....call a friend and take a wine break!We got about 17" of heavy,wet snow yesterday and I spent the greater part of the day shoveling paths, the barn area and raking snow weary rooves. By 2PM my back was breaking. I spoke to Betsy on the phone and being in the same...
Have a bonfire and chew sticksContemplate it's warmth and beautychew sticks with friendsand always, always manage the affairs of the barn!
Workshops for the 2010 season at Long Ridge Farm are open! Three day workshops with Michele Wipplinger are featured for August. The first is Basilan: Earth Pigments and Infusions from Mali, Africa. The second is Woad: The Ancient European Blue.Michele WipplingerPatty...
Sidney and Luna are snow birds. We knew Sidney was but it sure is great that Luna is also.It's a must that all animals and people living on Long Ridge Farm love the snow! We still have a lot of snow on south side of the saddle up here and today it looks like a lovely...
Did you know that January 25th is coined the "most depressing day of the year"? We are getting a massive rainstorm coupled with frozen ground so the water has no way to soak into the ground coupled with a snowmelt to beat the band. This is depressing!Our cozy...
This looks to be great...a friend sent me the YouTube connection for a new film, still in screenings...Sweetgrass.The last ride of the American cowboy. 150 mile journey to summer pastures, up, over and through the mountains and back again.Here is a film trailer for...
I continue to enjoy the Yarn Harolot's Never Not Knitting calendar with the latest page writing about "Stash Cull". She writes that stashes are living, growing things (ah, yah, your fiber stash!) and that yarn should be in your stash because it is beautiful,...
I am always in awe of life in the wild...how absolutely beautiful. Do click each photo to enlarge.Have you ever felt like this?
I treated myself to the 2010 Page-a-Day Calendar "Never Not Knitting" from the Yarn Harlot and her post for Thursday was about the Unst shawls. She wrote that in the far north of the Shetland Isles of Scotland, on the tiny island of Unst, every so fine gossamer lace...
Two years ago I was flying out to Seattle in July for the annual conference at Earthues. I always have one stop from New England and on that flight I booked from Hartford, CT to Detroit and then on to Seattle. It was hot and humid on the East Coast and the flight from...
