Rainy Sunday....
Nov. 29th, 2009 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddictI need to do a photo-post.....need to take photos. :lol: Been busy this weekend (but not BUSY-busy!).
Let's see....we finished the goat feeder (added some laminate shelves to the back to keep the hay in. Works great, and were free! Win/Win!), put the *last* bit of tin on the roof over the milk room, burned a lot of the waste wood, started cleaning the garage, cleaned the Master Bedroom (Oh My Goodness, it was BAD. We've spent the last 6 months basically ignoring it; everytime I have to do a quick clean of the kitchen, the overflow went in there. It was..:shudder: It's CLEAN now, though. Thankfully!)
We put the shavings down in the goat barn - silly critters. (See my icon? That's Sunny, one of our Cashmeres. She has the FINEST fiber I've ever felt - 16 micron? 14? I dunno...but it's very very very soft. LaDue is closer to Cashgora - 19 micron or so; still soft, but no where NEAR what Sunny has.) They came in to see what we were doing....oh my. I didn't know that shavings are a goat's worst enemy - they snorted, they sniffed, they nibbled...and finally decided it was benign. :lol: Oh, and horse feed is DA BOMB - best stuff since Sudan hay. :lol:
I've also been knitting. The Liberty sock is cruising down the foot, the FF sock - it has a heel! And I'm cruising down the gusset decreases rushing to the point I can re-attach the foot. I'm hoping I have enough of the gray yarn left.....:ponders: I really don't want to have to order another skein...but will if I have to. I can always use the excess for mitts or something. I've been taking photos of the FF socks as they progress.....I'm over my faintness of cutting the foot off of FF #1. Not looking forward to doing the same to #2...but the heel fits SO much better, it's not funny.
Need to re-boot laundry, and maybe take a nap. I'll try to do photos later - depends on the light. It's all overcast and dreary outside - and humid. Oh, boy is it ever humid! Feels like a (cold) sauna out there (if that makes sense....you're wet the minute you walk outside. Freaky.)
Let's see....we finished the goat feeder (added some laminate shelves to the back to keep the hay in. Works great, and were free! Win/Win!), put the *last* bit of tin on the roof over the milk room, burned a lot of the waste wood, started cleaning the garage, cleaned the Master Bedroom (Oh My Goodness, it was BAD. We've spent the last 6 months basically ignoring it; everytime I have to do a quick clean of the kitchen, the overflow went in there. It was..:shudder: It's CLEAN now, though. Thankfully!)
We put the shavings down in the goat barn - silly critters. (See my icon? That's Sunny, one of our Cashmeres. She has the FINEST fiber I've ever felt - 16 micron? 14? I dunno...but it's very very very soft. LaDue is closer to Cashgora - 19 micron or so; still soft, but no where NEAR what Sunny has.) They came in to see what we were doing....oh my. I didn't know that shavings are a goat's worst enemy - they snorted, they sniffed, they nibbled...and finally decided it was benign. :lol: Oh, and horse feed is DA BOMB - best stuff since Sudan hay. :lol:
I've also been knitting. The Liberty sock is cruising down the foot, the FF sock - it has a heel! And I'm cruising down the gusset decreases rushing to the point I can re-attach the foot. I'm hoping I have enough of the gray yarn left.....:ponders: I really don't want to have to order another skein...but will if I have to. I can always use the excess for mitts or something. I've been taking photos of the FF socks as they progress.....I'm over my faintness of cutting the foot off of FF #1. Not looking forward to doing the same to #2...but the heel fits SO much better, it's not funny.
Need to re-boot laundry, and maybe take a nap. I'll try to do photos later - depends on the light. It's all overcast and dreary outside - and humid. Oh, boy is it ever humid! Feels like a (cold) sauna out there (if that makes sense....you're wet the minute you walk outside. Freaky.)
