It is HOT! Oh my goodness. Just checking the garden was making me sweaty! Luckily Portland is nice and dry, yesterday I was watching the evening news and it was 98 but only 15% humidity. Oh, and speaking of garden, look how huge it has gotten in only two weeks! You can see how big from photos here.
Tomatoes and peppers ( a bit hidden )
Carrots, celery and onions
Sunflowers, potatoes, yellow summer squash, zucchini and eggplant
Beans and Peas
Cucumbers and lettuce (sorry about the shade, but isn't that sun intense!)
Rosemary, parsley, oregano, basil, sage and lavender
Plus, I just love that not only are the plants getting big, that the fruits and veggies are starting to grow!!!!
Tiny little sweet pepper growing
Tiny little snap peas growing
Tiny little green beans growing
In addition to watching my garden grow, I have been playing with my new wool lately. I have been experimenting with scouring the wool and it has been going extremely well. I have been picking the wool and then putting it into small bundles in pillow cases in the washer. A few washes and a few rinses, and then drying has lead me to this!
Romney before on right, after on left
Coopworth before on right, after on left
They are both so wonderfully soft and squishy and crimpy. Yum. It has been so much fun. So then I had to clean some of the llama to blend with the coopworth.
Clean coopworth on left, fluffed coopworth in middle, llama on the right
So I took the coopworth and fluffed it (Joel helped too!) and blended it with the llama in my new drum carder (oooohhhhh) and I got this! Amazing!
50/50 Coopworth/Llama blend
It is so wonderful! I am going to make lots of these. It is so soft and bouncy and squishy! Here’s another shot.
Oooohhhhhhh
So there are two batts now, and many more to come. I can not wait to get to work on more of this. And a batt comes together pretty quickly if you pre-fluff the fiber. And if anyone might be interested in one or more of these batts I might be willing to make some for you!
Lastly, I leave you with a fun photo I just took of a scene in the living room. It appears my shamrock plant wants to get out!
Reaching for the outdoors.
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