Today we checked chicken butts and treated for mites and lice. But you don’t want to see pictures of chicken butts, so I’ll share some yarn and seeds 🙂
Squishy!
Blendy!
And full of packets of possibilities that came in the mail a couple days ago.
Got a start on the pruning this weekend as well (small fruit trees and roses). Maybe photos later, once my forearms recover. Hope to tackle the Big Apple next weekend, weather permitting.
That’s about it from the homestead.
Have a good week-
Are this weeks yarn!
Very blendy. That was fun. But I wasn’t inclined to spend time carding this weekend, so this week’s spin is going to be a fancy Polwarth/Silk blend that I purchased a couple years ago from The Artful Ewe in Port Gamble, WA.
I’ve not decided yet how I’m going to approach it, but I’d like to get some decent yardage from it, so I can maybe use it in a sweater yoke- thinking it might look nice against Fiona’s soft beige-y tones.
And in anticipation of seed starting later this month, I took some time today to do some housecleaning- hoop house cleaning, that is.
Thankfully the twinwall cleans up pretty easily. Little bit of simple green. little bit of elbow grease.
And we’re off to a fresh start!
Oh- and I ordered some dye plant seeds from Botanical Colors today- Madder, Dyer’s Chamomile, Marigold, and Black Knight Scabiosa. Been meaning to get some madder started for a long time now, so nice to have taken the first step. 🙂
Have a great week folks-
But just barely 🙂
February will mean pruning fruit trees and roses, and starting garden seeds.
But in January, while things are still dormant, I have an opportunity to push back against the blackberries.
I’ll never manage to eradicate them from our property, but I try to at least set them back a bit each winter, because it’s amazing how huge they can grow in just one season.
Beautiful blackberry-pulling weather here this weekend. Sunny and cool. I made quite a bit of progress.
Now its just wisteria and salmonberry duking it out along the back fence. If I didn’t intervene, who do you think would win the territory battle? Worthy adversaries, I’d say.
In wool news, I’ve got a new hat-of-the week, again with a new motif from the Alterknits book
Not quite done and dusted, as I played yarn chicken and and came up short, so had to rework the last couple rounds. Another strong pattern contender, tho- and easier to memorize than the one a couple weeks back.
And I’ve been playing at the carder again, blending up some pretty batts to get me back behind the wheel(s)
The ones on the left are multi on a grey base, and the one on the right is on white. Sunshine and shadow.
So that’s about it here- oh, except that I got a menacing message through my contact form from someone who claims to have hacked my site and downloaded the database. Apparently if I don’t pay them a bunch of bitcoin within 72 hours bad things will happen. I think it’s BS, but if FullyFleeced is down on Wed, (after their compliance deadline) I guess we’ll know I was wrong, eh? At least I’ve got a backup.
Have a great week everyone! 🙂
First, thanks to everyone who came out for the Expo. Was a really fun day and I appreciated all the interest in prepping and spinning wool! ( anyone looking for the video bits from last year’s virtual wool processing class- you can find them at http://fullyfleeced.com/basics-of-wool-processing/ )
Was my first time in the new Stanwood High School building, and it is truly enormous. Nice that we were able to be in the same classroom the whole day, but hauling wheels and equipment in and out kind of wiped me out. In future I will be sure to make better use of the 4H helpers for that sort of thing.
Between morning and afternoon classes I had a chance to check out the trade show, where I picked up some neat stuff.
Local Honey from Bruce Bowen Bees ,
Artsy animal print notecards from Skagit Animals In Need
And, it turns out that one of the vendors, Skagit Gourmet Mushrooms, is right down the road from us! Chatted with Mark for a bit about the various types of ‘shrooms he grows, and came home with a King Oyster growing kit. So excited to get started with it
A good day all around, but rather exhausting. So today I hope to relax and re-charge.
Have a good week everyone! 🙂