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Today I hoed the garden (and that reminds me, tomorrow I will have to take a photo of the ginormous tomato plant), cleaned the rabbit cage, mucked out and hosed down the chicken house, cleaned the cat box and mopped the laundry room, and put flea and tick stuff on the dog. Only the cat was OK with my efforts, all the other animals were resentful. Why does the rabbit get so mad when I clean her cage? My theory is that she is thinking "Hey, I worked hard to make all that poop!"
Patchy has a new thing, incidentally. He looks at his reflection in the window and gets very agitated about this dog out in the yard and then he goes outside to bark until he is sure that the other dog is nowhere to be seen and then he comes back in and looks out the window to be sure, and the whole cycle continues.
Speaking of the garden, something keeps eating my zucchinis. The zucchini plant blossoms, sets fruit, and then something comes along and nips the baby zucchini off neatly. Could it be chipmunks? I'd blame rabbits but I'm pretty sure the garden is rabbit-proof (I could be wrong, rabbits are wily). I think whatever it is also ate the asparagus fronds down to the ground. It is sad. What is REALLY sad is the watermelon situation. Last year we planted watermelons, they grew prolifically and set many little fruits -- and then I came home from work and the dog greeted me with a little green football in his mouth. Where did he get a little green football from? I wondered. And then realized it was in fact a watermelon. He had picked them ALL. So we built a dog-proof fence around the garden this year, and planted watermelons again, but the vines are straggly and tragic and haven't set any fruit. Good thing there is a truck selling watermelons right down the block. I have an evil plot for this year -- if we get tomato hornworms I am going to feed them to the chickens! I am a little appalled with how excited I am about this.
Here is my spinning for the day. I spun that last purple batt and am letting it rest overnight and then will ply it with the bobbin from yesterday, and then I'll be done with all that purple fluff. I experimented with my trindle today and learned that it will turn that Border Leicester I carded into wire, BUT it is turning some pretty merino into a very nice, fine singles.
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It was a bit of a learning curve, but I really like the trindle. It spins forever!
Patchy has a new thing, incidentally. He looks at his reflection in the window and gets very agitated about this dog out in the yard and then he goes outside to bark until he is sure that the other dog is nowhere to be seen and then he comes back in and looks out the window to be sure, and the whole cycle continues.
Speaking of the garden, something keeps eating my zucchinis. The zucchini plant blossoms, sets fruit, and then something comes along and nips the baby zucchini off neatly. Could it be chipmunks? I'd blame rabbits but I'm pretty sure the garden is rabbit-proof (I could be wrong, rabbits are wily). I think whatever it is also ate the asparagus fronds down to the ground. It is sad. What is REALLY sad is the watermelon situation. Last year we planted watermelons, they grew prolifically and set many little fruits -- and then I came home from work and the dog greeted me with a little green football in his mouth. Where did he get a little green football from? I wondered. And then realized it was in fact a watermelon. He had picked them ALL. So we built a dog-proof fence around the garden this year, and planted watermelons again, but the vines are straggly and tragic and haven't set any fruit. Good thing there is a truck selling watermelons right down the block. I have an evil plot for this year -- if we get tomato hornworms I am going to feed them to the chickens! I am a little appalled with how excited I am about this.
Here is my spinning for the day. I spun that last purple batt and am letting it rest overnight and then will ply it with the bobbin from yesterday, and then I'll be done with all that purple fluff. I experimented with my trindle today and learned that it will turn that Border Leicester I carded into wire, BUT it is turning some pretty merino into a very nice, fine singles.
I
It was a bit of a learning curve, but I really like the trindle. It spins forever!