The Inconsequential Blogger

I just ate a strawberry off of my hanging strawberry plant. Yum! The plant was a Mother's Day gift.

Here's what the dog and I saw on our jaunt around the pond today:

My book signing at the indoor farmer's market yesterday was fun. I brought my drop-spindle along with a finished skein of yarn to show ...

I really like my new drop spindles. Here's what I'm working on now:

There's a small patch of cleavers growing along the fence in my yard. I plucked a little bit and brought it inside to make some tea with...

I finally put The Witch of Starmont up at Smashwords.com, and within a couple of weeks it will also be available at Apple, Sony, Diesel, an...

I've been contemplating an easier way to wash raw fleece in the tub. I decided that some sort of basket would be the best thing. The fle...

Last fall I planted something like 200 bulbs in my front yard. I waited all winter, hoping that my bulbs were doing what they do to get read...

Book club was at my house last month. I made some of the things I learned how to make in my cooking school classes last December for refresh...

I recently purchased a top-whorl spindle and a bottom-whorl spindle from this shop on Etsy. They came in the mail very quickly, and over th...

I purchased two drop spindles from a shop on Etsy and they arrived yesterday. One was a top-whorl and one was a bottom-whorl spindle. They c...

...of my purrennials is starting to sprout.

I started some seeds earlier than usual this year. I usually start seeds about six weeks before I plan to plant them outside, which means st...

I've been working on making some sock yarn with a baby alpaca fleece that I bought last summer at a fiber festival. I wanted to blend in...

Rush Limbaugh has issued a fear-of-losing-more-sponsors,-after-all,-money-talks apology to the young woman he called a slut. He also stated ...

My early sprouts are sproinging up! These are several varieties of heirloom tomatoes.

I'm saving up to buy a loom. A good used one can run anywhere from $300-$800, depending on what kind of deal you can find. I have over $...

I recently received an order of two raw Icelandic fleeces. One is white/oatmeal in color and the other is a brown/red. Icelandic sheep are ...

This post is for a person who is fixing up an old Hoosier cabinet which is just like mine . They requested a few specific pictures to help w...