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Craftiness
The weekend has ended and I think we are all in a sad with the family leaving for home but the eldest nephew had band camp as a freshman starting today so needs must. Saturday we did a bit of antiquing after they left. Benton had been dealing with a slight sore throat that has gotten worse and got so bad that we trundled up to town to get to urgent care. Its not strep but is like my issue a few months back with allergies getting past his meds. We also need to get the dehumidifiers running in the downstairs cause its musty and he may have an issue with any surface mold. But he's feeling better yesterday but was pretty chill watching tv all day after we got back to the house.
Sunday we managed to get to the local fighter practice in my original home shire of Border Downs. King Hans is a local now so Mel got to have a lot of good passes, including with pole arm (he borrowed gauntlets) and he had fun fighting other folks. I guess next year we will have to drag his C&T stuff. I spun on my drop spindle and did a good long bunch of fiber in the 2+ hours we were there. Benton was playing on the playground. I talked with a bunch of modern families that came to see and was a good peer even when I had a mom say her kiddo was non verbal, I still spoke with him to show him the fiber I was spinning and I could see he liked the texture and gave him a small sample to have. All of the kids were polite and when I redirected with if you want to touch something please ask they were really good. Two of the kids played with benton's boffers and when it was time to leave I asked them to please put them back how they found them and they did. Good parenting there which I appreciated. Another mom asked where we buy our costumes and I explained we made most everything and said I'm even making yarn right now and she went "go you!" which was hilarious. I was in shorts and tank top but still it was hilarious.
The mosquitos have been brutal with all of the flooding and rain here. Luckily the Off active dry works well but man they have been insane even in the day time. I'm looking at getting one of the mosquito thingys for the patio. Cause damn I want to sit out in the evenings. They were not this bad last year but boy howdy this year is nuts.
We got back from practice and had lunch and then I got a shower from the bug spray making my skin feel gross. I got a quick rinse off and then I took a 2 hour nap. Finally got up and worked on the pants. I did change out the needle and mucked with the thread a bit. I'm using brand new gutterman thread but the needle did most of the trick I also learned from this video how to do reverse and other things.
I finished the pants after dinner and then sat down at my wheel to spin the mohair and about an hour in my footman on teh left side snapped. This happened last year on the right side so now I need to wrangle with that today. It was late and dark and I needed tools from the big garage and I just sat down and worked on the emotional support chicken and finished its beak and now it looks like a flat chicken and is making me very happy. next up on it is the comb, then the wattle and then the underside before stuffing. I hopefully can get it done before we leave for WW and then just have some socks for mel on the needles. I will also pack my spinning since the polworth is spinning up quickly.
I'm about 50% through #24 for the year and the plot thickens. I'm not sure if this takes place in the almost timeline of now or not. There are references to the modern world and actors etc but I'm not sure that the "real" world knows that magic exists? Oh well reading I guess they don't. I'm interested in how this will go next.
So things are nice, its relaxing and the cats happy. Especially since I got a new cat tunnel that is an s-curve with extra cutouts that is making it hilarious with tails sticking out of weird spots. Happy kittens.
Sunday we managed to get to the local fighter practice in my original home shire of Border Downs. King Hans is a local now so Mel got to have a lot of good passes, including with pole arm (he borrowed gauntlets) and he had fun fighting other folks. I guess next year we will have to drag his C&T stuff. I spun on my drop spindle and did a good long bunch of fiber in the 2+ hours we were there. Benton was playing on the playground. I talked with a bunch of modern families that came to see and was a good peer even when I had a mom say her kiddo was non verbal, I still spoke with him to show him the fiber I was spinning and I could see he liked the texture and gave him a small sample to have. All of the kids were polite and when I redirected with if you want to touch something please ask they were really good. Two of the kids played with benton's boffers and when it was time to leave I asked them to please put them back how they found them and they did. Good parenting there which I appreciated. Another mom asked where we buy our costumes and I explained we made most everything and said I'm even making yarn right now and she went "go you!" which was hilarious. I was in shorts and tank top but still it was hilarious.
The mosquitos have been brutal with all of the flooding and rain here. Luckily the Off active dry works well but man they have been insane even in the day time. I'm looking at getting one of the mosquito thingys for the patio. Cause damn I want to sit out in the evenings. They were not this bad last year but boy howdy this year is nuts.
We got back from practice and had lunch and then I got a shower from the bug spray making my skin feel gross. I got a quick rinse off and then I took a 2 hour nap. Finally got up and worked on the pants. I did change out the needle and mucked with the thread a bit. I'm using brand new gutterman thread but the needle did most of the trick I also learned from this video how to do reverse and other things.
I finished the pants after dinner and then sat down at my wheel to spin the mohair and about an hour in my footman on teh left side snapped. This happened last year on the right side so now I need to wrangle with that today. It was late and dark and I needed tools from the big garage and I just sat down and worked on the emotional support chicken and finished its beak and now it looks like a flat chicken and is making me very happy. next up on it is the comb, then the wattle and then the underside before stuffing. I hopefully can get it done before we leave for WW and then just have some socks for mel on the needles. I will also pack my spinning since the polworth is spinning up quickly.
I'm about 50% through #24 for the year and the plot thickens. I'm not sure if this takes place in the almost timeline of now or not. There are references to the modern world and actors etc but I'm not sure that the "real" world knows that magic exists? Oh well reading I guess they don't. I'm interested in how this will go next.
So things are nice, its relaxing and the cats happy. Especially since I got a new cat tunnel that is an s-curve with extra cutouts that is making it hilarious with tails sticking out of weird spots. Happy kittens.