Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 9hYes! I'm an old gal from a very politically active family. My children and grandchild have inherited the family's progressive politics--never missing an election. I truly hope that other young people--right or left--have learned from the current situation will vote in Nov and beyond. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 17hYes, this year's ballot was short. Just 3 local issues--changes in wording of ordinances and purchase of a new firetruck. When we lived in CA, the ballots were very long with many referendums resulting from an almost 50/50 state legislature. Very little got done there. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 18hIn Maine we apply for "no excuse" absentee ballots at the town office. The local election official can assure you that your signature on the application--as early as 10/5 this year--will be match the one on the ballot envelope opened on 11/3. Or vote early right in the town office. 110
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Last Dec. it was Nation River Finger--after I reminded the nurse that I'd been given Banana Chair Sunrise 3 years in a row. In June my 84-year-old husband only recalled 2 of his words. He was in pain from pancreatitis at the time (the reason I was present), so he got a pass. 120
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Things haven't changed in the frat world since the 1960s--and well before that time. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026However, the Chinese government dependance on technocrats brought about the one child policy, which this simple English lit. major could have told them would not work out well in the long run. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026And yet another example of Reflecting Pool Level of Incompetence (swiped for another Bluesky member). Jude in China (Maine) 000
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Delightful! I'll see if my cousin in "the other Portland" has see this. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Big bowl of rice with a little soy sauce and too much cheese peeks in. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We'll have another frost any minute now, so these monkshood flowers may not open. However, all parts of the plant are poisonous... 040
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#ShowMeYourKnits Weel 115, getting ready for Halloween. I knit this little bat a few years ago. The pattern is Boo the Bat by Anna Hrachovec. 1290
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes--50 years of natural dyeing. In another 100, I'll know quite a bit. (I do knit, etc., with "unnaturally" dyed when I find something that meets my yarn snob standards.) 040
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Maine Craft Association Open Studio weekend: always a good reason to tidy up the studio and do some dyeing on the deck. I dyed my much worn, much-loved T-shirts from past Common Ground Country Fairs with marigolds and walnut hulls. This fall's foliage is spectacular 😀due to the drought ☹️. 1241
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#ShowMeYourKnits Week 114. Show me your socks. Here are a few favorites: scrappy socks, naturally dyed marigold socks, and an Xmas stocking. 0211
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#ShowMeYourSocks Week 114. Show me your socks. Here are a few favorites: scrappy socks, naturally dyed marigold socks, and an Xmas stocking. 040
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Reflecting Pool level of incompetence" is one of my favorite gems from a Bluesky member. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Reflecting pool level of incompetence" is another favorite line stolen from a Bluesky member. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There may be openings at Four Seasons Landscaping. 110
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here's my "I survived" the 50th Common Ground Country Fair T-shirt. A talk and 2 demos each day. I dyed my shirt with Coreopsis tinctoria (Dyer's Coreopsis). Now I'm going to dye the other shirts from my 5 years. Looking forward to doing it again in 2027. 020
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#ShowMeYourKnits. This week I'm recovering from 3 days of giving natural dyeing demos at the fair. 7 rows to go on the left armhole of my vest, then sew down the facings, weave in the ends, block and add the buttons. My granddaughter has picked out the colors for her cardigan--my fall project. 1160
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My family was in the hotel business from 1907-1987. Check out time was 11am going back to WWII, if not further. If the next guests arrived before lunch, it wasn't a problem for them if the cottage or room wasn't quite ready for them. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Common Ground Country Fair! Every year I give talks and demos on natural dyeing each day in exchange for 2 T-shirts and free parking. Then I crawl back under my rock for a month. But this year the first 1/2 of Oct. brings an Open Studio weekend followed by a week in NJ with the in-laws 090
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Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#ShowMeYourKnits This week its Golds & Ambers Here are some of mine, all naturally dyed: dyer's coreopsis; goldenrod; dyer's coreopsis; dandelion & onion. 0310
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Another dyer friend brought 3 indigo vats (different formulations) to a local Farmers Market. I was hanging out with spinners and knitters, but at the day's end I dyed a bandana, then bought a lovely loaf of Maine-grown whole wheat and a delicious cardamom bun. 0110
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#Showmeyourknits. This is scarf/scarves week. My favorites. Scandinavian sampler. Feather & Fan. Advent Calendar-Scarf 2012 Kristin Benecken, (naturally dyed with onion skins). Alma's scarf, Mareike Sattler pattern. Natural dye sampler. My Year in Temperatures, Kristen Cooper pattern. 0302
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm pleased with the vest that I'm knitting for myself. It will look more like a sweater vest soon. 1200
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm a dyer. Does anyone really want to calculate 7% of 3 1/2 ounces? 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Why did it take so long to do this? The American ingenuity we learned about in elementary school in the 1950s--My Weekly Reader--has become secondary, tertiary, to $$$. 010
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#showmeyourknits What's on the needles? Another Fair Isle vest for me. My usual method with several traditional stitch patterns. V-neck cardigan, steeked. 0110
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Why does the US name military bases for traitors? 100
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The most interesting of the Chinese eggplants in this year's garden...so far. 090