http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala Actually, I'm using this blog as a vehicle to get going on my autobiography, "Just Another Tassel on the Lunatic Fringe". Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:45:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay... I can almost see that picture in your mind: Ayala stepping out of a (currently imaginary) greenhouse warmed by our local stallion's stable droppings, with an armload of bounteous beautiful red VINE-RIPENED TOMATOES... Scratch that!!!!!! Actually, I just went under the rosebushes and snipped some chives for a ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=77 dear Grange Gardener!! Well, these days I've been gardening instead of writing about it. Actually, I was hibernating from Christmas to Candlemas (around Groundhog's Day) getting over the Holiday Rush. Theoretically, around Thanksgiving my garden should look as it does now-- however, my business is huge in the early ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=74 Grange Gardener! Well, isn't the season winding down, though? And I am winding up my garden hoses. Thought of you on the Harvest Moon in September, wasn't it beautifully enhanced by smoke in the atmosphere? Southern California firesmoke drifts all the way up here. Distress in ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=70 A SHETLAND-INSPIRED SHAWL A shawl so fine it could pass through a wedding ring… the stuff of faerie tales, and the defining characteristic of a true Shetland shawl!  Actually, though, I’ve seen it done:  my sons’ sitter, Missy Moses, had a little round Scottish grandmother with a cedar chest that held just ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=33 dear Grange Gardener GirlFriend!  Thought of you often over the summer, especially as I herded grandsons away from my meager pea patch, which they were intent on feeding to my angora rabbits... YES!! I DID manage to scrounge a couple handfuls outta there for myself, although it took 3 REPLANTINGS to ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=52 The body of this entry is directed to agricultural efforts/failures... but I did want you to know I survived Black Sheep Gathering without buying ALL the wool there... and that I DO INDEED have in my Drafts file the instrux for a Shetland-type shawl, be right with you on that, ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=51 22 April 2008 PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary Ann Meyers 741-6000, x147 For Immediate Release Paula Gourley 682-4374 May is Older Americans Month – Honoring Older Americans Active in the Arts Nationally designated as Older Americans Month, this May the Lane County Coalition of Senior Programs honors six inspiring artists over 60 years of ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=48 Well HI.  It's surely been a while since the last time... and here's why:  late this winter,  my Sweety Pye allowed as how the way he was feeling, he felt like he'd be sticking around for awhile... I was SO RELIEVED I fell asleep and SLEPT for a couple months!!!  Had ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=50 Yesterday I hauled about 9 barrowsful of molehills offa my front pasture, probably another couple to go-- but wait!! apparently the moles went DEEPER to avoid last night's low temperatures, now I've got NEW hills atop previously cleared locations... DEFINITELY 2 more barrowsful.  >>SIGH!!<<  Moles were here to greet us when we moved in 18 years ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=46 The first of these blogs were written on Sunday nights, an exercise intended at 'putting the week away'.  That regime lasted for a few weeks only!!!  Now here we are at the beginning of yet another year, having apparently travelled along Time's Spiral back to the same area, but on a different ... http://fiberfanatics.com/blogayala/?p=45