40 years of having cake shoveled down your throat. Like do people listen I don't like cake. sorry! it's not my thing. How many times do i need to mention how much i don't like cake or candy bars it's just not for me. I like to drink my sugar not eat it! so hot coco,, redbull. Now there is my kind of cake!
Anyway i did eat cake. it was tasty. really there is dry cake and over frosted cake. but never bad cake. still not my thing i'll eat a bit to shut others up.
So my birthday was AWESOME!! I got my first gift at midnight. My Knife sharpener. since i'm always in the wild i always feel a need for a shaper knife. Well my wish is granted so currently looking up some ways to sharpen knifes. so many different ways and oils can be used and bla bla bla i got a lot to learn. so then went to bed and woke up to more gifts. Crazy spoiled that is me!
I got a tanning package. And that is SOOOO Neeeded. As before you go off thinking how bad tanning is for you. learn why i tan prior to placing judgement. I have psoriasis health insurance covers some up to so many visits to the light box therapy and that is narrow band UVB light treatment. There is a tanning bed by my house that offers UVB lights in their tanning beds it's cheap. so why not. Plus it's doctor approved. My flair up this winter is my eye lid. so no i won't be wearing the goggles either. lol I do'nt even use their lotion i want this to work and it's not like i'm in there for 20 minutes. my goal is to go for 21 minutes a week. 7 minute sessions 3 times a week.
and yes the bonus is the tan! This works for me better than steroid cremes and bio chemicals being injected into my body.. Who knows what the bad stuff of that is its' too new for them to know. And personally i don't want to be a test subject.
so i'll stick with what wards for me ... Wouldn't you?
Moving on. I got 5.4 lbs of alpaca fur.. Yep, locally too i can go pet the animal if i want to at apple charlies. The alpaca farm on the grosse ile sold me a bag so why would i want a bag of fur from an animal.
really simple my goals. Most of you know my goals of wanting to lean off society. be self reliant and not so dependent on 3rd party sources. my old soul is coming out. well i haven't activitly worked on this goal. in a while. just day dream about how sweet it would be. Yes i know gardening how to prep the dirt to give me the best yield of food. I understand how to can. haven't done it yet. but i do dehydrate my food for later uses.
I'm not a dr yet and most likely won't be. but i can't make things and after learning knitting and crocheting i really don't like that much but can do it if needed. What i do like is making yarn. well i'm a day in to it so we will see it's much funner to me than knitting. but i can't wait to take fur, to yarn, to scarf.. so that is my goal. for this year get threw this bag of fur wash this yarn. make something out of it.
really my mom she can do all that stuff and made a lot of scarfs and gloves and other crazy awesome warm stuff for winter. she ended up with a box of yarn and is going to town this year. I Wish i had hear patience.
but yeah mom got me a drop spindle its no wheel wheels are faster.. but this drop spindle stuff is just too cool to watch and get the feeling of what it takes to hand spin yarn. helps me appreciate the clothing on my back. well home made stuff at least this machine made stuff has no character. it's all the same there is nothing to set it apart. and to me that is boring. pointless money game that i don't want to be a part of anymore in my life.
Now i woke up to this gift of a spindle and i knew i was getting it so i have been saving up some cat fur from tux. he is my long haired cat. and it did it worked i spun cat fur. and wanted to spin more. Tux hid under the bed after he heard me say maybe if we shave him i'll get more. but tux.. lol anway we choice to check out the alpaca farm. and how cool was that place. Gail the owner use to race cars indy car racing .. and now she has a farm with the friendly lamas. she showed us around the farm even tho it was freezing cold the lamas where happy and this weather makes their coat so warm and filled. so i'll go back and get more. We got a great deal too i guess. they sell alpaca fur for 1 dollar an ounce. i got 5.4 lbs for 40 bucks. HALF OFF you know it!
AFter we left there we went for a tiny hike at the gilbralter bay unit on the island. There is a little trail that goes threw there. no one was there we checked out the pond and the south side of the island marsh area's the lake was frozen but not enough to walk on. but you can toss sticks out and see if you can hit the swans. you won't we tried. they are too far and there is water out there so you won't get them. We seen some buffelhead ducks threw the view thingy there at the park and noticed they are doing some maintenance there. a few little bridges or something so no more puddle walking. for an unpaved trail i'm reather happy with it. they keep the mud down and it's always a pleasant walk. and for the small area there are some choose your path. such a great place. and they are starting to remove the fensed in area's too so thats' cool. on sundays they let you walk threw the air port section with the old sea base spot. normally do a little lunch out there on that cement slab.
on our drive home coming off the island we noticed a big bird in the tree. thought it was my owl at Elizabeth park. so of course i pull over i want to see if it's him. it's still cold and as we get out of the car we notice it's not an owl it's a bald eagle. So i got to see a few great wildlife items on my birthday. The eagle the do not feed the deer deer two bucks 6 pointers i want to say maybe 4 they were babies.
then the party.
The party was fun. the day after was also fun i spun yarn all day with dirty alpaca fur!! lol
Still have a lot to learn about all of my little projects. but at least i am getting them out there..
Below are some photos. enjoy!
Alpaca Fur Raw Unwashed
Alpaca Fur Raw Unwashed
This is the drop spindle with some of that alpaca fur spun on it. along with the upclose shot of my work!! it's a little over twisted in spots. but i think that's okay guess i'll find out.
Birthday Eagle!!!
from afar it looks like an owl.
cool thing he didn't fly away and the people on the trait went around us thought we were a crazy bunch once we told them it was an eagle we seen what we looked like taking photos of a tree with a phone and talking jibberish because we all are so happy to see this icon in a tree watching us like we are watching him.!!
to my grams.. : Thank you for the birthday wishes: your cardinal came out to see me more than once on my special day.. I know your watching me. I hope to make you proud gramma. keep sending my birdies i love every one of them. just like you did <3 p="">
for those who don't know my grams loved red birds (all birds really) i remember being a little girl feeding them with her out by the edge of the woods. it's one of my greatest memories with my grandma and myself. She has been gone a lone time from my life but she never really left..
So thats about it i think start at 9am this morning and i guess it's finished.
now on to my newest hobbie.. Making yarn!!!
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