There’s just something about having all your hay ready and waiting before the snow flies that just makes you feel good. Ahhhh. To me this is a very pretty picture.
(8) 4’x5′ 700 lbs round bales stacked and under a tarp sitting and waiting for a January snow storm warning to be set out in the field for worry free winter chores. This year I’m going to try using the Big Bale Buddy. I’ll keep you posted on how I like it.
Twin fawns munching in the back yard.
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I had some fun with needle felting today and made this little chickadee. I think next time I make a bird it needs to be much bigger. It’s very hard to needle felt small objects!
I”m sorry for the poor quality of the photo, I took it with my cell.
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New 8/7/09
Here’s photos of the above Chickadee’s bigger friend.
I had a nice quiet weekend and with mother nature constantly raining on us I had the opportunity to spin on my drop spindle again. I spun up a nice 3 ply yarn out of my boy CoHo. The fiber I used raw neck fiber. No washing, no carding, just brushed the top out and spun. I’m very happy with the result. It’s fuzzy and very soft.
Since it is neck fiber it did have some guard hair in it. I picked out some as I brushed but in the end it didn’t seem to add any scratchy feeling to the finished yarn. I put the skein around my neck and it was cuddly soft so I’m not concerned with the guard hairs I missed.
This skein will hopefully be enough to finish my scarf I started last week. Since I’m using a small drop spindle I usually only can spin and ply about 50 yards at a time. Blah.
The photo was taken before I put the twist in it so it’s loose, you can see it’s a nice tight spin 3 ply. Some of the plys came out really neat black, grey, and almost white stripped. I can’t wait to crochet it.
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