Wednesday sort of stuff...

I've always observed 'hump day' as the complete middle of my life. Time to reflect on the last week and get ready for the next one. In light of that, I give you bits and pieces. :)
This is a sculpture that I found at one of the art galleries in DC on our recent trip. It reminds me very much of some of the Southwestern Indian stories of JackRabbit but the inscription gave no indication of the artists actual inspiration. My son says I can find a rabbit ANYWHERE. Well, I really like this one.

Speaking of rabbits, a few of the Satin Angora bunnies have been sold. The tort and chestnut does from Diva's litter are now living happily with Daniella in MD and the red buck from Diva's litter is living with a spinning friend JoAnne. There are still some really sweet ones available. Take a look!

And here are my most recently finished socks. The Thrianta socks. As posted before, they are Lorna's Laces yarn in the colorway 'Flames'. The yarn in really, really soft. I have my concerns about felting and pilling, but we'll see. The pattern is a basic toe up with various modifications from me. The cuff stitch pattern is from Charlene Schurch (sp?) book. Would I replace my standard pattern for this one? nope. I still prefer the way a cuff down sock fits my foot. I also completely prefer the folded cuff socks. I hate socks that come half way up my calf (and always end up around my ankle anyway) but I also don't like tennis socks. These cuffed socks fit my ankle PERFECTLY. Many thanks to Marguerite of Stitches of Violet for the basic pattern. You will find her free pattern on the right sidebar. GREAT sock pattern!

and the ruin of my Memorial Day weaving plans. See that? need a closer look?
That's called a KNOT. I think it's called that because as long as it's there, you are KNOT weaving, you will KNOT have any of that thread in your stash to fix the problem and the store that carries it will KNOT be open so that you can buy more. {SIGH} It's fixed now and I'm back to enjoying the project but HOW did I miss that when winding the warp? Ah well, it gave me an excuse to spend a morning at The Mannings with a couple of really great people, so it is KNOT a total loss. :)

This post dedicated to my dad,
Senior Chief Herbert F. Hawley,
WWII Vet Retired, United States Navy

The National WWII Memorial, Washington DC
Visited by the 21st Century Cyber School
Wednesday May 24, 2006

Note: Pictures not showing up well. Please click on the photo for a better view.

HERE WE MARK THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR SONS TO THE MILITARY SERVICES. THEY
HAVE STOKED THE FURNACES AND HURRIED THE FACTORY WHEELS.
THEY HAVE MADE THE PLANES AND WELDED THE TANKS,
RIVETED THE SHIPS AND ROLLED THE SHELLS.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION,
NOT AS WOMEN…THIS WAS A PEOPLE’S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby
OUR DEBT TO THE HEROIC MEN AND VALIANT WOMEN IN THE SERVICE
OF OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE REPAID. THEY HAVE EARNED OUR
UNDYING GRATITUDE. AMERICA WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICES.

President Harry S Truman

WE ARE DETERMINED THAT BEFORE THE SUN SETS ON THIS TERRIBLE STRUGGLE
OUR FLAG WILL BE RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF
FREEDOM ON THE ONE HAND AND OF OVERWHELMING FORCE ON THE OTHER.

General George C. Marshall

To the many Men and Women of the Armed Forces, Volunteer Services, and especially to the Mothers, Wives, Widows and Beloved of our Service Men and Women,
Thank You.

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Progress...

I love it when stuff finally comes together. Mind you, the coming together doesn't mean it's FINISHED. No. Just progressing.
Weaving
...as much as I enjoy weaving, it's taken a backseat to knitting spinning and working myself crazy over the past year or so. When I realized that I still had the same project on the loom THIS year at Farm Show that I had worked on LAST year...and not one pick more progress...well...I cut the warp and took it off. Better a naked loom than an embarassingly neglected one. Sorta. Well, I finally got the warp back on the loom and ready for weaving.




Here's the deal; I had been working on a sampler of 8 shaft twill variations at the Farm Show in 2005. The point was to show people how the different features of the weaving process - threading, treadling and tie up - affect the design. So now I went back and wanted to use the same warp in a more conventional way to make a pretty table runner. Big problem...I can't find my draft collection books OR the drawdown for this particular design and I already cut it off the loom weeks ago. UGH. Well, I'm rather proud of myself. I went back to the sampler, picked out the two designs I wanted to use and actually worked out the drawdown in it's entirety from my sampler! This might seem easy to an experienced weaver but I haven't done any of that for about 2 years. The nice part is that now I really do feel like I'm ready to get back to the loom. My brain is really thinking about the structure of the weave, not just the actions.

There's Fish in my Hermit Crab Tank!!!
Yes, finally, we went out and bought some fish for the tank. Ken really wanted a Clownfish. Well, they come in a few different varieties and every one he liked cost a small fortune. I'm sorry, but I'm not investing >$50 for a lima bean size fish as the first stock in a new tank. Well, the Clark's Clownfish was only $14.95 and nicely marked so that's what we went with. He's turned out to be quite an entertaining little guy too.
Hi buddy here is a BiColor Chromis. I was trying to stay away from ornery Damsels but most of the chromis are the regular shaped blue-green variety. Although pretty (and we did get 2 of those) I did want some variety. So we got this little guy. he has the shape face that I like too. More round than pointy. We also bought some snails to keep the brown algae down and they are almost more entertaining than the fish. Go figure. We bought a whole bag of new shells for the crabs and they found new digs overnight. They were really ready and we'd already lost 2 of them because they didn't have bigger shells to transfer to. Now the little divas are changing whenever it suits them. Sheesh. note: sorry for the fuzzy pics but it turns out that fish are even harder than baby bunnies to photograph. Who knew?

Satin angoras for sale!

OK, here are the photos of the 2 litters of Satin Angora bunnies for sale. They are all 8 weeks old. There are 2 different litters; Diva's litter of 6 and Azeeza's litter of 8. Azeeza's litter doesn't look real good in these photos. Why? you might ask? ...well...mea culpa, mea culpa... They are grossly OVERFED. They can't even stand properly to show their body type. Oh brother. I checked mom and she is still FULL of milk! That means they are nursing heavily AND I've been free feeding them. Well no wonder they roll instead of hop. At 8 weeks, it's time for weaning and a DIET. What piggies. Some time in the big exercise pen in the fresh air will trim them down too. sheesh.
Anyway, those who are looking at these litters can at least get a good idea of color. All are in that changing baby coat stage and I didn't see any texture or density that gave me concern. If you see one that really calls to you, email me and I'll send better photos. Remember, these guys are going right into the adolescent ganglies so don't hold faces and posture against them. Remember being 11 years old? Right. Then cut these guys some slack. :)

Those who don't learn from history....

(Post edit: Thanks for letting me know the photos were not showing up. They did on mine but that's because they were in cache. Since photo space is premium and they were not important to the message, I just removed them. )

Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information..........

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!

He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"

Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"

"No, sir," continued Ollie.

"No? And why not?" the senator asked.

"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."

"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.

"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.

"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"

"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.

At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.

"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.

"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.

"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."

The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.

By the way, that senator was Al Gore!

Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.

If you agree that the American public should be made aware of this fact, pass this on.

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Thanks to those who requested the RSS feed. I'm still trying to figure it out. With Blogger fed to my domain, I have to write the RSS text from scratch and then go to Feedburner to get an actual feed. I understand that this is what I need to do, but not how to do it. If anyone is really good at this stuff...please feel free to HELP!

as only another nurse might understand...

It's just not possible to describe how one nurse feels when a family member chooses to follow her into the family of nurses. The closest I can think of would be when your daughter becomes a mother herself. You cry for them. You cry because you are proud, because you know how much joy it will bring them and you cry because you already know the pain they will have to endure.
Nursing is not a job, it's not a profession, it's not even a 'lifestyle'...it's a commitment. A commitment to put others ahead of yourself. A commitment to take a bullet for someone you don't know and may not even like. A commitment to always fight for the most defenseless individual on this earth no matter how downtrodden, no matter how mean, ugly or abusive, no matter how arrogant or abrassive ...no matter how much it makes you cry. It's a commitment to cry...lots and often. A nurse, unlike any other medical professional including doctors, cannot ever refuse care to a patient for any reason. The nurse is the only medical professional whose mandated position is as the patient's advocate. Their voice when they have none. Their protector. Their confidant. Their confessor and their priest. Their best friend and their family. Sometimes their cheerleader and sometimes their taskmaster.
Do nurses cry? Oh yes. Sometimes for ourselves. Sometimes for our patient. Sometimes for the family. Sometimes for each other. Sometimes for the whole situation, but we cry. We cry in shock, in sorrow, in relief, in joy..but we cry. We cry ALOT.

Here's to praying (for in the end that's the support nurses need most - PRAYER) that the newest member of my nursing family, my beautiful neice Heather, will learn to cry for all the right reasons. How else can I possibly express how proud of her and her choices to join the family of nurses? Of course...I cried.

God Bless America...

You gotta love Robin Williams...... Even if he's nuts!

Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan

What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up And repeat this message.

Robin Williams' plan...
(Hard to argue with this logic!)

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace But I have not heard of a plan for Peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, Past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega,
Milosevic, Hussein, And the rest of those "good ole boys", we will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't
want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be
gathered up and deported immediately, Regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be
allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any
more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort To become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but
will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while .

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we'll go someplace else. They can go
somewhere else to sell their production.
(About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain,
cement or whatever they need. Besides most of us know that what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it
most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the
building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.

11) The Language we speak is ENGLISH... learn it... or LEAVE...

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

The Statue of Liberty is no longer Saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, "you want a piece of me?' "

Who's your Daddy?

I gotta tell ya folks...I LOVE GoDaddy.com! not only are their prices great, but I've now had to call tech about 4 times (3 of those were entirely MY stupidity) and every single one of the techies were fantastic. I have yet to wait on the phone for a human being, they figure out the problem fast and don't make me feel stupid even when I clearly am missing something painfully obvious. I am getting NOTHING for this endorsement by the way, I just LOVE a good service.

Ohhh it feels GOOD...

...to be back to knitting again. Aside from the hours sitting on my butt getting the website configured, I've been playing with projects again too.

This is an Entrelac 'thing'. It doesn't know what it wants to be yet or at least it hasn't shared such infor with me. I wanted to work out the entrelac starting with a corner and build diagonally. It's not hard once you know where you are going, but does take a few minutes to wrap your brain around. I'm using homespun yarns. the dark is some mystery wool sample and the white is Cormo. Both are nice, but not what I wanted for that particular wool, so they get used for playing around.



Thrianta Socks- Do I need to explain this? well, maybe. OK, The Thrianta rabbit is known as the Flame of the Fancy because the one and only color is burning-down-the-house RED. So these are my Thrianta socks. :) I'm doing them toe up which is not my favorite method. I have 2 complaints with toe up; 1. the heel and 2. the cast off. Well, for the heel, I knitted a short 12 row flap, then did a regular turn, picked up 6 stitches each side to bring me back to 100%, then did 3 short rows to raise the ankle. This fits my particular heel perfectly. Now, if I can manage a cast off that doesn't gross me out, I'm onto something! the cuff will be entrelac BTW. I like the way entrelac plays with self patterning yarn and I think it might look sorta 'flamey'? What the heck, I'm obviously on an entrelac kick lately.
BTW, I have to stop photographing on that chair. The wavy lines make me think of bad acid trips or something. {shudder}


Thank you, yes, I am aware that this is not knitting. :) I picked up a small rug hooking kit at MDSW. I have wanted to try this stuff and $30 is well within my 'what the heck' budget. Verdict? I don't hate it, so I'll work on it more and see how it turns out. No, I'm not going to show the whole thing. If it turns out ok it will be a gift for someone.
Yikes, more bad acid trip stuff on that pic. ewwww

Up and Running!!!

WELCOME!!!
If you have made it here, then you found me. :)
After days of moving stuff and rewritting pages I am ready to announce the GRAND OPENING of CCRfuzzy.com !!! That's right, now I have my own domain name for all my stuff. It's still a little sparse and will take some work, but at least it's functional.
As noted in the sidebar, I am moving the blog to this location instead of Typepad. Not that there is anything at all wrong with Typepad mind you, I just wanted to have my own space. OK, so I managed to get this worked out with 3 domain names, plenty of space, the blog and all that jazz for about half what I paid to TP and I did it all at once instead of slowly bleeding me monthly. Works for me anyhow.
Now the bad news... I am simply not going to spend the time and energy it would take to manually move all the posts from the TP blog over here. Especially not all the photos! So once they cancell that account, those are gone. I've moved about the past month to here, but not all the photos. So consider this something of a fresh start!
So please reset your pointers or subscribe afresh through Bloglines.com, Blogarithm.com or the Blogger aggregator whatever that thing is called.

I promised pictures...

and here is the first...



Our famous...multiple award winning...incredible...The Mannings weaving school managing...dignified????...weaver ...Tom Knisely. Such serious events... yeah, we let him loose long enough to finish the shawl. We are really nice like that. LOLOL

His 'lasso' is one of the scrumptious butter soft alpaca scarves that Wini 'whipped out' for us to wear. We all wore off white shirts (except for our black sheep weaver) and a contrasting scarf of natural alpaca color. The knit stitch made the coolest surface design. It was done on a knitting machine and sometimes that makes stitches that can be tricky to duplicate, but if it looks familiar to anyone, please speak up! I left the picture fairly large so you can click on it and get a seriously close veiw.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

The alpaca spinning is done. Invoiced. Mailed. Finished. {HUGE sigh}

Note: Sorry for the lack of pictures but friends will be emailing me files later this week. I promise some really great photos! But thank you's shouldn't wait that long.
This weekend was the Alpaca Fleece to Shawl event at PAOBA which was inspired by Wini Labreque and organized by me, Elaine Harvey. We had more fun than ought to be legal! This year proceeds benefited the Children's Miracle Network/Penn State Children's Hospital at Hershey Med Center. Between Tom Knisely's daughter Olivia (herself a miracle child) going person to person for donations, the money people dropped in our team boxes to "vote" for their favorite, the 50/50 raffle - GET THIS!!! The generous gentleman who won the raffle donated his $900 back to the CMN!!!!!!!!!! somebody go buy an alpaca from him would ya? - and the raffle of the shawls, we believe we probably raised around $4000.00 for CMN/PSCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It don't get much better than that.
HUGE thanks goes to Tom Knisely our Weaver, Kris Peters, Judy Benner, Wini Labreque, our spinners and the Red Rose Treadling Toes team for such generous donation of their time and talents. Of course the biggest thanks still goes to all the individuals who donated so generously of their $$$$. It all benefits the children. What better Mother's Day gift than to save some mother's child, eh? If anyone would still like to make a monetary donation through this event, please contact Helen Humphreys

Silvercloud Farm

412.913.8147

helen@silvercloudfarm.com
Or you can go HERE to make an online donation and just let them know that you want to credit the PAOBA Fleece to Shawl Auction.

We hope to make a presentation of the money raised on the CMN Telethon June 4

A time to cry...

Note: this article came to me by email with no attribution of the author. I realized after it was on my blog that it looks like I posted it as a personal experience. I didn't mean to imply this, please excuse the error.

Last week, while traveling to Chicago on
business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but
did not put two and two together. After we boarded our flight, I turned
to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from
me), and inquired if he was heading home.

No, he responded. Heading out I asked?No. I'm escorting a soldier home. Going to pick him up?

No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq. I'm taking him home to his family.

The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He

told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the
news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days. I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do.

Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight. He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I
ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the! forward
door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow
soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign."

Without a sound, all went as requested. I
noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the
plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American.

So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do.

Stuart Margel, Washington, D.C.

When2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines

climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his
casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac.

During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as so powerful: "See the
people in the windows? They sat right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their ! minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They will
remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should."

Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
The
night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused
to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last
time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the
flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played
songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she
wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. "I think it would
be kind of nice if you kept doing it," she said. "I think that's what
he would have wanted."

From me... Thank You.

A time to laugh...

Headline: Bird Flu Hits Florida Trailer Park!

Still. Spinning. Alpaca.

Which is why you haven't heard much from me. I'm still working on the Handcrafter's Spin Off contest and although I really do love the whole process, it gets a little much after awhile. So I try to get away occasionally.
So last weekend, I did indeed get away to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. Had a GREAT time with some friends from EZasPi stayed with my good friend Susan and made a few purchases. I wasn't overly eager to jump on the usual blog-wagon and hurry to post all my acquisitions, but a few friends have asked, so here you have it.



Cestari Cotton/Wool blend. I'm thinking an entrelac tank top for the summer. Anyone have a good pattern?
Cestari Wool in Denim color. I'm hoping this will be a great all purpose wool. They advertise it as machine washable with care.








Sock yarns (brands obvious, right?) I was going for monochrome colors this year because I really want to do some texture stuff and I not only have enough handpaints, but they don't do texture as well.



Oops, I lied a little. I did get this STR yarn. I couldn't help it, I like the colors. Actually, despite the 800 skeins (at $21 EACH?!) sold in less than 2 hours!!!! this was the only colorway that really wanted to go home with me. Love this yarn, they just were not my colors.
Hatchtown Drop Spindle which will perfect to spin this...



15 micron Hyperfine Merino. Yeah Merino...as in SHEEP wool. Holy crap that's fine. Check it our next to Anogra.  It's equally fine. The Angora still has a much softer hand, but come on! SHEEP! wow.



CVM fleece in the prettiest soft grey. I had to buy this...no really, I HAD to. My friend Kevin is considering adding this breed to his small spinner's flock and I took one for the team volunteering to do the R&D work. Aren't I generous? So sacrificial...yup, that's me. :) Hey, I only bought a pound of it anyway.

You never did think ...

...that it ever would happen again?...God Bless America again!

From Charlie Daniels...yes, THAT Charlie Daniels! :)

Mexican Standoff

I don’t know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think
Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge
public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.

I don’t blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United
States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place. But when the first
thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat
out wrong and I don’t care how many lala land left heads come out of
the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have anything against
Mexicans, I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes
into this country illegally is a criminal and if you don’t believe it
try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and
see how far you get.

What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it’s tantamount to
saying, “I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking
your laws and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

It’s an “in your face” action and speaking just for me I don’t like it
one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in
Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn’t be happening.

Read the entire article here...no really....READ the entire article!
CHARLIE DANIELS FOR PRESIDENT!!!  (quick, sombody make me a button!)

Thrianta juniors...

I'm posting a link here to my flickr page showing my current litter of Thrianta juniors. What I'm looking for most is juding comments about these guys, hense the belly shots. The rabbits were mostly unposed so that they would show their own posture and type. The photos were shot in bright sun and identical automatic color correction was applied to all the photos. There are no DQ's, no white fur though some is very light on the ends of the tails. They are still housed together and I noticed a scratched eye or two but no other injuries (time to separate I do believe). The photo numbers are pretty common sense. There is one doe and her number is D1, the bucks are B0(zero) through B3. I know which ones I like best, but let me know what you think.

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Well, yes, actually you are ...

Note: Please know who your author is before making comments. She IS indigenous, and she is far from uninformed. This country WAS colonized in a ruthless and violent means. If you are not American, yet commenting on American politics, it would be wise to understand American history.

The ends do not justify the means. If you are hungry, work as hard at changing your own environment/country as you do illegally sneaking into mine. A man being hungry does not justify breaking into my home, sleeping in my bed, claiming my paycheck, being treated by my doctor at my expense and insisting that we all speak his language while he changes my radio station. If he wants to live in my world, he can follow the same rules as the others living in my world. If his world is so horrible, he can expend the same energy to change it for himself as he can stealing from me.

English for Immigrants 101...
Criminal - n. One that has committed or been legally convicted of a crime.
Illegal - adj. Prohibited by law.
Alien - n. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.

America was not built by Immigrants. It was colonized by Immigrants. America was doing quite well when populated by it's indigenous people, thank you very much.
American INDUSTRY was built by Immigrants; LEGAL immigrants.
When I, an American citizen, commit a crime i.e. break a law, I do not expect amnesty because I managed to get away with not getting caught or because there are so many other people doing the same thing. Because the other drivers are driving 20 miles over the speed limit I do not expect to be excused from a ticket. Because I have been driving 20 miles over the speed limit on that very road for 2 years before being caught, does not excuse me from a ticket. What I did was ILLEGAL and I expect to pay the consequences. That is the responsibility of living in a civilized society.
If you wish to teach otherwise to your own children...if you wish to live with the language and customs of your own country...then please do so...in your own country. I will happily celebrate our diversity, within the conforms of an American society. I am very, very proud of our American culture with all it's diversity and variety, but without a common language and societal construct, we don't have diversity, we have division. Please practice your own divisiveness elsewhere.

My day off...

OK, back to things fuzzy.
LOOK! I managed to finish something! Woohooo!!! Socks are from the Jaywalker pattern   by Grumperina.
Of course, I had to make them my own. I really like cuff socks. Because of the way the cuffs are knit, then turned backwards and continued, the cuff "v's" Actually go the opposite direction of the foot "v's". Cool. The yarn is Opal, but I threw out the ball band and have no idea the color...sorry.

Did someone say MD Sheep and Wool?
Yesterday was the day I set aside to open, air and rotate my fiber stash. I had seen a M#th flying around the other day and wasn't sure if it was a loner or if I had an 'issue' to be dealt with. Thank heavens the offending problem was found, isolated and eliminated. (@#$% Llama!) Thankfully, the little bastards had plenty to occupy themselves with, my other stash was well protected by good packaging, fragrancing and maintenance. Whew. So as usual, everything was taken to a neutral spot, opened up and examined and new fragrance oil cotton balls placed.
My whole reason for taking the photo though was to carry with me to MDSW and place on the screen of my PDA. Everytime I get tempted by some new wool, I can mentally peruse my stash and think whether I REALLY need something new. Honestly, you should see what's inside some of those boxes. I feel blessed to own some AWESOME fleeces. I kept looking for a just 'eh' fleece to send away and didn't find a one. There is a BL white in there that is not really my style, but not because it isn't a great fleece, I'm just not fond of BL. But I can blend it with anything else to make a really resilient sock yarn, so it stays. :) the other stuff is mostly very fine wools and exotics. Rambo, Finn, Rambo/Romney (a fav or mine), cormo, Teeswater, Wensleydale, Shetland...lots of Shetland, and of course Alpaca. Um, the alpaca is less than stellar. There are maybe 2 of the 9 fleeces that I would actually spin. Anybody want some average quality alpaca? The cotton bolls? OMG, there is like 10 pounds!!!!! When the heck can I possibly deal with a fraction of that much cotton?! but it's mine. :) and the whole container of WoolEase? Hey! socks! Shut up.
Some might notice that the word 'angora' isn't mentioned there. Well...that's because the angora has it's own storage place....Let's just say it wouldn't fit here. :\ MINE!!! All MINE!!! Bwwwaaaahhhaahhhaaaa   Ok, some of it's for sale, the link is at the top left. check it out. :)

Wool...the renewable resource!

OK, back to things fuzzy.
LOOK! I managed to finish something! Woohooo!!! Socks are from the Jaywalker pattern   by Grumperina.
Of course, I had to make them my own. I really like cuff socks. Because of the way the cuffs are knit, then turned backwards and continued, the cuff "v's" Actually go the opposite direction of the foot "v's". Cool. The yarn is Opal, but I threw out the ball band and have no idea the color...sorry.

Did someone say MD Sheep and Wool?
Yesterday was the day I set aside to open, air and rotate my fiber stash. I had seen a M#th flying around the other day and wasn't sure if it was a loner or if I had an 'issue' to be dealt with. Thank heavens the offending problem was found, isolated and eliminated. (@#$% Llama!) Thankfully, the little bastards had plenty to occupy themselves with, my other stash was well protected by good packaging, fragrancing and maintenance. Whew. So as usual, everything was taken to a neutral spot, opened up and examined and new fragrance oil cotton balls placed.
My whole reason for taking the photo though was to carry with me to MDSW and place on the screen of my PDA. Everytime I get tempted by some new wool, I can mentally peruse my stash and think whether I REALLY need something new. Honestly, you should see what's inside some of those boxes. I feel blessed to own some AWESOME fleeces. I kept looking for a just 'eh' fleece to send away and didn't find a one. There is a BL white in there that is not really my style, but not because it isn't a great fleece, I'm just not fond of BL. But I can blend it with anything else to make a really resilient sock yarn, so it stays. :) the other stuff is mostly very fine wools and exotics. Rambo, Finn, Rambo/Romney (a fav or mine), cormo, Teeswater, Wensleydale, Shetland...lots of Shetland, and of course Alpaca. Um, the alpaca is less than stellar. There are maybe 2 of the 9 fleeces that I would actually spin. Anybody want some average quality alpaca? The cotton bolls? OMG, there is like 10 pounds!!!!! When the heck can I possibly deal with a fraction of that much cotton?! but it's mine. :) and the whole container of WoolEase? Hey! socks! Shut up.
Some might notice that the word 'angora' isn't mentioned there. Well...that's because the angora has it's own storage place....Let's just say it wouldn't fit here. :\ MINE!!! All MINE!!! Bwwwaaaahhhaahhhaaaa   Ok, some of it's for sale, the link is at the top left. check it out. :)