{"id":3910,"date":"2016-01-12T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2016-01-12T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:31:58","slug":"meeting-friends-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Friends along the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few days have brought some nice surprises in meeting new friends and reconnecting with old friends.\u00a0 A woman who sometimes leaves comments on this blog let me know that she arrived in Ft. Pierce on her boat.\u00a0 We just missed each other last year, and this year we almost missed each other again. \u00a0Bob and I had already left Ft. Pierce, but as luck would have it, we had to return to revisit the yard that did some work on Pandora<\/em>\u00a0that did not get finished.\u00a0 After a half day there we decided to spend a night at the marina where Laura is spending the winter.<\/p>\n

Laura is a weaver who also writes a blog called Laura’s Loom<\/a>, where she chronicles her weaving and living aboard their 44′ SeaRay each winter.\u00a0The tapestry weaving community might be an even smaller world than the sailing community, so I should not have been surprised to learn that Laura knows Don Burns (from the Wednesday Group) and had taken a class with him years ago.\u00a0 When I visited Laura on her boat Dream Weaver<\/em>\u00a0I found her spinning some handpainted silk roving on her sweet Hansen electric spinner.\u00a0 That gave me quite a pang that I left my spinner and some new silk roving at home.\u00a0 Sigh\u2026<\/p>\n

That evening she and her husband stopped by our boat and I had a great time learning more about Laura’s weaving getting to know her and her husband a bit. \u00a0I don’t really want to show this photo, where for some reason I am wearing the ugliest shirt I own! \u00a0Egads<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Yesterday morning I met another Wednesday Grouper, Rita, who spends her winters down here.\u00a0 She and I were the only groupers who did not make it to last week\u2019s WG reunion.\u00a0 We commiserated a bit over that, but mostly just enjoyed catching up with each other.\u00a0 Rita recently finished a wonderful tapestry for her granddaughter — the New York City skyline at sunset in beautiful oranges and golds, with her granddaughter leaping over it in a bright red dress and black Chuck Taylors with red shoe laces!\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun piece\u2014sorry I don\u2019t have the image!\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to trust me on that!<\/p>\n

Then last night we had old friends from New Jersey onboard for dinner.\u00a0 Bob used to work with Linda, before she retired and moved down to Florida with her husband. \u00a0Now that Bob has also retired we try to see them each year as we head south.\u00a0 It was a beautiful night, though a tad breezy, for watching the sunset behind West Palm Beach and then to see all the lights come on in the buildings.\u00a0 It was a dramatic sight! –although this image came from the internet, not our camera. \u00a0Good wine, good conversation and a stunning view made for a great evening.<\/p>\n

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This morning I visited my favorite fabric store on the ICW–Mac Fabrics<\/a> in West Palm Beach. \u00a0What a shop! \u00a0I had a great time there last year, which resulted in a tote bag that I take everywhere. \u00a0This year the plan was to find fabrics for new throw pillows for new Pandora. \u00a0I love what I’ve put together–only possible at a place this great!<\/p>\n

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The small monk’s belt weave will be used for the piping on both fabrics.<\/p>\n

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As\u00a0 I write this Bob is buried in the back \u2018workshop\u2019 of Pandora<\/em>, storing all the things he\u2019s bought over the past couple of weeks.\u00a0 We have a replacement part for just about everything onboard\u2014from engine pieces to hoses for the sinks, filters for every item that has filters, belts\u2014you name it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot of stuff and everything has its place.<\/p>\n

Tonight we will have dinner in my favorite place along the entire ICW\u2014a French bistro called Pastiche.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it will be the best dinner of our whole trip because it always has been!\u00a0 Bon Appetit!<\/p>\n

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The past few days have brought some nice surprises in meeting new friends and reconnecting with old friends.\u00a0 A woman who sometimes leaves comments on this blog let me know that she arrived in Ft. Pierce on her boat.\u00a0 We just missed each other last year, and this year we almost missed each other again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}