Month: May 2020

In a pinch

On By CarynIn chickens, eggs

What to do when you go out to check the chicken and forget the egg apron? (Or basket, or anything for carrying eggs, really.) Fold up the bottom of your t-shirt. Of course it was a high egg production day. We cycle high and low; one day we get 7, then the next day we get 4. Then on rare days we’ll get a node and 11 hens will lay on the same day. This spring there has always been at least one broody or recovering broody that hasn’t started laying again, because we have 12 laying hens, but we have never had 12 eggs in a day.

Impromptu egg carrier (my t-shirt hem)

Cake and Niddy Noddy

On By CarynIn Craft

Sounds more like something to have in the evenings than to do with spinning. Ha. I transferred the first skein of alpaca off the niddy noddy and wound it into a cake so that I could wind the second spindle full onto the niddy noddy and wet it down. The next step is to card some more fleece!

Dark brown alpaca yarn cake
Blended alpaca yarn on a PVC niddy noddy

Fancy a drink?

On By CarynIn Wildlife

Poor kitty cat, finding a scorpion in your water dish was probably unpleasant. I certainly found it unpleasant. But there is the matter of how it got in there, so perhaps you already knew?

Bugs in the cat’s water dish

Or perhaps it is because the suckers can climb on walls. I’m not sure how well I will sleep to night with this new information.

Scorpion on the wall

Packing the spindle

On By CarynIn Craft

Oops. I could probably reduce the amount of fiber I spin into singles, that spindle is very full and hard to handle! But I did it. I plied all three singles onto a single spindle! I was pleased also that the singles were nearly all the same length. When the first one ran out, there was very little left of the other two. Neat.

Spindle full of three plied yarn