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This wooven throw/blanket came to the US with Johanna Bosk Winberg in about 1900. She immigrated...

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Her great granddaughter is Janet, who teaches weaving. I try to show many angles of this so she can see how it was made.

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I hope Janet can tell me how this was made. The wool was probably sheared off a sheep, dyed this color and spun into yarn.

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I recieved this when Matt Winberg died and the articles in the house in Manistique were being...

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When I was in Purtom Finland, there in the museum was the same throw and the same colors.

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Bill died. I selected this painting of his that he did in the early 1970's. Kim helped me hang...

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This is another painting of Bill's. He gave me this many years ago for my birthday. Then he needed it back, so now it is home with me.

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The glass on my fireplace is opening up and letting cold air into this room. The white envelope is there to better show the size of the opening.

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What a pleasur this garage is. I wanted a photo of it in the sun. It is below zero, My car is inside out of the wind.

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It is a BIG building with room for many kinds of projects.

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Kim is planning to build a counter along this east wall, of really choice pieces of boards that...

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A truck is delivering shingles for the roof.

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Uploaded on Dec 20, 2011

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A belt carries the heavy bundles of shingles from the delivery truck to the roof of the garage.

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Yesterday these men laid plywood on the whole roof surface. I think they also laid rolled roofing paper over this plywood.

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Photo taken from the front door.

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Burning red bush is covered with red berries for bird food this winter.

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Uploaded on Dec 20, 2011

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