East Kentucky Fibers

Well, I suppose I have a wee bit of catching up to do. I made an attempt at it a couple months ago, but the internet where I live is absolutely terrible and I got too frustrated. The last post I wrote was about the farm plans, which depresses me to look at because I [...]

I just can’t believe I haven’t written. There’s so much to say now!

I’ve been meeting with David Barber from the Small Business Administration and working on a very in depth business plan. I finished my plan relatively quickly, I worked 12 hours on it one saturday, it got a little crazy in Fields Hall for [...]

I sure have been away from the old blog, and I’m ashamed of myself. What happened was that I let my journal get behind and I’m not allowed to blog if my journal isn’t up to date. So I’m all caught up and I have time to blog now. I’ve been up to lots of [...]

I’ve wanted to blog so many times, but blogging can only be my reward for keeping up with my written journal, which I haven’t been doing. I just finished today writing about the Clifftop music festival last weekend, or was it the weekend before?
The 2nd Morehead Fiddlers Convention went really well. I had a [...]

I had such a grand time being gone for the last few weeks. I went to Park Lake in Fleming County, KY where my Grandmother Wood has a beautiful hundred and something year old cabin.

It’s my favorite place in the entire world. She put a TV while I was there, with a dish, much [...]

I’ve currently been struggling through spandex hell, I had a breakthough with the nylon thread though. I’ve been trying to make a swimming suit and it’s rough. The plan is to make a tank top kind of top and shorts for the bottom, I have the bottoms made and they kind of fit, but they’re [...]

This weekend I went to the fiddler’s convention in Mt. Airy, it was a blast. I met lots of new people, including George Gibson, who I’ve been wanting to meet for a while. Brett Ratliff and I rode up together from Whitesburg and set up our camps near Matt Kinman and Jeremiah Jack Campbell’s. There [...]

Yesterday Dale and I went to the farm to see Joey and since it was such a heavenly day out I decided to ride a bit. A neighbor of the man keeping my horse invited me to come on a trail ride with her and some other people and I was very happy. This was [...]