Things Are Going Well...

Things are going well...I sold 7 more sheep this weekend, but I sold two I wish I hadn't sold--Rabbit and Sweety, two of my original 3 bottle fed lambs from my first lambing in 2004. I did keep Sophie though. Rabbit was this white ball of wool, a Finn/Icelandic ewe lamb and Sweety was a black ball of wool, a purebred Icelandic ram lamb, who became a wether (a wether is a castrated ram). Both were sweet and nice lambs, but Sophie was outstanding and is our public relations sheep now. She stands and lets people pet her and she wags her tail...and it doesn't matter who the people are or what size they are (*kids or adults) and she will do the same thing. I do miss Rabbit and Sweety though.

We did have an accident though. One of the brown ewe lambs drowned...and I didn't even see her. She looked like a lump of mud at the bottom of the creek and if the water hadn't moved her so we saw her tags, we might not have found her at all. Poor little lamb...it broke my heart to see her there. We buried her at the back of the property...

I also sold some of my wool and some of the hats I've made. I'm shipping off 5 scarves to Sacramento and a tiny bear to a woman who is using it for a project she's doing to raise money for abused children..

My spinning class went well and I made a new friend, Anne Glassley, a sister fiber artist who's interest is in felting, but wants to spin. She was not the beginner I thought she was, she had taught herself both the wheel and the spindle, so it was more a matter of building her confidence and showing her how to check her twist so she wasn't over-spinning the fiber. It was if she was a spinner in a past life she picked it up so fast. I told her that we should get together for lunch soon and she thought that would be great, so that's what we'll do. Her husband, Bob, was a very nice fellow as well. He was so considerate and really cares about his wife a lot and wants her to enjoy her life--you can see how much he loves her..

Lance bought a Yamaha V-Star 1100 motorcycle and both got helmets and may take a ride if the weather warms up over the holidays. He wants to take it out towards Clarkston or Lewiston, so that will be interesting. I haven't been on a motorcycle since well before I divorced my former spouse. When we took a long trip, he kept dumping the bike while I was on it because he kept packing wrong...it has to be balanced or the bike's off-balance and you get dumped. 4 times was 4 times too many, so I told him I wasn't going to ride with him any more, and that was a couple years before I divorced him. Best move I ever made, and I became a single parent of a beautiful 2 yo daughter..

It's been interesting though...seeing a motorcycle in our garage, but it's a real beauty...dark red with silver/gray flames outlined on the tank and fenders. Low to the ground and it has a nice rumble to it, not the potato-potato of a Harley Davidson, but a good sound nonetheless. In the summer, we might get a Yamaha Virago 250 for me to put around town to do some errands. Gas being what it is, we'll be saving more gas using the bikes rather than the cars anyway. If we didn't live right on the highway, I'd settle for a moped, but a moped won't go fast enough on the Highway so a 250 is the bike I'll need to have..

I'm working on a pair of peach cotton/merino socks for my SIL, Jo, who got her first pair of Birkenstocks this summer. I've wanted a pair for quite a while and that might give me the impetus to get a pair. I told her I'd knit a pair of socks for her to wear with the Birkenstocks and she was all for it..

I'm still working on Lance's V-neck sweater out of the silver gray Icelandic from Moe, one of the Icelandics I sold this spring. He had a beautiful fleece and the sweater is going to be very handsome with the light, dark, and medium gray striping as I spun it from the lock. I've got the sleeves finished and the body to the underarms, now it's a matter of getting the arms to the underarms and then finish up the upper arms, shoulders, and neck, then putting on the edging...and it's done..

I finished my shawl and took it with me to Knitochet to see if the owner could sell it for me. It's made from a wine/silver/white/black gimp type of yarn made of rayon. I loved the color and how it worked up...looks like I put metallic yarn in it but it's how the rayon shines. Really lovely with lots of ruffles and movement when you put it on. Keep your fingers crossed..

Well, I'm off to bed. Take care....

Hugs,
Jet.