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Mar. 17th, 2019 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukethis weekend sure was a weekend.
I went to PA and found out as I was leaving that my older brother was bringing his new three month old shepherd-lab mix puppy. Surprise!
It was a mixed weekend for sure, as neither adult dog particularly liked the puppy. They were okay with her saturday afternoon, and there was some napping together in the living room but by this morning, they were irritated at her again. She was a smart puppy and knew some commands but still a puppy and thus, annoying. Very cute puppy.
Iggy, my parents' dog was in a mood because of the puppy and decided to try and sleep on my head all weekend. I didn't appreciate this and ended up kicking her off my sleeping bag both nights. Mara just did this:
I split wood again, then binned it in the afternoon, then took an empty tote down to the sap run, nearly got the truck stuck and then pruned blueberries. I probably did a half cord of wood.
Here's the thing, because of midday snuggle break, my lunch break was long, so I worked later than I really meant to. I finished up pruning around 6 and I ended up going ice skating at a rink about a half hour from my parents place. Public skate started at 7:30, so I ate some food, got in the truck and started driving. I made one pit stop to get the most delicious chocolate ever from Gertrude Hawk (so good! a regional company) and got to the ice rink. I paid, got my skates on and started warming up and realized I was super sore from splitting wood and pruning and had stiffened up. My back was so sore. And it really made me realize how much I use my back in skating.
So I only skated for about 45 minutes, basically until the soreness outweighted the fun. I wasn't really disappointed with the little time because it was a bit of a recon skate. This rink is a year round rink and I wanted to check it out because they have public skates listed on their schedule through May. May!!
It was also a really nice clean place, even the bathrooms were nice. It had a second rink with something else going on too.
I was super pleased with it and fully intend to keep going back while I'm visiting my parents provided I'm not super sore.
I didn't do much this morning, got up at like 7:15, which is pretty late. Walked the pups and did a slow packing of stuff. I finally remembered to bring back the deer bones for making stock and also bringing back more meat from the freezer.
Then the Isobel Cup Final was today! I timed to get back to watch and unloaded the truck just as the game started. It was intense, went to overtime and then the Whitecaps won. Such a great game to watch, although I was rooting for the Beauts.
I also got a free spinning wheel! My grandpa's partner's daughter's friend got a new one and so B brought back north after visiting her daughter. It's disassembled and seems to be missing some parts, which confuses me because it was apparently in use before it was passed to me, but I don't know much about spinning wheels. So that's a project I'm excited about.
I went to PA and found out as I was leaving that my older brother was bringing his new three month old shepherd-lab mix puppy. Surprise!
It was a mixed weekend for sure, as neither adult dog particularly liked the puppy. They were okay with her saturday afternoon, and there was some napping together in the living room but by this morning, they were irritated at her again. She was a smart puppy and knew some commands but still a puppy and thus, annoying. Very cute puppy.
Iggy, my parents' dog was in a mood because of the puppy and decided to try and sleep on my head all weekend. I didn't appreciate this and ended up kicking her off my sleeping bag both nights. Mara just did this:
I split wood again, then binned it in the afternoon, then took an empty tote down to the sap run, nearly got the truck stuck and then pruned blueberries. I probably did a half cord of wood.
Here's the thing, because of midday snuggle break, my lunch break was long, so I worked later than I really meant to. I finished up pruning around 6 and I ended up going ice skating at a rink about a half hour from my parents place. Public skate started at 7:30, so I ate some food, got in the truck and started driving. I made one pit stop to get the most delicious chocolate ever from Gertrude Hawk (so good! a regional company) and got to the ice rink. I paid, got my skates on and started warming up and realized I was super sore from splitting wood and pruning and had stiffened up. My back was so sore. And it really made me realize how much I use my back in skating.
So I only skated for about 45 minutes, basically until the soreness outweighted the fun. I wasn't really disappointed with the little time because it was a bit of a recon skate. This rink is a year round rink and I wanted to check it out because they have public skates listed on their schedule through May. May!!
It was also a really nice clean place, even the bathrooms were nice. It had a second rink with something else going on too.
I was super pleased with it and fully intend to keep going back while I'm visiting my parents provided I'm not super sore.
I didn't do much this morning, got up at like 7:15, which is pretty late. Walked the pups and did a slow packing of stuff. I finally remembered to bring back the deer bones for making stock and also bringing back more meat from the freezer.
Then the Isobel Cup Final was today! I timed to get back to watch and unloaded the truck just as the game started. It was intense, went to overtime and then the Whitecaps won. Such a great game to watch, although I was rooting for the Beauts.
I also got a free spinning wheel! My grandpa's partner's daughter's friend got a new one and so B brought back north after visiting her daughter. It's disassembled and seems to be missing some parts, which confuses me because it was apparently in use before it was passed to me, but I don't know much about spinning wheels. So that's a project I'm excited about.
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Date: 2019-03-18 06:04 pm (UTC)Maybe once we get a good bunch of seeds built up, I can do some looking at optimal seeding rates for fiber production compared to seed production. So producing seed can be done at a lower rate but fiber at a higher rate and if you want to balance them because you don't care that much about branching or whatever.
I think the successive harvest is an excellent idea! If we've got these big patches, then it won't be too bad to pull a few handfuls on maybe a weekly basis starting hmmmm, maybe right at flower? I think there's some old flax books I can find online that might give some answers on that. But yeah, I think there is a market for coarser linen, plus coarser and tow can be spun into twine and other things, so like artisinal twine for wrapping packages or w/e. I'll dig into that, because everyone just says the later stuff will be coarser, but doesn't specify how. Like, only good for industrial purposes coarse? Or like, just a little more difficult to work with? Or just a little chunkier and more worsted when spun? Or just shorter? Pictures would be awesome. I'm making spreadsheets already :D
I'm going to pull 5-10 plants from each variety in my trial at optimal harvest time so I can do a comparison on them for retting time and a few other things. And then let the rest go to seed so hopefully we can have more options from all of the varieties.
Chainsawing as I've learned is: wear steel toed boots, make sure your feet are planted securely and make sure your legs won't be behind the chainsaw if it kicks back. I never learned how to fell trees but it doesn't seem too difficult.