Friday Fluff: Family Ties

 

Ever since we found so many unknown to us relatives, my sisters and I have been going hot and heavy with the genealogy. Combing through old documents that have been uploaded on Ancestry is addicting and keeping me up at night but look what I found....I hit the jackpot. My 5th great grandmother on my mother's side, the Allen branch, had a SPINNING WHEEL.

Like mine. 

And a pair of hand cards like mine for doing this. I was so chuffed to find this out. She also had 10 pounds of wool, 6 ewes and 4 lambs according to the inventory she submitted for her husband's will. 

She also had a "weaving apparatus" like mine and I hope a home as messy and full of things to do as mine. This makes me wildly happy even though I know most women had that stuff back in the day which for this lady happened to be in 1770 in the English colony of Prince George, which became the county I happened to be born in and had lived most of my life until we moved to the beach. 

And.....I've finally made peace with my yak. I spin at night pretty much in the dark while watching whatever I am watching on TV and just don't look down. I'm just going to enjoy it running through my fingers and not think about a finished product.