BECAUSE I COULD

I spent several hours hollowing out this chunk of wood

 to make a bowl!

I have the sanding sealer on now so I needs one more coat of shellac.  The bowl is very rustic and big!

This is almost all of the sawdust from the center of the bowl.  There is a lot of mess when you play with wood! Behind the lathe in the center close-up photo, you can see a large garbage can.  That is where all of the sweepings go and when it is full, Bill takes it out and places it around his plants out back!  

The wood gets returned to the soil that way!  

And look at those berries to the clerodendron trichotomum ! 

 They are turning blue!  Soon I will be able to give some wool a dye bath with these berries! 

Mint and Berries

 The riverside skein was reeled off today

yielding 258 yards of the fingering weight yarn.

I was afraid I was over-spinning it while plying

 but it turned out beautifully balanced;  a nice surprise!

I wrote the label and then thought to look up the details on the fiber-

it is not wool/rayon (even though that is what it feels like!

Ramie is what I meant to write....)

but here is a link if you are interested in what it is for real.

(a biodegradable cellulose fiber that is supposed to be mint infused-there is zero mint aroma,

 I will add!  But it is a very inexpensive spin!)

 I don't know what I will make with this skein....

but I finished it!

The first fiber I have spun and skeined this year!

 This is the pretty lane next to our driveway that leads to the homes of two widows behind our property.  Bill maintains the right-of-way as it is on our property.  

The 2-day rainstorm washed out the road farther down from here,

and he had some late night repairs to do so that they could leave their homes!

I like the snake rail fencing down the southern side of the lane!

 This fencing is made using railroad ties instead of split logs,

 but the zig zag construction is the same.

This view is looking back up towards the main road.

Why do we ride the golf cart down the lane?

To go to pick Mulberries!!!!