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Valerie

I have my favorite coffee mug from a kringle gift that I am currently drinking out of, and use every morning! And the cookbook is on CD somewhere (I don't actually cook). And so much good advice and jingles and memories. I can't look at my lilac every spring without thinking of Ayla.

Valerie

Yay for going home! May 2016 be much less eventful.

Valerie

I can't even imagine having that many fleeces to spin. It takes me 2 years to spin an entire fleece. Of course, I have distractions- like other fleeces. So I don't stick with one until I finish. I get bored too easily.

Valerie

I might need a large "dog" door in my next house

Valerie

Yay! I just did the January schedule for everyone yesterday (too many people wanted changes). So it isn't final yet until everyone complains about it. Hopefully I will know by tomorrow when the main complainer gets to tear it apart.

Valerie

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp27/Valerie_Hebert/Facebook/Timeline%20Photos/12140042_10206168478549623_2106675574237012761_o_zpsmua6xavl.jpg This was my Spinzilla accomplishment this past fall. I spun my mile! The lime green and purple (that doesn't show as purple as it came out) are Churro d...

Valerie

She was a wise woman, and she is missed.

Valerie

Those sheep are amazing- I love that spotted ram. His horns are impressive! I am a fan of heritage breed sheep, and I suppose yours are a "heritage" as it gets :) And Merino soft fleece is a lovely bonus. The Churro sheep (Navajo heritage breed) fleeces tend to be a bit harsher in the hand...

Valerie

Wow- I didn't know there were so many other spinners here :) I have spun angora, but only 100%- I am still figuring out how to blend either colors or fibers, and I don't have a blending board. I do like 100% angora, though. My Cinnabun's fluff is piling up, though, while I work on all the other flee...

Valerie

It was a very fun trip! And even better I didn't buy any fleeces. (I have 4 here to process. Well, 5 actually. But 4 really nice ones). I did get silk to ply with some gray Merino I have waiting to be spun. I usually go to these sorts of things by myself- it was nice to have company!

Valerie

Thanks! I googled, but didn't find a pony specific site.

Valerie

I love the high necks- I have used the Schneider's house brand ones. They do let in less snow and rain and don't ride back and bind on the withers, even on shark-fin horses. As an aside- anyone have a good place to find pony sized high necks? I have to get a blanket for new pony this winter.

Valerie

I've decided people pretty much suck when it comes to caring for their pets.

Valerie

Don't get married just because everyone tells you that is what is expected of you! Stay by yourself and run your own life the way you want.

Valerie

Woohoo! It worked :) I used the King Arthur recipe, and store bought buttermilk. I did need more than 1 1/3 cup buttermilk, but I had to buy it by the pint- and I'm certainly not going to use it for anything else. I tasted it. It is icky. But the bread is quite good, especially smothered in butter h...

Valerie

The King Arthur recipe says baking soda, and no baking powder. I bought cultured buttermilk this morning since I had to go shopping anyway. I'm going to try this. It may be a dismal failure- I will report back!

Valerie

That's good to know!

Valerie

I don't know about compressed bales, but I feed dry round bales. It is a wonderful way to keep the horses eating constantly in the winter cold. I have a "hay hut" that it goes in that I have used for years- it keeps the rain and snow off the bale so they can find it when the snow gets deep...

Valerie

Just a non-cooking person question. Why buttermilk? Do I really need to find buttermilk? I might try the King Arthur recipe even though I don't cook much of anything.

Valerie

Good solution. My thoughts were why isn't she cutting the colt this fall? Waiting till spring, she is going to have 2 bred mares, one being his mother. Or move the colt to the gelding only turn out. He should be weaned anyway. Then your mare could be properly introduced to the mare herd without the ...

Valerie

I'm with Scruffy. Anything I put out on the internet anywhere I assume might be read, stolen, appropriated, learned from, used, accessed, or re-posted anywhere else on the internet. I'm not that important or paranoid, that I think what I post is at all important to anyone else that they would go to ...

Valerie

My boss is Chinese- I can try to do a screenshot and take it to work tomorrow for translation. Most websites are blocked at work, so I have to try to be computer savvy- which I'm not!

Valerie

Ok, am I the only weirdo who thought that this was about Harry Potter?

Valerie

Yay for a new pony! She is adorable.

Valerie

The best kind of co-workers! No office politics, no slacking more than usual, lunch breaks and bathroom breaks included.

Valerie

I think I am just going to hope my old computer with 7 on it hangs in there for a long time more. I am not a computer person, and find them sort of annoying under the best of conditions! I just need it to work.

Valerie

I think the media wants Bernie to be unelectable so no one will "waste" their vote on him and their chosen is the candidate. I think the fact that he has raised almost as much money as HRC, but in small money is impressive. And says something about his support among voters- who are voting ...

Valerie

"Warmer" than normal I can deal with- last winter was at single digits for an awfully long time.

Valerie

Trying a picture again... This is what I did last week during Spinzilla.

Valerie

I have re-invented myself twice now. Both times from divorce. I discovered the first time that I was totally capable of running my own life, then forgot that little fact with my second marriage. That one is still not finally divorced, and I still have some heart ache from it, but I am re-discovering...

Valerie

Ooh- how far up are you going to be? We could carpool to Laurie's for a get-together!

Valerie

Ooh, someone posted a link to UDBB archive. Apparently I posted first on Friday the 13th, 2002. It was about my 4 month old colt, Eli, jumping the pasture fence and comparing him to Pagan- his big brother- as a baby trying the same thing. Pagan managed to impale himself in the process, Eli cleared i...

Valerie

I so want to try pottery! There is a place around here that does lessons. But I just don't have time! Carpevita- next visit to Chancellor's for a New England get together, come down here and we can drive together! Spinning is cool and addictive. The last week was a competitive spinning thing called ...

Valerie

Ooh, I may have to try this, too. Let's see...

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Valerie

I think I'm the one who got Chancellor hooked on fiber! I spin yarn. I am hooked on the feel of fleece! I have put things into 2 juried fiber fests- we will see how I do in the second one this coming weekend at Rhinebeck fiber festival. Just finished "Spinzilla"- a "monster week of sp...

Valerie

I like poulticing with a baby diaper and duct tape MUCH better than soaking. Polly (OTTB) was the queen of abcesses until her hooves improved. I hate soaking in winter.

Valerie

Wow. It has disappeared now for me, and I'm sure I don't remember my first post! I am pretty sure it was in 2003. I was so thrilled to hit the 10k post mark, though. What made it "home" was the community and that it wasn't only about the horses, even though that was obviously what brought ...

Valerie

I will try to be around more

Thank you!

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