I am healed up after my first over enthusiastic start and am now bsck to doing the excersizes with more restraint! Those sore muscles told me how mcuh I really need this but am trying to treat my body with more care now.
Moving on. The garden is starting to prodcue. It seems to like this hot weather as long as it gets the water it needs. I picked peas this morning, the first picking of my second crop. These are much bigger peas, much easier to shell also! Lots of tomatos developing and peppers. The cabbage family seems to be dealing with the heat okay and the squashes are thriving, as are my sunjflowers. I love those guys! Big strong sun dials!
But I’ve run into another problem and have to admit I need help here. My tech skills are just not up to it. I need to hire a tech manager for my business. I’d like someone also knowledgable in pin loom weaving, or at least crafts, who can understand what I am asking for when I say what I’d like to see on my web site. I had some guys make the site, they are pro’s at this but they don’t understand the craft and I can’t understand the tech. I’m at my wits end. They try to tell me what to do and each time I try I just make things worse! Now i’m not even sure the new web site is even useable. How do I find a person Who can help? I’d like someone who can work with these guys or take over and fix the site and then manage things for me; deal with social media, understand promotions, all that sort of thing. I can do the book keeping, and make the looms and projects but anything that needs tech … I mean, I am lucky to get this blog to work and if they ever “up date me” …?! Any ideas? Suggestions?
I got the edging finished & laid them out. It made a rather tiny rectangle so I decided to space them a bit more. I’ll go out to Le Shed and go through the bin of Rosy’s small skeins. I’m sure she spun somthing that will go with this. The problem will be to find a compatable wool, size, and yes, color. Sis didn’t often spin for a project. She spun because she enjoyed spinning. In fact, she enjoyed making yarn, often starting from skirting, washing, carding, & dying, and of course the spinning, but she like to experiment so finding yarns that go together can sometimes be a challenge. It turned out that for this layout I was one square short but I manasged to find enough useable bits to weave another square.
So this is where the ‘free time’ project is today.
I don’t nap in the bed. That is until today, and when I go to bed at night, I feel my way there, my night vision being negligible and all the lights out since He’s usually abed and asleep by the time I get there these days. But the point of this ramble is that, yes, I know there are spider webs on this window but as I cannot reach it, I don’t worry about it. And the dirtier it gets, the less the full moon will be keeping me awake each month. At least that is my attitude. But laying there this afternoon, I saw things from a different point of view. I laid there because I thought it might help straighten my back which gets pretty hunched by this time of day. Looking up I saw a really impressive net of webs in front of the glass. I’m glad I can’t see the ledge under this window because I have feeling that it’s probably littered with bug corpes! These ladies are pretty good at keeping the webs clean of this sort of thing, tho they do get dusty and instead of running their little vaccums they just weave new clean nets. Ah well. I tend to go for the easy cleaning also. I spotted 4 of them sitting patiently waiting. I think they are going to get hungry before more meals fly in since it is not getting very warm and we have another week of clouds and possible showers so nothing open for fliers in. For perspective, this is a shot of the head of the bed and the window he fell in love with. I tired to get it in the LR but there wasn’t room with it’s lower cieling. It’s way too much light for a bedroom but he can sleep with any amount of light and I have a black sleep mask.
bed room window
view frommy pillow
One of the interiour decorators.
In other news, there are just 2 more squares to edge on the last posted project.
I “reorganized” my yarn shed recently and found a ball of my hand spun wool in a box that the silverfish had gotten into. One of the few really fine yarns i’d managed to make. Most of my handspun tends to be bulky ‘art’ yarn so I was bummed to find this in bits. The bits were reasonably long so i wove on the 4″ Multi loom, joining as I went. Now I’m working around each square with some of Sis’s handspun. I’ve never done a slip stitch edge, but trying new stuff here. I’ll likely use a different yarn to assemble these. Don’t know now many i have but probably a smallish project. Katt may get a new chair pad. I’m going to toss it in the washer once assambled. There may be damage i didn’t find so figure a bit of felting could be a good thing. Maybe a time waster project, but it relaxes me not to have a Goal! It’s free time!
Meanwhile we are making looms, getting trips to fiber fairs set up. Things like reservations for the trailer, fees and classes, you know. And hoping we can afford diesel for those trips! And, of course, the garden.
We started “spring” with a warm spell which got me all excited to be sure I was not late late last year, so I planted peas and cabbage but also started tomatoes and peppers. Then it got cold and rainy, a couple times even snow. Them it would warm up for a few day befpre going back to rain and or frost- and a lot of wind this year. So needless to say, those tomato and pepper plants are reaching indoor limits! They are practically trees! We are going to have to plant them out today. He has covered cages for them but they are not likely to be happy. I’ve started a few more in hopes that they won’t out grow the pots before summer happens! When it comes to weather these days “You can’t win for losing” sure applies!
Hope you get time to both garden and weave. Both enjoyable…when they aren’t being stressful! lol
Well, I made it through another year. I think I’ll bake myself a cake today! Pineapple upside down is my favorite. My late girlfriend used to make a really yummy Chocolate Cherry cake for me but I never got the recipe from her. Too bad. Ah well… today is a lovely rainy day, just misting at the moment but we needed this rain. We need the predicted snow also but not in my yard in April. Up There it’s still needed, and that’s fine. But meantume, I’m enjoying the cool and damp.
Anybody else have a holiday birthday? DH has Earth Day, girlfriend’s is on halloween. A niece in law was born on Xmas eve. Two other people in this little mountain community share my day.
How will I celebate? After 85 of them, it’s really just being happy to be here and be reasonably healthy. I can still move, still think, usually remember! Doing fairly well, I think. Hope you all are, too.
Starting tomorrow, we will be out of business for probably a week while I get a new computer. The web site will still be up but I won’t be able to process any orders until the Geek Squad gets all my ‘stuff’ transferred to the new computer.
Meantime, I hope you will all have a Lovely Valentines Day!
Thought I’d try to add a few more ideas here. This is an easy one. One Weaver weaves SweetHearts and carries them in her purse to hand out to people who look like they need a little cheering and to children having a public breakdown. She says it get smiles from both the child and the mother! A little ‘I care about you’ to a stranger, a fellow human in need! Can’t beat that for a meaningful valentine! In these times it can be especially important to both the giver and the receiver.
We are weaving a rosebud. We all know that a red rose means I love you! It can go on your card or you can find other uses for it. Here is one with a couple added leaves using the 4″ Multi triangle. You could use a green heart as leaves as well!
A few ways to make your card. Use lace glued to the card stock or scan a picture of it and apple to your card! Then start adding details. It’s fun!
The summer had flown by. I dunno how these things happen. Maybe we can blame Einstine. Seems he was always fooling with time and space. I never seem to have enough of either of those. But I think we are ready for winter, in any case. No more traveling except maybe a couple shopping trips. That’s good.
Looks like our semi planned trip next spring is off. Won’t be going to Great Basin or on to Yellowstone. That park is going to have to wait for a little later in the year from the looks of things. Oh well…
But I have been getting a few things done like trying to organize (if I can use the term loosly) my yarn and project stash. He has promised to redo Le Shed so I can actually find things out there. That will be great! I can barely get into it at this time and I don’t have to fear falling out of bed as there is almost no place to fall too, there is so much Stuff stacked in there. It’s pathetic, actually. Now I think of it, the whole house is like that. Can hardly eat dinner as the dining table is stacked full, can’t find anything in the fridge tho I am sure there’s hardly any food in there! I did get in the bathroom yesterday and clear off the counter top. Filled the trash can with expired and dried up stuff. Guess that’s what I ought to be doing other places now instead of typing and griping here, huh?!
Well, the outside world is lovely, anyway. Maybe I can be a bit more cheerful once I get the house in a more friendly condition. Frankly io am delighted that I don’t have to plan for an early spring trip or classes. I already feel more relaxed! I think I’ll go clean somthing!
Thank you for putting up with my grumpy post, I’ll do better next time, promise!
Okay, I didn’t even get this one posted but am in a better mood today so will just leave that but add some more cheerful stuff. Like this afghan. I thought I could put it out on the deck to dry for blocking. We swept off the oak leaves that were piling up but it’s still very wet and tho the sun is shining it isn’t getting in past our trees to dry the deck. So I gave up and layed it out on the LR floor. Himself has a nice fire going so it ought not take long to dry.
I seem to have a differnt blog editor than I usually use so not sure what this is going to look like! lol I am hunting for technical help and will hire someone if I can find someone I can work with. That’s the tricky part, being the old ( ) that I am!
But reading that first part again, I have made some progress at Organizing (if I may use that word freely) my house. The kitchen got a little work over. This end of the little room was piled high, every time I needed something it would start an avalance so I gritted teeth and tackled it. He helped me move the microwave and built the little spice shelf. A lot of stuff got taken out to the washroom/pantry and I can actually find what I need! I hope to be able to keep it up. Today I tackle the fridge. The turkey has to come out of the freezer and into the fridge to start thawing for next week.
You might think this still looks clutered but it is lovely! My kitchen is tiny. On the left is my stove and there is 18″ of counter after that then the proch door. On the right next to the dishwasher is the sink, 12″ of counter, and the fridge. There’s a couple cupboards on the sink side and a window above the stove. That’s my kitchen. But I get breakfast & dinner made daily and all the canning done in the summer so you can say it’s big enough. Okay, I need to be working on the fridge instead of talking to you.. Remember, that’s need, not want! I hope you are having a sunny and cheerful day!
Hazel Rose 