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| From Knitting |
Yea!!! My Golding Aromatherapy Spindle arrived today. It came very quickly, I ordered on Monday and it arrived on Thursday. It came in a huge box with tons of peanuts surrounding it. I couldn’t wait and dropped everything and spun for a while. I love it! It does spin for a long time and I put a few drops of Bath and Body Works Vanilla and Jasmine oil on a cotton ball and stuffed it in the little cup. I was in heaven. I really, really love it.
Yesterday, I went to a local yarn shop and took a spinning wheel lesson. The instructor talked a lot about the whole process of spinning from fleece to roving before we actually started spinning. I didn’t do very well. With all my experience with spindle spinning, I could not keep the yarn going. The twist gets into the drafting zone over and over again and I just couldn’t get the hang of it. When I finally thought I was doing something, it was time to go. Darn. Anyway, we were spinning on the Louet’s S51. I am going to try some other wheels before I decide which one to get. I know I will eventually be spinning on the wheel to produce yarn in a timely fashion. But I won’t give up the spindle spinning either.
My spindle spinning is getting more and more consistent. It’s a zen like activity where you get into a zone and let the hands do the repetitive tasks and the mind wonders. Sometimes I listen to the Cast On podcast and enjoy the yarn talk and the music that Brenda Dayne put on her show. It almost makes me feel guilty to be doing exactly what I love to do. Strange how we view things. Lots of time we are brain washed by the teachings that we were rasied with. You have to be working or doing something you don’t particularly enjoy for money’s sake and everything else is sinful because you indulge yourslef in the things you like to do. Guilty or not, I do enjoy my life and should work on getting rid of the negative influences that do not help with your mental health anyway.
I did a bit of replanting today. The bamboo plant we got from the oriental store has not been looking very good after the cats got into it and nibbled off a lot of the leaves. So I took the scissors out and cut out all those bad leaves and shaped some others. Dumped the old water out and mixed a new batch of water with miracle grow. Hopefully, it will get some life back into the leaves. I also combined the two Christmas cactus that have outgrown their pots. And the poor Christmas pointsettia that have been losing leaves for a while, I repot it in a bigger pot with fresh soil. Hopefully it will come back to life too.
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| From Herbs | From Herbs |
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| From Herbs |
Oh there is the geese vs swans battle outside the window right now. A pair of geese with their little tiny babies are walking along the lake by our condo, two swans came swimming with the wings up trying to scare off the geese. The parents were protective of their babies and kept a watchful eye on the swans. Quite interesting to see. The neighbor also got her camera out and was taking pictures of the scene.
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| From Pets | From Pets |