During this last year, while I have not been panicky about Covid, I have been very leary about being out and about.   I wear a mask  and social distance and order most of our needs online.  I have sewed masks for more than just us, tho not nearly as many as some others.  We live in North Dakota and are rather proud of our state.    One thing we seem to be doing well is getting our citizens vaccinated for Covid.  There are 400 places around are state that are designated to be able to give the vaccines.  North Dakota's population in 2019 is ..read more

Each winter we take a trip to visit our daughter's family in Texas.  It is a 2 day drive from our home in North Dakota. We had a prior appointment for Feb 8th, so didn't get started until after 2 in the afternoon.  We like to take a highway that is not in interstate, you see so much more scenery and US HWY 81 is the original route from Canada to Texas from before the interstate system was put in.  Parts of it are 2 lane and a good share of it is 4 lane. The first day we made it into Kansas before stopping for the night. The next day we got on the road early and I took the first picture of th ..read more

Well, I still am not posting on a regular basis, so once again this is a catch up post. I have some photos to share I was out checking the chickens one of the last days of November and I managed to catch this sunset. and then a few days after that, this is what we ended up with, Above is the aftermath of the snow storm, belowis what was going on during it.  most of our windows were coated with the snow We have had several more storms since, but I haven't taken pictures in all of them.  Last October before the first hard frost, I was invited to pick apples from one of Farm ..read more

I have several things I need some information on and thought I would ask those of you reading this for any answers you might have. Question #1  I ran into a spice mix a week or so ago in an article I read, it sounded interesting and I thought I would give it a try. It is  a blend of Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coriander, Cumin and black pepper, called Garam Masala It is very good on sauted carrots, and I added it to muffins tonight. My question....  what other ways can this be used?  if you use it, how? Question #2 One of the quick/easy desserts for our family is a recipe c ..read more

I have been working on a project for our neighbor.  He has asked for a neck gaiter in blaze orange.  I have the yarn, but designing the gaiter on my Circular Sock Machine has been interesting.  This is my machine This picture was taken about 5 yrs ago, I no longer use the digital row counter.   This past friday was bread baking day, I make nearly all my bread with Sourdough starter.  It was chilly in the house, so while I started just after breakfast, I didn't take it out of the oven till after 11.   Farmguy likes his bread in easy to slice loaves, so my sourdough is baked in pans, n ..read more

This has been an interesting summer.  We had a cool and wet spring and summer, which brought a large and amazingly varied crop of mushrooms.  This is just 1 and it was very large. We always get together for a family camping and picnic over the 4th of July, along the shore of a lake.  This is me and a couple of our grandchildren.  Then in early October, the 11th to be exact we had a blizzard, and received 4" of snow.  Not as much as other parts of the state, some very "lucky" farmers received about 28" of heavy wet snow.  below are 2 of the pictures I took ..read more

It has been quite some time since I posted anything.I have allowed many things to get in the way of posting.  So I have decided that I need to start again. I will be posting more than just fiber art. There will still be the occasional Tatting project or maybe crochet or maybe socks. But there will also be some pictures.  I have gotten a new camera, and I am liking it very much.  So you may see just those on occasion.  Back in January I was just learning this camera, and it is still an on going process, but I took these one evening while out shutting up the chickens,  that was before the 2 mont ..read more