The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Almost 90 degrees here today. Summer's last gasp before a week of cooler temps and a lot of rain.

Got news last night that our friend in ICU is out of ICU but......not expected to return home. Future looks bleak. Haven't heard from family today but it's been tough for them as you may well imagine. Happened right after their anniversary and they were pushing the half century mark.I feel so sad for them. Something like this makes you starkly aware of the fragility of life. All it takes is one fall, one illness and your life and the lives of those whom you love and who love you are changed forever.

It's really made me slow down and appreciate the small things, like pretty sunsets and watching the last of the hummingbirds play at the feeders. And the big things like my super husband and our farm.

Hug somebody tonight my old folk friends. And appreciate the little things tomorrow.... please.

We have snow on the mountain tops already was like ohhhh cold this am heat on first time

That broken part isn't a bobbin, it's the flyer.

(I do know a little bit about spinning wheels; the flyer is missing from one someone gave me).

Sure glad you know more than me then

 

[superchemicalgirl]

That broken part isn't a bobbin, it's the flyer.

(I do know a little bit about spinning wheels; the flyer is missing from one someone gave me).

Thank you for setting me straight. Looked like a giant bobbin to me

Way cool I am so happy there is help .....
@superchemicalgirl would the bobbin hang from the loop by the wheel?

From the videos I've seen on the internet it goes between the uprights on the butt end of the wheel (the first picture, above).

I think I'm also missing a tall fancy looking thing that goes in the hole next to the uprights on the butt end of the wheel.

I've looked at approximately 6 gillion photos of antique spinning wheels and only a few don't have a bar connecting the treadle to the wheel. The few that I saw pictures of without a bar have the flat leather strap thing like I remember mine having. Not sure if that's just a semi-popular fix to a broken/missing bar or what.

Regardless, I'd like to get the treadle off the floor because Roomba keeps trying to have a sordid affair with it.

 

[Bunnylady]

I think I'm also missing a tall fancy looking thing that goes in the hole next to the uprights on the butt end of the wheel.

I believe what you are thinking about is the distaff, a stick that the flax is wound around before it is spun. Your type of wheel is sometimes called a flax wheel, because that is the type of fiber traditionally spun on it. The distaff is just "parked" in the hole, it doesn't sit there when work is being done.

The bar/strap that connects the treadle to the crank arm can be replaced with a piece of non-stretchy string, if you just want to get the treadle off the floor.

 

[drumstick diva]

Smart Bycers here even tho "some" folks think we are all ancient and won't even peek at this thread to see what we are doing. It's their loss

 

[CapricornFarm]

Does anyone here know anything about spinning wheels? I have an "old" one that I don't think I have all the parts for but I'm also not sure. I also have something that I think is the bobbin but it's broke. When I was a kid the wheel and the treadle (I think that's what it is, at least on a sewing machine and lathe it's a treadle) had a flat leather strap going between them to move the wheel as you treadled. It's long gone but if I got a new belt I'm not sure how it would attach.

Because I need something else to do... BF mentioned he'd like the treadle to no longer drag on the floor and he was going to nail it back to the underside... and I may have flipped out a little.

I think the bobbin thing goes between the goalposts. Not sure why there's a hole on the flat part on the bottom, though.
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I know the leather belt goes into the dangly bit here, from what I remember from my childhood, but how, I do not know.
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what is left of the leather belt is stuck in the treadle. View attachment 1550752

Treadle from a better angle. View attachment 1550753

Broken bobbin View attachment 1550754

I have no idea, maybe google it?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Almost 90 degrees here today. Summer's last gasp before a week of cooler temps and a lot of rain.

Got news last night that our friend in ICU is out of ICU but......not expected to return home. Future looks bleak. Haven't heard from family today but it's been tough for them as you may well imagine. Happened right after their anniversary and they were pushing the half century mark.I feel so sad for them. Something like this makes you starkly aware of the fragility of life. All it takes is one fall, one illness and your life and the lives of those whom you love and who love you are changed forever.

It's really made me slow down and appreciate the small things, like pretty sunsets and watching the last of the hummingbirds play at the feeders. And the big things like my super husband and our farm.

Hug somebody tonight my old folk friends. And appreciate the little things tomorrow.... please.

I have been dreading the last of the hummers, seems like only the females still here now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Our trees out front are maples different varieties one is green but in the fall turns bright red just beautiful gonna hire a tree company to come out shorten all the maples here

 

[CapricornFarm]

Our trees out front are maples different varieties one is green but in the fall turns bright red just beautiful gonna hire a tree company to come out shorten all the maples here

We had to cut down a nice maple in front of our house, it was in the way where the driveway needed to go. I might plant a couple more.

 

[ronott1]

Almost 90 degrees here today. Summer's last gasp before a week of cooler temps and a lot of rain.

Got news last night that our friend in ICU is out of ICU but......not expected to return home. Future looks bleak. Haven't heard from family today but it's been tough for them as you may well imagine. Happened right after their anniversary and they were pushing the half century mark.I feel so sad for them. Something like this makes you starkly aware of the fragility of life. All it takes is one fall, one illness and your life and the lives of those whom you love and who love you are changed forever.

It's really made me slow down and appreciate the small things, like pretty sunsets and watching the last of the hummingbirds play at the feeders. And the big things like my super husband and our farm.

Hug somebody tonight my old folk friends. And appreciate the little things tomorrow.... please.

Yes! We do need to enjoy the "now". I am sorry about your friend

 

[pennyJo1960]

I will not be up much longer myself today started early going to put the feeder together in the morning