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Aug. 9th, 2025 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeI'm staying up late to extra enjoy the quiet house right now. okay day, got some work done like all the drip tape pulled from one old strawberry field, but also something related to the oil on the cultivating tractor went, maybe a burst o-ring. I thought about texting my dad but they're away and I don't actually need the tractor for tomorrow. irrigation is going slowly. one place we irrigate from is a little bay but right now the creek is so low the bay doesn't refill fast enough, so I'm irrigating those blocks 45 minutes at a time with a 15 minute refill period. deeply annoying. I'm moving the pump again tomorrow to the next set of blocks but that section of the creek fills fast so it's easier
also discovered why my truck had the check engine light on for the last two days. flat tire. or deflating tire. small rock punctured it, so I left the rock in it for now and reinflated it so I can still move it around if needed, but I'm using the farm truck to run around and actually get stuff done. I'm going to put my spare on tomorrow or monday and see if I can remove the rock and patch it and then that will be my spare tire.
I did get to meet a fellow weaver. my grandpa's partner has a friend up visiting who is a weaver, has sheep, spins, etc. they stopped by since they wanted to see my weaving stuff, so I showed them the shed, my wheels, my loom, the little bit of handwoven I had over there. it was a wonderful chat with a fellow fiber artist. she's got Leister longwools and has offered me some fleece if I stop by, so I'm going to take some of my handspun over to show off tomorrow. she recently came from a class at the John Campbell Folk School with Deb Robson (which I'm a little jealous) but she said I should go take that class even though it's expensive and it felt weirdly like a sales pitch almost. it was odd. but we got away from that soon enough. it was like she couldn't fathom there might be reasons why someone wouldn't be able to take a week off work and also pay a lot of money to learn stuff.
things I haven't had at the same time: free time, money. but also if I had all the time and money in the world I wouldn't take a spinning class first. honestly. there's so many other things to learn about that I'm not an expert at already. aaaand I just looked up the cost of those classes. pricy!
she was really nice and invited me down to her place or maybe a local friend's place (reedrover I think she knows your normal shearer so she might be vaguely in your area) for some kind of fiber gathering in October. It was nice of her but October is too busy. I felt a little bad because my grandpa's partner is a nice lady but she knows so little about fiber stuff that she just said some weird things to try and be relatable in the conversation but it came across very oddly. I have some feelings about her that aren't always positive so I try and let stuff go (she is a Deeply Normal Person and sometimes attempts to make the rest of us be normal which like, l o l, good fucking luck. also I got the impression that when she started dating my grandpa, she wanted to be a grandma to us cousins but none of us were having it, we already had a grandma and we'd all grown up extremely close to Real Grandma and didn't appreciate it especially because most of us were at least teens before B arrived) funny how moving makes one contemplate relationships and things
I have packed one weekend in september with both a Ren Faire trip and a fiber fest trip back to back days, so that's uhh. good I guess. bad for getting farm work done but oh well. I'm hoping some of the local weavers guild will be at that fiber festival so I can talk to them. I might try and join it for the winter. I am 3/4 done threading heddles on the loom and I've been doing some spinning, so project progress! I need to get back to posting pictures of things
also discovered why my truck had the check engine light on for the last two days. flat tire. or deflating tire. small rock punctured it, so I left the rock in it for now and reinflated it so I can still move it around if needed, but I'm using the farm truck to run around and actually get stuff done. I'm going to put my spare on tomorrow or monday and see if I can remove the rock and patch it and then that will be my spare tire.
I did get to meet a fellow weaver. my grandpa's partner has a friend up visiting who is a weaver, has sheep, spins, etc. they stopped by since they wanted to see my weaving stuff, so I showed them the shed, my wheels, my loom, the little bit of handwoven I had over there. it was a wonderful chat with a fellow fiber artist. she's got Leister longwools and has offered me some fleece if I stop by, so I'm going to take some of my handspun over to show off tomorrow. she recently came from a class at the John Campbell Folk School with Deb Robson (which I'm a little jealous) but she said I should go take that class even though it's expensive and it felt weirdly like a sales pitch almost. it was odd. but we got away from that soon enough. it was like she couldn't fathom there might be reasons why someone wouldn't be able to take a week off work and also pay a lot of money to learn stuff.
things I haven't had at the same time: free time, money. but also if I had all the time and money in the world I wouldn't take a spinning class first. honestly. there's so many other things to learn about that I'm not an expert at already. aaaand I just looked up the cost of those classes. pricy!
she was really nice and invited me down to her place or maybe a local friend's place (
reedrover I think she knows your normal shearer so she might be vaguely in your area) for some kind of fiber gathering in October. It was nice of her but October is too busy. I felt a little bad because my grandpa's partner is a nice lady but she knows so little about fiber stuff that she just said some weird things to try and be relatable in the conversation but it came across very oddly. I have some feelings about her that aren't always positive so I try and let stuff go (she is a Deeply Normal Person and sometimes attempts to make the rest of us be normal which like, l o l, good fucking luck. also I got the impression that when she started dating my grandpa, she wanted to be a grandma to us cousins but none of us were having it, we already had a grandma and we'd all grown up extremely close to Real Grandma and didn't appreciate it especially because most of us were at least teens before B arrived) funny how moving makes one contemplate relationships and thingsI have packed one weekend in september with both a Ren Faire trip and a fiber fest trip back to back days, so that's uhh. good I guess. bad for getting farm work done but oh well. I'm hoping some of the local weavers guild will be at that fiber festival so I can talk to them. I might try and join it for the winter. I am 3/4 done threading heddles on the loom and I've been doing some spinning, so project progress! I need to get back to posting pictures of things
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Date: 2025-08-10 01:36 pm (UTC)Drop me a DM somewhere with a name and I can see if our circles overlap?
Sometimes I end up being that deeply normal person in a diverse group and trust me, it’s awkward on this side too.