Lickity Split

Holy Cow.... what a banana day! One left yesterday and got back today and is too tired to talk. One leaves tomorrow morning and I am packing lunch and supper for her and helping her get her stuff together. She leaves at 6:30 a.m. .... ouch! Then the other is leaving tomorrow afternoon and has to pack tonight when he gets home and it is almost 10:30 p.m. now! He left about a half hour ago to pick up one of the canoes. There are three canoes going and six fellows with several others doing the ferrying. We will all be so wasted by the time Sunday rolls around that I'm sure we're all going to collapse. Still it will be good when it is all over and everyone has had their adventure and life goes back to normal.... you see I'm quite a mother hen at heart.

Onward goes the embroidery... nothing ever goes as fast as you would like it to. The big j.c. is still being worked on, with sewing tomorrow... then a little more embroidery.... then a little more sewing. It's coming along...... but now there is a boomerang. Olds College emailed me today to say that the level 4 students will require 182 yards of hand spun wool in a multiple of skeins for the dyeing room and this needs to be finished and labeled by Monday the 28th.... argh! So as I am writing I am waiting for Daughter #2's supper for tomorrow to cool as it just came out of the oven..... and I am waiting for several pounds of wool from Wingy's 2010 fleece to soak a little longer before rinsing the damn thing and setting it to dry overnight on the clothes line. I guess I will have to work on the big j.c. by day and the fleece by night. Then there is a vest to finish before I go to Olds (don't worry that was woven last summer) and a felted bag for a fellow who's trading a Navajo spindle for it (the flets done I just have to sew...... and all before Olds. So yes, "lickity split" is a good adverb for moi and what I'm doing, right now.

Shearing?!... what the hell's that?! Poor sheep they must be so hot..... oh well soon the little ones can be weaned and then there will be a few bullets in the head of the louder more obnoxious bullies. Lambs will be done in the fall.

I've decided to cull my flock as hay is at an all time high of $60.00 a bail..... at two and a half bails a month....that's $1800.00 a year... too expensive. Hopefully hay will be at a better price this year. And with a substantially lower number of sheep there will be less cost.

I've made some changes to my business future but I won't go into them yet. Soon though I will let you in on my secrets.

Anyhow, Teapot returns and the oven is dinging letting me know that I need to finish packing Daughter #1's meals... that fleece needs rinsing so I had better get back to it.

See y'all on the other side of crazy....