Last Saturday’s Alpaca Farm Days + FO

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First two pictures are the peafowl at the farm. The peacock has shed his beautiful tail, but his body is still beautiful :). The peahen is dutifully tending her chicks which are now way bigger at somewhere around 3 months old. Now that it’s not breeding season my son says the peacock “less of a jerk” lol.

My son is having fun designing hats and scarfs for his farm store on his flat bed knitting machines. He has 2 electronic machines and I believe a ribber, several punch card machines, a bulky machine with a ribber and a computerized machine (that runs by itself, that one is cool as heck!) with a ribber. They are how, after a long day of mental tasking at his 8 to 5 job, his farm work and teaching how to knit on the flat bed knitting machines, he relaxes with the knitting machines and in the winter will do some quilting again. The magic of fiber arts for mental relaxation is amazing! He has an amazing spouse that helps him with the farm work and whatever else he needs :).

Last picture is my finished baby blanket, The Brick Work Baby Blanket by Gena Shaffer. Took a while to knit, with my off and on schedule to work on it, but it’s done and in the hands of the mom for her baby :).

Hope everyone is doing well with our crazy Nor’ Easter weather on the east coast, Hurricane on the west coast and all the rain that will be bringing from Texas up! Our farmers are waiting for it to dry up enough to harvest the corn and soybeans, but they might be waiting a while yet :(. Stay well!!!

Mail Call!

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I follow a yarn dyer Awenyddyarn.com and I had some incoming mail last week. I follow her on youtube (under the Awenyddyarn name) and Patreon and for supporting her on Patreon she sends out a few goodies. I thought these were beautiful! She has beautiful yarn :). What she sent was a pretty stitch marker and progress keeper and a mini skein from one of her magical misfits (skeins that don’t turn out like she expected – they are pretty no matter what she thinks!!)

This coming Saturday is Alpaca Farm Days for all the alpaca farms in my area, lots of people will come out to see the alpacas and my son will have his skirting table out for people to see what he does to the fleeces before sending them off to the fiber mill, and his drum carder will be set out with a demonstration, and I will be spinning alpaca on my Rick Reeves spinning wheel. It’s lots of fun.

Hoping all this rain is at least mostly done! Looks like most of IA is no longer in drought conditions ;), the parks near rivers in my small town have flooded quite a bit. Glad for the cooler weather the 90’s and 100’s were getting old!!

You all take care.

Remembering 9/11/01 in 2026

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I wrote last year that there is so much chaos in the world today and since then there is even more, assassination attempts on our President, horrific abuse of our children, and a young conservative man who just wanted to debate those who were lost in the chaos, was assassinated while debating a year ago. That is why I ask this same question every year on this day “Where were you when the attack on our soil, the Twin Towers, was perpetrated?” I remember where I was when this happened, do you? I wonder if this tragedy still has the same horrific meaning to everyone as it did when we sat and watched those planes slam into those buildings killing the passengers in the planes and over 3,000 people in those two buildings while we sat there unable to do anything to stop it. Never forget, be vigilant, freedom comes at a price and it’s hard to hold onto, don’t let go.

As we remember the 25th year since this heinous attack was perpetrated on the citizens of the USA, may we take a moment to remember all those who died on this day 25 years ago and thank those who helped in the aftermath, fire fighters police and civilans. I would like to salute and honor those heroes on flight 93, and all those who, on that day willingly and unselfishly sacrificed their lives to save the lives of others. I also salute those in our armed services and city, county and state police forces who have given their lives in the line of duty to serve and protect, and those who continue to fight for us, selflessly putting their own lives in jeopardy to protect us and others from those who mean to hurt us and our Country. They are all heroes to me and I will never forget. Our country needs to come together, it’s not too late…..yet.

May we continue to pray for peace and for the Savior’s help for our great country. Our world has lost its way, and is losing its humanity. We need to remember to invite the Savior into our lives everyday, and ask for his help and for protection from those who have lost their way. I will keep praying that those who are not truly lost, can find their way back to the Savior, He is the only one who can save them and us.

Who Knew!

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This is for all my knitting friends, we chose the right thing to do with our spare time or maybe when we knit instead of doing other things sometimes, like the dishes or vacuuming :P.