Today I....

fed a goat, was snuzzled by an alpaca, had an experience with a buffalo and bought some yarn,,,,,pictures and video to follow.....

Guess The Stash Contest!

So I decided to include you all on my fibery weekend....If you can guess how much stash this yarn hoar comes home with...I'll send you a skein of something that came home with me...Not sure what it will be yet...

If you read my blog you know I loves the yarn...so all you have to do is guess the number of skeins I purchase...leave a comment with the number and I will pick a winner when I get back...

ETA:  I am posting at 8:00 pm and have been to WEBS and 2 LYS's and your guesses are way off so far!!! I'm just gonna have fun with this...your guess does not need to be right and I'll give everyone 3 chances!!!!!  And you may have a coice of the prize.....some nice, soft, buttery fiber goodness.....open around the world...

Fibery Weekend

I’m heading out tomorrow morning for a fibery weekend.  I’m actually taking a personal day on Monday to extend the weekend (we have to take them before the end of the year or we lose them)

The Hubs is staying home, as he just barely survived The Great Rhody Crawl.  Now if I really wanted him to come with me, he would.  But we all need some alone time and while I wouldn’t mind if he came, I’m good going on my own, too…

First I’m hitting up WEBS.  Their tent sale is this weekend.  I’ve never been to the tent sale, so not sure what to expect, except some fibery goodness….The Hubs gave me a generous gift card from there for Christmas, so I’m good!

Then I’m going to head further north and visit the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool on Sunday.  It’s going to be raining, so I get to wear my cool rain boots!  I’m also going to visit with some family I haven’t seen in awhile….

Then I’ll head back home on Monday…I told someone at work I was heading off for the weekend and she said, “It is a yarny thing?”  LOL, they know me so well!!!!!

I’ll take plenty of pictures, plus I have to take a bunch as I’m participating in  the Nerd Wars: Scavenger Hunt over at Ravelry.

Now to go figure out what projects to take with me!  That’s more stressful than clothes…I have to have some nerdy clothes for some of the pics…

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I’ll post all about mine on Monday..

Yarn Along

I don’t normally post these, but couldn’t think of anything else for today…

Small Things hosts this along….

I am still working on my second sock…really it’s a first sock, as it doesn’t match the first sock I started…new pattern…new yarn…

and I am finishing up A Borrowed Scot by Karen Ranney…love a good historical romance, especially in Scotland….and been skimming through Lorna Miser’s Yarn book….and earlier this week picked up the Fiber and Fabric Mania’s Guide….I have already highlighted the stores I’ve been to and getting ready to postit the stores I want to visit….

Geek Day

Next week is Spirit Week at school.  On Wednesday is Nerd Day…I prefer GEEK…I have the perfect shirt and I’m shopping Etsy now for some accessories….

I got these and this… I’m still shopping…wonder what else I can get…tons of buttons….I’d like this set.  How awesome is that!!!!!!  and this set…well I did order this.  Almost ordered a second one with the LOST numbers or a Lord of the Rings one, but passed this time…

She does custom bracelets…I would love one with the Gandhi saying “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” 

Okay I am off to watch Deadliest Catch…see ya’ later…..

My Mom

My Mom was the fourth child of her mother and the first child of her father.  My Meme’s first husband had died.  My mother was the first of six more. We don’t have many pictures of the family growing up, but I found some school pictures. 
My Mom at 12:
   My Mom spoke French until she entered kindergarten.  Then my Pepe declared that only English would be spoken in the house.  Which is a shame, as we lost the language.  My grandparents were descended from immigrants of the Quebec region of Canada.  I have traced that ancestry back to the 1700’s.
My Mom met my father in high school.  He was the bad boy from New York City.  My Mom became pregnant during her senior year. Her senior photo:

My parents married and my dad went off to fight in Vietnam.  My brother was born while he was gone.  Here we are in happier times:
I have a couple of pictures of me in that dress.  One is my favorite.  Here is another favorite of my Mom and I:
Look how young she was!  I think I was about 2 in that picture.
My Mom and my dad tried marriage for ten years and then they divorced.  They have remained friends.  They said, “Just because the marriage did not work out, there was no reason to ruin the friendship.”
My mom met a wonderful man, who became my stepfather:
This is at my wedding.  They were married for 18 years until he passed away on June 6, 1996.
He brought with him 3 daughters.  Here is a picture with his two oldest, their spouses and children at the time, there was one more addition.  My younger sister lives in Maine and has two girls.  We don’t see them often.

My Mom loves all of her grandchildren.
 
My Mom moved to Florida and was married on a beach in Tampa.
Luckily I was able to attend all of her weddings!  I was in her belly for the first, and in person for the other two!
I was able to bring my niece and nephew down to visit a couple of years ago.  We had a great time!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there and especially to my Mom…Love you!

Yarn Club

Anyone have a recommendation?  I just finished my first Loopy Ewe yarn club and loved it!  Am wishing I had signed up for the Indigodragonfly one....anyway looking to experience more...any one have one that I just have to experience???