Randomness

 Here's a picture of Bitterroot Lake by Marion, MT. A friend has a cabin there and we go visit every once in a while.  The energy of that lake is very peaceful and calming.  At least on their section of it. I don't like going in the summer, too many people on it, but in the Spring and Fall it is wonderful.  

With all the craziness in the world now, the bad weather, hurricane Melissa being the biggest hurricane to ever hit Jamaica, all the storms in this country, it's pretty wild! I am very thankful we live where we do. It's relatively calm most of the time. 

I just had a weird experience with this computer while typing this blog.  It all shut off mid-sentence, then when I turned it back on, it's all sized differently and looks very strange. It's not proportioned properly.  Not sure what's going on now.  It seems to be working ok.  It's a fairly new computer, so there shouldn't be any issues. Very strange...

The dairy does finally came into heat the other day.  Next cycle they will get bred.  April babies will be good.  It's warming up a bit by then. I haven't seen any of the cashmeres come in yet.  Which is fine, since none of them will be getting bred this year.

I got my new loom all set up now.  Yesterday we spent the afternoon re-arranging the living room/studio so everything will fit, kind of.  I seriously need a real studio that is big enough to hold all of the fiber tools and things related to this endeavor.  I got a new reed for the new-to-me loom that came today.  It's nice and shiny and looks good on the loom. Now to figure out a project to weave on it!  

We had another bit of snow on Sunday.  It's mostly melted away now.  I just have a couple more sections of flower beds to clean up before winter and I'll be set.  Then I have to do goat maintenance like hoof trimming. Some of the goats have faster growing hooves than the others.  They are all past due for a good trim. 

 We also put up an electric fence just inside the perimeter fence to see if that will keep the dog at home.  So far, so good.  He touched it once, yelped and doesn't get too close to it now.  We'll see what happens when he hears the neighbor boys out and wants to go play.  Now that Skippy tried to kill their cat, they aren't as keen for him to come over and play. Before they didn't mind him coming, they liked playing with him, but when he didn't listen at all to the mom and went after the cat, that kinda changed things. Which is good, I don't really want him going over there. I don't want him leaving this place at all. 

Well, that's it for now.  I have a lot more I could say about a lot of current events, but I won't.  Sending prayers for all the people affected by the weather events around the planet.  Things are getting pretty wild now, and it will probably get even more wild before it calms down again. Stay safe out there!