:laugh: We got a good start on a late project. I went out and got the splitter from our splitter partner. His wood shed is full. The splitter is still attached to my car. But the PU is full and there a large stack in the yard. And I have pitch in my hair. Not really a good thing, but I smell like christmas!
Cold wind blowing so we did not even work up much of a sweat. It was nice, tho. I haven’t been out in the woods in a long time.
Hope your weekend is going well.

The chilly temperatures and the nice ‘wetting’ rain (As the USFS calls it) helped to turn this grape leaf it’s pretty colors. I brought it in and scanned it with different colored backgrounds. The same leaf, tho it looks different. Just a bit of whimsy to welcome the new season. I noticed several trees today that are starting to turn. Welcome to the 3rd season! Hope you all have your woodsheds full! 🙂

There’s been four accounts in Coffee Creek and Trinity Center this month. It’s early for lions to be down here but I think it’s the fires having driven the herds down so the lions had to come too. But people are not used to seeing them, as it’s usually after snowfall and people & pets are not out as much. If you are concerned, the flash scared the lion off and the deer got up and took off up the hill after the rest of her herd. The lion went hungry.
Yeah, I feel sorry for her, too, but everybody has to eat. I feel sorry for the cows & chickens, that I eat, too, but I’m still not a vegetarian. However… I do keep my cats indoor this time of year.

When he’s not in the shop he’s building stuff. Here he is making a foundation in the rain. The first rain since spring but tho it made a little mud, it was nice and cool for his hard work! We have an 80% chance of rain tomorrow and most of us are looking forward to it. I’ve caged the cats today. They won’t be going outside again until spring. They don’t like it of course, but they wouldn’t like going to lunch with a lion or other critter, either. :O

Here’s Randy chipping up what’s left of the Ash we had to take out. His cousin is helping him While I am canning apples. Have two crates of pears to deal with as well. I think I’ll do a couple dozen pints of apples and maybe a dozen of pears and give the rest away. Our Rome tree is not quite ripe yet, they’re best after a light frost. And I’ll put some of them up, too. But right now I have to go do my part in the looms shop and I’m also working on a couple weaving projects for the holiday season.
Which reminds me, Rosy posted a couple already to the project page of the web page if you’re starting your holiday weaving.
Meantime… back to work!

Well, this is a painting of where they went, anyway. (Not quite finished but… resting) The art web pages and magazines I have been reading all sing the praises of painter who portray Ordinary Things. The paint bicycle racks and piles of old tires… My pie is every bit as ordinary and a lot nicer to look at. And the model, as you can see, has been tested for authenticity. It’s the Real Thing. In fact, it was made from the apples off our heritage tree. Danged if I can remember it’s name but the ag agent was delighted to find it. We’re supposed to get a grafted sapling from the buds they took, as the tree is very mature. Planted back when this was a mining claim. It’s doing well, but won’t last forever so it would be nice to have a young’n.

The old antique gave up the ghost, or anyway, I can’t seem to sharpen the blade anymore and Randy found this one in a ‘junk’ shop for a dollar. first time I used it. It had a corer attached and it worked very nicely but I really don’t need the apples sliced quite this thin! lol But it’s a cute little spiral! :laugh:

I have enough peeled (we disengaged the corerr) and sliced for two pies, as soon as the crusts thaw. I forgot to take them out of the freezer this morning. And yes, I do use Mrs. Smiths crusts. I think she makes good ones and it’s a lot faster & less messy than me doing it. Even when I have to wait for them to thaw! lol Besides, I don’t want to crank up the oven until it cools off a little. It’s not really hot today, but it doesn’t take much to heat up the kitchen.

One is for our neighbor who shares his peaches (I owe him) and one I may freeze until Cousin comes back up. Or not! 😉

Got this pretty spring green chenille at the dollar store and wanted to try it so grabbed up the Multi. The first one I warped as usual and then needle wove using some pink ‘designer’ yarn that I also got at the $ store. It did fine, tho the texture of the designer yarn is pretty much lost in this tight weave. The second one I did in all Chenille and I had to cut and insert new yarn twice as the friction of pulling it though the warp was wearing off the nap. So yeah, you can use the chenille as warp but weave it with something sturdier. Turned out pretty in the end and is nice and soft as well. 🙂 All’s well that ends well. to quote Bill.

Well, I finished my first bag. I was successful with the Leno lace, tho it doesn’t show very well here since I sewed it together upside down and didn’t notice until i had all the tails nicely woven in. Too bad. Anyway, I wove it on my 2 x 4″ Multi, I don’t (yet!) have a 4×6″. I think tho that I’m going to get out my prototype bookmark loom and work it on that. I don’t really need a soap bag, tho it’s cute. I enjoyed the Leno lesson and also found I like working with this line thread. I like the way it holds it’s shape, so I understand it softens with age & use so probably won’t stay like this.
Anyway, thanks to Jana for her lessons. If you haven’t visited her page you ought to! 🙂
http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/

When I needed to loosen the extra loop with the linen yarn on the Multi, as Jana posted in her instruction http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/?attachment_id=407
I found that the warps would not stay on the pins at first, so I used the old method we used to keep the loops on the pot holder looms for the kids. Put a rubber band around that row of pins. Worked great and when I needed to take it off to work the last row, I had used the slack so the threads stayed where they should. I’m not going to show you my Leno lace just yet. There are still a few ‘bugs’ to be worked out! I will say this… I pulled it out so often that I wore through my single linen thread and have a knot in the midst of my lace. I think I’m going to make a couple balls off this cone and ply some of this to make a slightly bigger and stronger yarn.