Comments | fabricdragon: not dead...srsly

fabricdragon

not dead...srsly

Jul 10, 2009 18:02

i know i have been off line, but i am NOT dead....if i was dead several people would have to dig me up just to yell at me, so i can't die right now.

i FINALLY made it back down to keastree for a few days. we didnt get everything done we had "on the table" but we did get a lot done. mostly we drum carded the endless Romney fleece.... well... most of it ( Read more... )

heat exhaustion, romney, wool, spinning, skywarn, fleece, nicky, not dead yet, sheep

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keastree July 10 2009, 23:27:36 UTC

Fern is...wait for it...a Registered Romney. So, I assume that the Romney Marsh Sheep is now invading your psyche.

And I am dead. damned. PROUD. of that Katadhin-Mohair blend. Thanks!

I figured out where that matted crud on Blake's fleeces was. His butt. The stains match up. I recommend segregation from the main body of the washing on that one.

And Blake is muchly improved, perky, and even happy. Took him on a long walk in the orchard today.

And finally, everyone should become Nicky's fan on Facebook. He's the coolest ram evah, and I had the privilege of sitting on the hill in the shade with him today. We polished off a pound of strawberries together(because Nicky is cool enough to eat strawberries).

fabricdragon July 10 2009, 23:34:22 UTC

i am glad he is better!
if, and yes i mean IF, you get to washing him..... (like you run out of other fleece to do lol) then by all means segregate or trash whatever you see fit....
whenever i can pick him up i will segregate that section, assuming i dont just toss it as too much trouble.

and apparently these romneys are much nicer than the romney i was buying a few years ago. because that stuff scked.

i want to see how that blend spins up, you know....

nicky is better i see.. up to mooching strawberries.

keastree July 10 2009, 23:45:45 UTC

Nicky is actually the mooch of mooches. Always has been.

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ladyfox7oaks July 11 2009, 00:28:09 UTC

HAve any interest in working Alpaca? I know where you can get full blankets for dead cheap...

fabricdragon July 11 2009, 01:28:52 UTC

i loves me some alpaca.... good alpca is wonderful. heck even bad alpaca isnt bad.
i was getting a lot from evil Abra, who sells beads at Pennsic, but she is culling her herd...

marphilly July 11 2009, 01:46:46 UTC

I'm glad you're feeling better.

miri_me July 11 2009, 09:06:15 UTC

Reading about your 'to not die of hot' treatment left me shivering hard! But then, I'm not good at getting or retaining heat, so Kit's laughed at me a few times recently as the sun's gone down and we went from muggy 25-28 degree C days to 17-20 degree C nights and I've described the night as cold, and had the icy feet to back up the statement..! (Then tucked me up and cuddled me, and let me warm my feet up on his legs - it was confused and surprised laughter, not the mean kind...)

fabricdragon July 11 2009, 15:54:54 UTC

well if it had been cold out, that treatment would have sent me into hypothermia, and flared my Reynauds.. but it was hot out...

and i can treat "shivering and bad circulation" in a warm day by running or walking around a lot, or not running the AC in the car, but the overheating will drop me.

i did sort of shriek at the water over the head

ivorywitch July 11 2009, 22:52:20 UTC

sounds like a lovely day. You know, you could use GSE in the water as you wash for the icky parts....I went and got one of those kiddie pools for the first pick through...hot water in the sun with dawn...and then transfer to the washer (no agitation) once done. It worked well, better than I thought...I still have 28 of the 30 pounds of fleece uncarded. I hand carded two pounds and spun it up...very coarse...it's Icelandic. I have some corridale and some llama to spin up too. Lots of work for the winter coming up.

fabricdragon July 12 2009, 01:43:02 UTC

Grape seed Extract?
where do you get it......?
yes, i considered the kiddie pool, but i have limited flat space. so i thought the way Kea did it would work well with my yard (postage stamp sized and uneven) namely after picking the fleece for debris, divide it into mesh bags (laundry bags) and soak in 18 gallon or so tubs...

oddly kea has the room for a kiddie pool i bet.....
that was the way i was told to wash antique (fragile) quilts... orvis paste in a kiddie pool.... lay the quilt on a bed sheet bigger than it is, and lower it into the water, soak, then let water run in one end from a hose and let it sploosh out until the water runs clear. a lot.. no agitation, no moving the quilt