Holy Cow! What a week. I haven't had time to breath. I'm up and out the door every morning at 8:30 sharp to walk the dog.... which lasts at least 45 minutes since we walk about 2-3 km each morning. She's a real handful as she has more energy than any of us in the house. We cannot let her off the leash at all since she won't come when you call her yet. She sleeps in our room by the side of our bed so we can keep an eye on her, and she is really good about that but at 7 a.m. she is ready to get up and go, go, go, and if you aren't.... well, too bad. She hardly eats any food but I gave her a big dish of deer meat the other day all nicely cooked and so yesterday was not good since she had the runs.... euuuck! She slept on the deck last night!
I've been playing catch up lately.... I've been working on the big j.c...... a lot, and I'm just about finished. I can't wait. I'll be so glad to see the end of that thing... I can't even tell you. The interesting thing is that I think I can make a fair bit of money making jackets of this type.... not exactly like this but similar indeed. Your first one is always a learning curve. You figure out all the things that are good to do and you figure out what not to do.... I had a lot more what-not-to-dos than good things. I am going to do more of these jackets but I need to first perfect a loom that will give me easier weaving. A rectangular pin loom similar to my tri loom would be awesome. You see, I would like to build a large pin loom and weave the body, but intead of woven sleeves, I would knit the sleeves for added interest. The sleeves have taken far too long on this jacket. I would also like to incorporate more colour and knitting the sleeves would allow me to do that in a way that would use stranded knitting elements. I love stranded knitting! I have to spin a little more alpaca today since I don't have quite enough to finish the weaving of the sleeves and then the sleeves go into the washer for fulling... and you better believe that I'm not leaving that washer for one little second.
Daughter # 2 will be turning 13 this weekend. I can't believe that I'm surviving and I have two teenagers practically. Yesterday we took the girls to town and went shopping for Daughter #2 's birthday gift. She wanted a new ipod and a stereo thingy (my description) for parking the ipod in so that she doesn't always have to use ear buds to listen to her ipod. Look out! We'll all be deaf after this.
This weekend I have all the spinners and weavers from FSJ coming for their annual foray into the wilderness. They always come to HH once a year and this is the once a year. I wish I had my animals sheared so that I could sell a few fleeces maybe. Oh well I don't think that will happen.
While in town yesterday we discovered that one of our tires was not wearing well and the rubber was about to separate so $600.00 later we had a new set of tires. We also need a wheel alignment but they didn't have the time to do that for us so we will have to get that done at another time. For a while now our car has been having power steering issues and so we have discovered that the power steering line has a leak and so that needs to be fixed as well. We also need an oil change which is long overdue. But the big surprise is that we don't have to do the brakes, which we really thought we would need to do. The brakes are still at 80% and that is good considering that we have over 180,000 km on our truck. She's a gem.... oh sh-t I think I may have just jinxed the brakes.
So there you have it. That's what my week has been about...... a little bit of catch up.... oh yeah and Queen had her two babies and we named them Zig and Zag and they are both butcher lambs. So I have 9 lambs for the butcher block in the fall. Anyone for lamb?....
Favorite lamb recipe.
Roast lamb (best with a leg roast) in oven in roasting pan with water (about an inch and a half deep) and use lots of onion.... roast in a 350 degree oven. In a pot on the stove bring to a boil, a little water (not too much), chopped rhubarb, sliced oranges, with some sugar. When it has boiled for about 20 minutes remove from heat and let stand. About half an hour before your lamb roast is done smother the rhubarb mixture over the lamb roast and continue roasting for about 30 minutes more. Remove roast and thicken gravy with a little flour water and stir into rhubarb mixture. Serve lamb sliced, with rhubarb gravy drizzled over it with rice pilaf or mashed spuds and vegetables on the side..... mmmmmm!
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