T Stands for This and That

Hello to the T Group with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth,

     I thought I would pop in to visit at least once a month going forward. Larry is getting a bit better every week now. Looks like Medicare will probably only pay for in home physical therapy for three more weeks. Hoping they can extend that. One of the oversearer was out last week and said their goal is to get Larry walking up the steps at the end of three weeks. That would be awesome but I don't see that happening in that time frame at all. Larry tires out super fast now with his heart condtion so I really can't visualize that just yet-but will pray on it.

 

   We did get a blast of winter over this weekend, ice first and  then several inches of snow on top.(photos previous post)  We still have low temperatures but with full sun I am surprised how much has melted off over the weekend. Saturday most of the hill was melted off.

  For my drink share for T  I grabbed one of my Yellowstone water bottles-that I love-and filled with water to use in the house. Makes me happy-smiles. I also wanted to try out a decaf freeze dried coffee that I found on Amazon. If I make up a pot of coffee for me it lasts over a week sometimes-so if I just want one cup I thought this sounded perfect. This coffee has excellent deep flavor-I love it. Not at all like just a instant coffee. My coffee cup is handmade pottery.

After I drank most of my coffee and I had more light for a nicer photo-I also grabbed apples from the refrigerator to make up an apple crisp.I made that Sunday morning with fresh blueberries

 I wanted to share my vintage postcards, stickers amd ATC from Bleubeard and Elizabeth. The cards and stickers were so thoughtful and chosen just for me  thank you so much

  With the very cold weather starting on  Friday I decided perfect to wear my new slippers-cozy and warm

  Sunday morning-surprise! The new amarylis bulb I purchased around November had bloomed but had no leaves. This looked like a very young bulb. However, when I watered my older bulb and this one today, I discovered a leaf growing and also another flower stem-what a wonderful surprise! The flowers will be red and white.

      Sunday morning's sunrise was very very bright, so did not capture a good photo to share

  Not sure anyone reading this will be nterested but I wanted to share a family owned company I love. They send out very interesting newsletters too that I have always learned something new.

    The Buffalo Wool Company   They process buffalo fibers, I love their socks-sooo warm and comfy.I try to support USA home business's when possible. I have been eyeing their buffalo fibers for soil amendment. for awhile  now. It's rather expensive but their site has a big sale going along with free shipping when you spend a certain amount. Alot of items are sold out already. I bought another pair of their ankle size socks and  I decided to buy some of this fiber to see how coarse it is and if it could be spun or not along with using it for gardening.  When I searched online about adding fiber like this to soils everything was positive about it.   Have any of you tried a fiber in your gardens?

     I want to get the big plastic tubs we have that held food for ranchers that we still have at the woods home-up here to the lake.  These are very large and perfect for growing things in.  I have organic cotton seeds coming in the mail soon that I want to grow in these tubs along with flowers. Vegetables are difficult as the chipmunks and squirrels eat everything they find. It can get very hot here in this area of Missouri in the late summer months-so I think plants will do better in these tubs.

  As I am writing this  my apple-blueberry crisp just came out of the oven

I did make a couple batches of roll out sugar cookies wheat and gluten free-turned out really delicious-good thing a froze them in small bags haha

I shared photos on my Instagram page here

Happy T

Sharing ATC's Found in my Mailbox & Update on Wool Yarn

This past week I received a couple lovely atc's from two of my T Party friends.
   This was fun Elizabeth, I would love it if you could host another atc swap-got my creativity going. 
    When things slow down a bit here I will be making a few more.

From Deb, I received the most lovely card ever-thank you so much, and now because of many of you I am looking at postal stamps again-I will keep this pretty stamp.

I love this cat Deb

and from Eileen, I received one of her pretty atc's, a tea cup stencil-under the wasabi tape, and little chili confetti pieces-very fun Thank you Eileen

Wool dye update:

  After an hour or so, I noticed the green dye on one of my wool skeins was getting a deeper green. so I decided well what the hay ha ha I put the second skein in.  This is some of my very beginner spinning yarn that I spun on my Ashford spinning wheel-vintage as me lol.  Looking at this I can see I am for sure improving with my spinning.
   I do have a saori style weaving project in mind-anything goes type of weaving creativity-to use many of my dyed hand spuns and also other yarns I have dyed from nature. All of course soft earthy tones.

These are photos taken wet after rinsing this morning:

These went in the dye pot a couple hours apart so a subtle shade difference. I really like this-a hint of blue in a couple spots as well

and just now taken photos-slightly damp:

    Looks to me like the yarn lost the bluish tone and now is more green-in person this is a pretty soft green.

So at the end of the day I am pleased-and ready to try indigo again. and getting a green is actually a nice surprise for my failed attempt at another blue dye-from the same dye pot.  Usually to get green one must dye the yarn a good yellow first and then dip into indigo dye pot to get the green.
   I won't be able to duplicate this-as once I knew I had lost the blue I added a little of this and a little of that into the pot ha ha

  I want to thank those of you for your comments to my ph failure. and also thanks to CJ's Himself I realized where I had gone wrong and made mistakes and thanks to Eileen for the link to an indigo dye blog post that addressed this as well. Using soda ash instead of the baking soda. So I am armed with more information now 
    Thanks to you all. 😊