A Photo From the Past

   If you are over on Facebook you'll know that sometimes they will repost one of your photos from the past. 

    I am really not much on there any more. Most everything posted is untrue when I check to see if it is or not-but I keep it for those who message me there and for the handful of friends I "met" online when we first retired-over 20 years ago.

  This photo was so sweet-10 years ago when we were still living in the woods, and I was doing a lot of spinning back then with different fibers.  This one shows bison fiber and our kitty Miss Calico-she was a very special kitty-lived to around 20 years. Her and our wolf Nikita were special pals and playmates.

 We miss both of them very much. With our senior ages we decided not to get another pet after they both passed-would not be fair to them-as they would probably out live us

  The worst of this brutal heat with humidity comes today and tomorrow and then supposedly a day or two of a cool down with rain-we'll see

Happy Monday

Spun Yarn & This & That

   Good afternoon,

   I was able to get the hose out and water the perennials early this morning, the weather at dawn was cooler with less humidity but that  still wore me out. I have the thermostat set at 81F degrees-any lower than that-- the a/c runs constantly-I hear dollar signs haha for the electric bill coming in. The house is actually comfortable at that setting too.

  I have been having fun with the spinning-and working on getting the right amount of fiber on the carders-I was getting too much at first.

   It is a bit rough but getting better I was looking for these niddy noddys as I knew I had two of them

       (click on photos to enlarge)

  I found the other one with spun bison fibers on it-so will work on that too  I still have a few balls left of roving from my purchase-I love this fiber.  I will be weaving this in with other fibers I have already spun for my garment--this could be a good winter project for me

    I have been on a buying spree online. I was curious about the magazine artists watercolors I think it is called but the year subscription is very expensive-so I searched for used on ebay and bought one years worth that featured the different seasons-so some painting inspiration there.

  I did pick up mostly on Ebay a couple coloring books, another book from same author that I shared where you paint in the book-hers has quality watercolor papers in the book-others when I read the reviews had bad papers in them. I also bought two books suggested by a you tube video that I will share when I get those. and I splurged on a new dip pen with different nibs. Do any of you have this one? It also includes two different pens to hold the nibs. This pen set was actually very inexpensive under $20.00 I think it was. This one was less expensive on amazon but I didn't have other items I needed to get the free shipping. 

  In the slow cooker I have a made up recipe for stuffed large yellow bell peppers. I used chicken-white beans, sauted vidalia onions and sweet peppers, diced up poblano mushrooms, added cooked cabbage-it wasn't quite done yesterday in time for our main 2 pm meal so am serving it today-hopefully it will be good. Update: this was really good and Larry liked it too. He add Newman's salsa to his.

   No mistaking today is Friday-as the boats are on the lake-loud and clear haha

Happy Friday and weekend