Just a quick post to let friends and family know we are home in the valley and settled back in. And, today it is SNOWING!! Yay! Maybe there is some hope for the ski trails, and our water supply next summer.
We got home Monday night, the cats having once again survived the trip without too much trauma. There was a day of unpacking, fetching the mail from the post office (holiday cards and 3 packages!!), laying in some food, etc. We were both recovering from colds, so were a little on the low-energy side initially.
By yesterday we were back to working on projects – Rick starting some laundry room cabinets for the job up in Mazama, me going through the stone beads I picked up in Seattle for making more shawl pins. Some of them have holes just a little too small or not drilled completely straight from either end, so they don’t fit on the steel shafts I am using. Bummer! The small ones I could ream out with a diamond file I got at the bead store. Tedious, but do-able. Today I found some diamond drill bits at a rock shop online, and ordered them. Rick has a “Fordham tool” which I will be able to use to ream out and enlarge the holes on the larger stone beads. A new adventure…
I got a jump start on New Year’s resolutions today by cleaning up and lubricating my Schacht spinning wheel. The wood was getting quite dry, so I used the Howard’s Feed-n-Wax (with its lovely orange scent), some steel wool and a soft cloth. Now she glows and spins like a dream. I have several spinning projects in mind, and we will have a spin-in for Rock Day on Saturday Jan 2, up at the guild room.
So Happy New Year everyone! See you in 2010.
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