Good Morning

The rabbit stew yesterday was delicious, had a great day with our friends….my how time flies. Spent a little time weaving and I managed to finish up a rag rug, then knit for most of the rest of the day. Played on the computer a bit and learned that some people just have WAY to much time on their hands.

Today is my daughters birthday, she is 14 where does the time go? Seems like just yesterday I was changing her diapers. LOL Not sure what today is going to bring, I know I need to head to town for a bit and then probably knit and weave…..nothing to stressful!!

Friends over

Today we are having some from Marquette come over.  Brian and John will play amateur radio and Renee and I will knit or do something fun like that.  We are making rabbit stew for dinner….Yummy…..

New Year, New Loom, New Room……oh my!

I am going to try to do better at updating this blog….so much to do so little time. 

I have put a downpayment on a “new” used loom.  It is a Toika Eeva 60 inch weaving width, good for both rugs and fabrics.  Iam very excited!!  This means I will be able to make those area rugs I have been wanting to do for years!!!   (doing the happy dance)  So this means that I have my two rug looms and my Schacht Mighty Wolf for sale. 

I have not been on the sock machine much lately but that is on the “to do” list as I want to use of some of my yarn stash to get things cleaned up in my new room.  I have been doing some hand knitting, I will post photos a bit later.

I am Back!!!

Well its been a long while since I have posted her but I am back. I have moved once again and just love my new house and best of all it is mine!!! It is a BIG house nestled on 43 Acres. I just picked up about 12 chickens and now I need to resurect the chicken coop. Luckily it won’t take much!! I am going to paint my studio room today at least get it started. I am so excited to be able to have MY room once again!!!

Oh my Gosh

It sure has been a long time since I have posted here. Please forgive me….so much to do so little time.   I have entered items in both the Alger County and Marquette County Fairs and have quite the stack of ribbons Mostly Blue and Red….one white!  and 5 best of shows.  I will have to lay them all out and take a photo!! 

Gotta run, but I will try not to be such a stranger.

Milking Milestones and Recent Knitting

Well, we finally hit another milking milestone, 900 pounds of milk! We are up to milking 10 cows now and today (less than an hour ago) sent 918 pounds of milk to Jilbert Dairy! I have been waiting a long time to hit this mark. To put this into perspective 918 pounds of milk is equivilent to 107 gallons.

Since we began milking on November 20, 2008 we have produced 41,477 pounds of milk, which translates to — “we have provided consumers with 4822 gallons of milk!

Next goal ….. to ship 1000 pounds of milk!

Onto knitting ………

I have been playing with the sock machine some more ….. still have not got the ribber down but working on it.  In the mean time I have knit the daughter two pair of socks……

 

Flying Geese….

No I am not quilting! Like I have time for that but………the geese are flying NORTH. Welcome back!!! I am certain that it is a good sign that Spring is sure to come!!! Off to get grain ………..

Cattle Wrangler? Me?

Yes it is true….I have become a cattle wrangler!!!  Like I needed one more thing to do, but it is sort of part of the job.  That is what you do when there is so much snow and the cows can WALK over the fencing.  Oh it would probably help a little if there was electricity going through the fence like it is suppose to be and not intermittently.  (shocking, hey) Ok  I know that was bad, but the pun was intended!!!  They were out yesterday afternoon, evening, last night and now again this morning.  I think they waited this morning until Brian went to work because he was not out the driveway more than 10 minutes and I was chasing cows.  Hopefully the guy from the partner farm shows up soon with some high tencel fence wire so we can run a new fence (make a smaller area) for them that isn’t covered with snow and hopefully it will keep them in!!  Me and 30 cows that are very happy to run, jump and litterally kick up their heels is not a pretty combination!!!

Off to check the critters now and hopefully there are no more running free!!!!!

What is it?

What is the big bright orb I see in the sky? Oh it is just the sun!!! I forgot what it looked like!!

Bright and sunny here for a change, with temps that are suppose to climb into the 30’s. And what am I doing……playing on ravelry, baking bread, contemplating what to make for dinner, working on the CSM (making socks for the daughter), and watching the blue jays and squirrel compete for the seeds in the bird feeder. Oh what joy!! Unlike the dog who is laying beside me snoring…….what a rough life she has!!!!

Socks!!

Thought I would share with everyone the most recent socks I knit on the CSM, they are the results of the sock blanks I received in the swaps on Ravelry.