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Despite having more free time to weave and spin and generally be creative, what with the pandemic in full swing, I still seem to be slow to produce...

Back in June, I received my first order of mud dyes from Loop of the Loom in New York City. My first trial with the new dyes was a set of natural c...

This past week has been at least a month long. Here's the background... I have been hobbling around on a painful ankle for the last week. I don't r...

Laura has come and gone.  The people of Lake Charles and everyone in Cameron Parish in south Louisiana got hit hard with a category 4 hurricane wit...

As I write this, Hurricane Laura is in the Gulf and headed towards the upper Texas Coast.  At this point, landfall is predicted to be right on the ...

It is August and while I always think of it as the driest month of the year, it isn't.  February is our driest month by the record book with an ave...

It looks like in addition to our pecans we may have a reasonable crop of Satsuma oranges and Meyer lemons later this year.  Not really sure yet sin...

We got a happy box of new books in from Schacht Spindle Company today.  I've just added them all to the website for you to see.  There are books ab...

We have very few company policies.  The most important one during the summer is "Never have a dye day when there is a heat advisory."  Of course, w...

We all have that thing we can't quite remember or manage to be prepared for.  For some people is losing their keys.  Or having a flat tire.  Or run...

Most trees that produce nuts or fruit go through cycles of production.  One year may produce lots of fruit, other years not so much.  Each species ...