20 Acres One Sheep?

Girl of the House had one last spring break day of freedom. She returns to school tomorrow.

As she had the day off, she made the supper tonight.


Her first meatloaf.











She didn't care much for the actual mixing of the ingredients.












I've been suffering from a lack of ambition.

No-one likes to go back to work after a mini-vacation, do they?



I've done a little of this











A little of that









And a bit more of that other thing.

(This one actually got finished.)








Temporarily, we are no longer 20AcresNoSheep.

We are 20AcresOneSheep. And a BlackSheep, at that!

Many thanks to Coleen and Harlan.

A Productive Call Weekend

Hey! I was on call all weekend and I didn't have to go in, not once! Hurray!

So, I was pretty productive with my projects.




I got 6 more blocks done on the Rambling Rows afghan.













I finished the swatch/sleeve for Paul's Cobblestone Sweater. Got it blocked, and it's going to be "just right"!








I spun up the last of the coopworth. One whole fleece carded and spun up, all on my own. Yippee!











Paul worked on Saturday, so the Girl of the House and I sat in the sunshine, crafting. She wanted to learn to cross-stitch, so we worked on that. She cross-stitched for a bit, then ran outside and shot a few baskets. She got a new basketball hoop this week, as she is playing sixth grade basketball. Then she'd come back in and stitch a bit more.



My talented sister-in-law has a new website up to show off her photography. She makes the most beautiful cards from her photos, and they are very reasonably priced for such art! Go have a look! Little C Creations.

I finished processing a whole fleece!

This evening I carded up the last 3 ounces of dark grey fleece from my Coopworth lamb fleece! This leaves me with 11 ounces to spin, then I'll have done a whole fleece, all by myself!! This is a first for me!

(whoa, enough with the exclamation points already)

Here's the last of it on my Strauch petite carder. I purchased this fleece from Carol Wagner of Hidden Valley Woolen Mill at the Shepherds Harvest festival in May 2005. I realize this is a long time, but I didn't buy the carder til fall '06, and didn't take a class on drum carding til May '07. I have been motivated to finish this since I came back from SOAR.



In other real life events, Ben was home for a short break from college. He left for school this evening. It looks like the dogs will miss him...

I know we will.

Plying coopworth lamb fleece

Spent last evening, sitting on the deck, plying up some more coopworth lamb fleece. This is a goodly portion of the medium color in the fleece. (I finished the lightest shade quite a while ago.)

Approximately 540 yards in 18 oz. It's a three ply. I have another 6 oz that I'm planning to ply this evening.Is there really a difference in the colors, you ask? Have a look. Lighter shade on the left.
Tomorrow, Paul and I are off to the Great Minnesota Get-Together (the MN state fair). We're looking forward to some great people watching! There is NO PLACE better.