Ignition
Man, time has just flown by this year and I have not written anything for a long time. But life is good and great and I can’t complain. Earlier in the spring Amanda, myself and my brother Lars decided to buy some goats for pets. We bought a bunch and then decided we had too many so we sold a few off and now we have ten goats that live with our two llamas at the farm in Troutdale. Goats are actually really cool pets. Before we always would have a few sheep around in with the llamas for company but they were always so flighty and scared all the time. The goats are great, more like a pet dog in a way. They are always interested in what is going on and coming right up to us and climbing all over and trying to eat everything and escape from their pen sometimes. We have a few different kinds and right now they are just hanging out as pets. Maybe next year if some of them have babies we will try to milk them, but for now they are just goating around.
Over the summer of 2008 Amanda and I traveled around a fair bit and had lots of fun being Tie Dye Vendors. We sold at the Gresham Farmers Market which continues to be our overall best place to sell tie dyes on a regular basis. It is close to our house, easy to set up and draws lots of customers. We also headed to a couple festivals this summer. One was a bluegrass festival in Bend called the Four Peaks Music Festival. The music was fun and great but the ambiance was a little lacking. It was kind of like back in the day at the 10,000 Lakes Festival in Minnesota, where we were sitting there having dust kicked all over us and just kind of camped out guarding our booth. Mixed reviews…
But the Northwest World Reggae Festival, now there was a fun event! Amanda and I camped out from Thursday through Monday and set up our best vending booth to date! We set up our 10 x 20 foot canopy and had it loaded with all of our different tie dyes, it looked great! The music was a blast too and we could hear everything and more from our booth as the music rocked late into the night. We will definitely be heading back to the reggae festival next year.
So for this fall Amanda and I have been working away at the Christmas wreath shop, managing and organizing things. The yearly harvest….
And then comes the ignition of the torch! We finally have our lampworking studio (glass blowing) set up at our house. It has all come together for this fall right when we are at our busiest making wreaths, but oh well, there will be plenty of time for I&I to learn our new skills lampworking this winter.
Be sure to check out my other website,
www.madebyhippies.com, to see all the new tie dyes we have been making and selling.
Peace and Love to all of Jah Creation Vibration!
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