From Dogs to Weaving

Skippy having fun in the snow sliding down the driveway. He is the most rambunctious dog I think we've ever had.

 He's also one of the smartest ones we've ever had.  If only I could trust him out there with the goats and poultry by himself, he'd be almost perfect. Maybe one day...

We are getting a lot of rain the last couple of days and nights.  We are getting the edge of the "atmospheric river" that the PNW is getting.  All this snow in the pictures is now slush and well on its way to being gone.  I think Christmas might not be white this year.  

I finally got the warp all done on the table loom!!  I took a picture of it with my phone, but I can't seem to get it to upload onto my computer like it's supposed to.  I got a new phone a couple of months or so ago, and it's not cooperating like the old one did.  When I get it figured out, I will show some pictures of what I've been doing in the fiber world.  Now to get a warp on the Norwood loom I recently got.  I got all the pegs in the sectional beam installed, got a new reed for it, and now I just have to figure out what I want to weave next!  So many choices.  I think I might weave a little lap blanket using all the partial bobbins that have built up, I'm almost out of empty ones, so it would be a good idea to empty all the partials.  It will be a colorful fun addition in either our house or someone else's. 

I got all the cashmere spun up I've had sitting here from the last time I sent some to the mill to be dehaired.  Now I either have to dehair the raw stuff by hand or find another mill to send it to.  I'd really like to get a dehairing machine of my own.  I really enjoyed using the one I had back in 2010-15.  Too bad it used so much electricity that I couldn't use it except on sunny days, which in the winter aren't very plentiful. It was a slow enough operation that I couldn't make enough money to make steady payments on it, so it went to a new home.  I had plenty of other people's cashmere to dehair but just couldn't run the machine enough to make it worthwhile.  I was scrambling to get my own cashmere dehaired before it left.  Off-grid living has a few drawbacks.  Very few, but a few. I wouldn't go back into the grid world though. 

The weather is wild in most of the country this week.  From polar vortexes and blizzards to rain deluges, there is a bit of everything.  Stay warm, stay safe!  Thanks for reading this!