These look promising

A profitable booke declaring dyuers approoued remedies, to take
out spottes and staines, in silkes, veluets, linnen and woollen
clothes [microform] : With diuers colours how to die veluets
and sylkes, linnen and woollen, fustian and threade Also to
dresse leather, and to colour felles. How to gild, grauve,
sowder, and vernishe. And to harden and make softe yron and
steele. Uery necessarie for all men, specially for those which
hath or shall haue any doinges therein: with a perfite table
hereunto, to finde all things readye, not the like reuealde in
Englishe heeretofore. Taken out of Dutche, and englished by
L.M.
PUBL INFO Imprinted at London : By Thomas Purfoote, dwelling in the newe
Rentes, 1588.
PHYS DESC [2], 78, [6] p.


A Short and trve relation concerning the soap-business
[microform] : containing the severall patents, proclamations,

orders, whereby the soape-makers of London, and other His
Majesties subjects were damnified by the gentlemen that were
the patentees for soape at Westminster with the particular
proceedings concerning the same.
PUBL INFO London : Printed for Nicholas Bourne ..., 1641.


Proceedings, minutes and enrolments of the Company of soapmakers,
1562-1642; edited by Harold Evan Matthews.


Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.
Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good
huswiferie [microform] : first deuised, & nowe lately augmented
with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and
other needefull matters : together with an abstract before
euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the saide moneth :
with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be
reade, for the better understandinge of the booke / set forth
by Thomas Tusser.
PUBL INFO [London] : Richard Tottill, 1573.

These are all available through an online website for Old English manuscripts, that appears to only be available while you are physically at the library. So, it looks like I still need to get there. Its riduculeous, I live about 3 miles, at most from these great research libraries, and am regularly within 1/2 a mile, and I still can't manage to actually get there. *sigh*

Cinnamon rolls

Dale at work was talking about cinnamon rolls this morning, not about CinnaBons or sticky buns, but good old fashioned cinnamon rolls... like Grandma's used to make. I told him to STOP! Talking about them, but he just kept mumbling about them all day, until I finally broke down, said to heck with the 3 day old diet and promissed that I would make some tonight and bring them in tomorrow. They are rising right now and I really should be working on diagrams for the class on Wednesday....

However, back to the diet. I have lost 5 pounds since last Wednesday, maybe it was water weight, don't really care, it was weight that wasn't budging off of me no matter what and now its gone. Michelle and I have entered into a No Chocolate and NO junk food during work hours pact. Soda is still in, in minimal quantities, as is Thai food, but chips and chocolate are gone. And NO CHEATING!

We'll see who lasts the longest.

Further news

Oh, and I really do mean to get either the pink dress or my new smock cut out this week. I need something to work on during Robin Netherton's lectures this weekend, and I think eyelets would be perfect.

Where HAS the summer gone to?