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Now the dh and I are going out to a movie.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
The Usual Ramblings, and NEW BABIES!!
I am sitting outside again which is lovely. The dh loaned me his work laptop so I can sit out here. It is actually a laptop meaning it is small. But I have zoomed the page so I can actually read what I write. And it is cool out here! How nice. Soon enough I will be longing for warmth…. I already did my stretches, and even though I was feeling lazy I managed to do all 80 crunches and all 25 push-ups (the woosie kind) so I feel accomplished as far as all that goes. And I fed buns, but for some reason was distracted enough that I didn’t do their waters. Well, I will do that after I write. Yesterday a girl and her mom came to look at the bunnies because her rabbit died and she wants to get another one. She’s never had an angora, so I was trying to be very honest about the difficulties. She was enamored and all set, but Mom insisted they think it over and look up some info on line overnight. I won’t be at all surprised if they decide an angora is not for them. And that is ok because really, I usually discourage kids who just want a pet. They told me that they had looked at the pet store, but that there is a new requirement that rabbits must be neutered, so the pet store no longer sells them. I don’t even want to find out if that is supposed to apply to someone like me. Well, too bad. Oh, but part of where I was going with all this is that, in showing her the rabbits, I rechecked the fawn “female” baby of Amber, and surprise surprise, “she” is really a “he.” I checked long ago and haven’t checked since and obviously got it wrong long ago. He’s about 8 weeks. So then I felt I needed to check the other babies, who are still young, but I feel pretty confident about the black and brown babies. I didn’t recheck all the white ones, because I have so many that I assume some are male, some female. I think that was why I was so distracted and forgot the waters.
Mousy is back! Oh so cute and all. And – here’s some good news – he seems capable of eating from a little dish and so no longer needs to be fed every 2 hours. The dd is very pleased about that. He may even be ready to be released (far far from the house) by the time she leaves for OR next Fri.
Yesterday involved a lot of dull work – paying bills, entering checks, balancing the account – and a bunch of errands – to the library (which was not dull, I got several new books on cd), to the bank, to the Salvation Army, to the CSA (Next Barn Over, I really hate the name, so I call it things like Barn Farm, Food Farm, the Barn) and, which to be completely honest was dull also, lunch at the French place in town. I had calves liver and it was delicious, but the conversation kind of lagged. We do better conversation-wise when we are walking or hiking, rather than when we are sitting there waiting for food. Anyway, it was good to do. We’ve been wanting to check it out, and decided lunch would be far more economical, which I’m sure it was. Dh had Bouillabaisse, as it turns out, because he had to compare it to his memory of the fish soup he had in Tunesia. It seems such a snobby thing to do, very typical. Well, I suppose one has to have reasons to do anything, and that is as good a reason as any. Why did I choose calves liver? I suppose because it is something I don’t have at home, because I have had trouble with anemia, because I assumed it would not be spicy (it was not).
Today I really should type up those notes for work and then email the prof to find a time when we can meet. I don’t know if we’ll be able to before we leave for OR, if not then we’ll have to hop to it as soon as we get back (if he is around) because classes will be starting soon very soon. It will be good to have classes start up – it will help me get away from my own brain and neuroses for a while.
Besides writing up those notes, I must do a bunch more laundry work. It should be an ok day to hang laundry out, which yesterday was also, so perhaps I can get through the pile that has accumulated for days and days. I have about 2 more groupings of 4 one ounce skeins of the stuff I’m spinning to get through.
Oh, and here’s more exciting news. I can’t believe I waited til last, I suppose because it has become pretty commonplace. New babies!!!
Cream finally had a successful litter, after several where it didn’t take, and one that produced just one dead baby. She had 8, 6 survived. They appeared yesterday and seem to be doing fine. Blizzard is the dad, so they are all albino. That is it for this year. I do not need to breed any more.
Ok, time to meditate – I got up really really late today – it was 9 o’clock, so now it is after 10!
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Mousy is back! Oh so cute and all. And – here’s some good news – he seems capable of eating from a little dish and so no longer needs to be fed every 2 hours. The dd is very pleased about that. He may even be ready to be released (far far from the house) by the time she leaves for OR next Fri.
Yesterday involved a lot of dull work – paying bills, entering checks, balancing the account – and a bunch of errands – to the library (which was not dull, I got several new books on cd), to the bank, to the Salvation Army, to the CSA (Next Barn Over, I really hate the name, so I call it things like Barn Farm, Food Farm, the Barn) and, which to be completely honest was dull also, lunch at the French place in town. I had calves liver and it was delicious, but the conversation kind of lagged. We do better conversation-wise when we are walking or hiking, rather than when we are sitting there waiting for food. Anyway, it was good to do. We’ve been wanting to check it out, and decided lunch would be far more economical, which I’m sure it was. Dh had Bouillabaisse, as it turns out, because he had to compare it to his memory of the fish soup he had in Tunesia. It seems such a snobby thing to do, very typical. Well, I suppose one has to have reasons to do anything, and that is as good a reason as any. Why did I choose calves liver? I suppose because it is something I don’t have at home, because I have had trouble with anemia, because I assumed it would not be spicy (it was not).
Today I really should type up those notes for work and then email the prof to find a time when we can meet. I don’t know if we’ll be able to before we leave for OR, if not then we’ll have to hop to it as soon as we get back (if he is around) because classes will be starting soon very soon. It will be good to have classes start up – it will help me get away from my own brain and neuroses for a while.
Besides writing up those notes, I must do a bunch more laundry work. It should be an ok day to hang laundry out, which yesterday was also, so perhaps I can get through the pile that has accumulated for days and days. I have about 2 more groupings of 4 one ounce skeins of the stuff I’m spinning to get through.
Oh, and here’s more exciting news. I can’t believe I waited til last, I suppose because it has become pretty commonplace. New babies!!!
Ok, time to meditate – I got up really really late today – it was 9 o’clock, so now it is after 10!
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Solar Dyeing
Well my attempted contest on the blog seems to be failing, probably because only one faithful follower actually reads it. Well, I guess that is ok. After all, if it is kind of a morning pages thing, then I don’t really want anyone to read it. And the fact that I have made only 2 sales on etsy is ok too, since the idea was to have it there so people that saw me at a fair could find me on the internet. Maybe there will be more activity once I am at more fairs. Meanwhile, I will post about solar dyeing. But first I will talk about Mousie, who has gone on an overnight to a friend’s, and I feel like when the girls went on their first overnights… I hope he is ok. I hope she can figure out how to feed him ok. Hmmm. I guess I have gotten kind of attached to the little bugger.
I’m feeling pretty dull and unsuccessful today. I suppose it will be better once school starts because I will have all that stuff to keep my brain occupied. I am enjoying reading Balzac, just the short novels. I will have to return the Chaucer since it is over due. I’m also enjoying listening to Dr. Ellis lecture about the American Revolution, and I hope to get it some solid spinning and listening today. And I have nearly finished the brown/purple wrist warmers.
Now to something more interesting: SOLAR DYEING! And I cannot take credit for this, I hear about it from a workshop long ago at Nutmeg Spinners in CT. I wish I could remember the name of the woman who presented it, but I can’t.
Here’s what I have done:
I bought a black bin at a hardware store. It is designed for collecting oil when changing oil in a car. I looked up bussing bins in restaurant supply stores, and they looked very nice (probably tougher), and not very expensive, but the shipping was a lot, so I went with local.
Next I got an old storm window out of the basement where they all have sat since the new multipane windows were installed here before we bought the house. Any pane of glass the correct size would work fine. We happen to have these old storms.
I put water in the bin, added a big glug of vinegar and a small squirt of dish soap, swirled it together, and added the clean wool to that, to soak for a while (without the glass cover). The wool was wet, but not completely covered by the liquid
I have a bunch of wool dye, most of which I got from Pro-Chem, some from other places. I took one, mixed it in a jar with very hot water (maybe ½ cup), then I poured that over the wool in the bin (still with its vinegar and soap). Some sections got really saturated with the dye, some had just a touch, some none at all. I did squish it around a little.
Then I put the glass cover on, and left it in the hot hot sun. I think I left it for 2 days. It got pretty hot – but certainly not boiling. Maybe to 150 degrees or so. And at night it cooled down, but I didn’t worry about it. In the morning, after a couple days, when it was cool, I poured off the liquid (saved it in a bucket), rinsed the wool (put the rinse water in same bucket), and let it dry. I used the not-yet-exhausted dye water again by putting it back in the bin, adding more vinegar and soap, and adding more wool. This time I didn’t bother presoaking it. Back went the glass cover and I left that for a couple of days. Voila!
Now the wool in yesterday’s photo was another batch where I used red and yellow dye in the same way so it came out more variegated. I like the results!
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I’m feeling pretty dull and unsuccessful today. I suppose it will be better once school starts because I will have all that stuff to keep my brain occupied. I am enjoying reading Balzac, just the short novels. I will have to return the Chaucer since it is over due. I’m also enjoying listening to Dr. Ellis lecture about the American Revolution, and I hope to get it some solid spinning and listening today. And I have nearly finished the brown/purple wrist warmers.
Now to something more interesting: SOLAR DYEING! And I cannot take credit for this, I hear about it from a workshop long ago at Nutmeg Spinners in CT. I wish I could remember the name of the woman who presented it, but I can’t.
Here’s what I have done:
I bought a black bin at a hardware store. It is designed for collecting oil when changing oil in a car. I looked up bussing bins in restaurant supply stores, and they looked very nice (probably tougher), and not very expensive, but the shipping was a lot, so I went with local.
Next I got an old storm window out of the basement where they all have sat since the new multipane windows were installed here before we bought the house. Any pane of glass the correct size would work fine. We happen to have these old storms.
I put water in the bin, added a big glug of vinegar and a small squirt of dish soap, swirled it together, and added the clean wool to that, to soak for a while (without the glass cover). The wool was wet, but not completely covered by the liquid
I have a bunch of wool dye, most of which I got from Pro-Chem, some from other places. I took one, mixed it in a jar with very hot water (maybe ½ cup), then I poured that over the wool in the bin (still with its vinegar and soap). Some sections got really saturated with the dye, some had just a touch, some none at all. I did squish it around a little.
Then I put the glass cover on, and left it in the hot hot sun. I think I left it for 2 days. It got pretty hot – but certainly not boiling. Maybe to 150 degrees or so. And at night it cooled down, but I didn’t worry about it. In the morning, after a couple days, when it was cool, I poured off the liquid (saved it in a bucket), rinsed the wool (put the rinse water in same bucket), and let it dry. I used the not-yet-exhausted dye water again by putting it back in the bin, adding more vinegar and soap, and adding more wool. This time I didn’t bother presoaking it. Back went the glass cover and I left that for a couple of days. Voila!
Now the wool in yesterday’s photo was another batch where I used red and yellow dye in the same way so it came out more variegated. I like the results!
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Contest!
So here's the official contest, as I started to think about yesterday: between now and Sat night (eastern us time) anyone who leaves a comment will be entered, Sun morning I'll draw a name randomly and send that person a nice fuzzy gift. It won't be yarn, so you don't have to be a knitter. And I promise it won't be anything made from the brown/purple stuff.
Is this entirely lame? Extremely possible, but when did that ever stop me from anything??
Here's some photos to keep things interesting:
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Is this entirely lame? Extremely possible, but when did that ever stop me from anything??
Here's some photos to keep things interesting:
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| Adorable little Mousy snoozing |
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| orange solar-dyed |
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| red and yellow solar-dyed |
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| the solar-dye set up |
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Comments!
Hey, I got another comment on my blog!! I came up with an idea as I lay in bed this morning not wanting to get up….. I think I should run a contest. A commenter contest. So here would be the deal. For the next 3 days, anyone who leaves a comment would be entered in a drawing. Then I would draw a name, and send a small giftie to whichever name is drawn. The trouble is that the commenters would have to identify themselves somehow – I think you can come up with a quite innocuous name that maintains your actual anonymity. But then, the winner would have to be willing to email me your actual address so I could send the thing. Hmmmmm. It is an idea. Just a way to find out if I actually have any readers. I’ll write a whole post dedicated to just that.
I am doing very well with my attempts at solar dyeing. A few days ago I set up some white wool with some yellow and red dye poured on, I rinsed that yesterday and put some wool that was pink from exhausting the previous dye bath into what was left, and that is now a nice orange. The original stuff is nicely variegated. Only bad thing – I broke the glass I’ve been using over the top. I think I will try mending it with duct tape.
I spent a good part of yesterday – guess what?? - spinning more brown/purple stuff!!!!! I’m enjoying it because I like the variegation. I like the way it changes as it moves through my fingers. I also like listening to my cd books – I now know all about The Wars That Shaped the Western World (as in Peloponnesian, and Punic, as in ancient Greece and Rome. And I am learning about the American Founding Fathers. I’m getting terribly educated while doing “useful” work. Well, we’ll see if anything ever comes of these skeins. I will probably have enough for an entire sweater, but doubt anyone would buy a full pound of it. I did start knitting a nice pair of loosely knit wrist warmers with it.
I am knitting straight from the spool, so it is a bit coarse. When I am done I will wash them in HOT with a bit of agitation to bring out the softness.
That brings up a concern I have. I am worried about when I will need to go back to reality in a few weeks – when classes start up and I must be teaching. I won’t be able to do much spinning, but what I am worried about is getting myself up earlier. I guess it will mean getting to bed earlier. No more staying up to watch the Terry Jones series on People of the Middle Ages that we discovered on Netflix. That won’t be such a loss. It’s just that going to bed at 9 does not mean I go to sleep at 9. Well, after several days of getting up earlier maybe I will manage to get to sleep earlier. It’s just that I have so much to do before I can leave for work. Or rather so much I want to do: stretches, write, meditate, feed the buns. And if things return to the usual, feeding the buns may be all I end up doing.
I think I had better feed this wee beastie of a mouse. Every 2 hours gets kind of tedious.
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I am doing very well with my attempts at solar dyeing. A few days ago I set up some white wool with some yellow and red dye poured on, I rinsed that yesterday and put some wool that was pink from exhausting the previous dye bath into what was left, and that is now a nice orange. The original stuff is nicely variegated. Only bad thing – I broke the glass I’ve been using over the top. I think I will try mending it with duct tape.
I spent a good part of yesterday – guess what?? - spinning more brown/purple stuff!!!!! I’m enjoying it because I like the variegation. I like the way it changes as it moves through my fingers. I also like listening to my cd books – I now know all about The Wars That Shaped the Western World (as in Peloponnesian, and Punic, as in ancient Greece and Rome. And I am learning about the American Founding Fathers. I’m getting terribly educated while doing “useful” work. Well, we’ll see if anything ever comes of these skeins. I will probably have enough for an entire sweater, but doubt anyone would buy a full pound of it. I did start knitting a nice pair of loosely knit wrist warmers with it.
That brings up a concern I have. I am worried about when I will need to go back to reality in a few weeks – when classes start up and I must be teaching. I won’t be able to do much spinning, but what I am worried about is getting myself up earlier. I guess it will mean getting to bed earlier. No more staying up to watch the Terry Jones series on People of the Middle Ages that we discovered on Netflix. That won’t be such a loss. It’s just that going to bed at 9 does not mean I go to sleep at 9. Well, after several days of getting up earlier maybe I will manage to get to sleep earlier. It’s just that I have so much to do before I can leave for work. Or rather so much I want to do: stretches, write, meditate, feed the buns. And if things return to the usual, feeding the buns may be all I end up doing.
I think I had better feed this wee beastie of a mouse. Every 2 hours gets kind of tedious.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Wellesley Fair Article Link
The Wellesley Fair may have some unforeseen benefits. A reporter was there from the local paper, and he took a photo of me and put it and some info into his article. Here's the link:
http://wellesley.patch.com/articles/the-massachusetts-marketplace-festival#c
So maybe some folks will visit my Etsy shop, and maybe even this blog because of it. Here's a request - if anyone does visit this blog, found by whatever means, send me a comment!!!! I kind of feel like I write to nobody..... Of course this morning will be a bit disappointing, as there is little fiber or bunny news. Sorry.
My schedule is all messed up this morning. After sleeping poorly because of being awakened in the middle of the night by a howling dog (yes, you Tigger) who we finally found under the bureau – what he was howling about we’ll never know – I had to get up early to feed the adorable wee mousie. It seems somehow less adorable very early in the morning…. I tried to go back to sleep but was just lying there with my brain going a mile a minute, so I got up, and rather than do all the stuff that needs doing, like stretches and feeding the buns, I decided to just write and perhaps thus cool my brain.
Speaking of cool, it has been hot hot hot (how ya feeling? Hot hot hot) and I am tired of it. It is hard to be outside spinning. I suppose next year, after our basement is all finished, I could sit in there and spin, though I hate being down in a stuffy basement instead of out in the lovely air. It rained last night, so maybe it will be cooler.
We watched a really dumb Netflix thing about the Universe. The label said it was made in 2006, but it really had been filmed in 1989 and was really dated. So we turned it off and watched a Terry Gillium thing about medieval peasants. I knit on the scarf for Ally, but the trouble is that I must count with that scarf so it is hard to knit it while listening to my French Literature tape, or while watching a video.
Ok, I guess I’ve rambled enough. Today I will spin more purple/brown – I will be spinning that for quite a while. The new technique of spinning one full bobbin, then another full one with ½ ounce bits separated by a contrasting color, then plying 1 ounce at a time seems to work well.
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http://wellesley.patch.com/articles/the-massachusetts-marketplace-festival#c
So maybe some folks will visit my Etsy shop, and maybe even this blog because of it. Here's a request - if anyone does visit this blog, found by whatever means, send me a comment!!!! I kind of feel like I write to nobody..... Of course this morning will be a bit disappointing, as there is little fiber or bunny news. Sorry.
My schedule is all messed up this morning. After sleeping poorly because of being awakened in the middle of the night by a howling dog (yes, you Tigger) who we finally found under the bureau – what he was howling about we’ll never know – I had to get up early to feed the adorable wee mousie. It seems somehow less adorable very early in the morning…. I tried to go back to sleep but was just lying there with my brain going a mile a minute, so I got up, and rather than do all the stuff that needs doing, like stretches and feeding the buns, I decided to just write and perhaps thus cool my brain.
Speaking of cool, it has been hot hot hot (how ya feeling? Hot hot hot) and I am tired of it. It is hard to be outside spinning. I suppose next year, after our basement is all finished, I could sit in there and spin, though I hate being down in a stuffy basement instead of out in the lovely air. It rained last night, so maybe it will be cooler.
We watched a really dumb Netflix thing about the Universe. The label said it was made in 2006, but it really had been filmed in 1989 and was really dated. So we turned it off and watched a Terry Gillium thing about medieval peasants. I knit on the scarf for Ally, but the trouble is that I must count with that scarf so it is hard to knit it while listening to my French Literature tape, or while watching a video.
Ok, I guess I’ve rambled enough. Today I will spin more purple/brown – I will be spinning that for quite a while. The new technique of spinning one full bobbin, then another full one with ½ ounce bits separated by a contrasting color, then plying 1 ounce at a time seems to work well.
Visit my new Etsy Shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/twistedmysteries
Monday, August 09, 2010
I am not especially happy with this situation. The other computer has died – perhaps due to something about the power cord since it just loses power shortly after turning on. So I am writing at the big computer and I do NOT like it. I am spoiled by sitting outside in the nice cool breeze. And I prefer to write on my lap, which I have just discovered I can do with this, too, why not?
Well, after swearing off fiber forever yesterday, I still managed to spin up 3 small skeins of the purple/brown stuff. I wound off 2 of them, and will knit the third right from the spool. Wrist warmers? A headband? Something small just so I can see how it comes out.
Tiny Mousito is still alive and going strong and acts starving every time we go to feed it. It is also getting a bit more rambunctious, scrambles about all over its box. I think it will need an actual cage of some sort soon. It is unbelievably cute and so so so tiny!
Oh, here’s something exciting: I made another Etsy sale!!!!! I spent quite a long time yesterday putting up a few more things – just skeins.
Boy, it is time consuming. I need to streamline it somehow. For one thing, I take a mazillion photos of each skein, then go through them all to choose the best 4. And fix them all in various ways. If only I could just take one photo and that was that. Then it takes time to write up a blurb for each one. I have saved the blurbs I’ve written so I can use them as a template of some sort, changing details as needed. Today I must go to the po to mail off the purchased skein.
But first, I can't resist including this little montage of the T-boy and I sharing a treat. Note the drool strand in the 1st photo...
Ok, it is nearly 9, I’d better get a move on.
Visit my new Etsy Shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/twistedmysteries
Well, after swearing off fiber forever yesterday, I still managed to spin up 3 small skeins of the purple/brown stuff. I wound off 2 of them, and will knit the third right from the spool. Wrist warmers? A headband? Something small just so I can see how it comes out.
Tiny Mousito is still alive and going strong and acts starving every time we go to feed it. It is also getting a bit more rambunctious, scrambles about all over its box. I think it will need an actual cage of some sort soon. It is unbelievably cute and so so so tiny!
Oh, here’s something exciting: I made another Etsy sale!!!!! I spent quite a long time yesterday putting up a few more things – just skeins.
Boy, it is time consuming. I need to streamline it somehow. For one thing, I take a mazillion photos of each skein, then go through them all to choose the best 4. And fix them all in various ways. If only I could just take one photo and that was that. Then it takes time to write up a blurb for each one. I have saved the blurbs I’ve written so I can use them as a template of some sort, changing details as needed. Today I must go to the po to mail off the purchased skein.
But first, I can't resist including this little montage of the T-boy and I sharing a treat. Note the drool strand in the 1st photo...
Visit my new Etsy Shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/twistedmysteries
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Utter Failure
Bad title. I should not focus on the failure part, rather on whatever lessons I learned, whatever enjoyment I had, whatever good may have come from it. I speak of yesterday’s complete waste of time and energy at the Horticultural Fair in Wellesley. I made two sales of <$100. Not as bad as that fair at Look Park several years ago where I sold absolutely nothing… This was not a particularly good venue for me (ya think??) since it was more of an agricultural fair, and people were not so much on the lookout for handcrafted items. Add to that the major malfaut on the part of the orgqanizers of hiring a very loud rock band to play Beatles covers right in front of me. I couldn’t hear myself think let alone talk to anyone about my stuff. It was a good thing I had the display so people could see photos and not have to ask me as much. A lesson: I should more carefully check out a fair before I pay good money and go to all the effort to sell at it.
I did get rather majorly depressed: “Nobody wants my stuff” “Why do I bother working so hard at this?” “I am wasting my time and energy which could be put to much better use fighting global warming” “I pretend/think/imagine I am a ‘fiber artist’ when really I am just a dilettante.” That last hits a nerve since I’ve felt like one ever since learning the world in Mr. Walker’s English class junior year. and G’s little mouse is an even smaller example of this misspent, ill appropriated energy. Here’s the story: Friday night I get a call from G at Cumbie’s on rt 9. She and K had biked there and found a tiny baby mouse in the parking lot. What should they do with it? I suggested many options including leaving it there (let nature take its course), putting it out of its misery, feeding it to Snakey, and trying to care for it, which would be very hard and time consuming. Of course they decided on the latter, apparently mainly at Katie’s insistence. So we now have a tiny baby mouse, probably a week or so old (eyes not yet open) that every few hours must be fed kitten milk replacer with a tiny syringe, sometimes by G and sometimes by me. And what will we do with this mouse when it is grown? Probably catch it with a mouse trap when it ends up in our kitchen…. I have suggested that we invite K over to teach her how to feed it so that at least they can take turns. And when we go to Oregon, maybe she can take it. And maybe her new kitten will find it and dispatch it….. Well, one thing I can say is that it is adorably cute, voracious, and must be hardy to have made it this long.
It brings back memories of hours spent caring for the girls’ tamagotchies (?) when they were little.
One may notice that I have no interesting fiber news, things I’m working on, and all like that. That’s because I am so discouraged that I don’t even want to think about fiber today.
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I did get rather majorly depressed: “Nobody wants my stuff” “Why do I bother working so hard at this?” “I am wasting my time and energy which could be put to much better use fighting global warming” “I pretend/think/imagine I am a ‘fiber artist’ when really I am just a dilettante.” That last hits a nerve since I’ve felt like one ever since learning the world in Mr. Walker’s English class junior year. and G’s little mouse is an even smaller example of this misspent, ill appropriated energy. Here’s the story: Friday night I get a call from G at Cumbie’s on rt 9. She and K had biked there and found a tiny baby mouse in the parking lot. What should they do with it? I suggested many options including leaving it there (let nature take its course), putting it out of its misery, feeding it to Snakey, and trying to care for it, which would be very hard and time consuming. Of course they decided on the latter, apparently mainly at Katie’s insistence. So we now have a tiny baby mouse, probably a week or so old (eyes not yet open) that every few hours must be fed kitten milk replacer with a tiny syringe, sometimes by G and sometimes by me. And what will we do with this mouse when it is grown? Probably catch it with a mouse trap when it ends up in our kitchen…. I have suggested that we invite K over to teach her how to feed it so that at least they can take turns. And when we go to Oregon, maybe she can take it. And maybe her new kitten will find it and dispatch it….. Well, one thing I can say is that it is adorably cute, voracious, and must be hardy to have made it this long.
It brings back memories of hours spent caring for the girls’ tamagotchies (?) when they were little.
One may notice that I have no interesting fiber news, things I’m working on, and all like that. That’s because I am so discouraged that I don’t even want to think about fiber today.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Getting Ready for a Fair
What will today bring? Much work I fear. I did a lot of spinning yesterday to get ready for tomorrow – I have 3 new skeins of light (Lucky) gray, and the three of white. I still have a lot to do since I need to put labels on all the unlabeled skeins, which includes all the angora/alpaca/wool stuff, and the pink stuff, as well as the new angora. I also, yesterday printed up a bunch of photos that I will use for the informative display at my booth. I’m not yet sure how I will hang it. I also really hope the tent support part comes today. Well, I think I will set up the tent and think about it. I think I could hang the display from the metal supports. My other idea was to hang it on the wooden shelves, but I think I will bring that big mirror that I had last Christmas Fair and hang that on the shelves. Well, I still have to actually put the display together. I need to get double stick tape and I’m hoping Hastings has some. I’m thinking I will go (maybe walk, maybe bike) into town to get the tape, return the cd booklet to the library, and get a dowel to fix the wheel. The flier broke yesterday (it’s been loose for a long time), but then – I have the flier from the wheel I bought (and immediately regretted buying) in Maine. I no longer regret it! I need to now drill out the broken dowels, and glue in new ones and clamp the whole thing (the old one) to fix it. In town I must also get cash for the fair.
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
Computer Issues
I got the computer to work better – I did whatever it is called where you put it back in time a few days. I ought to run some virus checks and all that on it now. Well, after I write. And IF it stays running. I managed to upload yesterday’s blog and decided I would start writing now while it is still on. I’ll have to continually save. But I have it inside which is not that nice, the computer itself is unbearably hot, the noise from it is much louder here, and besides that I have not yet fed the buns and I stopped my stretches in the middle to deal with this. An upset to my routine!!!!! And I don’t like writing on the table like this. I want the thing in my lap, but it is crowded at the table and the damn thing is so hot. I’ll try anyway. Ok, maybe this will be better. Wouldn’t it be great to have a real true laptop? One that one could actually carry around and use on one’s lap. Well, maybe one day. After we get one for Geneviève. After they are both done with school. By then Kent will decide that he has to move to Hawaii and then who knows what the hell will happen.
Religion and faith. Why do I have no interest in writing about those? Much more compelling to write about mundanities. Oh, by the way, good news: my cancer sore is getting better. It was really annoying all day yesterday. I realized that if I were very busy (as in at work) I would be distracted and would not notice it so much. Or if I had nothing to do and could just relax and read it probably would bother me less. But as it is, I am trying to keep myself motivated to do things – spin the angora, get ready for Sat, get other not very exciting things done, and in that situation something seemingly small like a canker sore is really distracting. I suppose, in part, because many times when I have trouble staying motivated I’ll take a small break to eat something. But with the canker sore that becomes its own ordeal.
Today- I really have to do stuff like pay bills. I want to spin 3 more ounces, this time of Lucky fiber. On a more fun note, I started working on putting some photos together in a kind of montage to use in my booth. I think we need a new color cartridge in the printer, so I will need to do that today early on.
I guess the thing to do right now is feed the buns, meditate, then spin up the gray stuff. Oh and I have the solar-maybe-dyed stuff to rinse out and see how it did. Maybe I’ll do that first. I imagine there will be lots of dye left over so I’ll need to find more wool to exhaust it. I guess I’ll wash the rest of that fleece.
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Religion and faith. Why do I have no interest in writing about those? Much more compelling to write about mundanities. Oh, by the way, good news: my cancer sore is getting better. It was really annoying all day yesterday. I realized that if I were very busy (as in at work) I would be distracted and would not notice it so much. Or if I had nothing to do and could just relax and read it probably would bother me less. But as it is, I am trying to keep myself motivated to do things – spin the angora, get ready for Sat, get other not very exciting things done, and in that situation something seemingly small like a canker sore is really distracting. I suppose, in part, because many times when I have trouble staying motivated I’ll take a small break to eat something. But with the canker sore that becomes its own ordeal.
Today- I really have to do stuff like pay bills. I want to spin 3 more ounces, this time of Lucky fiber. On a more fun note, I started working on putting some photos together in a kind of montage to use in my booth. I think we need a new color cartridge in the printer, so I will need to do that today early on.
I guess the thing to do right now is feed the buns, meditate, then spin up the gray stuff. Oh and I have the solar-maybe-dyed stuff to rinse out and see how it did. Maybe I’ll do that first. I imagine there will be lots of dye left over so I’ll need to find more wool to exhaust it. I guess I’ll wash the rest of that fleece.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
I decided to get this litter of babies out of their hutch and give them some socialization time. Because they are in the hutch, they spend most of their time hidden away, kind of cowering in the back of the enclosed part. I’m sure most of the time they do not cower, they just sleep all snuggled up, but when I open the door they cower. I want them to get more accustomed to people. Unfortunately, it being summer, I don’t have all those lovely students to socialize them for me. Right now they are at the completely adorable stage.
I picked up Ophelia Speaks from the 25 cent shelf at the library yesterday, and have been reading some of the essays written by teenage girls, pretty interesting. One started out saying that she got a journal and wrote in it every day, mostly about religion and faith. Hmmmmm. And here I write mostly about things like how well or poorly I slept and (which I was thinking this morning I would say and so I will) how I have a canker sore on my tongue. I guess these are the things that occupy my mind. I guess I am just lame. Oh well.
Last night was spinning at Webs. I finished a skein of grey angora and started one of white. I want to get several more spun up for the upcoming fair in Wellesley. I’ll add the link to it here.
http://www.masshort.org/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,106/year,2010/month,08/day,07/Itemid,1000002/catids,25|19|24|30|18/
and the dh agreed to come with me – miraculous! It will sure make the set up and take down a lot easier.
I started a bin of solar dyeing yesterday. Unfortunately I missed the best days for that, when it was so so so hot in July. And it got pretty hot (125 degrees inside the bin) yesterday, but it looks like today will be cloudy. Well, I will just leave it there until it gets sunny again and hope for the best.
And now I am really hungry (and I have a canker sore on my tongue) so I will meditate and then eat!
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Some more photos - yarn and bunnies!
I actually spun and plied and washed my first one ounce skein of the purple brown!
Oh, and yesterday I took a bunch of photos of adult bunnies (some of which I posted) and some of adorable babies
And I started to organize the bunny photos. Just a start, it will take quite a while to really get it functional. I want it easy to access individual photos of each adult. That way I can post them with the appropriate thing offered for sale on Etsy.
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Oh, and yesterday I took a bunch of photos of adult bunnies (some of which I posted) and some of adorable babies
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| adorable baby (2 weeks) |
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| adorable baby AND lovely wrist warmer |
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| baby and Papa (Blizzard) |
And I started to organize the bunny photos. Just a start, it will take quite a while to really get it functional. I want it easy to access individual photos of each adult. That way I can post them with the appropriate thing offered for sale on Etsy.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Parental Photos
Here are photos of the parents of the baby buns that I showed a few days ago:
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MOM (APRICOT) WITH ONE OF THE BABIES
DAD (BART)
Exciting News!!
Here’s some exciting news: I SOLD SOMETHING ON ETSY!!!!!! I have to look more closely at the email to see which wrist warmers it is, then send it off pronto today. How terribly exciting. And someone has requested that I reserve the brown new baby bunny. Not sure how I will get it to her.
On other fibrous news, I am finally spinning the purple/brown stuff. I will take a photo.
I want to make 1 ounce skeins, so I have thought up a great technique. I am spinning one bobbin of 2 ounces. Then on the next I will spin ½ ounce bits, and separate each with some obvious bit of some other color. Then when I ply I can do each ounce separately. Much less taking on and off of bobbins this way.
And final fibrous news – I decided to try knitting the cowl for my niece using a pattern I found on Ravelry. I will have to link to the blog that has it.
http://knitsnthings.wordpress.com/simply-knit-one-stitch-lace-scarf/
It is lacey and pretty cool. I’m afraid, though, that I’m going to have to put it aside this week while I spin and knit up some stuff for the fair in Wellesley this weekend. I hope the part for the Easy-Up tent comes in time, otherwise I’ll be doing some creative duct tape work.
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On other fibrous news, I am finally spinning the purple/brown stuff. I will take a photo.
I want to make 1 ounce skeins, so I have thought up a great technique. I am spinning one bobbin of 2 ounces. Then on the next I will spin ½ ounce bits, and separate each with some obvious bit of some other color. Then when I ply I can do each ounce separately. Much less taking on and off of bobbins this way.
And final fibrous news – I decided to try knitting the cowl for my niece using a pattern I found on Ravelry. I will have to link to the blog that has it.
http://knitsnthings.wordpress.com/simply-knit-one-stitch-lace-scarf/
It is lacey and pretty cool. I’m afraid, though, that I’m going to have to put it aside this week while I spin and knit up some stuff for the fair in Wellesley this weekend. I hope the part for the Easy-Up tent comes in time, otherwise I’ll be doing some creative duct tape work.
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Sunday, August 01, 2010
I got a comment!!!!!!! That means that someone has read or at least glanced at my blog!! How exciting! But uh oh, it also means that people might actually be reading this and maybe I should watch what I write. I have a deep-seated fear (that comes, I believe, from being the youngest of 4 sisters) of annoying anyone. I assume by blabbing away I will eventually annoy someone. Too bad.
I am a bit concerned about this late rising thing and what will happen when works starts back up in a month. It might mean that I have to give up a lot of my morning routine, and probably what will go first is MP’s. Or maybe I can try to get myself to bed earlier. We watched a rather lame NOVA video from Netflix about “the invisible world” and then I messed around for quite a while trying to get a photo to post on Ravelry to advertise bunnies for sale. Then when I did get to bed it took forever to get to sleep. Perhaps that’s what comes of having regular tea AND a chocolate cookie late in the afternoon. How lame is that? Tea after noon means I cannot sleep??
Before the nova thing, and after a quick and late supper of toasted cheese sandwiches and Barn Farm salad, I carded more!!!!! I am finally doing the final card – combining all the different fibers that I will spin up into this purple/brown stuff. It will not be perfect, but I am ready to be done with it.
I let a few bunnies out to runs this morning. It’s been so hot I haven’t done that in a while. I think they will enjoy the munching and I hope not do too much digging. I’ll probably switch them when I’m done writing to give another group a chance.
Once again, I have not really written anything that I can reasonably put in a blog. So maybe this idea will not work very well. I certainly won’t have the time to write morning pages AND a blog. One will have to give.
Hmmmm - but look, I did decide to put most of it up anyway. well, happy reading world!!!
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I am a bit concerned about this late rising thing and what will happen when works starts back up in a month. It might mean that I have to give up a lot of my morning routine, and probably what will go first is MP’s. Or maybe I can try to get myself to bed earlier. We watched a rather lame NOVA video from Netflix about “the invisible world” and then I messed around for quite a while trying to get a photo to post on Ravelry to advertise bunnies for sale. Then when I did get to bed it took forever to get to sleep. Perhaps that’s what comes of having regular tea AND a chocolate cookie late in the afternoon. How lame is that? Tea after noon means I cannot sleep??
Before the nova thing, and after a quick and late supper of toasted cheese sandwiches and Barn Farm salad, I carded more!!!!! I am finally doing the final card – combining all the different fibers that I will spin up into this purple/brown stuff. It will not be perfect, but I am ready to be done with it.
I let a few bunnies out to runs this morning. It’s been so hot I haven’t done that in a while. I think they will enjoy the munching and I hope not do too much digging. I’ll probably switch them when I’m done writing to give another group a chance.
Once again, I have not really written anything that I can reasonably put in a blog. So maybe this idea will not work very well. I certainly won’t have the time to write morning pages AND a blog. One will have to give.
Hmmmm - but look, I did decide to put most of it up anyway. well, happy reading world!!!
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
A Post for Practical Reasons
I want to put a photo of the bunnies I have available for sale on Ravelry, and it looks like the photo must be on the internet, so if I post it here, I can type in the link to it.... maybe?
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Friday, July 30, 2010
New Thoughts
I have a new thought about the whole MP/blog “controversy.” I’m thinking I could write out my mps, then past part of them on the blog, skipping the more sensitive/personal stuff.
For example I can rant about the stupid purple stuff I’ve been carding for 3 months now. Nasty nasty purple. I THINK I have a final solution which is to combine it with dark brown wool, light brown angora, and a bit of the gold wool. I’ve spun up some samples and it looks quite nice. Very autumnal. Now why in all the world could all this not go on a blog? It could. Would it be interesting and would anyone in the universe be interested in reading it? Who the hell knows, but it’s not like that’s a major condition of writing one, nor much of an expectation
I’d like to think about something more uplifting. Is there anything? I think I will finally finish carding this purple/brown stuff so I can move on to other things. I have a couple of fiber ToDos: work on the dog hair stuff, and take photos of some “black” angora for someone who contacted me via etsy. I think I would not like to offer to do custom work via etsy. It is one thing to list things I have made and see if anyone wants to buy them. It’s another whole thing to take orders for stuff and then have to make it. Ok, that sounds like more of a real business, but I’m not sure I so much want that. After all, I do have an actual job and I don’t want this to become a complete burden.
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For example I can rant about the stupid purple stuff I’ve been carding for 3 months now. Nasty nasty purple. I THINK I have a final solution which is to combine it with dark brown wool, light brown angora, and a bit of the gold wool. I’ve spun up some samples and it looks quite nice. Very autumnal. Now why in all the world could all this not go on a blog? It could. Would it be interesting and would anyone in the universe be interested in reading it? Who the hell knows, but it’s not like that’s a major condition of writing one, nor much of an expectation
I’d like to think about something more uplifting. Is there anything? I think I will finally finish carding this purple/brown stuff so I can move on to other things. I have a couple of fiber ToDos: work on the dog hair stuff, and take photos of some “black” angora for someone who contacted me via etsy. I think I would not like to offer to do custom work via etsy. It is one thing to list things I have made and see if anyone wants to buy them. It’s another whole thing to take orders for stuff and then have to make it. Ok, that sounds like more of a real business, but I’m not sure I so much want that. After all, I do have an actual job and I don’t want this to become a complete burden.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Continuation
Back to my questions:
What they are made of?
I pretty much answered this in that my stuff is made of angora, wool, sometimes alpaca, sometimes silk, occasionally bits of synthetic yarns cut up and added in. The angora and wool are basically local (to me), the alpaca and silk I get from nearby fairs, the other stuff anything goes (Michael's?). A lot of what I make is naturally colored rabbit or wool, but I also sometimes use dyes. Sometimes natural dyes (mostly walnut -> browns, and lichen-> purples), more often at this point commercial dyes (mostly Pro-Chem).
Details about my rabbits?
Oh boy, this is where I can go on and on and wax eloquent and use the cool names I came up with. Or not. Basics: my rabbits are mixed French and Giant. They are not registered and I do not show them. They are "dual purpose" meaning that of the litters I raise some rabbits are sold or kept for fiber, while some I use for meat. Yes, I do all the meat processing myself; no I don't like to do it, but I do; yes, rabbit (especially home raised like mine) is delicious and very healthy. I keep my rabbits outside all year round in wire cages protected from the weather. When possible, I let them out in little runs to eat grass (and dig, something they seem to love to do). They are well cared for and I would say seem basically comfortable and content. They are not house pets and I do not sit and watch TV on the couch with them. I do try to handle the babies a lot so they get very comfortable around people.
Superlatives designed to entice you to buy?
Skip this one for now.
Interesting tid-bits about me to emphasize the fact that you would be getting something made by a real (and very likeable) person rather than a corporation?
In fact, skip this one, too, as it is getting late and I am tired and I think I'll go read some Balzac.
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What they are made of?
I pretty much answered this in that my stuff is made of angora, wool, sometimes alpaca, sometimes silk, occasionally bits of synthetic yarns cut up and added in. The angora and wool are basically local (to me), the alpaca and silk I get from nearby fairs, the other stuff anything goes (Michael's?). A lot of what I make is naturally colored rabbit or wool, but I also sometimes use dyes. Sometimes natural dyes (mostly walnut -> browns, and lichen-> purples), more often at this point commercial dyes (mostly Pro-Chem).
Details about my rabbits?
Oh boy, this is where I can go on and on and wax eloquent and use the cool names I came up with. Or not. Basics: my rabbits are mixed French and Giant. They are not registered and I do not show them. They are "dual purpose" meaning that of the litters I raise some rabbits are sold or kept for fiber, while some I use for meat. Yes, I do all the meat processing myself; no I don't like to do it, but I do; yes, rabbit (especially home raised like mine) is delicious and very healthy. I keep my rabbits outside all year round in wire cages protected from the weather. When possible, I let them out in little runs to eat grass (and dig, something they seem to love to do). They are well cared for and I would say seem basically comfortable and content. They are not house pets and I do not sit and watch TV on the couch with them. I do try to handle the babies a lot so they get very comfortable around people.
Superlatives designed to entice you to buy?
Skip this one for now.
Interesting tid-bits about me to emphasize the fact that you would be getting something made by a real (and very likeable) person rather than a corporation?
In fact, skip this one, too, as it is getting late and I am tired and I think I'll go read some Balzac.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
The next stuff I need to think about writing, or perfecting, since it already exists, is the front page etsy blurb. And then blurbs for each item listed. And it seems like on this blogger there is the possibility of “pages.” Meaning, I suppose, little descriptive blurb type things, I wonder if they can include photos. If so, I could put the photos of: me harvesting fiber
me carding
me spinning…..
plus some of the rabbits.
As for the etsy front page:
What would an Etsy Explorer be interested in about me and the things I create?
Would you like to know how I make things?
What they are made of?
Details about my rabbits?
Superlatives designed to entice you to buy?
Interesting tid-bits about me to emphasize the fact that you would be getting something made by a real (and very likeable) person rather than a corporation?
I wish I knew what would be most useful, though I suppose the reality is that some people want one thing, some another, and many don’t care about any of it, just want to see the items themselves and how they look.
Well I will do my best.
How do I make things? I start with the rabbits and I harvest their hair/fur/wool usually by plucking or brushing it out, sometimes by clipping it. I also start with raw wool that I usually get at local fairs or directly from friends that have sheep. I wash it, sometimes dye it. There are many options throughout the process of making yarn, and I use most of them at one time or another. One option is to blend the fibers. In this case I use my drum carder to align the wool and combine it with angora. If I blend in plucked or clipped angora, the resulting yarn is smooth and even. If I blend in brushed angora, I end up with lumpy stuff that makes a textured yarn. Both are wonderful. Another option is to card or flick-comb the wool by itself, then spin that alone. If I want to add angora to this version, I will usually spin the angora alone, then ply the two strands together.
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me carding
me spinning…..
plus some of the rabbits.
As for the etsy front page:
What would an Etsy Explorer be interested in about me and the things I create?
Would you like to know how I make things?
What they are made of?
Details about my rabbits?
Superlatives designed to entice you to buy?
Interesting tid-bits about me to emphasize the fact that you would be getting something made by a real (and very likeable) person rather than a corporation?
I wish I knew what would be most useful, though I suppose the reality is that some people want one thing, some another, and many don’t care about any of it, just want to see the items themselves and how they look.
Well I will do my best.
How do I make things? I start with the rabbits and I harvest their hair/fur/wool usually by plucking or brushing it out, sometimes by clipping it. I also start with raw wool that I usually get at local fairs or directly from friends that have sheep. I wash it, sometimes dye it. There are many options throughout the process of making yarn, and I use most of them at one time or another. One option is to blend the fibers. In this case I use my drum carder to align the wool and combine it with angora. If I blend in plucked or clipped angora, the resulting yarn is smooth and even. If I blend in brushed angora, I end up with lumpy stuff that makes a textured yarn. Both are wonderful. Another option is to card or flick-comb the wool by itself, then spin that alone. If I want to add angora to this version, I will usually spin the angora alone, then ply the two strands together.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
2 post in one day!!
What could I write about all my bunnies? After all, I have a lot of them, and a goodly number are actually pretty grumpy and annoying. It’s not as if I have 2 beloved rabbits that live in my house and sleep curled up on my bed with me. No, these are outdoor rabbits and in fact are more like livestock. Not that I am completely unappreciative of them. They are lovely. They look great, they are beautiful and on the occasions that I do take them out (besides to pluck or dose with vasoline) they are soft and lovely and soothing. It is also true that some of them are a pain in the neck to feed or groom. Some lunge at me when I reach for their dishes. Some of the guys spray anyone next to them and make a big mess. Some of them scratch and bite when I am trying to groom them. But still, those ears….. especially Bathsheba, Lucky, Angel…. The more French style ears are not quite as interesting. But they are still nice. Maybe I should focus on just what they look like/feel like, and not worry about the whole personality thing. I had thought, way back, to do like the character in the book we read for book club long ago. I am referring to the book that takes place in Ireland about the woman that makes beaded necklaces, each of which she names with some quality, like Perseverance, or Loyalty. They went like hotcakes and she apparently made her living this way. Ok, reality check: this is a novel (and not such a great one to be honest). I had thought I would give each rabbit a personality like that. But I’m afraid most of them would have personalities like “Grumpy,” “Nasty,” “Protective.” I mean which rabbit could be said to be “Steadfast” or “Radiant”? I could give them those names, but I would be lying. Not the first time I suppose.
Lucky of the Alluring Betty Davis Eyes (she’s also mean – call her Mean Girl??)
Bathsheba the Beautiful
Beatrix the Bashful (perhaps not true, but nicely alliterative)
Bo (for Bovine) the Misnamed…
Alice B. Tolkias the Archetypical Albino Angora
Apricot Jam the Sweet (sometimes)
Crystal Cave the Wondrous
Charlotte the Survivor
Cassandra Prophetess
Angel Face with Ears so Soft
Blizzard the Wizard, Big Daddy
Amber Waves of Grain (soon to join that grain in the stew pot)
Bartelby AKA Bart the Wild and Crazy Guy
Onyx Earth Mother
Bavarian Cream Penultimate of Soft
Ok. What does one think of all those? They just might work.
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Lucky of the Alluring Betty Davis Eyes (she’s also mean – call her Mean Girl??)
Bathsheba the Beautiful
Beatrix the Bashful (perhaps not true, but nicely alliterative)
Bo (for Bovine) the Misnamed…
Alice B. Tolkias the Archetypical Albino Angora
Apricot Jam the Sweet (sometimes)
Crystal Cave the Wondrous
Charlotte the Survivor
Cassandra Prophetess
Angel Face with Ears so Soft
Blizzard the Wizard, Big Daddy
Amber Waves of Grain (soon to join that grain in the stew pot)
Bartelby AKA Bart the Wild and Crazy Guy
Onyx Earth Mother
Bavarian Cream Penultimate of Soft
Ok. What does one think of all those? They just might work.
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