Lloyd’s Blog: Your Amazing Brain

Lloyd’s Blog: Your Amazing Brain

Merry Summer Solstice

Being one of my favorite days of the year ( Just behind Samhain and my birthday) I wish everyone a warm and happy day, full of sunshine (real or in your hearts)!!!
L

Happy New Year
Yes it's worth a second look,
We are settling down in Tillamook (Oregon)
Lots of love and luck in 2012

DYEING TO KNIT SOCKS?

I am ,and lucky for me our first day on the Huntersville NC Target remodel I spotted this across the parking lot.(Actually BHBF did) and I have been bugging Betsy ,the proprietress ,every lunch time since. So last week when she needed an additional guinea pig for a new yarn dyeing class I jumped at the chance.

Here is Betsy and a few of her gals preparing the dyes and then the fun began.

It is an earth friendly dye using vinegar as a mordant and works wonderfully on animal fibers (but not vegetable) called Culinary Colors.

It was fun (alot of laughing and story telling)and we all ended up with some mighty tasty looking yarn.

In a short time we'll be showing off our finished items, but for now we'll just savor the day!!!

FEELING THE WIND IN MY EARS

I am on the road heading from My Mom and Dad's winter hangout in Az desert towards the unknown and the remodel/renovation of our new home/project in Gravity Iowa...
All will be revealed soon!
Wish me luck!

OOPS

In my zeal to actually post something now not 5 months after it happened I called the Painted Lady butterfly a Monarch.

Although not as large or with that crazy long migration story....still very impressive when encountered by the thousands.

MONARCHS MATING ON THE MOVE

I am now in Arizona drying out (the motorhome) and preparing for the trek to Gravity Iowa and we are being over-run with butterflies. Monarchs are migrating north and they are just not stopping to rest for anything!!! and I Mean Anything.
It is really cool when you are just sitting there with them running into you but driving down the road is a bit bizzare as you hit them by the hundreds (not cool)