This coffee is 'da best. And I'm mighty particular about my coffee!!! My personal recommendation is the Jamaican Me Crazy. It's perfect IMHO. Good coffee with subtle flavorings added. So many flavored coffee start with crummy beans and then try to mask the crummyness by totally smothering it in overbearing artificial flavors. Joffrey's doesn't. Do I sound like a commercial or what??? I'm not working on commission, I promise!! It's just really good coffee!
In a few days I'll be sipping the Chocolate Turtle flavor, I'll give a review of that when it arrives.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Llama, Llama, DUCK
We had a nice little time at the nice, little sheep show yesterday.
It was just the right size for a less than enthusiastic husband & son.
They survived, I promise.
We saw some adorable, sheep, llamas, alpacas and a pair of baby yaks!
They were too cute.
Of course I managed to pick up some fiber, even with hubby in attendance. Got a great price on some Ashland Bay Merino/Silk top in Concord color so I couldn't pass that up. Also got some nice dark brown & white Jacob/Mohair roving. It’s white with big sections of dark chocolate brown splotched along the way. That should be fun to see what it spins into.
Got to watch a little herding demo. Now, I’ve seen some demos where the dogs seemed to be laser guided. Not the case here. Nothing wrong with that, they were still much better behaved than my lazy beasts. There were two dogs and four sheep. The sheep were rather placid, which doesn’t make for much excitement. After some moving the sheep this way and that, they ambled complacently into the pen. One dog was taken aside and tied to a fence. The younger, less experienced dog remained on the job.
Then the ducks were let out. Ducks are much more fun tochase herd.
Ducks quack. Ducks scurry around quacking with annoyance. Yes, definitely more interesting. Well…more interesting than sheep, but not more engaging than sheep poop. Our furry friend stopped to have a snack. The ducks, not being dumb ducks, took advantage of the momentary distraction and high-tailed it back to where the trailer was parked. Young dog turns around. Ducks are gone. Young dog looks left, looks right, no ducks. Looks at mom and clearly says “I knew it!!!! Alien abductions do exist!!” Really, what other explanation could there be???
Thankfully, older, wiser - and presumably better trained – dog who was still tied to the fence knew exactly where the ducks were. Younger dog was benched, older dog was unleashed and then stealthily slunk around to the front of the truck to scare the bejeazus out of the ducks. Ducks complained loudly and while muttering under their breath, they were escorted back to their crate.
It was just the right size for a less than enthusiastic husband & son.
They survived, I promise.
We saw some adorable, sheep, llamas, alpacas and a pair of baby yaks!
They were too cute.
Of course I managed to pick up some fiber, even with hubby in attendance. Got a great price on some Ashland Bay Merino/Silk top in Concord color so I couldn't pass that up. Also got some nice dark brown & white Jacob/Mohair roving. It’s white with big sections of dark chocolate brown splotched along the way. That should be fun to see what it spins into.
Got to watch a little herding demo. Now, I’ve seen some demos where the dogs seemed to be laser guided. Not the case here. Nothing wrong with that, they were still much better behaved than my lazy beasts. There were two dogs and four sheep. The sheep were rather placid, which doesn’t make for much excitement. After some moving the sheep this way and that, they ambled complacently into the pen. One dog was taken aside and tied to a fence. The younger, less experienced dog remained on the job.
Then the ducks were let out. Ducks are much more fun to
Ducks quack. Ducks scurry around quacking with annoyance. Yes, definitely more interesting. Well…more interesting than sheep, but not more engaging than sheep poop. Our furry friend stopped to have a snack. The ducks, not being dumb ducks, took advantage of the momentary distraction and high-tailed it back to where the trailer was parked. Young dog turns around. Ducks are gone. Young dog looks left, looks right, no ducks. Looks at mom and clearly says “I knew it!!!! Alien abductions do exist!!” Really, what other explanation could there be???
Thankfully, older, wiser - and presumably better trained – dog who was still tied to the fence knew exactly where the ducks were. Younger dog was benched, older dog was unleashed and then stealthily slunk around to the front of the truck to scare the bejeazus out of the ducks. Ducks complained loudly and while muttering under their breath, they were escorted back to their crate.
Friday, September 16, 2005
September already???
I know, I'm going to be tsk'd tsk'd for blog neglect.
I'm back from my little trip, lol! Part of what kept me away from blogging was I was helping Amy test a pattern she had designed. It's a clever wrap that uses some stratigically placed buttons to convert from a shawl to a shrug.
If you would like a copy of the pattern for yourself, Amy has published it at LuLu
I have been spinning, and trying to finish up some UFO's. Pictures soon, I promise!
If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'm dragging DH & the boy to the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival I think that will be a small enough show to keep them from being bored out of their skulls, plus it will let me grab a little more stash.
The boy has started middle school. Yikes!!! So far so good. He is enjoying his classes and his teachers, and he's making the adjustment to changing classes, dealing with having a locker & such quite well.
I'm back from my little trip, lol! Part of what kept me away from blogging was I was helping Amy test a pattern she had designed. It's a clever wrap that uses some stratigically placed buttons to convert from a shawl to a shrug.
If you would like a copy of the pattern for yourself, Amy has published it at LuLu
I have been spinning, and trying to finish up some UFO's. Pictures soon, I promise!
If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'm dragging DH & the boy to the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival I think that will be a small enough show to keep them from being bored out of their skulls, plus it will let me grab a little more stash.
The boy has started middle school. Yikes!!! So far so good. He is enjoying his classes and his teachers, and he's making the adjustment to changing classes, dealing with having a locker & such quite well.
Friday, August 26, 2005
We're off
For a long weekend to Bloomsburg, PA.
Hubby gets to stay home with the beasties of the non-child sort. Poor guy. Whatever will he do with himself alone for 4 days :::snort:::
Hubby gets to stay home with the beasties of the non-child sort. Poor guy. Whatever will he do with himself alone for 4 days :::snort:::
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Blog neglect
I have been bad, haven't I??? I think of things to write, but I always want pictures to go with it and that is the part that sticks me up.
So no pictures this time.
The silkworms are doing their silkworm thing. Chompers is getting fat and happy off of them. They have turned out to be so much easier to keep than I had thought. All the websites I have read warn of dire consequences if you don't keep them in a totally sterile environment, wear rubber gloves, only touch them with tweezers. Not the case so far. I do take a little care to have clean hands and such, but they aren't as fragile as you'd be lead to believe. So that's nice. I do spend way too much time watching them though. The big news (on the bug front at least...) is that some of the cocoons have started hatching!! If you thought the worms were cute, the moths are even cuter!! Really! They are so furry and they have this Groucho Marx eyebrow antenna things going on. I will try to get pictures of that soon. Big sausage fest though...about 9 guys to only 3 girls. The moths have been successful doing the things moths are supposed to do and I have several hundred itty bitty eggs. If I can get those to actually hatch, I will have officially completed the silkworm lifecycle. Well...I guess *I* haven't, but I have witnessed it, how's that??
Fiber stuff. Finished another baby blanket, didn't like it though. It was a ripple that I had tension issues with for some reason (not usually a problem for me) It pulled in towards the middle. I put a border on it to try to hide it, didn't like the border. I won't be giving it to the person I intended it for, but I think it's good enough for a charity blanket. Not to say that charity items should be 2nd rate, just that there honestly isn't anything wrong with it construction-wise, I'm being too picky about the aesthetics to use it as a gift. Does that make me evil???
I finished spinning the yummy blue/green stuff I originally planned to ply it, but decided once again that I liked it as a single. This is definitely shawl stuff. Now I can get started on some of the new roving down below. Actually I have some other fiber I should finish, but I don't wanna. The first 3 skeins are majorly overspun singles. Yes, I set the twist & blocked it. Tried re-wetting and hanging with a weight to see if that would help. It did not. Decided to plow ahead and try crocheting with it anyway, it's so sproingy that it's giving me fits. I've even been trying to dangle the WIP to let the yarn untwist a little. Obviously that isn't going well. So I'm not very motivated to spin up the last 6 oz or so, which is silly. Beautiful color too, I'm mad at myself for messing it up.
Alrighty, I think that will do it for now.
Oh, one other thing. I love reading the comments I've been getting. I'm not sure what etiquette is about commenting about the comments.... so I'm not ignoring you guys, just not sure what the deal is....
So no pictures this time.
The silkworms are doing their silkworm thing. Chompers is getting fat and happy off of them. They have turned out to be so much easier to keep than I had thought. All the websites I have read warn of dire consequences if you don't keep them in a totally sterile environment, wear rubber gloves, only touch them with tweezers. Not the case so far. I do take a little care to have clean hands and such, but they aren't as fragile as you'd be lead to believe. So that's nice. I do spend way too much time watching them though. The big news (on the bug front at least...) is that some of the cocoons have started hatching!! If you thought the worms were cute, the moths are even cuter!! Really! They are so furry and they have this Groucho Marx eyebrow antenna things going on. I will try to get pictures of that soon. Big sausage fest though...about 9 guys to only 3 girls. The moths have been successful doing the things moths are supposed to do and I have several hundred itty bitty eggs. If I can get those to actually hatch, I will have officially completed the silkworm lifecycle. Well...I guess *I* haven't, but I have witnessed it, how's that??
Fiber stuff. Finished another baby blanket, didn't like it though. It was a ripple that I had tension issues with for some reason (not usually a problem for me) It pulled in towards the middle. I put a border on it to try to hide it, didn't like the border. I won't be giving it to the person I intended it for, but I think it's good enough for a charity blanket. Not to say that charity items should be 2nd rate, just that there honestly isn't anything wrong with it construction-wise, I'm being too picky about the aesthetics to use it as a gift. Does that make me evil???
I finished spinning the yummy blue/green stuff I originally planned to ply it, but decided once again that I liked it as a single. This is definitely shawl stuff. Now I can get started on some of the new roving down below. Actually I have some other fiber I should finish, but I don't wanna. The first 3 skeins are majorly overspun singles. Yes, I set the twist & blocked it. Tried re-wetting and hanging with a weight to see if that would help. It did not. Decided to plow ahead and try crocheting with it anyway, it's so sproingy that it's giving me fits. I've even been trying to dangle the WIP to let the yarn untwist a little. Obviously that isn't going well. So I'm not very motivated to spin up the last 6 oz or so, which is silly. Beautiful color too, I'm mad at myself for messing it up.
Alrighty, I think that will do it for now.
Oh, one other thing. I love reading the comments I've been getting. I'm not sure what etiquette is about commenting about the comments.... so I'm not ignoring you guys, just not sure what the deal is....
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