alpaca yarn

I have wound off another skein of 2 ply alpaca Danza. Here it is on my antique clock winder.

Fall

It's finally beginning to look and feel like Fall around here. Perhaps the cooler weather today helps.

This is a photo I took on my trip to Kentucky in October. I stopped in the grand metropolis of Crab Orchard near what I guess is the city park, or the town square. There are always a few locals selling stuff at tables there, I wanted to walk Buddy, but one guy had his hound keeping an eye on things from the back of his truck and I didn't want to stir up trouble. Crab Orchard is interesting and I like stopping there before I have to get back on the interstate.

Anyway, I haven't written much about my Kentucky visit on either this blog, or my other one, Johnson Family Bible, but guess I should start putting down the information I gleaned from relatives, Neville mostly. Or it will be lost in the vagaries of my loopy handwriting. Next post.

goldenrod roving, Etsy

This is some roving I dyed with goldenrod and posted for sale on Etsy. I'm not sure why the photo is coming out so small.

Quiet

Halloween was quiet. I felt a bit under the weather, we went out for breakfast at McD's, Brian worked on the kitchen, I made Cushaw soup and dessert, read an interesting book, we had a few, very few, trick-or-treaters. The weather was grim Saturday, but Sunday was lovely and eventually we went for a ride to TR by back ways to look at Autumn leaves at sunset and explore. It was lovely, we found a fabulous view of the mountains, and the moon was rising, but we didn't have the camera. Well.....

Another week of physical therapy, doctor's visits and the hope the B holds onto his job. Same old scary routine.

a bigger photo

handspun alpaca

I have been comissioned to spin alpaca. It is lovely stuff and all my free hours are spent spinning now. I have five bags to spin.

a better Monday

Life has been complicated recently. Grace had a bad wreck. We are grateful she did not get badly hurt, although she is still struggling with pain and tight muscles. We took our vacation to Santa Fe anyway (we had the airline tickets) and it was her vacation week. Last week was consumed by post vacation and trying to find a car to replace the white one that was destroyed. We found one in Columbia and the whole process was complicated by driving back and forth twice to that city. But there was success despite the stress and...

Just to update, we took the little red car to Fisher's this morning to have it checked out. Yesterday we drove it up Caesar's head and had a picnic of tomato chicken sandwiches. It was surprisingly cool up there, refreshing really, although we shared both the road and the park with a gaggle, roar (?) of motorcycles.

The car handled beautifully, took the hill with no apparent strain, the lighter body apparently compensating for the 4 cylinders. It took the curves nicely, hugging into them. No problems with the brakes on the return trip, either. All good news for you, Grace.

We saw a hummingbird drinking out of jewel weed blossoms and Dad, of course, was targeted by a couple wasps. But the breeze kept the mosquitoes at bay and it was heartening to see how the vegetation has recovered in this rainy year, despite the drought of the previous 3.