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I have taken little time this spring for personal knitting and last week I suffered from DTKS (Desperate To Knit Syndrome)!
I found this cute little kit I had stashed away…don’t all knitters have this place they go in their house to visit their stash?
It’s a Rowen Scarf knit with two strands of Kidsilk Haze, lovely yarn to work with using 8 needles it just goes along and then I’ll knit a funky 4 row border all around it…looks to be a good project to take to the NH Sheep and Wool Festival, for those quiet moments at my booth.
But if you’ll come visit me I won’t have time to knit! Okay, deal?
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Jack and I took some time today to work on a few projects outside before the rain moves in on Sunday. It wasn’t a beautiful day but at least it was somewhat dry and temperate…perfect for the tasks at hand.
We have umpteen (how many is that?) sugar maples around the house and they are a blessing on those hot summer days but otherwise continually shed branches and need trimming to let in the light.
Jack cut the branches and I did the lugging…took a couple hours to get the two areas cleared. Trailer loads with an ATV to the brush pile…next winter’s bonfires in the making.
Regrettably, but perhaps thankfully, if it were to happen, our trusty manure spreader broke her drive chain on the last load this spring. Yes, at least it was the last load, and at that it was the last 1/4 load! So we got it back to the barn, got it cleaned out and tucked it away in the machinery barn til Jack can get a look at it to repair. We bought the spreader about 6 years ago, a Yankee deal….another words it didn’t work! But Jack toiled and repaired the floorboards, reset the tracks and it has been marvelous for the past 4 years. And it will be again…just going to take a bit of Yankee ingenuity to get her up and running again….
We spent a good 7 hours just picking away at the list of things needing doing….Sidney is sacked out in front of the fire having exhausted himself walking back and forth from the back fields to the barns at least 40 times….we too made those treks and feel the fire calling.
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I couldn’t resist this one!
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Getting ready for the CT Sheep and Wool and then the NH Sheep and Wool so the past few weeks have been pretty busy between fleece prepping to carding fiber to dyeing yarns and making labels, ordering inventory ad nauseum….this is my dining room and the shed off the kitchen which is a temporary dyeing space. Thank God I have a patient husband and dogs and a cat who are disinterested in raw fleece!
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Jack’s been busy tilling and reseeding pastures this weekend. We are having a glorious stretch of spring weather making it perfect for getting ahead of such projects. Now that the seed is down, we’d like a nice long, lazy day of rain. Just one a week for good measure!
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Looks like NH is closing in on the number 2 spot for the snowiest winter since records were kept in the 1880’s. It started snowing in the late night and we have another 6 inches at this point. No one is in the mood for this anymore. It’s heavy and braking branches, the power has gone out 4 times this morning and I don’t hold out hope for another minute! But it is lovely, just the same.
