mother nature must have read my pissy blog entry because the temperature went down by about 20 degrees since then! wow! what a difference-i had to put the feather comforter back on the bed-after sleeping with nothing but a sheet for covers. crazy i tell you!
liam's hen-kamakaze has always been very social-in fact she tries to get in the house all the time. the boys always leave the door open so i always find evidence of her and the other girls coming in the house.
it's not so bad when they leave these little gifts on the linoleum, but on the carpet-that's a different story. i start yelling "no chickens in the house!" but then i started finding kama in the house with the door closed. hmmm? what the? then i started finding her on our bed.
i realized she has figured out how to come in thru the cat door! can you believe it? i got a couple of seconds of it on video but then my camera went out of memory-damn! of all the times. i'll try and post it anyway................ oops! sorry! can't seem to upload the video-i'll keep trying.
now i'm yelling-"No chickens in the bed!!!!"
been doing some dying-not many pictures though-here's a bit: buttery soft merino!
here it is plied and complete:
i over-dyed some very very pale pink yarn i spun up and wasn't quite happy with the color-here it is now:
much better. i had some of the green and raspberry left over -so i mixed them together for a fun color experiment.--i'm sure many of you who know anything about color theory are thinking-is she nuts? she just mixed pink and green together!!!! i of course love the outcome-and am spinning it now. sorry no pics right now-will post later.
i had a great rainy-yes rainy day today(my favorite weather-i love that song by garbage-"I'm only happy when it rains.") anyway- my friend lynn and i went to the
farm store today-remember where "insulator" got his new home-to spin for a special memorial day celebration. i actually sold 2 skeins of yarn-i wasn't expecting to sell anything-so i was happy. i got a crock of local butter too!
i have much more to post about but i'm ignoring the family again and need to get off this time sucking device-later!
it's not so bad when they leave these little gifts on the linoleum, but on the carpet-that's a different story. i start yelling "no chickens in the house!" but then i started finding kama in the house with the door closed. hmmm? what the? then i started finding her on our bed.
i realized she has figured out how to come in thru the cat door! can you believe it? i got a couple of seconds of it on video but then my camera went out of memory-damn! of all the times. i'll try and post it anyway................ oops! sorry! can't seem to upload the video-i'll keep trying.
here it is plied and complete:
i over-dyed some very very pale pink yarn i spun up and wasn't quite happy with the color-here it is now:
much better. i had some of the green and raspberry left over -so i mixed them together for a fun color experiment.--i'm sure many of you who know anything about color theory are thinking-is she nuts? she just mixed pink and green together!!!! i of course love the outcome-and am spinning it now. sorry no pics right now-will post later.
i have much more to post about but i'm ignoring the family again and need to get off this time sucking device-later!
we are at the end of our lettuce i'm surprised it hasn't bolted yet-bastard heat.
it's so damn hot-and i know i'm being whiner baby-but it's the weekend-and it's too hot to do anything. can't knit, can't spin, can't garden, can't root jack, and forget house cleaning-shit! i spent the morning giving chicken butt baths-long story and i'm too bloody hot to go into the details-sorry i have no pictures but liam is sick(my action photo expert) and the chickens were already stressed out to begin with and making them wait and pose in a tub of water seemed rather cruel. i guess i'll just have to go to ravelry(one of my many drugs of choice and find some groovy new free knitting patterns.) another reason for some slight pissiness-i'm recovering from a wicked blow of poison oak- can you say "elephant woman?" here i am dressed and ready to go to town-
i know i should be solar dyeing but i can't even manage that-i'm pathetic!
happy mother's day to all you beautiful wonderful mothers everywhere- i thank you deeply for all you do.
my garden made radishes:
i'm busy spinning and knitting a baby bonnet order-i'm about half way done.
the wild irises are blooming-check out the poison oak-which is why i'm itching like hell.
hubby has a new homebrew:
my neighbor-who has a menagerie of animals , just got some new goats. well, they have decided they like it over here and are escaping and loving the clover and what little greenery we have. the first time it happened-we had 3 goats-with "horns" find their way over. they were in heaven. i called the neighbor and she was not home. we managed to get 2 of the 3 on leashes. what to do???? you can't just let them hang at night-mountain lions on the prowl and now they have babies to feed!!! so we finally got a hold of her via cell phone-she was about 45 minutes away. the neighbor kids helped liam and i walk the goats home having to fend off rogue aikida dogs and traffic on the road. keep in mind these poor goats have only been in their new home 3 days. now they are being leashed and walked avoiding dog attacks etc. we made it to the neighbor and showed her the possible escape route. and by the way-we named the 2 we were able to leash- rosebud and billie sue(after srg. colepepper's daughter in " it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world") the other goat ran into the woods.
bye rosebud!!! she was so sweet!
