With all the chaos currently in the country/around the world it has been a relatively quiet time here in the valley. I have finished threading the heddles/sleying the reed for the baby blanket and now only need to finish tying on. I have mainly been working out in the studio building more roof trusses so I can get on with the guest room roof. The weather has not really been helpful as it is now nearly three weeks since we had a span on 3 fine days – needed to take the tarps off and put up the trusses and then roof. We have a relatively fast method for two of us to manage it, but really need a couple of clear days. I have 4 trusses built that need to be put us, but forecast is for more rain so under-cover work means more work on building trusses (6 to go).

We also had a quiet family dinner to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, not that we would have been tempted out, even if there were festivities, I suspect.

Today is thunderstorms/rain which equals perfect for weaving. Yesterday it rained most of the day, but was a “brew day” – I now have an IPA fermenting and Honey Brown Ale about to go into the keg. We’ll be good for months.

I did have one exciting find when out early (to beat the rain) – we have been slowly re-introducing trilliums into our forest as we had never discovered any in the wild here, and suspected they may have been cleaned out while the property was unoccupied. I was in one part of our forest harvesting some bamboo for garden stakes and nearly stepped on a bed of 20+ trilliums. A quick search found at least two more areas with similar numbers.