Meet our new alarm system. Somebody drives by, they gobble. We open the door, they gobble. We close the door, they gobble. Somebody walks by, they gobble.
This picture is deceiving. It looks nice and warm, but I promise you it is not. The wind has been wicked cold.
We are not greening up as fast as I would like. As you can see our alarm system is hard at work.Back in the early 2000's, I had Black Current Honeywine from the Prairie Berry in Hill City. It is a small winery that uses wild fruit to make their wines. I was hooked. It was amazing. In 2010, I bought a small winemaking kit with dreams of creating wild fruit wines. I planted an orchard and pick the wild berries that are plentiful on our property. I have made 186 batches of wine, but I have never had enough black currents to make a batch of the wine that started this journey. Today was a banner day, because after months of racking, I finally bottled my first batch of black current wine. I am happy to say it was everything I had hoped for.
Unfortunately, not everything is coming up roses. I have never missed a deadline in my life. From 4-H projects as a kid, work related deadlines, to my quilting goals. I am afraid my latest quilt is going to be the dealbreaker. Everything was going well, up until the quilting part. Quilting is my favorite part of the whole process. Until this quilt. Nothing has gone right. I have read every quilting article and watched every video that exists. The thread keeps shredding, a possible bur, but I can't find where that might be. It could be the thread as other threads don't have tension issues, but the thread I'm using fights every effort to align the tension. Today I did a whole row thinking I had figured out the problems, my thread wasn't shredding, all was well. Then I looked at the back. Hours of work for nothing. It had started fine, but somewhere it decided to go funky.
She graduates on May 10th and there is no way it will be done in time. I am devastated. I will figure something out, but not in time.