YooHoo!!! What's New?

Hi, friends. It's been a soggy, dreary, rainy, windy day at our house. Even the chickens have hardly been outside. Some alpaca fleece was spun, some naps were taken, some strawberry jam was made.

 That jam was about the extent of my productivity today.
My lovely yellow rose bush is blooming! (Actually, this was yesterday. Today they are drooping in the rain.) I enjoy these blooms each year.

 The massive, prickly rose bush is finally blooming too.

 Itty bitty blooms:

 I attacked the aphids on that bush quite fiercely with a spray bottle of dish soap. I mashed them into a green goo.
Want to see the treasure I found at the thrift store?

 Yes, a basket. I know ... I don't need another basket. But it's a nice basket with a fabric liner and a plastic liner too. And it was marked $1, but was half-off, so it only cost me 50 cents.

 And the best part?

 For reals! I was so excited!
Look what Adam found buried deep in one of our crepe myrtle trees:

 They're tiny. He said a little brown bird (maybe a wren?) was sitting on them later.

My broody silkie hen now has her sister silkie co-broodying with her, just like last time. This time they have seven eggs. They hiss at me every time I look at them. I'm not moving those eggs this week, and they're due to hatch next Monday. I will be out of town, so Adam will have to play OB/GYN to the baby chicks :)

I'm still painting my mice story.

Now I'm painting the double-page illustration of all the mice extended family enjoying Thanksgiving dinner on the kitchen floor. Nearly done with this book!

Last but not least, here's one more youtube video of me, warping my loom. It was hard to video well without a tripod, so please bear with me. And as usual, the camera cut off at the end when I wanted only to pause it. Oh well!

This weekend I drive all the way to Mississippi to be with Anna for her first ever bridal shower! (I'm so, so excited!!) I will stop in Chattanooga and pick up Kara. Oh how I wish I could dash to Boston and get Shani, and zip by West Virginia and Nebraska too and bring along my mother and Adam's mother. We all live just too far away from each other. But we will all be together for the wedding soon! Anyway, I'll take pictures (and maybe a video?) along the way, and share the fun with all of you.