Loom

I did it....I bought a loom.  I have been thinking about it, dreaming about it, talking about it and searching them on the web.....and now I own one !  We picked it up this afternoon.  We tried to get it up the stairs in what we had decided would be my "craft room" in one of the smaller bedrooms upstairs, and there it sits....in the middle of the kitchen!  It just so happens that old farm houses built in the late 1800's/early 1900's have really narrow stair cases.  You think that maybe we would have thought about that....nope!  So I looked that bad boy over and decided we could disassemble it further and get it up there no prob!  Right?!?  Wrong!! Very wrong. However it doesn't end there.  I actually used my fore thought, measured the feet of the loom and went upstairs to measure the actual door way, because I had a 'feeling' and my 'feeling' was correct..... The door way is also quite small on my 'proposed' craft room and there is about a 1/4 clearance.  Did I mention the 1/4 clearance requires a straight shot in the doorway and that doorway just so happens to be at a funny angle so there is no straight shot!?!  Haa...yes...back to the drawing board!

So the rest of my day will be spent cleaning and rearranging furniture to get creative.  Yes, this thing is big, but it is going to make some cool things in the future and I am super excited about this!  Stay tuned for pictures of my new toy....the trials and tribulations of getting it up and running and my first big project!

**Update**
Got the loom all set up.  Took some rearranging creativity on our first level, but it is ready to roll.  I took myself to the weaving shop on my way home....spent an hr there and left a whole lot more excited!!  I'm kinda really geeked now to get started!!  I really need to sit down and plan a project here soon!

Long time!!!

Well time has been flying by in a blink of an eye!!  It is back to school, back to the reality of life....and working!!!  The weekends are dedicated to the house and yard of course!  Couple weeks ago we had some run away cows across the street....I found this to be hilarious!  I ran up the street to let the neighbor know they had a few cows on the loose!  I think by the time they got out there the silly things found their way back into the pasture.    We did watch out the window a while wondering if they would figure it out that they were free but they were way too busy grazing.  We joked about coaxing them across the street and starting our 'farm' out with a new cow or two.....we haven't though!  Since this time the cows have continuously broken out and we have counted up to 7 or 8 wandering through the field & pine trees across the street.  I yelled at them one day as they were right next to the road and they took off running trying to get back through the fence, which I again found completely hilarious!  Tess finds them wildly a-mooo-zing as well! (haaaa!)

Well, what else is new?!?  We took down some trees that were dead thanks to the invasive emerald ash borer.  We have finally finished cleaning all that mess up just this weekend.  It made a real mess of things.  I wonder how much more they would have charged us, or if things would have been kept cleaner had we asked them to haul away the wood afterwards?  Oh well we will definitely be burning it this winter to keep this place warm!

We have begun deer season here and along with that has come endless questions about hunting our land!  I wish I got a dollar every time someone asked....I'd be raking in the doe! (no pun intended...well maybe ! haa haa)  We have also started posting no hunting/trespassing signs on the perimeter of the property.  We had it surveyed and went out to follow the lines and make sure tree stands are gone as there were 8-9 throughout the land when we moved in.  We also had a lot of ground blinds as well and most everything appears to be gone now.

We got the tractor back from the mechanic and began plowing the garden site for next spring....I can't wait!  I love having a garden and fresh food!  I also enjoy knowing my food isn't modified, overly processed with chemicals, or going to harm me in some way!  I also love that it come from our own blood, sweat and tears!  I know it's hard work, but it is beyond rewarding!

I am also shopping for a weaving floor loom to make textiles and am hoping to purchase soon!  Stay tuned for updates!

Sorry I do not have photos to add today!