Apso Hair Shawl

This is a scarf I knitted, combining my Apso yarn with fancy, colorful yarn. The gloves were purchased, then embellished with the fancy yarn.

I supplied the hair. Eve spun it, wove it and donated this beautiful shawl to the Gompa dogs. It was raffled in St. Louis, October 2004, the week the Gompa dogs were presented for the first time in a public forum. This is Faye, modeling the shawl..

Madame Yoland de Zarobe won the raffle..

Mountain gardening

Mountain gardening. Yep, I keep trying to fool myself that all this ‘woodworking’ is gardening. I would have been happier designing Collage pages for the dogs’ birthdays, believe me! Here’s what I was doing instead…

This is my son Nate running the wood splitter..

It’s been great having him back in Denver, spending ‘quality’ time working together. 😉 He’s helped repair and replace fencing inside and outside the kennel. He leveled the dirt our neighbor hauled in for the lower part of the driveway. He’s cut down trees. About every 2 – 3 weeks, he comes up and we work on some outside project. Not only can I utilize the physical strength he offers, but it helps having that time set aside to work on not-so-fun projects.

There is one task he refuses to do. Stack wood. He said he’d help with slash, he’d cut wood, he’d repair fences, he’d do anything but stack wood. He’s stacked enough wood in his life. So, here I am hauling the split logs to the woodpile on the other side of the house..

And here’s the start of the woodpile..

There’s still a little bit of this project left to do, but it will have to wait until the chain saw is sharpened. Moutain gardening. Ain’t it grand! Next week we’re going to play with rocks!