get to old salt in that bay 15 years ago a swiss air plane crashed and all on board were lost there are memorials on both sides of the bay to those lost on that flight one man i met on saturday thought i was a family member of someone lost and thought i had come such a long way because the 7th is the 15th anniversary of the crash the fishermen on both sides of the bay went out to the crash to rescue survivors but there weren t any they had to deal with the gruesomeness of finding hundreds of bodies the local people took in the family members back then and would probably be just as kind today posted by rughooker at 8 26 2013 08 23 00 am 1 comment sunday august 25 2013 old salt blandford nova scotia i m up early at old salt this morning enjoying the sunrise and some toast made from homemade bread hugh and suzanne brought over yesterday they came to visit early in the morning but i had already left to see them at the museum i took a wrong turn and ended up miles well kilometers in the wrong direction before i turned around and actually got to the museum i was able to do a lot of sightseeing and a little yard saleing along the way there were only a few small things that caught my eye and my wallet at the yard sales i bought a ...