Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

27 February 2010

Independence Days update

It’s been awhile, so here we are with another update on the Independence Days project. :) Planted : At long last, it is time to start the ...

20 February 2010

Counting chickens before they hatch

Well, we aren’t actually counting the chickens … just candling eggs to make sure the ones in the incubator are viable – having rotten eggs e...

16 February 2010

A garden journal

I love my piles of gardening books. I have a wide variety of references, and I mix and match strategies to suit what I’m growing and where. ...

15 February 2010

Pizza from the pantry

We couldn’t quite decide what to have for dinner tonight, but we all wanted something easy, simple, and familiar. Pizza fit the criteria. ...

11 February 2010

Okay, THAT was a surprise!

I got a message on MSN this morning from The Boy. Mom? Yes.. Ewen (the calf) is in with the sheep, and the wether is in with t...

07 February 2010

Life’s too short to spin nasty wool

I am ruthlessly sorting the wool in the fibre room. Good bits are pulled off for washing, yukky bits are sent to the compost pile with no ...

06 February 2010

Washing Fleece

I recently got Alden Amos’ Big Book of Handspinning from the library: it has great writing style, lots of information, and I am most defini...

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