Jo – “is that an old osage orange tree?” and Kay – “What kind of tree is that ? Is it alive ?” This tree is an old cottonwood. It is alive. There’s a little road that is used occasionally that runs underneath it… it depends on if the gates are open (and cows present)…
Wet Felted Slipper Tutorial (Part One)
Held my mouth right, and the video uploaded! Yay! Well, I also shortened it, so Part Two and most likely Part Three will be coming as well. I still am planning my next Q&A session, neverfear. Should I have problems uploading the next videos, I’ll squeeze it in there somewhere. For now, enjoy the beginning…
Ready
I made a video, but it failed to upload, and although I told it to re-upload, it sure is taking its sweet time. I worked at prepping for my baby chicks… Which is a mishmash of how about this? maybe that? here? there? Wha??????? I moved my chicken tractor out, planning to put it by…
Town Trip
A day spent in town. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been, I’ve just had people grab me some bread and milk on occasion, and I’ve left many things off many lists… and today I (literally) paid for it. There was no choice, I needed chick starter since baby chicks will arrive Monday morning!!!!…
Slipper and Babies
I told myself to work on that video today… but instead I cleaned my house and actually cooked a decent meal and cleaned out the chicken coop and felted on a slipper. Somehow, the video got lost in the process. Here is my right slipper… It needed just a bit more shrink at this point…..
Starting to Felt
I began the major felting of my wool slippers. They still are not complete, seeing as how I actually had to go to work the past two days! One is 80% complete, with some final shrinking left, and one I have yet to begin. I’ve just reviewed my videos I’ve been taking throughout this process. …
Slop Your Dripper
The day was chilly… with tattered remnants of snow pasted on the ground. While I should have worked again on a bee hive or cleaned the chicken coop, I remained inside, trying to accomplish a goal I had set for winter. I have wanted to make a pair of wool slippers… well, almost booties since…
Sparrow Video
Rain and snow. It was great to see, as the country was dusty already. Although Ten Sleep didn’t receive much, I had .22″ in my rain gauge! The grass will grow with that. Today I finally uploaded a video I took on February 14. That was only 3 weeks ago, but the landscape sure has…
Family Birthday
We attended a birthday party for Johnny’s oldest brother today… George is now 102 years young. It’s always a good time visiting with relatives and asking some clarification on family stories. Plus there’s always the family photos… The original George Greet who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880’s. He began the ranch on Spring…
Squirt Guns in March
I think I may have done something today I have never done before on this date! Since all seven of the cousins were here, we cooked hotdogs over the campfire and had new squirt gun fights! (Not Matthew. He’s still only 10 months old. He can’t pull the trigger on a squirt gun yet!) I…