Stella da Lodi's Online Notebook
Records of Stella's Adventures in the Current Middle Ages
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I had 5 or 6 cotton bolls that were either ripe or mostly ripe, and I picked the seeds out during Arts & Science Night this week. Mistress Argent was also in attendance, and she graciously tested out my tahkli, a tiny Indian-style spindle for spinning cotton. Mine is made of metal. So it is,…
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I am usually meticulous about my garden records. Seeds go into the ground with labels that specify their variety. Plants are transplanted with labels. Everything is labelled! For science![1] Not this year, 2025 CE. This spring all of my gardening energy and a good deal of my life force itself was consumed by groundhogs. Please…
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stelladalodi.org was once a Google Site, back in the day before Google decided to drop Sites unless you bundle it with a bunch of other expensive stuff that I don’t need. So this is my first foray into WordPress. I’ve built web sites from scratch back in the day and I’m familiar with SquareSpace. WordPress…