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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 8h

Such an unexpectedly great film!

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 8h

Sweet Wobble was very wet after the nice rain we got.

#cormosheep #sheep 🐑

A white sheep with a pink nose and golden eyes looks closely into the camera.

The same sheep, this time looking off to the left. His wool looks a bit dirty, and is quite wet from a rainstorm. His name is Wobble, and he is an elderly (12~13 years old?) Cormo sheep.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 9h

My 2010 Subaru (manual transmission) is closing in on this number. Only car I've ever bought new.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 1d

🐒🔧🕰

Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 1d

Madness. One of these days this planet is going to shake us off.

TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Worth the read. Absolutely insane use of power, dirtiest energy in decades, programmed by rich males, what could go wrong?

AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter gifted me one of these last Christmas!

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 1d

I've made many hundreds of heddles on a similar jig, though with a single piece of string, so a bit different from this variation. You have some great old weaving books!

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

Presto - the new pony is in the barn! Which is to say; I spent several hours wrassling the new antique loom together, and did it without dropping any timbers on my head, so – yay!

Also, look how adorable these heddles are.

#Weaving #antiqueloom

An antique weaving loom standing tall in a rustic barn studio.

The same barn studio several hours earlier, with the loom pieces in a pile, waiting to be assembled. The room has bare, sloping wooden walls, and the floor is painted mustard yellow. Two windows flank an open loft door, and a green landscape is visible through them.

A heddle-knitting jig with string heddles being made. A netting shuttle loaded with linen twine rests on the shaft bars. My feet are visible at the bottom of the frame.

A closeup of some of the string heddles as a dowel (used to form the heddle eyes) is removed. My hand is holding the heddles. They are about 8 inches long, and the heddle eyes are about 1/2" in diameter.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

Mad king don

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

That's interesting! They are indeed knotted. The simple loop one makes first is very similar to the heddles we use for the warp-weighted loom (which are also called "knitted heddles"). I'll have to look and see what the step is called in Norwegian.

Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

That is definitely a sign of a good event.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

Haha, I see what you did there. :-)

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

It's a type of reel, so not a swift... Reels are for winding yarn from a bobbin into a skein, and swifts are for holding a skein of yarn while it is wound into a ball, or onto a bobbin, etc. :-)

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 2d

And this

a man stands at a podium with a sign that says right side

Alt: Stephen Miller stands at a podium with a sign that says "trump." He is speaking to a crowd and gesticulating like the fascist he is.

media.tenor.com

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted this beautiful winder at neighbor's yard sale and had to bring it home. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it has an adorable "clicker" design. It's a typical, 2-yard circumference, 80-yard measure.

#handspinning #reel #weasle

Am antique yarn winder. It is made of dark wood, has long, thing legs, and 4 arms. It's sitting next to a red woodstove in a farmhouse living room.

A detail of the mechanism of the yarn winder. When the winder is turned clockwise, a wooden gear on the side of the winder turns counter clockwise. A small wooden peg on the gear passes the arm of a weight once every 40 turns. The peg pushes a lever down, and when it passes by, a wooden knocker strikes the table of the winder. The winder is also designed with a built-in wooden handle at the top.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 3d

I lifted lots of heavy things this weekend (still didn't get the firewood stacked, tho).

A panorama view of construction in a barn. There's a door on the left, a new wooden wall, partially-patched concrete floor, an old stone wall, and tools strewn about.

Another barn view (this is a different building from picture 1). The floor is made of large stone pavers. There's an object under a white cloth in the center of the frame (it's an antique fanning mill, a seed-cleaning machine). Bundles of hemp and flax are stacked at the back walls, and there are tools, tires, and random objects hanging on the walls.

The upstairs of the building in picture 2. A disassembled loom, a warp-weighted loom, and other weaving-related objects are in an interior space with exposed roof trusses and a painted, yellow floor.

Two cords of firewood lie in a large pile outside an old white farmhouse. In the background, sun shines on a patch of fall foliage.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 3d

A friend of mine (age 92) has been taking visitors to see the graveside he has chosen for himself. He seems to really enjoy this.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 5d

A sunny afternoon at the farm.

A panoramic view of a landscape with green trees, sheep, and a very blue sky.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 5d

*throneroom

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

Sen. Schatz: “They have the money to cover for Trump's economic incompetence, but apparently they don't have the money to prevent a small business owner or a taxi driver or an early retiree from losing their health care.”

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 6d

A hug for you. Sometimes rescue work is very hard. 💔❤️❤️‍🩹❤️

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 6d

Nice!

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 7d

Such helpful dogs (lending moral support while I work in the barn).

Two dogs lay side by side on the floor of an old barn.

Some freshly-laid concrete blocks in the same old barn.

A tall, tri-colored collie stands in the doorway of the barn, looking at the work in progress.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 7d

If they're connected to each other at top and bottom, they could be this kind. :-)

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 7d

It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing of the remarkable Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91, who died of natural causes in Los Angeles, CA while on her speaking tour in the United States.

Photo credit: Marko Zlousic #jane #goodall #JaneGoodall #drjanegoodall #wildlife #nature

Jane Goodall, we are sad to hear of the passing, today, 1 October 2025, of the remarkable Dr Jane Goodall 😢

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