I have not tied the baling twine on my Rapunzel Chair II as I intended. My plan was to tie on each piece of twine as it came off each hay bale.
So now I’m thinking I’m just doing this baling twine art differently than my others.
I already wrote about how warm it was today. The perfect day to tie on all those orange pieces of baling twine I’ve been saving up.
I was working on my Rapunzel Chair when Jon had come out to take this flower pictures. He finished before I did. So I move the chair under the apple tree and Jon sat while I knotted and tied.
Zip stretched out on the chair, playing with the twine, until he got bored and hopped up on Jon’s lap.
Fate was in the barnyard with the sheep, but Zinnia came over to see what was going on.
I tied on all the orange twine, knotting them together with the blue baling twine that’s hanging from the top rail of the chair.
Soon the sheep and donkeys will be eating grass instead of hay and I’ll stop work on my Rapunzel Chair until the fall. But I probably have about a month more of bailing twine before that happens.
I think I said before that I love that you are recycling this plastic. I miss the days when hay came wrapped in twine. Shavings also. Shavings used to come wrapped in paper. Now shavings bales come in plastic. We have 18 horses and they are bedded VERY deeply. We go through approximately 50-60 bales of shavings a day, and that’s a lot of plastic that ends up in the dumpster. It’s so upsetting.
Wow Dana, I can imagine how you feel. I just recently heard how the plastic companies started making more plastic when we began recycling it. I’m sure they find so many things to do with it that aren’t necessary, like the shaving bales the baling twine. I still have some of the old jute from the bales of hay we used to get.