It’s the birthday!
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 [...]
Of wild boar and squeaky toys
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 [...]
Its a dogs life
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) [...]
He spins!
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 [...]
Oh, the agony of de feet
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 [...]
I am restless and I own Modge Podge
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 [...]
Just clowning around
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 [...]
Alpaca, lawn care, and marriage
I set aside the cotton spinning for a while and returned to the forlorn looking spindle of lace weight alpaca. Ah, spindling where have you been? This is the same red/brown baby alpaca that I was spinning. It so lovely and soft. It’s weird how wire hard singles can turn into the loftiest softest yarn [...]
Of cotton yarn and chickens
I decided to go easy on myself with this next bobbin of cotton yarn. I’m using the unsupported long draw method so the single is about 3 times the diameter of my first cotton yarn with roughly half less twist. The spinning is still slow, a little faster due to the bulk of the yarn. [...]
Humans of Earth
“We come in pieces. Take us to your litter.” My husband said “Someone took all the sunshine and tubby toast and left these dead bodies.” Lexi said “Ok, my kitties.” Josey said “Why don’t they have tails?” Greta says “…” And that about sums it up doesn’t it?
