Diana Oleson For those of you who are new to Robson Ranch, welcome! We hope that you will join us for knitting, crochet, hand embroidery, counted cross-stitch, weaving, macramé, and needlepoint. This club is free to join and classes are free as well. The Needle Crafter’s will not be meeting in August, but will resume…
Jaine Toth Calling all authors and poets! The Robson Ranch writers’ group, Write On…, is re-forming after a hiatus of several years. Are you busy at work on a novel, memoir, children’s book, magazine article, poetry, opinion piece for the newspaper, or any other literary project? Have you begun something but find yourself struggling? Or have…
Sue Bart President Diana Jones challenged members this past spring to make a quilt using only supplies they already had and trying a new technique they hadn’t used before. The most important rule was that the maker could not buy anything new for this quilt. Even the batting and backs had to come from the member’s…
Pat Sand The Roving Ranchers were off and roving again. On June 24, the Ranchers drove to Tucson, meeting up at a local McDonald’s on Catalina Highway. After we grouped together, we drove up to the top of Mount Lemmon. Although it was a hot day in the desert with temps in the upper 90s,…
David Zapatka While reading page 52 of The Labours of Hercules by Alice A. Bailey in my book-reading group, I ran across this sentence. “Let the soul be single in its purpose and freed from the thraldom of matter, and then right action and a right point of view will inevitably be the characteristics of the…
Martha Spillane Gourds are believed to be one of the earliest cultivated species. Because the only known population of wild gourds exist in certain areas of Africa, archaeologists have theorized that prehistoric humans who lived near the rivers on the west coast of Africa first used the small gourds that grow wild in these environments as…