My house smells of vinegar, kool aid, and wet wool today. I've been dying yarn all morning.
I had a secret ingredient I wanted to try out.
Last night at the 99cent store we found some kool aid packets. Not your ordinary packets mind you, but something called "Tamarindo". Yes, made by the regular kool aid people. I think there is a drink made from Tamarind seeds or something. I'll have to check that out on the net. Anyway, we bought a dozen packets and this morning I tried it on a hank of yarn. It made the most interesting shade of deep butterscotch. Hmmm. Let me see if I can get a decent picture of it. . . .
Here you go, and it's very close to the true color. . . . for once!
Evidently there are several flavors that we don't usually find in the store around here...Underground Kool Aid Flavors.
While I was outside a while ago, fiddling around with my latest felted bag.. (it's drying in the sun).... I heard a noise. I looked up into the sky where it was coming from and there was a flock of geese?, swans?.... (they were not Canadian geese, I know their call)... Anyway, they were milling around squawking at each other at a VERY high altitude. They were hard to spot with the blue sky behind them. But then they flew in front of a small cloud and I could see them clearly. They looked like they didn't know which way to go, flapping in all kinds of disorganized directions. Silly birds, I thought.
I went back to what I was doing and after a few seconds the squawking turned silent.
I looked back up and those birds were nowhere to be seen. I mean nowhere. It's like they vanished into thin air. The little cloud was rapidly dissipating, and they weren't behind it. It was weird.
So I figure either those birds bungled their way into the Bermuda Triangle in the Sky, or aliens abducted them. Aliens with a taste for goose.... or swan.... as the case may be. Strange things are afoot today in my neighborhood. At least at high altitudes that is.
I had to go check it out. Here is some information about Tamarind
Okay, I'm outta here. I need to go keep an eye out for aliens in my back yard.