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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman
Wooly wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:13:49 -0300, "Katherine" spewed forth : Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that. Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during that horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended up in emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago. The only real fix is shearing, quite honestly, and between the heat and my (almost-not-quite-fixed) wrist I haven't been up to wrassling with a sheep that weighs more than me. So in the final assessment the sheep's demise is on me, but I can live with it. It's just a sheep and it wasn't a family pet, heh. I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away, and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's. Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters and socks over the years... I'd have liked the hide as a rug - the sheep was that big - but by the time my friend found him the buzzards had already been at work for a while :PPPP I've been avoiding heat stroke myself by camping in the pool, at least I was until the neighborhood pools - including mine - started closing for the season. Temps still in the 100s and we've got four municipal pools open for nearly 2million people. I swabbed out what was previously the dog wallow (toddler pool) and put it on the patio. With my feet in the pool and a fan blowing at my back it's almost tolerable. I relented and set up a sprinkler for the posse in the back yard so instead of 6-8 sub-teens arguing house rules Monopoly in my living room I have a various number of them wandering in and out of the back yard in the evenings after dinner. I gave serious consideration to buying a Kwik-Set Intex pool when they went on sale at the "end of the season" but by the time I talked DH into it the 10'x36" sizes were sold out. I'm not willing to take on a 15'x48" for liability reasons so maybe next year I'll be more on top of it. They're moderately inexpensive pools with good filtration, and as long as they're properly drained and stored they should be good for at least three seasons. I really don't know why I kvetch about lack of pools. Austin seems to have more pools per capita than most other major cities in this USDA zone despite being located in what is essentially low desert. Ok, I'm being asked to produce more pancakes, then it's back to my knitting. My sweater is a lot bigger than it appears. I put it off on a string and it is exactly the size I want it to be. Life is good, Kathmandu is still on hold ;D ANd people wonder why I prefer to live here! g Higs, Katherine |
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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:37:04 GMT, (Mirjam
Bruck-Cohen) spewed forth : WOOLY what is Herself ??is this a kind of knitting mag ??? or book mirjam Herself is a codeword for a knitwear designer named Alice Starmore, who is so egotistical that she's trademarked her name (therefore I'm in violation of several countries' laws just by typing the woman's name, heh). Her website (very much NAYY) is http://www.virtualyarns.com and you can view some of her designs there. Her books sell for ridiculous to downright unbelievable prices at times on Ebay. I have access to most of them through my friends; the ones they don't have I've gotten through interlibrary loan. US copyright law let's me make personal-use copies of patterns from library books, so I copied the patterns I was most interested in, including the one I'm working on now. +++++++++++++ Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account... |
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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman
WOOLY what is Herself ??is this a kind of knitting mag ???
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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprivedwoman
Wooly wrote:
I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away, and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's. Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters and socks over the years... I'm still learning about wool, so pardon my dingbat question: Is the roving you gave me off him? If so, I can give it back. I'm only 1/4 way through one of those piles. Every time I pull it out to spin, Hedgehog comes in and "helps" me. You haven't known true hysterical "I'm going to feed you to the monster under your bed" bad-mommyhood until you've had a two year old try to grab your wool right after she's had a peanut butter sandwich. I went up to Taylor today and spent some time playing with cotton. I have the pictures. I'll be blogging my adventure later, after I get back this evening probably (going out for some wine and fun with friends and taking my current sock so I can turn the heel within a support group setting). I will say this: harvested or not, this stuff is gorgeous and I'm having a lot of fun staring at the fields. My husband and kids sat in the car *so* patiently while Mommy hopped around with her camera in the fields in her sandals, pedal pushers, and silk blouse. I had the bejeezus scared out of me by two different jackrabbits. I didn't even *see* them until they were already flying across the stubble. I'll write more about it later. I brought back a couple of souvenirs. If it ends up that you don't hear from me for a while, it's because I'm doing hard time in the Williamson County lockup for stealing roadside cotton and harassing the local wildlife. -- Threnody http://aff-the-fang.blogspot.com http://totallyhooked.blogspot.com |
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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman
http://au.merial.com/bioclip/ ?
Saw some fleeces at Dixon that were bioclipped. They were the cleanest in the shed. Some other producers that I am interested in use it to improve their yield. Aaron "Wooly" wrote in message ... On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:13:49 -0300, "Katherine" spewed forth : Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that. Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during that horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended up in emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago. The only real fix is shearing, quite honestly, and between the heat and my (almost-not-quite-fixed) wrist I haven't been up to wrassling with a sheep that weighs more than me. So in the final assessment the sheep's demise is on me, but I can live with it. It's just a sheep and it wasn't a family pet, heh. I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away, and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's. Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters and socks over the years... I'd have liked the hide as a rug - the sheep was that big - but by the time my friend found him the buzzards had already been at work for a while :PPPP I've been avoiding heat stroke myself by camping in the pool, at least I was until the neighborhood pools - including mine - started closing for the season. Temps still in the 100s and we've got four municipal pools open for nearly 2million people. I swabbed out what was previously the dog wallow (toddler pool) and put it on the patio. With my feet in the pool and a fan blowing at my back it's almost tolerable. I relented and set up a sprinkler for the posse in the back yard so instead of 6-8 sub-teens arguing house rules Monopoly in my living room I have a various number of them wandering in and out of the back yard in the evenings after dinner. I gave serious consideration to buying a Kwik-Set Intex pool when they went on sale at the "end of the season" but by the time I talked DH into it the 10'x36" sizes were sold out. I'm not willing to take on a 15'x48" for liability reasons so maybe next year I'll be more on top of it. They're moderately inexpensive pools with good filtration, and as long as they're properly drained and stored they should be good for at least three seasons. I really don't know why I kvetch about lack of pools. Austin seems to have more pools per capita than most other major cities in this USDA zone despite being located in what is essentially low desert. Ok, I'm being asked to produce more pancakes, then it's back to my knitting. My sweater is a lot bigger than it appears. I put it off on a string and it is exactly the size I want it to be. Life is good, Kathmandu is still on hold ;D +++++++++++++ Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account... |
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Who let the dogs out? Sunday AM ramblings of a sleep-deprived woman
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:16:36 GMT, Threnody
spewed forth : I'm still learning about wool, so pardon my dingbat question: Is the roving you gave me off him? If so, I can give it back. I'm only 1/4 way through one of those piles. Every time I pull it out to spin, Hedgehog comes in and "helps" me. You haven't known true hysterical "I'm going to feed you to the monster under your bed" bad-mommyhood until you've had a two year old try to grab your wool right after she's had a peanut butter sandwich. No, that's some Ramboulliet wool I bought from a guy at the Gillespie County fair a couple of years ago and sent off to a different one-horse mill for processing. They did an adequate job but I know now to just go to the Best in the Business with my business. Which is not to say I gave you **** roving, it's just not what I wanted it to be when I bought the raw fleece. Heebeejeebies is when you discover a kitten running amok ****ing himself in fear of the foot of roving hanging from his mouth and chasing him everywhere and you know full well it started out as nearly two FEET of roving. Guess where the missing foot was and how much it cost to recover... I went up to Taylor today and spent some time playing with cotton. I have the pictures. I'll be blogging my adventure later, after I get back this evening probably (going out for some wine and fun with friends and taking my current sock so I can turn the heel within a support group setting). I will say this: harvested or not, this stuff is gorgeous and I'm having a lot of fun staring at the fields. My husband and kids sat in the car *so* patiently while Mommy hopped around with her camera in the fields in her sandals, pedal pushers, and silk blouse. I had the bejeezus scared out of me by two different jackrabbits. I didn't even *see* them until they were already flying across the stubble. I guess you'll be signing up for my cotton spinning class, if and when... Keep your eye on the BB website. My (one, underpriced) two-session class ought to be on the schedule page shortly if they aren't already. +++++++++++++ Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account... |
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Katherine
Katherine wrote:
Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that. Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during that horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended up in emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago. Higs, Katherine Wooly wrote: Has anyone knitted the Malin sweater from Herself's _In the Hebrides_? Gauge is given in non-stockinette, instead over something called "sand stitch" which on the other side is merely (knit 1, seed stitch 1) ribbing. I'm knitting a little more tightly than gauge so I'm making the size up from the one I would have made for myself. I'm almost 4" into the body and the sweater seems to be running small on the needle. Yes, I should put it onto a string and measure it. Howsomever with luck someone out there has made the sweater and can comment on the sizing. My make-up Kathmandu came in the mail a couple of days ago. I really ought to finish *that* sweater. Perhaps I'll need to rip Malin, which will give me an excuse to work on Kathmandu... I'm still spinning froghair for 3-ply for the sweater. The sheep from which this particular wool was shorn has died of heat stroke last week (nine consecutive days over 100f, I'd die too in a 6" wool coat) so what I have is all there is. That's a goodly sum, enough for at least four or five sweaters, but I'll miss this wool when it's gone. +++++++ Following is OT. Feel free to skip. ======= We have new neighbors in the rental next door. This is a good thing as I no longer need to do even minimal maintenance on the yard and the owner isn't mooching my cleaning supplies any more while he does make-ready. The downside is that the new occupants have dogs. This normally wouldn't be a problem, except the *other* dogs with yards bordering the new dogs' yard charge the fence in the morning yapping their fool heads off (bad enough, they're mostly spaniel-based mutts with moderately inoffensive barks) when the "new" dogs are put out for their morning constitutionals. But. The new neighbors have two Danes. Fabulous dogs, I've met them, they'll lick a body to death before the thought of baring teeth enters their heads. But. Danes have BIG BIG barks. And they tell off their neighbors much the same way teen girls bicker. So I'm awake at least two hours earlier than I'd like to be. Eventually the dogs will all figure out the Danes belong there (make it soon, please?) and there will be no more oh-dark-thirty property line squabbles. In the meantime I'm feeling quite sleep-deprived. School started last week, which compounds our scheduling issues. My son hasn't *quite* got his wake-sleep pattern tweaked back to a bedtime hour that's good for school, so he spent three days dragging a$$. He's always had trouble sleeping, so the occupational therapist recommended us to a Chinese herabalist, who concocted some valerian-free, kava-free bugjuice we're to administer 30 minutes before we'd like the child to be asleep. Per the herbalist it may take a week to exhibit any effects, and we've got a prescribed bedtime routine to follow as well. Funny how, if necessary, I can swing my entire schedule to that of a third-shift worker in about a week with no chemical or herbal aids, but I'm willing to try most things until they prove themselves useless... In other animal-related news, it appears as if my mysterious cat donor is at it again. A boy cat that is the spitting image of a black cat that adopted us several years ago has turned up four mornings running on my back patio. He's skinny so I've started feeding him. He's a bit skittish but has obviously been somebody's cat, so I'm working on his trust issues with an eye to stuffing him in a carrier and taking him to the cheap speuter clinic. I need more cats... +++++++++++++ Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account... Katherine, Dear friend, please be careful. Higs & God bless, Dennis & Gail |
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Katherine
Katherine wrote:
SpikeDriver wrote: Dear friend, please be careful. Awww, thank you, Dennis. Not to worry, though, my apartment has AC, and summer is coming to an end, so I should be fine now. Higs, Katherine |
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Katherine
SpikeDriver wrote:
Dear friend, please be careful. Awww, thank you, Dennis. Not to worry, though, my apartment has AC, and summer is coming to an end, so I should be fine now. Higs, Katherine |
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