After searching for a couple of years, we finally found our future alpaca ranch! The perfect piece of land to embrace the life of voluntary simplicity.
Snow pictures from north Texas historic snow storm of February 2010.
Slouch hats are all the rage and finding a slouch hat knitted pattern, similar to the slouch hat worn in the movie, Twilight, isn’t easy to do. Here are the slouch hat knitted patterns I found after several hours of searching the net. Most are free and 2 are from Etsy.com.
I bought this beautiful chunky baby alpaca yarn to knit my mom a prayer shawl for Mother’s Day. See the yarn and find out where to get this special prayer shawl knitted pattern.
I loved the Yarn Harlot’s book “Knitting Rules!” Besides being packed with great info, it made me laugh and feel part of a special knitting club.
I’m busily working on knitted Christmas gifts for the family. I posted a blog entry on the knitted slouch hat I was making and wanted to put up a photo of my progress. I’m also working on a knitted lacy scarf for another daughter. // // // ]]> The photo doesn’t really express the softness [...]
I love local yarn stores but the one near my house got terrible reviews for rudeness. Should I pass this one by?
There’s something about living in Texas that gets into your heart. It took me a long time, but I’ve come to appreciate the life and the people in Texas.
We’re looking for the perfect place in Texas to raise alpacas. I’m picturing rolling green meadows with wildflowers and trees and wide open spaces. We’re finding the wildflowers all right but so far the properties we’ve looked at are also full of fire ants, thistles and junk piles. We started our search for this place [...]
We recently visited Reilings Alpaca Ranch for an info session which included a tour of the ranch and a visit with the alpacas. This visit convinced us this was the business we wanted to supplement our retirement income.
