Good morning Thursday & a Little Catch Up

   Good morning everyone,

      So grateful-where we live we were spared the tornadoes and hail that hit Missouri. This was a wide spread  severe weather event in many states here in the midwest and I think this went south as well.  A small town outside of St Louis Missouri got destroyed-a reminder of what happened to Joplin years ago. That day we did get to 85 degrees F before storms hit and dropped the temps way back down.

   Prayers for all the suffering.

   Early Tuesday and Wednesday-I cleared out all the weeds in that upper area of the driveway-so once it warms back up a bit I will transfer some of the creeping thyme ground cover. I also need to buy a bit more bags of soil. 

  I took my car into a service near us that I like early this morning, they have a lady mechanic too that is a sweetheart.  The problems before were do to a bad battery-it was only a year old so we got a new one for free. My car is old so I took it in for a tune up, oil change, and to really check out belts that may need replacing. The shocks are pretty much gone in this car but that can wait. I just don't want to worry about breaking down.

  I got my new camera in Tuesday's mail. I took a couple photos, don't like the camera at all. When charging the battery - the camera gets very warm to the touch-I really don't think that is normal (?)  The little instruction book is totally useless, and since I am not good at figuring out things-didn't like that. I just started pushing buttons to get a couple photos off. I packaged it up and am sending it back to amazon. That is one of the good things about amazon I have never had an issue returning things. They email you a free label but it is a UPS label  There is a drop off at the bank across town, I will do that tomorrow when I get my car back.

  I did take two photos of some yarn I am spinning on my wheel-Miss Ashley (my Ashford Traveler),  I am loving this hand dyed green that I picked up on an Etsy shop. It is a long wool and feels good to spin a less processed wool again. She hand "painted" the dye-so this different shades a forest greens with areas of yellow-greens, to browns-really nice.  I am thinking this will be pretty with my bison fiber-which I may try to re spin for a finer yarn. I should have saved the bison fiber til I was a better spinner-but I enjoyed working with it very much.  I will weave a short over garment of some sort with those two spun yarns.

  I am still thick and think with my yarn but it is nicer than my drop spindle yarn-especially the joins are nicer. I am not keeping the wheel spinning non stop-but that's ok for now

  In the back is the vintage wheel-I have been asking questions about this wheel, so will be trying out some things to get that one to work too.

  

I am very pleased with this white long wool yarn-much nicer on my wheel too I had bought 2 pounds of this a few years ago at a very good price-usa long wools carded together for spinning. This is the yarn I will dye with black walnuts. I am pleased to finally be spinning nicer yarns.

    It is a cold day today again, so I will be spinning and reading today.