All Kinds Of Alternatives

"With cells and computers and iPads and laptops in this house some damn thing must work!" I said to Teapot in frustration. So the dear boy told me that there were alternatives. I could hook up his laptop to my cell phone if I wanted internet which really made me happy because on a laptop I can write here and actually have the return key recognized. That means paragraphs are recognized and poetry doesn't just run all together and it means being able to fix my spelling mistakes. It also means that I can include pictures! This makes me very happy. Still I will be glad when we get our computer running again. With Teapot needing his laptop at school it means working on the blog when it's convenient for him.... which can be slightly irritating.

So what has been going on around here since the fiasco of computer irritability?  Well, to begin with March break has come and gone and so has Easter. Spring is here with a Shazam! The crows are around here picking through the hay stack looking for the perfect piece that will coax the female to come hither if you know what I mean. The alpaca poo is drying out which is always a good thing since when it dries out the smell is not quite so potent. I am now waiting for the first robin to show itself because to me that is the sign that the ground has thawed and the worms are moving... a great sign that spring is fully on the move. There are still patches of snow in the shady places but that is it.... nary a bit to be seen anywhere else.

Meanwhile level 5 homework is progressing satisfactorily... I spent most of Easter week spinning t.p.i. questions

There they are in all their glory.

2.5 t.p.i.

3 t.p.i. in Lincoln

5 t.p.i. in silk

6 t.p.i. in medium wool

7 t.p.i. in cotton

8 t.p.i. in my choice of fibre and I chose merino wool.

10 t.p.i. in merino

I'm almost finished except for a few snarls, marls, flakes, and write ups and of course that 50 hour project.... but I'm hoping to that by Monday I will be working on the 50 hour project with everything else behind me. My goal: to finish level 5 by the end of April.... then I need to focus on what's left of level 3. And surprisingly that's been coming along too. I have been working on the t.p.i. questions for that too... so once that's behind me the worst is over. I look forward to getting 12 t.p.i. done and 15 t.p.i. done. These still look like sh-- well you get my drift.

Teapot has finished our taxes so that is one nasty spring job behind us. Next thing we have to work on is our alpacas. They will be sheared, trimmed, and given shots the first week of May, then they will be allowed back out on spring pasture.... I'm sure they will be happy to eat grass again after so many months of hay but at least it was good hay this year.

So that's it from this small farm in the North. I am off to get laundry ready to go to my mother's and father since the pump in the washer finally died completely and it leaks all over the place. There's been nothing funny to talk about for such a while now... except that Teapot tells me that I was laughing in my sleep last night. I did sort of vaguely recall waking up and thinking that something I had been dreaming about was hilarious.... but for the life of me I can't remember what in the heck it was.... still there's something vaguely humorous about umbrellas this morning.... but it's all so surreal... honestly I don't know what that was about.

The sun is out and my spinning wheel awaits... i'm off so I will wish you a wonderful day.... a wonderful spring day.... see ya