Thursday, February 2, 2012
Ground Hog Day....
I think Groundhog day is stupid. I've tried to get into the fun of it but somehow weather forecasting rodents don't do it for me. Shoot the stupid bugger and make him into a pair of slippers, I say. At least then the damn fellow would be of some use. Actually I love Groundhogs... they are so cute.... but to have them coming out of their burrows on the second of February to predict when spring will be here, is down right dumb.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A New Month
I thought I would be heading off this morning with Teapot and the Daughters but it is not to be. I had planned to go to the grocery store to do a little shopping since when I look int the pantry the shelves are looking decidedly bare. But Teapot has need of the truck today so I am staying home which is not the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination. I have all kinds of plans for today. I need to a little book work on my level 5 and level 3 homework to catch everything up. But my first priority will be to finish the woven sample on the pin loom. for now it looks like this...
As I was heading off to bed last night I discovered that a load of laundry that I had forgotten about earlier in the day had been taken out of the dryer and dumped on my bed for folding... it was not what I wanted to see when I was ready and prepared for bed... however, I folded it and put it away. And then carried on with my bed going task. I slept really well but then this morning a most unexpected thing happened.
Promptly at 7:14 a.m. I crawled out of bed and headed downstairs to let the rabble out and get breakfast for the dear ones. I was busy frying eggs when Teapot entered the kitchen and began to laugh. He was staring at my hair.... I figured that it was probably a mess on the back with a bit of a hens arse going on but no... when Teapot finished cracking up he came over and pulled a Bounce Sheet from my hair.... !
Teapot: Trying to deal with mid-winter static.... are you?
Me: Ooops... (hee hee)!
Well, it's a new month.... the month of pink and red... of hearts and romance. For me the most important thing is that we are definitely noticing the change in the amount of daylight. At half past eight... when Teapot and the Daughters head off to school, the sky is certainly lighter.... almost daylight. It is wonderful to know that each day is now adding at least 6 minutes of extra daylight. In one week that is 42 minutes of extra light. Now how can one not notice that! Yesterday I heard a Chickadee make a distinctive mating call... Now I know it is too early for them to mate and starting hatching their young but I do wonder if they start looking for this season's mate so that they can have a head start when spring actually comes. Perhaps Valentine's is for the Chickadees too!
I hardly ever think of the sheep but I do have to say that I will miss lambing season.... not that it didn't have it's disappointments and heavy work... especially if you had to bottle feed a lamb.... but I will miss those little wee soft lambs bouncing around the yard. But lambs grow up and become demanding pains in the ass.... I don't miss that.
Already Teapot and I are starting to think of summer plans. He has been asked to go on two trips so far with the JCRs. While I love the money he receives when working with JCRs in the summer, I do miss those weeks of beautiful summer weather when we could be camping together as a family. But then I expect that the girls will want to get work this summer... not really sure what will happen from here on in. With Daughter #1 now 16 yrs of age.... she has been wanting to work... we just been having a bit of a show down on where. Daughter #2 is 15 yrs of age and is also starting to want to get a job.... on that one we will see.
Anyway, the day is moving forward and thee are bread rolls waiting to be shaped so I guess I had better get to my day.... the 1st of February..... aren't you glad that the worst is over?!
As I was heading off to bed last night I discovered that a load of laundry that I had forgotten about earlier in the day had been taken out of the dryer and dumped on my bed for folding... it was not what I wanted to see when I was ready and prepared for bed... however, I folded it and put it away. And then carried on with my bed going task. I slept really well but then this morning a most unexpected thing happened.
Promptly at 7:14 a.m. I crawled out of bed and headed downstairs to let the rabble out and get breakfast for the dear ones. I was busy frying eggs when Teapot entered the kitchen and began to laugh. He was staring at my hair.... I figured that it was probably a mess on the back with a bit of a hens arse going on but no... when Teapot finished cracking up he came over and pulled a Bounce Sheet from my hair.... !
Teapot: Trying to deal with mid-winter static.... are you?
Me: Ooops... (hee hee)!
Well, it's a new month.... the month of pink and red... of hearts and romance. For me the most important thing is that we are definitely noticing the change in the amount of daylight. At half past eight... when Teapot and the Daughters head off to school, the sky is certainly lighter.... almost daylight. It is wonderful to know that each day is now adding at least 6 minutes of extra daylight. In one week that is 42 minutes of extra light. Now how can one not notice that! Yesterday I heard a Chickadee make a distinctive mating call... Now I know it is too early for them to mate and starting hatching their young but I do wonder if they start looking for this season's mate so that they can have a head start when spring actually comes. Perhaps Valentine's is for the Chickadees too!
I hardly ever think of the sheep but I do have to say that I will miss lambing season.... not that it didn't have it's disappointments and heavy work... especially if you had to bottle feed a lamb.... but I will miss those little wee soft lambs bouncing around the yard. But lambs grow up and become demanding pains in the ass.... I don't miss that.
Already Teapot and I are starting to think of summer plans. He has been asked to go on two trips so far with the JCRs. While I love the money he receives when working with JCRs in the summer, I do miss those weeks of beautiful summer weather when we could be camping together as a family. But then I expect that the girls will want to get work this summer... not really sure what will happen from here on in. With Daughter #1 now 16 yrs of age.... she has been wanting to work... we just been having a bit of a show down on where. Daughter #2 is 15 yrs of age and is also starting to want to get a job.... on that one we will see.
Anyway, the day is moving forward and thee are bread rolls waiting to be shaped so I guess I had better get to my day.... the 1st of February..... aren't you glad that the worst is over?!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Some Days Are Diamonds... Some Days Are Stones... Nope, That Should Be Gold
Gold.... this was a golden day that is for sure. I've been working on my woven sample all day with the Muga silk.... it is looking beautiful so far. I won't show it till it is done and it is taking me longer than I thought. I decided to use my regular 6 x 6 pin loom instead of the multi.... (for those of you who weave you will understand that the principle of these two looms are very different). I did this because a very strange thing occurred.... the best laid plans never seem to work. I had intended on using a nicely worsted spun 2-ply silk yarn for the warp and a nubby muga silk/sari silk for the weft but low and behold I started to weave and the darn thing looked just a little too dicey for my liking. So I x'd that idea coming out of the gate and moved on to Plan B. Plan B was to use the worsted Muga silkfor both warp and weft and maybe throw in a little leno lace as I was weaving.... so that is what is being executed as I am writing..... one word.... gorgeous! Definitely the right idea. And, I am so in love with this Muga silk that I am now rethinking my embroidery piece. I was going to do a stylized Blue Jay on a linen back ground but ever since I did the piece for level 3 two years ago which looked like this if you recall...
... well ever since then I've been wanting to do this one....
However I knew that I would need at least three shades of silk if not four.... well I have them.... I have Bombyx, I have Tussah, I have Muga, and I have Cinnamon Tussah.... all really beautiful and perfect for an embroidered owl.... so I think I will do that. It will mean a few extra hours of spinning but I think it will be worth it in the end. And I still haven't found those flippin' coccoons. The moon and the branches will be Bombyx (that's really white for you non-spinners) and the owl will be a combination of the two kinds of Tussah and the Muga silk, (creamy champagne colour and golden champagne colour and cinnamon/bronze for you non-spinners). I might even use a little of the blue that I have around the moon to give the moon a slight halo effect.
Anyway, getting back to why this day was golden.... well weaving with that golden silk was one reason... the other was that my friend showed up and we had a great day gabbing. Spinning days with friends are always golden. She spun (merino) and I carried on with the weaving. Then the sun was out and poured its glorious golden rays all over us through the living room window.... it was really hard to not think of the day as golden in all that sunshine with the golden silk in my hands.
So yes it was a golden day.... John Denver had a good idea when he wrote that song.... too bad he didn't say golden....
Some days are diamonds, some days are gold, some days are stones too but there were no stones today....
Happy end of January... it's all easy sailin' from here.... yeh!
Anyway, getting back to why this day was golden.... well weaving with that golden silk was one reason... the other was that my friend showed up and we had a great day gabbing. Spinning days with friends are always golden. She spun (merino) and I carried on with the weaving. Then the sun was out and poured its glorious golden rays all over us through the living room window.... it was really hard to not think of the day as golden in all that sunshine with the golden silk in my hands.
So yes it was a golden day.... John Denver had a good idea when he wrote that song.... too bad he didn't say golden....
Some days are diamonds, some days are gold, some days are stones too but there were no stones today....
Happy end of January... it's all easy sailin' from here.... yeh!
Back To Daily Writing.... Maybe
While Teapot was away I was used to getting up, getting breakfast for the Daughters, and getting them out the door in time for school. Now that Teapot is home I don't have to do anything after breakfast has been served other than drink my tea and work here at this screen. So I read the news, I check the weather, I read my favorite blogs, tweets, posts on Facebook, and then I can come back here for an update on what's going on in this neck of the woods.
Today I will be trying to get some of my spinning done that I have been falling down on... I still have a bunch of merino to spin in the next few weeks because I will be using that in my 50 hour project for level 3 which I hope to tackle once I go to the Blueberry retreat which is only two weeks away. RG and I have decided that on the Thursday at the Blueberry we will be doing our twenty five shades of Logwood. I know I've talked about this forever, and I know that I never seem to get it done but... this time I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will succeed in getting it completed. I also can't find those d-mn silk cocoons that I need for the Mawata.... don't know what I did with them. Today if all goes right I have a friend coming for the day... and of course we will be spinning.
Meanwhile the Daughters are off to school today and they start their new term. Our community is putting off a week long winter carnival. As the days go by there are winter fun activities planned for each day of the week. Both of the Daughters are preparing for an afternoon of school related winter carnival activities. So there will be sledding, and icy t-shirt contests.... (that's where you are on a team of 5 people and are handed a frozen t-shirt which you have to thaw out enough for one member of the team to get into before another team beats you... brrr!) ice cream eating contest.... a contest to make Smores over candles.... and balloon snowmen contest where some of the balloons are helium filled (you have to make a snowman with balloon and you are only allowed a certain amount of tape. Meanwhile the community will be having snowshoeing workshops, snow golf, hiking in the woods, sliding parties and snowmobile activities. Sounds like a lot of fun. At the end there is a big auction.
What's really weird is that at the same time as all the winter carnival fun is going on, our public library has decided that their big fundraiser for the year will happen at the same time and is going to be a winter beach party! It's really bizarre to have two things going on at the same time with such opposing themes. Only in HH can you show up at the winter dance and win a meddle for the mucklucks you showed up in and then drop next door to the next dance and take first prize for the ugliest Hawaiian shirt! Should be interesting....
Yeah so that's it for me.... I'm headed off to put some finishing touches on a pot of soup... and blend some more silk and silk waste... I think I'll spin a little silk before the merino.... it looks like I'm going to run out of this stuff before I finish weaving... and I thought I had plenty.
See ya tomorrow.... when the first of February is upon us.... (Oh God am I ever going to get these two levels finished in time??!!)
Today I will be trying to get some of my spinning done that I have been falling down on... I still have a bunch of merino to spin in the next few weeks because I will be using that in my 50 hour project for level 3 which I hope to tackle once I go to the Blueberry retreat which is only two weeks away. RG and I have decided that on the Thursday at the Blueberry we will be doing our twenty five shades of Logwood. I know I've talked about this forever, and I know that I never seem to get it done but... this time I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will succeed in getting it completed. I also can't find those d-mn silk cocoons that I need for the Mawata.... don't know what I did with them. Today if all goes right I have a friend coming for the day... and of course we will be spinning.
Meanwhile the Daughters are off to school today and they start their new term. Our community is putting off a week long winter carnival. As the days go by there are winter fun activities planned for each day of the week. Both of the Daughters are preparing for an afternoon of school related winter carnival activities. So there will be sledding, and icy t-shirt contests.... (that's where you are on a team of 5 people and are handed a frozen t-shirt which you have to thaw out enough for one member of the team to get into before another team beats you... brrr!) ice cream eating contest.... a contest to make Smores over candles.... and balloon snowmen contest where some of the balloons are helium filled (you have to make a snowman with balloon and you are only allowed a certain amount of tape. Meanwhile the community will be having snowshoeing workshops, snow golf, hiking in the woods, sliding parties and snowmobile activities. Sounds like a lot of fun. At the end there is a big auction.
What's really weird is that at the same time as all the winter carnival fun is going on, our public library has decided that their big fundraiser for the year will happen at the same time and is going to be a winter beach party! It's really bizarre to have two things going on at the same time with such opposing themes. Only in HH can you show up at the winter dance and win a meddle for the mucklucks you showed up in and then drop next door to the next dance and take first prize for the ugliest Hawaiian shirt! Should be interesting....
Yeah so that's it for me.... I'm headed off to put some finishing touches on a pot of soup... and blend some more silk and silk waste... I think I'll spin a little silk before the merino.... it looks like I'm going to run out of this stuff before I finish weaving... and I thought I had plenty.
See ya tomorrow.... when the first of February is upon us.... (Oh God am I ever going to get these two levels finished in time??!!)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Confessions On A Lazy Monday
How did it get to be Monday so quickly! It seems like I just picked up the girls from school of Friday. But here it is Monday and a brighter sunnier day you couldn't have. Teapot is home again and I have to say that I am glad beyond all reasoning. Yesterday was indeed a strange day with the Daughters and I leaving for FSJ at 4:15 in the afternoon. We had dinner at a restaurant and fooled away some time at Walmart which you can always count on being open on Sunday and then we went to the airport where in the waiting room, there are lovely black leather chairs which I promptly perched in and whiled away a half hour waiting for Teapot's flight playing games on the iPhone... while the Daughters did the same only on their iPads. Next thing you know Teapot's flight was on the tarmac and we were waiting for him to disembark... like I said time just seemed to drift away from us and suddenly we were getting ready for bed and opening our eyes to a mid winter Monday morning.
And what a morning it was... I love January warm ups. The sun shone, the sun warmed, the sun cheered and now the sun is setting.
I only spun a little today and I was supposed to work on the book part of my homework and get some of these samples written up and in my book. Instead, I baked.... I baked bread... and Zucchini Quiche. Then I made Turkey soup and then I sat down... so actually it wasn't such a lazy day after all....it just felt like it. The Daughters and I watched the whole Vicar of Dibly series on T.V. so that may have been the reason for it feeling like a lazy Sunday rather than a lazy Monday. Poor Teapot had to work... but the girls stayed home with me.
I have been making progress on the level 3 homework. I did finish the blue silk sample for the needle work that I have to produce for my level 3 books and I spun the second single of the Muga silk for the woven sample so far everything is looking hunky dory.... (that means just grand)! I need to weave and I need to get that embroidery finished. So that will be what I tackle tomorrow. Then a day of bookwork before I make more spinning progress.
I haven't been feeling great the last few weeks and I have been getting very tired. Not sure why and hopefully it won't last, but have been taking time for me to rest when I need it so I guess that has been the reason for the slow down on the homework... still progress is progress. I refuse to sweat over it!
Tomorrow is Tuesday and I have a friend coming for a spinning day if she remembers... : ) She reads this.... so maybe this will act as a reminder.
I will try to get some pictures up here in the next few days of samples that I have finished. It's been a dull few days so I guess it is a dull bit of reading. Hopefully I can think of something more interesting to write about soon.
And what a morning it was... I love January warm ups. The sun shone, the sun warmed, the sun cheered and now the sun is setting.
I only spun a little today and I was supposed to work on the book part of my homework and get some of these samples written up and in my book. Instead, I baked.... I baked bread... and Zucchini Quiche. Then I made Turkey soup and then I sat down... so actually it wasn't such a lazy day after all....it just felt like it. The Daughters and I watched the whole Vicar of Dibly series on T.V. so that may have been the reason for it feeling like a lazy Sunday rather than a lazy Monday. Poor Teapot had to work... but the girls stayed home with me.
I have been making progress on the level 3 homework. I did finish the blue silk sample for the needle work that I have to produce for my level 3 books and I spun the second single of the Muga silk for the woven sample so far everything is looking hunky dory.... (that means just grand)! I need to weave and I need to get that embroidery finished. So that will be what I tackle tomorrow. Then a day of bookwork before I make more spinning progress.
I haven't been feeling great the last few weeks and I have been getting very tired. Not sure why and hopefully it won't last, but have been taking time for me to rest when I need it so I guess that has been the reason for the slow down on the homework... still progress is progress. I refuse to sweat over it!
Tomorrow is Tuesday and I have a friend coming for a spinning day if she remembers... : ) She reads this.... so maybe this will act as a reminder.
I will try to get some pictures up here in the next few days of samples that I have finished. It's been a dull few days so I guess it is a dull bit of reading. Hopefully I can think of something more interesting to write about soon.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Today Is Another Day Of....Hmmm I'm Not Sure What To Expect
Daughter #2 says it is another day of DOOOOOM... that's probably because she has to face a science exam today. Now she is making a chipmunk face at me because she knows I just wrote that here.
Can you tell that we are all in a weird mood? I think that we are all really looking forward to the end of the day when we will have a three day weekend streaming out before us. I actually was able to get myself out of bed this morning at 7 a.m. instead of ten after or twenty after or half past like it was yesterday. This is due to the fact that there is a Chinook blowing in and temperatures have risen and also the wind has been howling again. So morning was not the peaceful oblivion that it normally is. There have been things blowing around out on the deck. The cat has been meowwwing loudly for an hour to come in. Then there is that dog next door. It's not barking at the moment but it has been barking in the morning quite often in the last few days... yesterday I heard it barking for four hours straight. Dreadful. If I can hear it in the house like that, I can only imagine what it will be like when spring comes and the windows are open! Still I hope that something good will happen in regards to that canine.
Anyway enough about the barking hound....
This has not been a week of no progress on the homework... I have been working on all silk samples for level 3. I have a sample finished from a commercial hankie and as with spinning from silk hankies it is full of nubs and noils... a very textured yarn, but beautiful all the same.
I have also finished the silk sample for a knitted or crocheted sweater, with the 3 x 3 knitted swatch. I settled on a Bombyx silk blended with silk waste in a 80/20 blend.
I'm very happy with the yarn but only fairly happy with the knitted sample. I couldn't find a knitting pattern that I loved and so settled on a combination of lace and bobbles... which is pretty, but I'm not a bobble kind of person... I did however want a child-like pattern and what could say childish better than bobbles!
I also started the spinning for the woven piece and got fairly far with it... that's the most exciting bit because it is being spun in Muga silk.
I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on some Muga silk...(which was a real score). It is gorgeous!!!! Like I can't stress how gorgeous it is. I have a very smooth worsted style 2-ply yarn that I am working on which I will use on my 6 x 6 pin loom and it is going to be awesome because I am going to use a very textured cinnamon coloured Tussah silk mixed with sari silk (no nubs and noils just bits of sari silk sticking out) for the 2-ply weft yarn but I'll only use it on every alternate weft pik. I'm really looking forward to finishing this. I think it will be gorgeous.... at least I am hoping. Meanwhile I have finished 22 metres of Bombyx silk for embroidery
and I will need blue silk spun for that as well as some black silk... which means I have to dye some Tussah.... that's what I intend to do today, dye a little silk black... in a crowded pot kind of way... only I'm going to microwave it. Meanwhile, I am still looking for the cocoons so that I can make a mawata... I know I have them because I saw them just a few weeks ago... but for the life of me I can't seem to find them.
I had hoped to have this section on silk for level 3 done this week but I have not made as much progress as I hoped. It's been a busy week. Again. Perhaps things will go faster from now on. We'll see. Things always go slowly when there are swatches to knit and weave.... and with Teapot away I have lost whole afternoons to hauling water and picking up Daughters from school and checking in on Mom and Dad. By the way things are almost back to normal with Mom and Dad. Still if they need anything, I do have to try the best to help out.
So I guess I had beetter head off and get those Daughters of mine to school... then it's home for a morning of dyeing silk and spinning that beautiful Muga.... I can't wait....
As for the rest of the day??? Who knows what to expect....
Can you tell that we are all in a weird mood? I think that we are all really looking forward to the end of the day when we will have a three day weekend streaming out before us. I actually was able to get myself out of bed this morning at 7 a.m. instead of ten after or twenty after or half past like it was yesterday. This is due to the fact that there is a Chinook blowing in and temperatures have risen and also the wind has been howling again. So morning was not the peaceful oblivion that it normally is. There have been things blowing around out on the deck. The cat has been meowwwing loudly for an hour to come in. Then there is that dog next door. It's not barking at the moment but it has been barking in the morning quite often in the last few days... yesterday I heard it barking for four hours straight. Dreadful. If I can hear it in the house like that, I can only imagine what it will be like when spring comes and the windows are open! Still I hope that something good will happen in regards to that canine.
Anyway enough about the barking hound....
This has not been a week of no progress on the homework... I have been working on all silk samples for level 3. I have a sample finished from a commercial hankie and as with spinning from silk hankies it is full of nubs and noils... a very textured yarn, but beautiful all the same.
I have also finished the silk sample for a knitted or crocheted sweater, with the 3 x 3 knitted swatch. I settled on a Bombyx silk blended with silk waste in a 80/20 blend.
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| 80/20 Bombyx silk/silk waste 3-ply yarn. |
I'm very happy with the yarn but only fairly happy with the knitted sample. I couldn't find a knitting pattern that I loved and so settled on a combination of lace and bobbles... which is pretty, but I'm not a bobble kind of person... I did however want a child-like pattern and what could say childish better than bobbles!
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| This actually looks better than I thought.... |
I also started the spinning for the woven piece and got fairly far with it... that's the most exciting bit because it is being spun in Muga silk.
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| This looks like gold doesn't it... I just love this stuff! |
I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on some Muga silk...(which was a real score). It is gorgeous!!!! Like I can't stress how gorgeous it is. I have a very smooth worsted style 2-ply yarn that I am working on which I will use on my 6 x 6 pin loom and it is going to be awesome because I am going to use a very textured cinnamon coloured Tussah silk mixed with sari silk (no nubs and noils just bits of sari silk sticking out) for the 2-ply weft yarn but I'll only use it on every alternate weft pik. I'm really looking forward to finishing this. I think it will be gorgeous.... at least I am hoping. Meanwhile I have finished 22 metres of Bombyx silk for embroidery
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| This will be lovely for embroidery... |
and I will need blue silk spun for that as well as some black silk... which means I have to dye some Tussah.... that's what I intend to do today, dye a little silk black... in a crowded pot kind of way... only I'm going to microwave it. Meanwhile, I am still looking for the cocoons so that I can make a mawata... I know I have them because I saw them just a few weeks ago... but for the life of me I can't seem to find them.
I had hoped to have this section on silk for level 3 done this week but I have not made as much progress as I hoped. It's been a busy week. Again. Perhaps things will go faster from now on. We'll see. Things always go slowly when there are swatches to knit and weave.... and with Teapot away I have lost whole afternoons to hauling water and picking up Daughters from school and checking in on Mom and Dad. By the way things are almost back to normal with Mom and Dad. Still if they need anything, I do have to try the best to help out.
So I guess I had beetter head off and get those Daughters of mine to school... then it's home for a morning of dyeing silk and spinning that beautiful Muga.... I can't wait....
As for the rest of the day??? Who knows what to expect....
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Bark, F#$@$@king Bark, Yap F#$@#%$king Yap
At this very second I am listening to an unhappy pooch yap it's stupid head off. I am ready to bust apart with irritation to be quite honest.
My neighbour lost her husband a while back and then decided to go south to Arizona for the winter. In so doing she has asked a friend to house sit. Nice. But the dog that moved in with them is the nastiest peace disturbing canine of any I have ever had the misfortune to know... and that's saying something because when I lived in town some years ago, I had a neighbour with a Basset Hound that wouldn't shut up day or night. (Teapot said that it was because it dragged it's nether regions in the snow and it's balls were just about frozen off). I was so delighted to move to the country where my neighbour was farther away and I didn't have to worry about yapping pooches in the middle of the night, that I thought I had it made. But here I sit, almost ten years later, and the neighbour's dog is stirring up the shit in the neighbourhood once again. I walk out on my deck on the way to feed the rabbit and the dog starts yapping. It can see me through the trees and thinks that I am invading his privacy. I can only imagine what it will be like if these people stay on in the house for the next while and on through the summer or God forbid if the lady who owns it decides to sell it. I certainly won't be able to enjoy the peace and tranquility of the deck with that thing barking all the time. This morning something has really set it off and the darn thing hasn't stopped barking for well over an hour now. I've been sitting here wishing evil on it!
There's something to be said about living in the country... I love it... I love my house... I love this place... I love the birds and wildlife... and most of all I love the serenity afforded by living here. So what am I to do if they don't move away? I will certainly not be happy.
Teapot and I have always thought that we would stay in this house at least until retirement.... and since he doesn't retire for another 12 years we have a long way to go... but more and more I am liking the idea of finding a sweet little spot in the middle of nowhere where there are no neighbours at all. That way you won't piss them off and more importantly they won't piss you off. The best neighbour is the one that lives miles away from you.
So until then I will sit in my living room and I will try to drown out the wretched thing by playing some nice music.... Maybe some Bach.... or Hydnn... that might gently calm my nerves.... I think I'll go plan the deck on the west face of the house though just in case....
My neighbour lost her husband a while back and then decided to go south to Arizona for the winter. In so doing she has asked a friend to house sit. Nice. But the dog that moved in with them is the nastiest peace disturbing canine of any I have ever had the misfortune to know... and that's saying something because when I lived in town some years ago, I had a neighbour with a Basset Hound that wouldn't shut up day or night. (Teapot said that it was because it dragged it's nether regions in the snow and it's balls were just about frozen off). I was so delighted to move to the country where my neighbour was farther away and I didn't have to worry about yapping pooches in the middle of the night, that I thought I had it made. But here I sit, almost ten years later, and the neighbour's dog is stirring up the shit in the neighbourhood once again. I walk out on my deck on the way to feed the rabbit and the dog starts yapping. It can see me through the trees and thinks that I am invading his privacy. I can only imagine what it will be like if these people stay on in the house for the next while and on through the summer or God forbid if the lady who owns it decides to sell it. I certainly won't be able to enjoy the peace and tranquility of the deck with that thing barking all the time. This morning something has really set it off and the darn thing hasn't stopped barking for well over an hour now. I've been sitting here wishing evil on it!
There's something to be said about living in the country... I love it... I love my house... I love this place... I love the birds and wildlife... and most of all I love the serenity afforded by living here. So what am I to do if they don't move away? I will certainly not be happy.
Teapot and I have always thought that we would stay in this house at least until retirement.... and since he doesn't retire for another 12 years we have a long way to go... but more and more I am liking the idea of finding a sweet little spot in the middle of nowhere where there are no neighbours at all. That way you won't piss them off and more importantly they won't piss you off. The best neighbour is the one that lives miles away from you.
So until then I will sit in my living room and I will try to drown out the wretched thing by playing some nice music.... Maybe some Bach.... or Hydnn... that might gently calm my nerves.... I think I'll go plan the deck on the west face of the house though just in case....
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