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helwenTraining at The Body Tailor is going well. Learning about posture and the corrections I need to make in mine has been good. I have a long way to go, but improved posture and particular exercises is leading to having a stronger core, which I just wasn't getting on my own, no matter how hard I tried.
Kung fu, when we can get there (schedule or weather permitting), is going along. Currently L and I are in limbo on whether or not we're going to the spring seminar in Florida. Looks like it will probably be in the Everglades at a campsite. Campsite has both tent camping and cabins, and would be inexpensive compared to other options looked at. L has to see if he could be spared from the sugaring crew (tentative dates for seminar are late March/early April), and also if nephew C would be willing to take care of the chickens.
Belatedly, we also need to ask him and niece B if they'd be willing to take care of the chickens in May, during Steampunk World Fair....
Started sewing L's dress shirt. Men's shirts are not like regular clothing :P But, I'm managing so far. We went down to Gfld today because I didn't have the right kind of interfacing for the cuffs and collar. We were going to stop at Big Y as well, but it was all kinds of crazy there.
We did stop at Mohawk Trading Post on the way home though, which was neat because neither of us had been there in many years. There is a lot of stuff there, and I forgot to check on what types of herbal teas they have (it's advertised on their store front). They had some crafting supplies, some tourist stuff, jewelry, votives, dreamcatchers, incense, flutes, moccasins (Minnetonka), kid stuff, and also a lot of books. Books range from kid stuff (including Disney's Pochohantas), to historical and cultural books, to how-tos. They had a good-size section on beading techniques, and they have beading supplies.
I picked up a small, super-easy beading book - _Beaded Dream Catchers_, by Mary R. Musgrove. L decided on _Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools_, by Monte Burch.
The lady working there had a votive tomahawk she was working on beading around the upper part of the shaft; I suspect some of the beadwork in the store is hers. I might try making a dream catcher this week, just as a break from the usual mill of activity -- I have some dance bangles somewhere that could work for the hoop part, and beads and lightweight leather too. Hm, and beading thread, so I guess that's everything -- these are beaded instead of being sinew, for the web part.
Very glad we can drive the Honda Civic now - William's little car. It gets much better mileage than the minivan, which is good considering how much driving we're doing at the moment. I don't expect to be going to The Body Tailor for too long -- maybe a few more months? -- and we'll have to see what other trips we can minimize on. We still need the minivan at this point, mostly has a farm vehicle (picking up feed) and carting stuff around, but definitely using the little car more often.
We'll likely be taking a break from kung fu next fall, which will also cut back on some travel. Tuition is already paid through the end of September.
We've had some discussion on what seeds to order -- yes, I still haven't ordered them :( Really need to do that this week.
Got a hand-cranked corn sheller, which arrived yesterday and L has tried out today. Works pretty well, and will help with our effort to supply at least some of the chickens' feed ourselves. You can shell by hand of course, and there are gloves with little rasp thingies on them but.... well, if you're going to shell a few hundred ears a sheller is handy.
L got the corn/bean auger for the mill working properly (yay for instruction sheets!), so we don't need to get another mill just for the corn.
Fava beans goes on the list for the garden this year. Since some folks have soy sensitivity I want to go for the 2nd best bean for chicken feed (protein source). Soy is preferred both because it has the most protein and because it is a complete protein, but since the beans would be mixed with corn that will take care of completing the protein. Third part of the feed will be oats, which we've grown before, but we're going to need a thresher too (pedal-powered, I'm hoping).
Kung fu, when we can get there (schedule or weather permitting), is going along. Currently L and I are in limbo on whether or not we're going to the spring seminar in Florida. Looks like it will probably be in the Everglades at a campsite. Campsite has both tent camping and cabins, and would be inexpensive compared to other options looked at. L has to see if he could be spared from the sugaring crew (tentative dates for seminar are late March/early April), and also if nephew C would be willing to take care of the chickens.
Belatedly, we also need to ask him and niece B if they'd be willing to take care of the chickens in May, during Steampunk World Fair....
Started sewing L's dress shirt. Men's shirts are not like regular clothing :P But, I'm managing so far. We went down to Gfld today because I didn't have the right kind of interfacing for the cuffs and collar. We were going to stop at Big Y as well, but it was all kinds of crazy there.
We did stop at Mohawk Trading Post on the way home though, which was neat because neither of us had been there in many years. There is a lot of stuff there, and I forgot to check on what types of herbal teas they have (it's advertised on their store front). They had some crafting supplies, some tourist stuff, jewelry, votives, dreamcatchers, incense, flutes, moccasins (Minnetonka), kid stuff, and also a lot of books. Books range from kid stuff (including Disney's Pochohantas), to historical and cultural books, to how-tos. They had a good-size section on beading techniques, and they have beading supplies.
I picked up a small, super-easy beading book - _Beaded Dream Catchers_, by Mary R. Musgrove. L decided on _Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools_, by Monte Burch.
The lady working there had a votive tomahawk she was working on beading around the upper part of the shaft; I suspect some of the beadwork in the store is hers. I might try making a dream catcher this week, just as a break from the usual mill of activity -- I have some dance bangles somewhere that could work for the hoop part, and beads and lightweight leather too. Hm, and beading thread, so I guess that's everything -- these are beaded instead of being sinew, for the web part.
Very glad we can drive the Honda Civic now - William's little car. It gets much better mileage than the minivan, which is good considering how much driving we're doing at the moment. I don't expect to be going to The Body Tailor for too long -- maybe a few more months? -- and we'll have to see what other trips we can minimize on. We still need the minivan at this point, mostly has a farm vehicle (picking up feed) and carting stuff around, but definitely using the little car more often.
We'll likely be taking a break from kung fu next fall, which will also cut back on some travel. Tuition is already paid through the end of September.
We've had some discussion on what seeds to order -- yes, I still haven't ordered them :( Really need to do that this week.
Got a hand-cranked corn sheller, which arrived yesterday and L has tried out today. Works pretty well, and will help with our effort to supply at least some of the chickens' feed ourselves. You can shell by hand of course, and there are gloves with little rasp thingies on them but.... well, if you're going to shell a few hundred ears a sheller is handy.
L got the corn/bean auger for the mill working properly (yay for instruction sheets!), so we don't need to get another mill just for the corn.
Fava beans goes on the list for the garden this year. Since some folks have soy sensitivity I want to go for the 2nd best bean for chicken feed (protein source). Soy is preferred both because it has the most protein and because it is a complete protein, but since the beans would be mixed with corn that will take care of completing the protein. Third part of the feed will be oats, which we've grown before, but we're going to need a thresher too (pedal-powered, I'm hoping).
