Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2014
Nothing happening, just watching the frost coating on the trees, and waiting for it to snow, and looking at seed catalogs. Makes us glad to be up on the side of the mountain on a day like today. We are a little tired of all the foggy weather and not seeing the sun shining on […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2013
The Winter Solstice gave us a nice snowfall, a perfect start to the winter. It was a good day to stay inside and start with Phase Three of my spinning project. I put both bobbins on a lazy kate, and started making a two-ply yarn. It takes as long to ply the yarn as it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2013
My silk yarn arrived. Not a very useful format, however, being in a skein. I need to get it onto a bobbin so I can use it. Next step is to get the skein of yarn onto the swift. I discovered I have more than two yarn ends, which means there are some breaks but […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2013
From Wikipedia, these are the differences between qiviut and cashmere wools. Qiviut is the downy undercoat from Muskox, and it is stronger and eight times warmer than sheep’s wool, and softer than cashmere wool. Wild muskoxen have qiviut fibers that are approximately 18 micrometres in diameter. Females and young animals have slightly finer wool. For […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2013
Today as the sun rose over the mountains to the east, a fog bank surrounded our house, and captured the morning light. When the sun finally came over the mountains a few minutes after I took these pictures, the world changed back to its normal colors, but for a moment it was truly magical. A […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2013
I started knitting a lace pattern from “The Encyclopedia of Needlework” last night, using the hand spun yarn and size 0000 needles. I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with this when I run out of yarn; I ended up with a bit more yardage than I thought I would have, initially. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2013
Now that winter has well and truly arrived, we’re thinking about gardening next year. Dan went down to the garden yesterday and sat under the arbor in the dry chairs. He said it was weird being surrounded by snow. Everything looked good, though, no broken canes on the raspberry plants. I dyed a small skein […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2013
Snowfall started this afternoon, after a very dark and gray morning – the kind of morning where curling up with a book in front of the woodstove feels perfect. And it looks like it’s going to be serious today, a snowfall that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, like not until April.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2013
One day it’s green, and then it’s all fall colors, and then this happens. The weather forecasters keep saying it’s going to warm up and melt, but so far it has stayed white. We have had about four inches of snowfall, so far. Pretty. Now that we have the right snow tires on the car, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2013
Fog enshrouded the mountain side today, all morning long. As the sun climbed over the mountain to the east, the fog began to lift. Lovely weather and fall colors. Just amazing this year.