Heel low:
Very relieved...we have gone into the month of November prior where POOFs of dust rise up with each step we make in the forest here. We need moisture and got some all along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains...YAH!!
Postcard images!
Not quite yet at my fav temperature of -10C (14F) but there's a -9C for November 23rd predicted.
For the next week or so after today, rises to above freezing so still slogging around tossing straw in the pens/coops I clear out. This needs to STOP soon...I am SO tired of the "GREEN" season regiments.
White season needs to stay so I can turn my attentions towards eating bacon and burning it off maintaining a good internal temperature AND sitting at my sock machines cranking out socks and new endeavour will be gonna try making some mittens with idiot strings (I-corder works for those!).
Might even try thrumming a pair of mittens after I get a pair cranked out. Be very warm and cushy!
These circular sock machines (CSM) can crank thru a 100 gram ball of yarn in like two minutes; very efficient and originally made so we could supply our soldiers with two pairs of socks in the trenches...to avoid "trench rot" in their feets.
The gov't gave the machine to you IF you did up so many pairs...it offered a way for people to generate some cash money by making socks and other knitted items for selling.
And also helped with the war effort...reminds me of the call for eggs for the war effort as well.
The black CSM is an original Legarè 47 and the blue one is a CSM I ordered made new out of Québec...had to wait 40 months to get the machine and paid a pretty penny for it but the best part is that these machines retain their value--do not see many sold.
You get a brass plate with your name on it. Very fancy!!
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
