tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:32:14 +0000weatherbuttonswalkingwoolwoodstoveobservationsspinningalpacadistafffeltingdye bathflaxcotswoldholidaygardenbirdstape loomtriangle loom weavingrivercardingfinished itemsslide showetsygarden harvestspinning wheelsknittingwalk with me WednesdayGreat Wheel spinninglace knittingsupport spindleneedlefeltingspinning shetlandrabbitschickensoff topicphenological eventstracksweekendwhirlsweavinglinenspindle spinningwildlifeThoughts and observations from life around the riverrim.... ...including spinning weaving, knitting, gardening, flax, chickens, rabbits, alpaca.............. and whatever wild life wanders byhttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (cyndy)Blogger772125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6932398638678609306Wed, 29 May 2013 15:51:00 +00002013-06-03T07:22:07.123-04:00flaxgarden May has slipped away. It has been a busy month. Most of it has been spent in the garden. The fence was repaired, new fruit trees were planted (plum, cherry and peach). Peas, lettuce, kale and new asparagus plants were sown early in the month and are growing well. The tomatoes and peppers and annual flowers that we started from seed in the green house, have been transplanted. For those http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/05/flax-connection-may-has-slipped-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-8081715415745345219Thu, 02 May 2013 20:25:00 +00002013-05-02T16:25:39.208-04:00spindle spinningwalkingdistaffwildlife May has arrived and the woods are waking up! The quince and forsythia are in full bloom, and the warblers are starting to appear. The blue blue skies of May and the bees on the blossoms on the fruit trees are pretty enough to paint. There is bird song filling the woods, and nesting materials filling the branches of nearby trees. Around the riverrim, we planted a few plum trees another http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-woods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6220463110091113137Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:29:00 +00002013-05-02T16:31:51.816-04:00phenological events 1st frost 2nd tree swallows arrive 3rd wood thrush fox sparrow 6th marsh marigolds 8th seedlings in greenhouse 20th trellised red raspberry 24th tilled the garden 30th planted fruit trees http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-2013-phenological-events.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-7004737459051620059Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:56:00 +00002013-04-27T09:56:02.323-04:00When spring finally comes to the river valley, there is beauty almost everywhere you look. The hellebores.. ....the hyacinths ... ...the lungwort..all showing bloom. They are my old friends, and I enjoy our visits while they last. The lilac leaves are as big as a squirrel's ear, and phenological records of the past tell me that it is time to plant potatoes. There are two new henshttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/04/worth-waiting-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-5091225251644788584Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:05:00 +00002013-04-10T10:06:39.528-04:00weavingSpring has returned to this river valley, and each day shows more evidence of that. The marsh marigolds are blooming, the fox sparrows and wood thrush have returned. There are daily hatches in the river and the clouds of insect life take flight. The trees are in bud, and a good rain storm will have them bursting open. By the weekend, the trout fishermen will be wearing their hip waders and http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/04/lapis-lazuli-warped-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-4952365714124907573Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +00002013-03-21T16:51:40.060-04:00 The Vernal Equinox began at 7:02 A.M (EDT) on March 20, 2013. Spring is finally here! It has arrived! It may not look or feel much like it has, but the tide has turned, and the violets will bloom, and the pussy willows will bud, the birds will sing and the bees will fly. Have patience, I tell myself. Late March always plays the waiting game with me. The snowdrops in the snow remind mehttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/03/wait-and-weight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-2923559846377201818Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:50:00 +00002013-03-13T09:50:53.161-04:00gardenThis time of year finds me out in the garden, raking off the winter kill, and trimming the raspberry and blackberry canes etc. In the process of cleaning up, I noticed a lot of this growing under the apple and cherry trees: ...which I suspected was a wort...of some sort. But which one? First, I found a list of all the worts that would be growing in my area. bellwort, birthwort, http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/03/which-wort.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6925510395070627262Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:00 +00002013-03-13T10:01:18.090-04:00phenological events2nd groundhog no shadow 5th snow drops spear 8th winterstorm Nemo 13th coyotes leave tracks in snow 18th wood ducks on river 20th chipmunks up!http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/03/february-phenological-events-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6695155109985451289Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:43:00 +00002013-02-25T10:43:26.869-05:00Getting nice things in the mail box is a sure way to cheer up my day. ...and by way of the blog, some nice things have arrived... First, thanks goes out to Allison Rooney. Allison was kind enough to contact me to ask if I would allow her to use one of my blog photos. Now, I've seen my photos yanked from my blog in the past..only to wind up in a description from other (and they WILL remain http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-word-of-thanks-for-seed-and-soap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-3586980882767625975Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:53:00 +00002013-02-15T07:51:58.763-05:00spindle spinningdistaffholidayAnd it is true love, and i AM smitten. All the signs are there. I'm preoccupied, and think about doing it even when I'm doing something else. My heart flutters ...my palms sweat, but don't worry, my husband understands my new infatuation. He even made a short video of me in action. Spinning from distaff to spindle. I am hooked. It is hopeless, I am addicted. Soft singles fall off my fingers http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/02/smitten.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6608087048936298443Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:19:00 +00002013-02-08T11:24:31.784-05:00weavingweatherlinenI've been wanting to experiment with moonlight bleaching of linen, ever since I first heard about it. Finally, this winter, I decided to give it a try. I had a few pieces of linen tape, leftover from a practice project that was woven on my Double Hole Tape Loom. It is perfect for my experiment because it has a handspun linen background with the pattern in red silk embroidery threads. The idea http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/02/moonbeams-on-my-linen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-158635770453933658Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:30:00 +00002013-02-08T11:31:37.128-05:00phenological events12th Cooper's Hawk 15th snow on the way 21st opossum hunts 28th single digits with slight thawhttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-2013-phenological-events.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-6875454337966699928Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +00002013-01-22T10:00:27.532-05:00spindle spinningweatherwildlife The winter waters are flowing during the day, but at night they freeze again. There is a pattern to the pace. It repeats itself. slowly and steadily the melting snow travels down to the river each day. At night it trickles underneath the film of ice that covers it, contouring around the rocks ...while the smoke from our chimney curls upwards into the night sky. Are we half way to http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/01/melts-markings-and-marsupials.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-5235625348612742535Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:44:00 +00002013-01-18T08:57:01.291-05:00spindle spinningflaxdistafflinen January mornings have been mostly gray, with little bits of sunshine. The big oak looks like an etching or a pen & ink drawing in the sky. The buds on the branches of the big oak are waiting. Spring will come. All in good time, I tell myself. Besides, I've yet to place my seed order ...there is a forecast for an icy mix. And I've been spinning flax to linen. When the sun shines in through http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2013/01/curious-customs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-2053844223490487537Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:36:00 +00002012-12-31T12:36:52.997-05:00It is time to synchronize the clocks...a few more hours and they will tick tock into a new year. The key to this chore IS the KEY. I started fine tuning the clocks about a week ago. It is a chore getting them all to keep time together. The bottom of the key winds the clocks, and the opposite end is used to set them to a slower or faster pace. I don't normally run all my clocks all the time. http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/12/synchronize-and-sync.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-2176062891646346599Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:20:00 +00002012-12-24T11:20:52.475-05:00 May goodness and light be yours! Glad tidings of comfort and joy!http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/12/merry-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-3242169060767326592Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:50:00 +00002012-12-19T10:53:56.066-05:00walk with me Wednesday"the hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” Lisa Wingate The December skies have been rather bleak these days. The solstice approaches and I am reminded that the extent of daylight is almost six hours less than it was in June, six months ago. And these very skies that seem to lack the sun, have been producing parhelia, or sundogs. We are athttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-hardest-thing-about-road-not-taken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-1644642271208302739Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:23:00 +00002012-12-04T12:23:39.549-05:00November 2012 2nd snow buntings arrive 15th rafter turkeys growing 16th eagles fishing over river 19th bare trees 22nd shadows lengthen 27th 4 inches of snow http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/12/november-2012-phenological-events.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-804832243575436239Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:26:00 +00002012-11-29T20:26:58.753-05:00 for sister.... mizpah.http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/11/another-beautiful-tune.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-7917328135906849896Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +00002012-11-22T08:43:40.711-05:00off topic A Very Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends, both near....and far from here. http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-8834265905484893139Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:27:00 +00002012-11-30T16:29:20.088-05:00 2nd riverbirch dropping leaves 5th harvesting peppers 7th begin fires 8th jerusalem artichokes blooming 15th wooley bears hibernate 20th warblers migrate 22nd turkey walk 24th juncos arrive 29th Hurricane Sandy http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/10/phenological-events-october-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-1229132740715965791Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:24:00 +00002012-10-25T11:24:32.116-04:00 wooley bear hairs turkey tails stormy skies pensive eyes finely spun nicely done! http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/10/sequence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-8754351294917227649Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:47:00 +00002012-10-08T09:54:24.022-04:00spinning http://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-spinsters-think-about-when-they_8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-1717948529885903196Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:04:00 +00002012-10-03T19:24:53.945-04:00 words and spinning. an interview from Adam Dyess... "It is not important how hard you are working, but what are you getting done?" "For me the hardest part is to stop the spinning!"...."some days, fourteen hours..." ..."and I have to stop, but I like to spin more!".... "If you have a good wheel, a good spinning technique, and a good fiber. Then it is just joy...nothing less, nothing more...justhttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/10/it-brings-happiness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789839.post-2778836425840857049Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:55:00 +00002012-10-08T09:56:15.859-04:00 1st Blue Moon 5th harvesting peppers 9th harvesting sweet corn 12th birch and maples loosing leaves 15th mushroom bounty 19th harvesting winter squashhttp://riverrim.blogspot.com/2012/09/phenological-events-september-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cyndy)1