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Category Archives: Wildlife
Tallgrass Prairie – July 2017 Tiger Club
It’s the height of summer in Iowa, a time when the corn goes from ‘knee-high by the 4th of July’ to six feet tall, seemingly overnight….you can actually hear it grow if you listen close enough (hard to do when … Continue reading
What I did this spring….
I feel like a need to write an essay of what I did with my life this spring! For a variety of very good reasons, we decided we should look around for a different house in our city. So this … Continue reading
The Year of the Turtle
This is the week I dye for club (which is quite pretty, BTW), so I don’t have anything new for the shop; although I didn’t blog about last Friday’s update of sock yarn…..plenty of self striping rainbows and Grand Old … Continue reading
Spring has arrived!
This was the view from my chair the other morning, and I just had to grab the camera: Here’s a better view…that far horizon is over the Mississippi in Illinois. I’m amazed at how everything has leafed out at once….I’m … Continue reading
It’s Winter?
Tomorrow it is supposed to be nearly 50 degrees. While I’m not complaining, this has to be the mildest winter I remember for a long time. At dawn recently, this was the view from our front door: Um, yeah, driveway … Continue reading
Wildlife….
The cable to run the self-propelling part of our lawn mower broke, and hubby has just not gotten to fixing it. So our yard is becoming a bit overgrown, neglected, and prime wildlife habitat. We have plenty of squirrels of … Continue reading
Shelter
Yesterday I overdyed some wool. I wish I had taken a before picture, because it is wonderful what overdyeing can do. The wool was all kinds of weird colors, dyed from remnants of dyebaths when I was just teaching myself … Continue reading
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Odds and Ends
Last month, I showed you my lovely stack of boxes full of fibery good stuff…..well it is time to show you a preview of what was in the largest two boxes, since it is the March FotM. I (of course) … Continue reading
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Tagged hawk, home improvement, spinning, tiger club, wool
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Sun Dog!
Have you ever seen a sun dog? It’s a halo around the sun when there’s an atmospheric flurry of ice crystals, but they show up much better when the sun is low in the sky. We had one this morning, … Continue reading
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A New Year
Here we go, with a fresh shiny new year! Wonder what it will bring? So far, wildlife in the back yard. What is under the trampoline? This is some smart deer. Why melt a spot in the snow and get … Continue reading
