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More Dottie muffins

more yarn

more hat

more rain

Lots more rain. So, no more hoophouse this week

And, with that, January is a wrap.

Turned 50 this week. Acknowledging but not dwelling on it.

Time flies when you’re having fun. And keeping busy.

With that in mind, I’ll just give a brief update on the hoophouse-

We were able to get a little more work done on the north endwall on Saturday, which was beautiful- sunny and about 42 degrees. (About as good as it gets here in January. ) We’re in the home stretch now, but the windows of opportunity are smaller and smaller.

Boo Kitten was also out enjoying some time in the sun- caught here indulging in some catnip remnants in a garden bed

Today is much colder and cloudy. Better suited to spinning.

Elsa is doing a fabulous job on some nice dark brown wool from deep in the stash. She’s such a smooth, solid spinner. And there is something really satisfying about the workings of an antique spinning wheel- the whir of the flyer, the beat of the treadle.

We make a pretty good pair, me and Elsa. Couple of old wool junkies.

This past week we had a major windstorm that brought a big chunk of one of our trees down.

Was thankful it didn’t land on top of anything, but will probably take quite a while to clean up.

Lots of trees (and other things) down in the area- we were without power wed-friday, and didn’t get internet back until Saturday morning.

The generator kept us in heat and coffee, but no internet meant I couldn’t work from home. So I was observing Covid protocols and going into the office for a couple of days.

Perhaps it was best to be off the web for a few days, as it gave me a bit of a break from the news cycle.

Spinning has been a comfort amidst all this craziness. I’m continuing to crank out the Dottie yarn, and have three lovely shades now

Meanwhile, the girl herself is busy out in the pasture growing another big fluffy fleece-

And work continues on the hoophouse – south end twinwall is done!

We’re getting there–

Wow. That was one hell of a week, eh?

For the record, Senior Trump official: “We were wrong. He’s a Fascist.”

Here’s hoping we can hang on and hold our democracy together until Jan 20.

Here locally, I am distracting myself with wool, per usual. More squishy feel-good yarn

And, we’ve made a start on the twinwall installation on the hoophouse

Which is awesome, because our garden seed just came in the mail.

Just trying to stay productive and focusing on what (little) I can control.

Take care, and stay safe folks-