All sorts of little critters around the place! A little rough earth snake loves to hang out under the chicken’s foot bath. I’ve moved him twice. He looks very much like a little worm, but if the chickens spot him he will look like lunch.
These little guys may be leaf footed bug nymphs, and were hanging out on the oregano.
This toad likes to hang out under the rosemary. There are so many toads and frogs!
I have an idea rolling around in my head for an application for my alpaca yarn. I pulled out some spun merino to test the concept. Basically, it is varied sizes of spirals sewn together. I used a half double crochet to make the circles, stitching not into the front or the back loop, but the third loop. It results in quite a pretty spiral. This test swatch will suit nicely to protect my pots and pans now that it has successfully demonstrated the technique works!
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.
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!
