Yarn!

Well, canning season has begun.  This weekend we made: applesauce, apple butter, apple cake, apple pie, apple cobbler, froze several jars of peaches, and (finally, because I was tired and just wanted the fruit done): apple-peach-pear jam.  The apple-peach-pear jam is very red and tastes rather sweet, even though I used less sugar and more fruit than was called for.  We're calling it "candy jam."  The final batch is cooking right now; I will put pictures up later.

So, as I am waiting for my jam to finish up, I decided to try to take some artsy pictures of the yarn I've been working on.  First is a yellow corriedale with some flowers spun in.  Straight yellow (not pictured) was a little too much for me; I think the flowers make a nice addition.

Next I mixed the yellow corriedale with some merino to break up the yellow a bit.  It makes a much softer yellow color:

 



 Below is a mix my daughter came up with.  We dyed some of our mohair into rainbow strips, and then I plyed the dyed rainbow with grey mohair and flowers. 

 

 

 

And here's the rainbow mohair again, this time plyed with black mohair.  Personally, I like this one better than the rainbow/grey combination. 

 

 

(Almost) Full Moon

I was doing my evening check on the outside animals this evening (goats, pet rabbit, wild rabbits...) and noticed the really big moon.  Apparently the wild rabbits were out frolicking, and enjoying being ignored by our outside corgi.  He apparently has decided that they are allowed to roam our land at will during the evenings, but any rabbit out during daylight hours should expect to be chased.

Anyway, I thought I would play around with my camera and the moon a bit. I wanted to get a picture of the two horses in the pasture behind ours (they were snuggling up to each other), but it was a bit too dark, and by the time I was able to get anything, they were done.  So, just landscape pics. But some are pretty fun: