Category Archive: spinning

After two and a half days of wonderful weather, the storm rolled in.   This afternoon we have had thunder, lightning and buckets of rain.  So I’m getting to this post before the power goes out.

Preparing the wool for spinning.

After removing as much vegetable matter as I could, I washed this wool

 and here it is laying on a screen drying.  When dry and any vegetable matter I can pick out has been removed,

I roll it on this carding machine to get all the fibers going the same direction before spinning it.

I then roll it into these rolags from which I spin.

This afternoon

These beautiful flowers arrived from my oldest son.

We had another beautiful day where I sat in the sun spinning as DH read.  It felt like we were on vacation.   These beautiful days have been gone since last fall and we stopped most everything and just enjoyed it.

We went to a meeting on stem cell therapy as I am interested in that rather than have a knee replacement.  Now I have made a call to my doctor asking who she might recommend if anyone.

Then we came home, had lunch, and enjoyed more sun and reading/spinning.    Oh, yes, he is reading ‘The long winter” by Laura Ingalls Wilder.    That series really helps me appreciate what we have.  Somehow waking up to snow on my bed does not appeal to me.  Nor does putting all my earthly possessions in a covered wagon and starting over every couple years.  At the same time, we never know what tomorrow will bring, so I think it is important to know how to take care of your basic needs such as gardening, sewing, etc.

We truly enjoyed this day.

PS  The blog is late, not because I didn’t get to it, but we have been without internet for a few hours

After some necessary shopping for some small items this morning, we headed into the “big city”, Seattle.   Our son lives right across the street from Pike’s Place Market which is a big shopping area for tourists and locals.  It is a place where farmers and artists rent stalls to sell their products.

After meeting up with our son, we decided to have lunch.   We were amused by the name of this building, “The Sanitary Market”.   It just had a 100th birthday this spring.  Apparently being built when horses were still big on the street, they wanted it known that it was a “cleaner” place.   We had a wonderful Mexican lunch there.   The menu has both regular and vegan offerings.

Son has a condo near the top of the building and these are some of the sights out his floor to ceiling windows.   The back wall is all cupboards and refrigerator covered to look like a solid wall.