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Some people find the perfect tool and keep it always.  Me, not so much.  I have bought and sold a rather remarkable number of spinning wheels. Some...

I have made several videos over the last few years, 11 by actual count.  None of them have any voice over.  They are all just the natural sounds of...

I have mentioned previously that we have gophers.  They are more correctly called pocket gophers.  They are small furry critters that tunnel underg...

We have met some wonderful vendors at the shows we do.  Right now I want to talk about one of them.  Stephanie Shroyer is a concrete sculptor from ...

I have a coat rack in my pantry.  I'm lucking that there is enough room in my pantry for a window and a coat rack.  The coat rack has six hooks but...

I was cleaning out the barn last Friday in anticipation of my shearer, Stephen Franco, coming to shear my goats.  I swept out the barn aisle so the...

We sheared the goats this past weekend.  This is at least a month earlier than we normally shear.  It's not my first choice to shear this early but...

It's hard to explain how weaving works to someone who know nothing about it once you get beyond the one or two sentence description.  There are lot...

I love purple martin houses.  I love that they stand tall and regal out in the middle of pastures by themselves.  They are lone sentinels that call...

We have lived here in Texas for a very long time.  It will be 34 years this coming February.  It's understandable that I've gotten used to winters ...

The Christmas tree has been taken down and stored till next year.  The lights have come down off all the buildings and the decorations have been pu...

We lost Gloucester this past weekend.  None of the animals we love and use live very long at best.  For goats, 12 years is a good life.  For llamas...