Eye Candy Friday

Handspun and plied on my Ashford Joy. My first complete skein! A little on the bulky (and slightly inconsistent) side, but that's fine by me.

Random Thursday

What better way to ease back into the blogging thing than a Random Thursday! Here's a look back at the last few months...

• Nice horsey outside the sugar house.

Visiting sugar houses during the Whitingham Maple Festival

• What's the best way to ruin a pair of sneakers? Walk through the snow/slush/mud of early mud season, of course!

• Nothing like spinning by the fireplace in a wonderful Vermont inn...

April knitting weekend in Vermont

• Hanging out at the old watering hole (which has since been renamed and under new management) with Punkin.

Monday open mike night at Bartini, Babylon Village

• The unbearable cuteness of Lily...

...even when she on guard duty!

Eye Candy Friday -- the unbearable cuteness

Meet Lily, the newest resident at Chez Elizzabetty--the L.I. residence

Hi Peoples!

Elizzabetty can't come to the blog right now 'cause she's hyp-no-tized by my unbearable cuteness. (Yes, the cuteness is just the cross I have to bear.) I let her come back to you when I done making her play with me.

Later, chicas!

Eye Candy Friday

Fall foliage at Jockey Hollow, Morristown, New Jersey

Yes, I'm a bad, bad blogger. But I'm looking to fix that. More posts to come...

By the way--as of October 26th I'm no longer unemployed... :-)

Eye Candy Friday

From yesterday's visit to the Bronx Zoo--specifically, the Butterfly Garden.

10 Favorite Places to Eat‏

Now this is an easy list...

1. Ruth's Chris Steak House (New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Rocky Hill, CT; Garden City, NY...) --Hands down my favorite restaurant(s)
2. Italian Bistro (Philadelphia, PA) --Great food, great service
3. Brandon Inn (Brandon, VT) -- Chef/Owner Louis Pattis serves up consistently wonderful meals
4. The Creemee Stand (Wilmington, VT) -- Best creemee anywhere!
5. Dot's (Wilmington and West Dover, VT) -- Best breakfast (and chili) in Vermont
6. Outback Steakhouse -- Always a great meal, and I love their bread
7. Fogo de Chão (Atlanta, GA) -- I was part of a group taken here by a vendor--amazingly bountiful and delicious food
8. Annapolis Ice Cream Company (Annapolis, MD) Best hard ice cream anywhere!
9. J. Alexander's -- Northbrook, IL) One of my favorites when I'd travel to Chicagoland for business
10. Lillian's (Saratoga Springs, NY) -- Many fond memories of my Saratoga summers

I could easily go on and on, but this will have to serve as an appetizer for ya...

Eye Candy Friday

Sunset after a dinner-time thunderstorm at the Hubbardton Battlefield...

Tour de Fleece update

It took me a few days to actually grab the camera (I'm so bad), but here are some pix of my progress on the wheel side of Tour de Fleece.

I started out with this on Saturday...


And as of today I have this...

Not quite four ounces, but close. Still a bit over spun, but not too bad. And the best part--by spinning every day I'm getting more and more comfortable with the wheel! Better control, more confidence, and definitely sucking a little less every day!

I am getting a little bored with the white though. Once I get done with my bankruptcy class I'm going to dye a couple of batches for practicing--both wheel spinning and fiber dyeing.

Unfortunately I can't take the wheel with me this weekend. I've got a Rev War reenactment, and my lovely wheel is just not period appropriate. However, my Bossies will be right at home, so the spinning will continue!

Tour de Fleece

The timing of this couldn't be more perfect...

I'm taking the opportunity to really work on significantly improving my wheel spinning skills by taking part in this years Tour de Fleece. My goal--to spin every day, primarily on the wheel, and on those days when the wheel is unavailable I'll spin with a spindle. (Ms. Moosie, to be exact.)

And so far, I've spent time on the wheel every freakin' day!!! And not only have I spun every day, I'm actually starting to suck less! Woot!!!

I don't have any pictures yet to show you, but I'll try to get some during the day tomorrow.

Eye Candy Friday

Mount Snow Golf Course, West Dover, Vermont