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Icky Icky week at work. Won’t even go there. I’m just thankful for a three day weekend coming up! Yay!!! I’m going to finish my second fingerless glove and attempt to write the pattern for it. That may be quite interesting. I promise a photo (again to the legions of readers here - hee hee) of said gloves this weekend.
Terry
By now I’m sure everyone is running around in last minute holiday preparations. Me? Heh. My kitchen looks like the baking aisle of Fred Meyer’s blew up all over. I’m on my fourth recipe (power-turbo-baking!). I’ve only screwed up one recipe by getting ahead of the text. We won’t mention that one again.
Last weekend I took a walk - got cabin feverish and there aren’t too many winter days I get the chance to take a leisurely walk down the road behind our place. There was some icey snow residual from the day before on the cotoneaster…
Here’s a view from our backyard
That’s a large hill (small peak?) across the draw from us - they logged most of it off and left the trees at the top. I think it’s nice that they leave some trees, but makes the hills around here look funny. That’s our garden space in the foreground….and I see the wheelbarrow upright again. Hmmm, I always make a point of leaving that upside down so it doesn’t collect water (and skeeters during the summer). Guess that’s one skill my husband hasn’t yet mastered. Heh.
Here’s a fern that is coated in ice - everything had this coating all over it. It reminded me of freezing rain: beautiful to look at, absolutely horrid to drive in!
I didn’t take too many goat pictures - they never seem to look very nice in the snow (because they are piggies at feeding time and they’re not clean). White goats don’t look so hot against a white, snowy background. And just to prove it - here’s my BIG Pygora wether (type A fleece for those who want to know), Mr. Thunder! He is a real sweetie pie! He got loose once this summer (that rarely happens around here, really!). I just called him and he came walking up to me and let me lead him back to the pasture. I gave him a nice treat for being so helpful! We, of course, couldn’t figure out HOW in the WORLD he escaped!
I’ve heard many of my PBA friends tell folks - if water can run through your fence - a goat can escape through it! Wow! Well, it seemed Thunder found a place in our fencing (cattle panel fencing, mind you!) where we had forgotten to place two clips. Once we found this, we were amazed that none of the other goats had found this.
Here’s one of our kitties, enjoying the snow - this is Scooter.
We’d had a horrible wind storm a week prior to this walk, so I was looking for lichen all along my way. Here’s a blurry shot of some lichen I found, and then a shot of my favorite lichen producing maple tree:
My walk was taken fairly early in the morning, and I was lucky enough to be rewarded with a wildlife presence. There is an elk herd that lives around us - and I got to see three large cows this morning. I apparently don’t have a high-powered camera with a super zoom lens on it (and I didn’t want to spook what I hope are three pregnant cows), so this photo isn’t the best
One of the cows, the “look-out” cow, actually barked at me. Guess it was time to head back home and leave them to their morning feeding. When I arrived in my backyard, I spotted a rose! Wow!
One more goat pic! This is Alfalfa, another type A white wether
I have been working on an original design this winter - nothing too fancy - lacey fingerless glove pattern. I actually finished one glove and have begun the second glove using my previously written notes. Hee hee - we’ll see how good (or bad) of a pattern-writer I am! Pics after Christmas!
I hope you all have a wonderfully stress-free, family-filled, peaceful holiday season!
God Bless!
Terry
Check out Cyndy’s blog entry (http://riverrim.blogspot.com/ ) for December 4.
She has a photo of some of her stunningly gorgeous yarn – beautiful color, lustrous and ethereal, almost dreamy. She speaks of spinning yarn when the world begins to go by too fast. If you’re a spinner, you know she is speaking the truth. Just think of all the yarn you’ve spun, but have you turned it all into knitted or woven items? While there is definitely great satisfaction in knitting with yarn that you’ve spun yourself, the act of spinning it is often far more relaxing and fulfilling.
I don’t have much time available for spinning these days. My days are far too full of commuting, working inside an office cubicle for five days a week, or doing chores around the farm. But I cherish the time when I can sit at my wheel and let the cares of the world flow away from me. With each draft of the fiber, as I watch it twist and flow through the orifice onto the bobbin, I think of the beautiful creatures from which the fleece was harvested, and of all the people over the eons who have spun fiber in much the same way as I do today. Spinning is almost melodic with its rhythms and soft whirring sounds, creating feelings of peace and contentment.
While spinning alone is meditative for me, spinning in a group situation with friends and others is a wonderful way of communicating, of sharing and laughing, and being amazed at the wonderful creativity of human beings.
I often find myself going to Cyndy’s blog at the end of a rather hectic business day. Unlike me, Cyndy is not digital camera challenged and always has the most hauntingly beautiful photos of water, nature and wonderful wildlife. Her writings and photos give me a chance to catch my breath, relax and reflect before my long drive home. Thanks, Cyndy!
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Here on the farm, things are quite noisy! This is the height of the rut and the boys are strutting their stuff, roaring and growling at each other, and trying to get dates through the fence. Unfortunately, my place is not so large that I am afforded the luxury of having a lot of space between does and bucks. There is one small area where they share a common fence line and, after days of being battered by the boys, the fence loosened up a bit along the bottom. Somehow, a VERY determined doe managed to limbo her big body under that fence (no easy feat, believe me because this is an Angora doe with a full set of HORNS!) and spent about 20 minutes in with six bucks. Gads, what a time I had trying to get her out of there! She had had FAR too much attention from them and was really wanting out of there at that point. Needless to say, she will be getting a Lutylase shot in about 8 days to “undo” anything that might have happened. No more “oops” babies for me!
Merry Christmas and Happy Spinning to everyone!