bits and pieces

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It started as this. Then it was this. My super soft angora yarn has been sitting in my yarn bowl for months just waiting to be transformed into something other than a skein, and April’s bunny pattern was the perfect thing!

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Despite my crazy day I got quite a bit done. We started swimming lessons at the YMCA. Jonah screamed, so despite my best efforts to swim laps while my kids were in class, I ended up standing by Jonah, trying to convince him that holding on to the wall with me two feet away or 20 was the same thing. Brenna the fish had a blast.

Then we had the food delivery at church and one of the sisters didn’t get most of the groceries she needed. So, I spent the afternoon on the phone trying to track down canned goods and beans while Logan screamed and eventually fell asleep in the high chair.

Now it’s time for me to do yoga and go to bed.

Rabbit Condo and Toe Grabbing

I have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend. Barry was tired of having my rabbits in the garage, so he built them a two story condo with a built in fort. They are now winterized, even though Lizzie still wasn’t smart enough to take shelter in the rain.

Here’s what else is new in no particular order:

  • Logan was 18 lbs. and 27 inches at his 4 month check-up last week
  • Logan figured out how to grab his toes. He has to roll on his side to do it, and then they have a conversation complete with slobbery raspberries.
  • Jonah was a super roller skater at the ward skating party tonight. He went around the rink with Dad the whole time.
  • Brenna–well, not so good. She was pretty upset that other kids were better than her.
  • Thanksgiving dinner was good. We had it here with our friends the Cromwell’s and some new neighbors that are kidless. Barry did the slimy stuff this year. I liked that.
  • I made a pumpkin pie sweetened with fruit juice concentrate that was actually really good.
  • Um…I sold another spindle kit.
  • So, not super exciting, but good for me. It is really cold and rainy. It’s winter in Ohio. The sun will come out…

    in May.

    fluff to spin

    This day I said I wanted to do an entry with a bunny and a pile of fluff, then some pictures of that fluff being spun. I plucked my bunny and took pictures all the while. I even started to spin the fluff off of my bunny, but the software for downloading photos is on Barry’s computer. That means that he has to be home so that I can download pictures on his computer and send them to this computer. Anyway, I got SOME of the pictures I wanted on this computer:

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    Here’s me plucking Sally. I just grab some wool and pull. Comes out just like that. It takes me forever. I used to just sit on the couch with her on my lap, but a couple of my maternity shirts have holes chewed in the belly!! It is much easier on this table that Barry built!

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    So, here’s all the fluff. It is like a big cloud. Can you tell how soft it feels from the picture?

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    And now I’m starting to spin it. This is my first attempt spinning angora on my spinning wheel. It is much harder than sheep’s wool or alpaca. It has to be spun thin with a lot of twist in it to keep it from breaking and it is so slippery it takes some fancy finger work. It’s much easier for me to do it on a drop spindle, but that is a lot slower. I think I’m getting the hang of it though.

    Anyway Mom, here are the pictures. They were never here, so that’s why you couldn’t find them.

    This is my rabbit

    Sally.

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    She is a French Angora from Somerhill Farm. I plucked her this week, and now that Barry (aka. The Man Who Can do ANYTHING) has made it easy for me to put pictures in my entries I’m going to show whoever looks at this site (anyone?) a full fluff bunny, defluffed, and a pile of fluff that I will magically turn into yarn. That is one thing I CAN do. Barry does everything else.