June 14, 2009

• Another dry day, Wheeeeeeee!!!

  Whew, its another day where its not raining.  It poured off and on yesterday and this morning but it not now .  So got up early and threw in 3 loads of laundry and put up the clothes line and got it all out swinging in the breeze, Ahhhhhhhhh.  One of the nice things about having all this rain, when you don’t have to be out in the floods it creates or driving in it, is that it cools things down in the evening.  I’ve been sleeping with my window open at nite and there is a nice breeze and with the gardenias that are floating in a bowl by the window it sure makes for a nice frangrance for when your drifting off to sleep .  Sunday is laundry day when the weather permits and I’ve been hanging it out on the line.  We got one of those roll-em up lines that all goes back into this wheel type thing when your done with it and then when you want to use it you just pull it out and I make a zig-zag formation on the back porch to and fro on some hooks.  It’s been callenging to get the clothes dryed with all this rain weve had off and on but it can be done and plastic hangers work in a pinch.  I really don’t like how it stretches out some of my t-shirts so sometime I’ll just fluff em a bit in the dryer, LOL. 

  Here’s a pic of the carding set up that has been working out great!  

  

  Finally got the carder out of the box that it was packed in and pulled out some karakul wool (a 5.7 lb. fleece that I ordered from Brown Sheep) this isn’t the challenge wool but wool that needs carding and so I went at it and almost got it all carded up.  It has an undercoat that is soft and fluffy and then parts that are quite long.  I just went ahead and carded the whole shabang together that way it will help bring some softness to the longer coarser wool.  Let me tell you it can take some time to card up a 5.7 lb. fleece, whew.  But it is so worth it and the results are so nice.  I can’t wait to use some of this on its own and also make some funky mixes with some other wools.  This louet carder is the bomb.  Still need to find just the right end table to get at the thrift store or yard sale but for now a cooler turned on its side works well. 

  Here’s some pics of some roses a customer brought from his rose garden to one of the girls at the shop.  They were beggin to have their picture taken, LOL. 

  

  The gardenia bushes are full of blooms so we are enjoying those.  We only got two blooms on the hydrangea and ma didn’t know not to cut off the, what looks like dead branches, of the hydrangea so it only got two blooms on it.  Oh well, next year we should have plenty.  I bought a shooting star hydrangea at the grocery store last spring and put it in a pot and its growing well but no blooms.  Hopefully next year. 

  Here’s a Mexico pic.  That’s me doing the victory pose after having climed to the top of the sun pyramid.  It’s not that bad of a climb.  The steps are just higher than we are used to so your bunns get a real work out, LOL. 

  

  This is the top of the sun pyramid in an area outside of Mexico City.  The moon pyramid is at the other end of a plaza that has smaller pyramids along each side leading to it.  In relation to where I am standing the moon pyramid would be directly to my left.  The plaza runs from my right to left directly behind me below.  There are some parts over by the moon pyramid that were amazing where a room and some murals were still in very good condition after excavations.  You couldn’t go all the way up to the top of the moon pyramid since there was a new discovery and it was roped off while excavations were going on.  The rooms that were so well preserved were amazing.  There was even some very well preserved parts of the floor that were as they were many years ago.  It was like a highly polished white plaster.  Our guide said that what we were seeing of the city is only 12 % of what was and yet still to be excavated.  WOW, .  I know I must have looked like a complete fool because I made sure I was right next to the guide so I could hear every word and so I could ask questions and my mouth must have been open half the time with wide eyes, LOL.  It was all so very, very interesting.  When I was younger I wanted to be an archeologist so this part of the trip was like candy to me.  The museums we visited were wonderful and I want to go back and visit the ones we didn’t have time to see.  The guide was awsome.  He was really pleasant and had a lot of information to share.  We booked the outing at one of the hotels near where our friends apt was.  You can go to the hotels and book with their tours and just go on them.  Of course there are people offering to take you along the way and outside of the hotels but I wouldn’t suggest it.  You don’t know who they are and they arn’t registed as employees with the hotel and its all just safer that way.  Any who, we were a group of 7 on the mini bus that took us for the tour.  It was Me, Robert, his nephew a newlywed Israely couple (so sweet and fun) and two young ladies from Brazil.  We also went to an area not far from where we were staying that they call the 4 stages of Mexico, the place where the Virgin Mother of Quadalupe was seen and is worshiped and to an artisan community where we saw where they made replicas of relics found through out Mexico at various archeological sites as well as how tequila is made and how all the parts of the plant are used.  But more of that later,  Will report back later with more on that,  TTFN

   

   

   

  • 2:13 pm
  • 1 Comment