Muse Breaks

Ya know what, I've read all over the interwebs that it's impossible to hybridize tomatoes and peppers by pollination, but I promise you, our cherry tomatoes grown overlapping our red chili peppers were spicier than your average tomato.  I wish I'd saved that plant so I could see how the tomatoes taste when NOT intertwined with a pepper plant, but alas, in our recent flood (our place flooded in the middle of the night, and pretty much destroyed a lot of stuff...) I lost my lil tomato plant.  Of course, the REAL reason not to grow peppers and tomatoes near each other isn't for hybridization, it's for preventing transmission of disease between the two...


Ah well, good news!

With the flooding of our apartment came the early release from our lease with them, which yielded an early signature to rent a house from the same friends who found our little Penny!   It's a 3 bedroom on half an acre of land, outside the city limits.  Meeeaaannning...we get to garden, let the dogs run around, and even get some chickens!  Well...the chickens are gonna have to come a LITTLE bit later...but still.  It's a big project, too, and you can read my opinion of it here.


All the hasty packing meant I lost a lot of craft supplies amongst the boxes, if they didn't get soaked and ruined, and a ton of my food was lost, too.  The leak happened in the kitchen...yipes.


BUT...I have been spinning up a storm lately (you can see it all on Ravelry - my name there is 13Wednesdays, same as my twitter), and am currently working on my fiance's turkish spindle, making some superwash bfl.  I JUST got some really awesome Blacklight-reactive fiber blend in the mail and am waiting for a gorgeous top whorl spindle in the mail.


I must not give my entire savings to Etsy.
I must not give my entire savings to Etsy.
I must not give my entire savings to Etsy.


Ooh, plus my birthday was here recently, and my friend who shares my spinning addiction got me surprise fiber, and is bringing it down this weekend!  Yaaayy!


Yeah...if you guys don't mind, I have a feeling this blog is going to be largely dominated by spinning in the near future, though I promise to share awesome gardening, other craftiness, and cookingness as it comes up!  Hopefully once we unpack and finish fixing up the place, domestic awesomeness shall abound.  :)




Ooh, and look!  I made a video on 3-plying (also called chain-plying or Navajo plying):


Enjoy, and see you guys soon!
-MM