We had a new wheel cover made for the 5th wheel. If you see this heading north on I-5 You’ll know it’s us on our way to Canby, Oregon and the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. It’s going to be a lot of fibering fun! Talked Sis into going with us, which was very clever of me as she also cooks! 😀
I think I have everything packed up and ready to go. but Himself thought so, too, and was taking me on a ‘last’ tour of the shop when he found five sets of Tiny Weaver Looms which should have been in the trailer already, still sitting on the shelf in the stock room.

We will be on our way early tomorrow, tho. Hope to see you there!

I got the urge to bake cookies today! Must be a sign of fall! Can’t remember the last time my kitchen smelled like cinnamon and ginger! 😀 Himself has tested and tested to be sure they were safe to eat and it seems they are. I got this recipe on StumbleUpon, the first really useful thing I’ve found there. But I also worked on my rugs and did my duty in the loom shop. Found the woven mittens but I’ll be darned if I can find the Christmas stockings I made for that WeaveZine article last winter. Frustrating, to say the least! I wanted to take them to the shows end of the month. OFFF and Lambtown. Oh well. 😛
Randy spent the afternoon putting up the new siding. It kind of unifies our rambling domain. And it’s looking good.
We’ll soon be raking leaves, I betcha. Hope you’re having a lovely September!

It really is fall!!! :O Are we ready? Dunno about you but I don’t think we ever are. The asters are pretty, tho, aren’t they?
We’re making looms. If you are going to be at OFFF in Canby this month or Lambtown in Dixon next month, do come see us! We’ll be there! 🙂

We’ve had a rather noisy week. Today it finally got on my nerves and I went out and got a picture of this guy in the old cedar off the kitchen porch, raising a loud & rather shrill racket. I could not see the problem until my Robin (the cat version) wandered over and rubbed my ankles. I was just guessing but I scooped him up and took him inside with me and, sure enough, a few minutes later the Flicker shut up and flew off. He hasn’t gone far, tho I still here him periodically. And I think part of the noise has been territorial as we have also had a pileated wood pecker in the yard this week. I think they’re duking it out over who gets the punky cottonwood trees! And on top of that several evenings ago there was a red tailed hawk flying laps and screeching. He only stayed that night and the next morning. At least I haven’t heard him since. But come to think of it, I haven’t heard that really annoying Pine squirrel lately, either! He’s been chewing up the green cones in the Ponderosa pine over the house and making a heck of a mess. I would not shed tears if he went to dinner with the hawk! :plain: :satisfied:

You got it.
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I got the loom warped and am weaving the rag rugs from grandmother’s old double knit pants. I had to re-cut the strips as I found the first ones I used were about twice as wide as they ought to be. That slowed things down and what with this and that, I am just not making great progress on this! :laugh: I have got the first one finished, tho, and am nearly ready to start the second. I warped up for two, tho I am not sure I am getting two of the same size, my math skills seem a little weak at times. 😦
Oh well, it is what it is and I am sure I will like them! I just hope I find time to finish this month! 😛

The new issue of Piecework had an article on Looping, a historical method of making fabric. I had to try it, of course. I used cotton yarn and made this little bag for my spinning wheel oil. It was easy, but the stitches being small, it took longer to make than knitting the same thing would have. But it was fun to make.

My little bare root peach tree, planted this spring had three peaches. It aborted one along the way but I just picked the remaining two. They are Soooo yummy! Should have got one years ago! I had a hard time deciding but I went ahead and shared with Himself. It was hard giving it up! The ants which had also found one thought so, too. :laugh: The tree came with a warning that it could be three years before it produced a crop. Well, I guess 2 peaches don’t really make a crop but I got to test that I did not go wrong in choosing this variety. It’s a semi-dwarf Red Haven.
Now we have the place picked out for the Heritage Hyde King apple that is a graft off Grandmother’s tree, but I’m not sure where I’m going to find sunny room for the apricot and pear that I’d like to add as well. I need a couple more acres of good bottom land! 😉

I picked three yellow pear tomatoes yesterday and the first RED one today! 😀 Got the Squeezo ready to go because there are a LOT of them on those 4 bushes! More than two people can eat, and probably more than 4, if the cousin come back up. too cool. My toms the last few years have struggled to grow a half dozen little fruit so this is pretty cool.