East Kentucky Fibers

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 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 [...]

Dale took me to the Red River Gorge last weekend. It was fun except that he made me climb at this awful place called Cloud Splitter. First it was easy, I just had to get in this skinny crack between two big rock faces, much like Fat Man’s Squeeze, but then it got insane. There [...]

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 [...]

I had a fun weekend, I’ve been too lazy about blogging though. My dearest friend Elizabeth came home and I got to see her. She also wanted some new pictures of her and the perfect opportunity arose at the farm. Let’s all be jealous of her for being so cute! I’ll start. [...]