I've been
remiss in posting, sooooo here's what I've been doing!!!
We've been doing tons
since I last posted. My darling husband bought me an
Ashford, 4 harness table loom for my birthday and I built
a stand for it (didn't care to pay another $115 for
something I can easily build out of scrap lumber) and am
weaving my 3rd piece of cloth. Lord willing, it will be a
kimono jacket w/ obi. I'm also in the process of spinning
about 10 lbs of Suffolk fleece so I can weave my first
blanket. I'm going to have to do it in sections because
the loom is only 32 inches wide and the actual weaving
area varies with what I'm weaving.
In between all this, Bob
has been industriously tying tons of flies for the shows
this year, building bird houses and modeling hats I make.
I picked up a used
spinning wheel, at the local resale shop for $65. It was
made in Abrams, Wisconsin back in the 1980's. I had to
take it all apart because someone had pinned it together
so it was unusable. It's really a fine wheel. The wood is
in excellent condition and it's way too usable to just sit
in someone's living room looking pretty. I have to bore
holes in the posts of the mother-of-all so that I can
easily use pegs to take the leathers in/out to change my
bobbin (this was pinned together also).
We got 1/4 of the garden
put in the ground during the 3rd week of April. Now the peas are almost 3 feet tall.
We
started almost all the seeds in the house, moved them into the greenhouse
and had them in the ground the before last week of April.
We only
had to cover them twice, as our last genuine freeze
occurred just before Mother's Day. We started eating radishes
last weekend. So,
I decided the onions, squash and rutabagas need to go in the
ground over the next few days.
