I can’t believe it’s almost time for the 2009 Tour de Fleece already. For those of you that haven’t been touched by that sort of crazy, the Tour de Fleece runs parallel to the Tour de France bicycle race; spinners set spinning challenges for themselves and try to meet them during the course of the [...]
Yesterday was supposed to be a dyeing day, but when I went out in the yard to start setting up, I found this sitting on my fence. He was screeching at me to feed him: I’m not much on regurgitating worms, so I decided that the better part of valour was to retreat and wait [...]
This morning, Himself woke me at oh-my-god:30 to go upcountry with him to a farm auction. Now, I like a good auction… but I’d looked at the photo previews of this one, and not being the one in the family with the blacksmithing hobby, it held very little interest for me. I had no intentions [...]
Yesterday was our traditional July family gathering; I spent it playing with the grandchildren and visiting with people I only see a couple of times a year. Our gracious host, my sister-in-law, laid out a groaning table of hot bar-b-q and cool summer dishes, all of it irresistibly delicious and impossible to pass by without [...]