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Lovely buck from summer litters that carries chocolate gene for sale.
Dyeing, Dyeing, Dyeing!
Spinning a hand carded blend of my fawn angora, moorit wool and tussah silk on my Reeves Wheel
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Crocheted Scarf ...but things often get in the way. I'm helping a hardware store down in town set up a computer accounting system and the computer came in this week. So I'll be down there a lot. Then I get to spend some time with Sandra of Thistle Cove Farm on Thursday; can't give that up. We're getting together to talk about working together on some events, which will be a lot of fun. There's bound to be fiber talk as well! I started a crocheted scarf, made from the Coopworth yarn that I dyed with the walnut hulls. A bit of a rest from knitting, although I'm still working on both. The yarn really sparkles in crocheted stitches. Ran across this at a link from NO NAIS and thought it certainly had a few points to ponder: First they came for the Jews Pastor Martin Niemöller If I had to give up rabbits it wouldn't cost me my livlihood. I enjoy working with them and their fiber and I especially enjoy the creative process, but I could easily put those hours into the collectibles and books and make up for the loss of income if I stopped dealing with fiber. I can't justify extra hours of recordkeeping to continue with the rabbits, and if NAIS does become mandatory, the rabbits will go. But family farms are already struggling, dealing with government regulation, competition from huge factory farms that drive prices down, and the choices that Americans make to pay less for their food and support the factory farm instead of their neighbors. Although NAIS may not drive me out of business, I think it will be the final straw to break the back of the small farmer. Even though NAIS seems really too unweildy and impossible to enforce, the danger in the regulations is how many farms will disappear before the program is rescended. Even though I personally won't be put out of business by NAIS, I need to help protect those that will be, if only out of the selfish reason that I might be next on the list. Substitute freedoms for groups in Niemöller's statement. One by one, our freedoms are being eroded in the name of security. I have only found one person in favor of NAIS, and it is obvious that she is taking her position out of fear; fear of disease and fear of terrorism. NAIS will protect her animals from neither, but she is blinded by a promise of security. We don't make good choices when we are driven by fear. For this nation to give up the freedoms that founded it out of fear is a tragedy of unthinkable proportions. |
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