Afternoon at LARS

A week ago we were taking care of the weaving guild booth at the Large Animal Research Station (aka Musk ox farm). We had a crappy little loom for the kids to try out, but I also got to visit some animals:

One of the ladies

Two yearlings

Photos from Rajesh

We just got back from a week at NYU Abu Dhabi, working with Rajesh there. Here are some of the pictures he sent us:

At the Grand Mosque

At the Grand Mosque - the wind kept blowing my hood off

With Dennis at the Dubai Mall

With Rajesh at the Dubai Mall

Dubai Mall

With Rajesh at Burj Khalifa

At a nice Turkish restaurant

Turkish restaurant with Xianwei, Dennis and Rajesh

Random images

Some weather, some other stuff:

Winter virga??

Sunrise last week

Tai chi demo at Open House

Chinese New Year party with Cold Steel panners

Chinese New Year party on campus

With Carlo in New Orleans

Dog mushing!

I had a friend come to visit who wanted to try mushing. So we did! We drove to Nenana where there's a big kennel and did four miles out and four miles back. We took turns, one in the front sled, the other on the back sled - in control of the brake at least.

I must say we were darned lucky with the weather - it was close to 30 F. I would have needed more mittens if it was any colder. It didn't feel like we went very far, but we were still outside for about two hours, including helping put the dog harnesses on. Chris asked us to help move dogs, but that didn't go well. Heh.

Chris getting the dogs ready

We made it back

Chris putting things away

Potatoes

Before all that snow, Rob told me the ground was too hard for digging potatoes. It has since warmed up somewhat and I knew the driveway under the snow was soft. Today I finally went out for the potatoes:

It's not necessarily more potatoes than ever before, but there's more big ones for sure.

Change of seasons

Earlier this month Rob and I went berry picking and I took some pictures in honor of the Knitsonik book on knitwear design:

Lingons were good this year

Mushrooms were out too

Since then, I've taken some more pictures:

View towards Denali, no mountain today

Tanana river through the trees

View from the garage, showing the bottom of the Mazda leaving scrape marks last Friday

Snow-plow action

Snow on the trees

Sun came out (view from Seth and Jen's)

We shovelled last Friday and Saturday and now we've spent another day shovelling on and off again. It's still snowing...

Another rainbow

This was last week sometime as I was leaving work: