Socks and sheep – let’s start with the socks. These are the “Impossible Girl” socks. Since I’m a slow knitter, they are just now ready to turn the heel.
They would be very happy to follow me right into the house, but I squeezed through the gate, leaving them out.
Rehearsal dinner
The venue was a vineyard high in the Saratoga hills. It was simply gorgeous. I don’t have a cake photo because the winds kicked up and it was so very cold, some of us left after the bride/groom dance. Our prayers are for a long and happy marriage.
So no one will be concerned, I’m taking a vacation. Will see you again on Sunday
These two babies thought I needed watching, or maybe they just know that after clean-up comes dinner. By the time I fixed meals, went to the gym, cleaned a stall, and watered the hoop house, I had used up my energy for the day, so I am spending the evening knitting. It may be another week before I get back to the sewing machine. I had wanted to finish a quilt this month, but ……so far it hasn’t happened and I’ll be out of town for the weekend.
With this lovely spring weather, I started the day weeding, then putting bulbs in this front area. After that and some hoop house planting, it was lunch and a few errands. And so goes the day so quickly
So tonight I was able to sit down with “impossible girl” socks. They are so very easy, it is the girl who is impossible, not the socks. I love how fast they are working up. The yarn was on one ball and when I rolled half of it off, one side is a bit redder and the other has more blue tones, but not terrible different – sister socks.
These tomato plants have been in for three weeks and are doing very good, so today I planted some tiny little sauce tomatoes that are barely up, but it’s now or it won’t happen. Tomorrow I will try to get some more peppers in. The peas, onion, garlic and cauliflower are doing good. The kale is ahead of me.
I picked a large amount of kale. It is amazing – first you plant and water and fertilize, then you get to wash and process the food. This all seems to take so much time. Grocery store food is CHEAP. But what we grow is better.
When I got to the fairgrounds there were still many unsold fleeces to be picked up.
I was happy as half of mine sold. The fleece that went with this rosette was sold. Though I know this day had 24 hours, like every other day it seems it has been a long day.
Kirsten was the judge for the Shepherd’s extravaganza 2018 here in Washington. She judged more than 300 entries yesterday and today. We entered 14 fleeces. I was disqualified because of a break in the fiber we missed. The others all received blue ribbons. One of the Shetlands will receive a third place ribbon in the primitive breeds. We are delighted with the results.
These are two of the Cormo fleeces. I’ll be getting either the sales papers or the fleeces of any that did not sell on Sunday evening. It has been a long 2 days.
I have finally started a new pair of “impossible girl socks”. The designer, Madeline Gannon, says they remind her of the “Impossible girl” on Dr. Who in a BBC series. So the socks are not impossible, the girl is. I need to look for a label for the yarn as I can only tell you that it is wool with a bit of nylon.
Ava’s baby is the last of the Cormo babies this year. She was a hefty 11# 1 oz and had to be assisted into this world. Two of us really held onto those back legs and pulled. Wet lamb legs are very slippery.
Miss Juliette wants to be a dog most of the time. She must think the dogs have it better and maybe they do.
She wants me to see that she can play bow, run and jump just like the dogs. She only wants to be a sheep when she has babies. So do we class Juliette as a dog or a sheep? Seems she is as confused as some people.