Catching up...

Well, I have been quite remiss with blogging.  It seems that there is always something else going on and I just don't find the time to take pictures and do the writing needed.  Today, I thought I'd try to catch up a bit and say what I've been doing that is keeping me busy, rather than keeping me blogging.  In fact, catching up seems to be what I've been doing lately.  After my Christmas holidays, I had a lot to catch up on at work after being away for 2 weeks.  I had a lot of laundry to catch up on too.  I have had some fairly significant snow clearing work to do also!  I've been trying to keep the house looking nice since it's on the real estate market, but it seems sort of pointless since there isn't anybody looking at it.  Admittedly, it's a bad time of year to be selling.

Of course, I've been spending time cuddling Lucky Nickel.  She has taken to entering the other goats' pen by deftly climbing the fence, hanging out with the other goats all day, and then when she sees me come home, she flies back over the fence and follows me like an ever-faithful dog.  Fortunately, none of the other goats seem to be intent on learning her methods, so they all stay where they are.  One really cold night about a week ago, Lucky Nickel was insistently bleating at the back door.  I finally gave in....I think I was having a weak moment.  An old pair of gym shorts provided an excellent "holder-in-place" for a diaper, since Miss Nickel is too large to fit diapers any more.  She enjoyed her foray into the house where she grew up, and I enjoyed her company for a while.  I did put her back in the barn at the end of the evening though.

Today I did some dyeing of roving, most of which will end up in my Etsy shop in the coming days, when it has fully dried out.  I always enjoy the creative side of dyeing wool, and today was no exception.

I've also been doing quite a bit of spinning.  When the snow is flying and it's cold outside, spinning is a lovely warm and cozy thing to do.  If I want to, I can put a blanket on my lap and spin at the same time.  Very cozy and comfortable.  Many of my yarns have also been listed in my Etsy shop lately, so you can check them out there too!  Here are some of the ones I've spun lately.

Other than that....well....I think I've just been  hibernating.  I should have been a bear.  Something about January just seems to sap the energy out of me and make me want to snuggle under a blanket and read a good book and pretend that the white stuff outside doesn't exist.  Here's hoping you've all been keeping warm this January, unless you live down under, in which case I hope you're keeping dry.