T Stands For Tuesday

    Hi Everyone,

        It is time for T for Tuesday where we share a drink related photo in our post, and gather over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's Find link in my sidebar.

    We are having spring like weather with lots of rain and still cool most evenings. I am hoping to start planting more seeds in the "greenhouse bottles" this week-I am actually behind on that do to the very cold nights this month.

   Yes, I  am till spinning fibers, but over the weekend I got out my two spinning wheels-one is the vintage parlor castle wheel and the other is a Traveler by Ashford that I put together as a kit back in the late '70s.  

  One of the very few things that I like about Facebook are their groups-They have groups for any interest.  Recently I joined a couple cast iron cooking groups and I also found a spinning group. The spinning group has wonderful members on there and have answered many questions for me.  My vintage wheel is also a flax wheel and I am beginning to think that the tie up is for flax and that is why I can not get it to feed on to the bobbin properly-it is also a very fast wheel with too much twist.  So I need to do some research on that on how to change the tie up. I spent hours with this wheel since Friday. I named my spinning wheels several years ago and couldn't remember for sure what I had named this vintage wheel. I decided since she came from England and that my research shows that this is probably from the 1800's to early 1900's her name will be Miss Elizabeth.

  Larry got my Ashford wheel going for me over the weekend-he figured out a tension that I didn't understand before-so I am excited to be able to spin on this one today (Sunday) This is still a learning curve for me-but in the end I feel I will be able to spin nicer yarns. Her name is Miss Ashley

  Sorry not many photos this week-as my digital camera has "died" today. sigh. This camera is around 20 years old now and I think she finally did her last photos this morning.  I don't use cell phones so I am on the look out for another camera-hard to find now a days since most people use their cell phones for a camera.

   I did get this photo just before we started working with the wheels The one in the front is the vintage parlor, and the Ashford is in the back. I had taken some new photos of the wheels today, plus food and drink photos-but the camera quit working after so couldn't down load them-sigh

    This is what was on the bobbin from the last time I tried spinning-so not sure what I did different to get the yarn to go onto the bobbin-it is a mystery for sure

 Larry also worked on my little 4 harness loom that I shared last week. He used to be a gun smith and also repaired vintage scopes so he had a special scrubber that does not scratch and was able to get almost all of the rust off of the reed. He will be able to put it back together soon-and then I can set up it for weaving. More fiber fun!

For my drink photo-I brewed up this tea last week, don't think I have shared this one yet  Since I had re organized my teas I can see and find the teas better-it's fun to choose different teas now. I really like the teas from this company

  Are any of you joining in for Sketchbook Revival? I have been getting the emails for the daily projects but haven't been able to participate yet. Do any of you know if the information will stay up to visit later on? thanks

  We are seeing so many birds and water fowl still. Early mornings we hear the loons every morning and sometimes see them. The pelicans are still traveling through, the heron is back, the crows, sea gulls, Canada geese and of course the eagle pair. Lots of birds at the feeder. We scatter food also on the deck as soon as it is light-we are always early risers. Since I bought peanuts all the woodpeckers visit along with a pair of blue jays. I had forgotten how pretty their song is. We also have a dove pair and a cardinal pair.

  Have a good week Everyone and Happy T

A sunrise photo from the past