Wow It's Been A Long Time!

So much for keeping up with my blog. It has been a couple of up and down months I guess and feel like if I don't have pics to post I am kinda boring :)
I have been moving my stuff out to my new room, it has been overwhelming, plus I got a space as SAFF and have nothing to go. Seems like everytime I feel like I get on top of it, something happens and I fall behind again. I just don't have excess energy or attitude to pull from anymore. I still feel like I am trying to catch my breath since Jeffery. We are still on the outs with the DIL, I guess as we haven't heard a word. It's been since last November since we saw the grandkids. I miss them so. These last 2 years have been the hardest of my entire life, and Ihave been here 57 years!
I haven't been spinning much, did get 3 new looms, getting them set up this week end. Randy went to Pennsylvania to pick them up, isn't her a sweet husband? One is a Weavers Delight, that is going to be his loom. It is in wonderful condition, the other is a little Lillstina folding loom. She is really cute, I will clean her up and sell her. The last is a Clemente Loom 60" 4 harness with a fly shuttle, this will be my fabric loom, don't have room to set her up yet, she is in the rafters! I will spend a week figuring what to put on them and another warping. I have alot of fleece, need to get that dyed and combed and on my Etsy site. I joined a group for SE Etsy sellers. They seem like a great group and are very active, I am hoping I can participate more in a week or so.
Goats are doing very well, eating like they are suppose to, now they have shown me how much work I have to do cutting down saplings and clearing under the trees! So nice to have them stay in the fencing, they just have such a large area now they really don't want to get out! Although, they have access to the back and side of my building and when I am in there they come and butt the side and rub to let me know they are there. It's startling everyonce in a while!
I feel better now that I have atleast posted, tomorrow I will post some pics of fleece and my room, it's a mess, but almost all my stuff is out there!

Today

We you can all start laughing now :) Smiddy has decided the woods across the street looks like a lot better eaten than at home. This is looking down our drive, he likes the pond. So hubby is on his way to get a stronger electric fence charger. Part of it is our mistake, we didn't really introduce them to the fence so they knew what to expect. So Smiddy found a little low spot and decided if he went thru really fast, it didn't hurt enough to make him want to not do it again!!

It probably wouldn't be so frustrating if we hadn't just lost our Out Building we have been working on :(( We had it ready for rafters and outside sheathing the next day, we had winds over that evening in the 70 mile range with gust of 80. Well now we have a pile of match sticks on a solid floor :{{{{

At least nothing else was damaged, but shoot! So this week end we will cut all the nails and start putting her back together again. And everything is cut and ready to go and not but a few pieces actually broke.

I have a farm up north of my that raises Highland Cattle,Donkeys,Llamas and Alpacas. She has alot of wool to get rid of, so guess where I am going tomorrow, if Smiddy stays where he is suppose to. I will take some pictures and show you what I get!

I'm spinning some Alpaca,Salish and Merino now on the Mach 1. It is a Red,Brown and Cream and I am going to triple ply it. It is very fine so I am hoping it will make a light yarn as it will be warm. But I don't know what I am going to make out of it yet! I will take some pics of it when I have it plied.

Our Goats!!

Girls first, this is Peanut, she is 5 months old and a Boer goat. She loves to be picked up and scratched on her sides. Look at that face!

This is Smiddy, he is 15 months old whether. A Boer goat and as cute as a button, he likes his ears petted.

We have 3 acres of leaves,bushes and pine trees for them to live in. a creek to drink from and lots of love to receive :) I am thinking if these guys can't keep up with the growth, it will be time to get a couple of Angora's to go with. Hubby is a little sceptical, he knows what happens when we start acquiring animals! We have our old Great Danes and of course our rescue Capt. Jack and I am thinking after we no longer have our old guys, hopefully quite a while, we could look into a Great Pyrenees or Anatolian Shepard for an outside dog. It is hard for me to imagine a dog that would really prefer to be outside, but that is what I hear. Of course I will have to do much research to make sure we will be a good home for them :) Isn't he pretty? The people where we got our goats raise these sweet dogs!
http://www.billiesgoats.com/



We also almost have our out buildings done! I am excited for that as I can have a whole huge area for fleece, my carder,picker, lots of other stuffs. I have my sewing room but working with all the fleece is messy for in the house, I would rather have it set up out there. Will also have the drill press and grinder set up for hackles and who know what else :)


We have the possibility to acquire 3 more acres around us, I would love that, I like not seeing anyone at all when I am out doing my things, but there is the up keep ect. We'll see, I was thinking also maybe we could put a little park model trailer on the back lot so when Heather,our daughter, and the grand kids come they would have nice place to stay and I would have my time to recover from grand kids!! Two boys, energy, never still, how much of that can you take in one day????? Love them to death but boy!! And my poor dogs, they have been raised as the only kids in the family.

These are my Daughters children

Here is Hayden, he is grandma's boy, 4 years old and as smart as a whip!




Here is Zachery,2 and such a charmer, and those eyes!

Here is a pictures of Jeffery's kids, the first is Lauren as her kindergarten graduation, she is almost 6




This is Caroline, she is almost 5, quite the prissy girl as I'm sure you can tell :)





And this is Parker Jeffery, he is just like his Dad, what a pill




I don't have a picture or Elliot, our little guy that was born 3 months after Daddy died. He was a blessing. We have had very rocky time with the DIL and we don't get to see the kids anymore. I won't even go into that one.!

So I have been doing some experimenting with some spinning and here is a beaded yarn I did for my Etsy store, I was really please at how it turned out, I am thinking I may go ahead and spin up the Raspberry Chocolate into yarn for a scarf and trim it with the beaded yarn. It is so soft and I think Heather would really love it for her weather there in Wisconsin!




I blended another group of Salish,Polypay, a little mohair, it is a springy color I'm anxious to spin it up and see how it turns out, not sure what to make from it yet, maybe as I am spinning it will talk to me :)

Then I got busy and spun some Fuchsia for me, about 1900 yds.
And I got the brown Salish for Randy a cardigan, it is soooo soft and springy. I just love that fiber! 2300 yds

Then there was this :(( Ever think something will turn out good and then you end up with something like this????
Maybe I will felt it and make some slippers. There is about 300 yds.






Well I sure have made up for not posting for a while! I appreciate any feed back people have about my blog or my Etsy site. So let me know you were here!!