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Peggy and I had the great joy not to mention the hard work of attending the Little Rock Shetland Weekend March 21st-24th.  No surprise based on the...

I am just starting to re-enter the world after being sick all this week.  Sometime on Monday I started feeling punky.  By Tuesday morning it was cl...

Skunks are a normal part of my life out here in Colorado County, Texas.  We see them in the spring, like now, looking for mates.  Then we see the m...

Devin Helmen had an interesting article in the Fall 2018 Spin Off magazine.  He talked about the joy of spending days and weeks and months spinning...

In almost any project there is a delicate balance between careful organization and planning as well as being able to go with the flow... take thing...

Sometimes early March is mid-spring.  Sometimes it's even late spring.  This year early March is very much still winter. But you shear when the sh...

Yesterday was all admin work.  It was a very successful admin-work day, though.  I filed every piece of that nasty pile of paper that has been taun...

We have humidity here.  It's not just an occasional thing.  It's pretty much wet and sticky year round.  I don't know the actual numbers so I can't...

I am a little bit concerned about all the trees, bushes and plants in general that seem to think it really is spring and they should get on with fl...

The Purple Martin is our largest swallow.  According to the Audubon website, these birds are found all across the eastern US and west as far as eas...

Choke is a blockage of the esophagus in larger animals such as cows, horses and llamas.  It has nothing to do with choking in humans, nothing to do...

Our dryer balls are hand felted by our friend Abby Van Hoeven.  We love Abby.  We helped her to learn to spin years back and she has blossomed into...