Today’s focus should be on taking more photos so I can post more things to Etsy. Oh, AND I got the information for signing up to join the Western Mass Artists and they provide a web site for each member!!!! So, again I need photos for that. And big time I need to organize the photos on the big computer since right now they are all over the place. I keep waiting for a non-rainy overcast day to take photos, and I was hoping to get a friend to help me, but these days I feel like I have no friends (sob sob). That’s not really true; it’s just that a couple of them, the ones I was hoping I could get to help with photos, have not responded to my calls. The friend that does respond, and is loyal to the end, I am hoping to get together with today to do some writing. If we do, I will try to work on getting epithets for each rabbit, and writing up good descriptive blurbs about what I do, my animals, my processes….etc.
Here’s something exciting: I did my errands via bicycle yesterday! It was actually fun, it provided me some much needed exercise (somehow treadling a spinning wheel does not do it) and I felt very honorable for not using any fossil fuels or spewing any more co2 than what I was (admittedly very heavily) breathing out. And I was able to return the thermometer that I bought to use with the solar oven I made (out of cardboard – very high tech) that only measured to 120 degrees, not very helpful for an “oven.” I actually exchanged it for a candy thermometer that measures between 100-500 degrees F, so that should work. And speaking of solar ovens, I tried dyeing some wool using the black bin covered with glass technique. It certainly got hot enough. I was trying to do some lichen dye that has been sitting about for a long time. I don’t actually know if it was a second attempt to extract dye from the lichen, or what, so I don’t know how good it would have been in the best of circumstances, probably not very. At any rate, it dyed the wool a rather pale pink, which is nice enough. What I really need to do is try it with commercial dyes that I know are still strong.
The etsy fast group (other fibrous folk) has some sort of blog list and I was thinking about putting mine on it, but then (gasp) someone might actually read this. Oh dear. Part of me is definitely just as happy to have no one do so.
I have nearly finished the grey stuff; I started knitting it up last night and I think it will be lovely. I’m using probably a needle size of 1. Yesterday I also (while listening to my cd about court cases of the century – very interesting) played around some more with the rest of the purple stuff to finally decide what to do with it. I tried blending with brown alone, then brown and grey angora, then brown and white angora, in various ratios. Not sure which I like best, must look at it again today.
Tomorrow the dh and I are supposed to go camping – actually backpacking – on Mt. Greylock. I think it has the potential for being fun, though I’m a little nervous about the backpacking part since it has been so long. I think my back will hold out…. And I do not want to spend a bunch of time gathering all the necessary equipment, much of which is probably at the other house, so I told dh that he must do that! I’d probably better put my mind to food, though, or we’ll be eating some disgusting freeze-dried stuff that will cost a fortune.
Time to meditate and get on with the day!
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