The Master Spinner Rides Again

Finally I have gotten the incentive to get to work on my homework. I am consistently sitting and making inroads into the homework. Hurrah! All weekend I have been balancing yarns and mounting the samples in my binder with a write up for each one. My binder is starting to actually get somewhere and look like something. This gives me a sense of accomplishment and makes me want to do more, which is a very good thing since when I look at what is ahead of me I start to panic. But the goal is not to look too far ahead. I just need to put my head down and plough through it. Section 1 done... now on to section 2.

I think it took the coming of the cold weather to settle me down so that I could get to work without wanting to be out in the fresh air. The thing is to keep my momentum up. Now that the sheep and alpacas are settled for winter (except Rammyboy who will have to be moved out with the other boys come December) there is not a lot left to do with them other than a 10 minute feed in the morning and a 10 minute feed in the evening, and, of course, the effort of putting in clean water every few days and also keeping the boys (alpacas) from chewing the necks off each other.

Sometimes it is nice to look out my window with a cup of hot cocoa after the rush of morning chores, and watch the snow falling gently, coating everything in a downy blanket. I love to watch the birds at the feeder on days like that. They seem so happy to gather their food as they call to each other in their never-ending relay from feeder to trees and back again.

Once Hubby and the Daughters are off in the morning that's when life begins. I settle down to an hour or two of spinning homework and then my mid-morning break of cocoa and bird watching then back at the spinning homework again. Lunch comes at noon and then back at it in the afternoon. A month of that schedule and there is a real dent in the homework. The results are a pat on the back.

If I stick with it I'll be done by April. I'm already starting to think about registering for next year's courses. Can't wait. I think that tomorrow I'll wash some llama fibre. I wonder what I can do for my project? Hmmm..... I guess I'll have to think about that.