Fall Color

Sumac Trees

Apple tree

Ornamental grass, Virginia Creeper, and the orange color is a native bush. Not sure of it's name but we call it a Logan Berry. It is not a true Logan Berry but it did come from seed out of Mrs. Logan's yard!

A new area all turned, mulched and ready for garlic. If you biggify this picture you can see some red seed packs on the Asparagus plant. 

This picture was taken a few weeks back. The pumpkins are all orange now ready for Halloween.

 Ash tree and an Aspen Tree.

Ornamental grass.

Pretty little dwarf Cedar next to our house.

 Fall Crocus (Colchicum) are great fun. In the spring large green leaves fill their area dieing back in the hot summer. Come this time of year the flowers poop out. They are always a surprise to me.

Hattie and her lovely  moorit ewe lamb Betty. Shaela ewe is Limerick.

October Colors

Sumac Trees

Arborvitae in the back yard.

Sydney the munchkin Halloween kitty with the flaming eyes!

Some Blue Face Leicester/silk roving dyed in my favorite colors. Each color shows four ounces of the roving before and after it is drafted out and braided.

"Kenick" a black katmoget ewe lamb. One of four beautiful ewe lambs I kept from Duncan, Hazel is her dam.

Her fleece surprised me. At birth she started out with an almost white fleece and her black, black face and legs. She has just started to get the half moon markings under her eyes. Under the white her fleece fades from a darker gray to a light gray.

"Morgan" a moorit katmoget ewe lamb by Duncan and Siskin.

Batts of wool from my Shetland ewe Yeesha.

Simon is now six months old. He will have to stand in for Halloween's Black Cat!

"Ya if you say so!"

Say "Good Night Gracie"

Here is the last picture of the vegetable garden two weeks ago. The wind is blowing about 50 miles an hour. Dust everywhere.
This same night there was a killing frost. Zucchini and pumpkins last stand.

There are mountains behind this tree.
What a mess! Our old white birch tree, the one that died last year, blew over.


The spruce tree in front, our Dr Seuss tree, because of it's odd shape, is bending way to the left.
So ends summer, "Good Night Gracie".

Summers Over

It seems to me once our fair has gone that the summer is over in Reno. In early years it was more the idea that school is starting that ended summer. Now when the fair ends I start thinking of filling the barn with hay and stacking the wood for cold winter nights. I love the fall when my nesting instincts set in and I can wear my warm fuzzy clothes out to the barn. I am so ready for Fall!
Our state fair was a success again this year. My entries did well but I'm still looking to win the big ribbon of Best in Show. Maybe next year. I already have ideas in my head. I can't help it I'm very competitive and love a good challenge!
My bowl o' balls was a big hit with the judge. The first words out of her mouth were
"Ah, chumming for cats!" I laughed so hard. Never thought of them that way. They received a blue ribbon under felt home deco, no other entries in this category. This is the second bowl of balls I've made. I just love them and I believe they took more time to make than the purses I felt.

The felt purse entered has a blue ribbon and a Reserve Grand in the felt division. My friend beat me with her Grand Champion felt saddle pad made out of alpaca fiber no less. I have to admit the saddle pad is wonderful. I entered two skeins of yarn. This one was third place. Seems it needs more twist in the ply. I did this last year and now I will learn to ply better to compete with Becky's cabled yarn. There was one other skein, picture in post below, that did not make it home with me. Not sure what happened to it. It is a shetland and silk blend and did get a blue ribbon in it's class. I gave this skein enough twist in the ply. Guess someone liked it too much and took it home. I'd bet it will poop up at one of the next guild meeting, it does have my name on it.

I almost forgot to mention the two fleece I entered. Hue came in second to K.G. Even with all that beautiful crimp and shine. He just didn't have the consistency threw out his fleece. His entire fleece is soft and usable it just isn't all the way down the britch crimpy! If we have totally uniform fleece does that take our primative shetland sheep out of the primative class and into the modern improved class of sheep?