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I made a batch of soap just before Christmas and it’s fully cured now.  I am very pleased with the final results (the lather is really nice and my skin smells so good.) I used coconut oil, virgin olive oil, dried senna, and some pink lime essential oil. This was one of those batches that [...]

Since August every second of my spare time has revolved mainly around my new dogs and making sure my children didn’t feel neglected due to my spending so much time with the dogs. The spindles and wheels went into the closet along with my yarn, fibers, needles, guitar, nice trousers, and paint supplies. In part, [...]

Three days ago Matt and I went to go see two Great Danes, fully intending on taking home just one(if any, we’re picky like that.) I even gave Matt a standard speech about how same sex bonded pairs of dogs were more or less a myth, the results of humans anthropomorphizing dog emotions into a [...]

Today is Lexi’s birthday, the Lex monster is 5 years old. Right now she’s celebrating by eating a small box of white chocolate. 5 year old + sugar= oh dear what have I done!? Her birthday party was on the 2nd, so today is more or less going to be a quiet affair with some [...]

Great Danes were originally bred for hunting wild boar. When hunting wild boar went out of vogue, Great Danes evolved into the biggest sissy dogs on the planet. I tried to get Greta to tap into her primal ancestry and give me a noble boar hunting face. We tried using the squeaky ball to imitate [...]

This buxom blond is Miss Sunnie, she’s 2 years old and a complete sweetheart. She’s also a typical lab personality; open, friendly and full of energy. Newest member of the household. She’s also a little tuckered out at the moment. Sunny is a leash puller, which (seeing as how she’s a hundred pounds of motivation) [...]

I brought the Traveler out and cozied myself up next to the fire to spin some BFL and Josey asked if he could use the Traddy. Does a bear live in the woods? He armed himself with some wool, I set the drive band and tension for him, put a drop of oil on the [...]

A few days ago I managed to stub my toe with such force that I split the toe nail down to the cuticle. Right near the middle of the nail too. If you live within a 3000 mile radius of my house it’s possible that you heard a string of profane observations on the character [...]

One of the great traditions in our home is the tooth fairy box. That’s right. No pillows to find in darkened rooms, the convenient tooth fairy box hangs oh-so-nicely on the bedroom door because, oddly enough, the tooth fairy hands out extra bling if she doesn’t risk exposure or steps on tiny extremely painful Lego [...]

I am the cute little kid in the front, the taller cute (but not nearly as cute as me) little kid behind me is my sister. The note on the back of this picture says “Church clown day: Tina 2nd place, Wendy 3rd place.” No one bothered to write down the year. I’d totally forgotten [...]