Sheep and Wool - the Aftermath!

Well - I went and it was awesome!! I was there both days. I bought yarn, roving, baskets, met new friends, hung out with old friends, ate sheep, looked at sheep and petted sheep, knit and even spun a little. Overall - it was a great weekend.

It all started on Saturday with breakfast at Coleen's house.

She had quite a spread and even carved us a watermelon in the shape of a sheep to get us ready!!


She had also finished her Arwen - it's it gorgeous!



After breakfast - we headed out and soon were in the midst of a sea of fiber enthusiats. I had no particular agenda - so I was free to take in the mobs of people lined up to buy Socks that Rock and Tess and Brooks farms and Sea silk at my leasure.

Hubbo even decided to come along! He had heard me talking about this "Sheep thing" as he called it for months and decided he had to see it for himself. Well - he was so great - he waited in the monstrous T-shirt line for me and about 10 of my friends! Thanks honey!

He even touched the wool!!


After a yummy lunch of Lamb - I went to the Blogger meetup and met lots of cool new people and hooked up with some old friends.













It was so great to met some people I had only written to online.

I also spent some time looking at the sheep - and definitely wanted to take one home... but alas! I decided my dogs wouldn't appreciate that...

Aren't they cute though!







It's a sheep cow!


Check out these 4 horned sheep!






There were alpaca and llamas and goats and rabbits too!


I did try a wheel or two while I was there - but nothing screamed "buy me!" loud enough - so I didn't come home with any. I did buy a few raffle tickets to win a wheel - so hopefully - when I win - they will be delivering that soon :)

The weather was perfect - I was in the company of great friends and found some great yarn and roving.

Thanks for a great day!



Day two and all my purchases tomorrow!

Slacker blogger

I've been a bad blogger this week! My mind has definitely been elsewhere.

I am in now in week two of a passport renewing drama and my time has been eaten away while on hold with the passport agency! To make a VERY long story short - I am leaving for a (much needed) cruise on Sunday and realized my passport expired a little too late to just mail it in... so 1 bazillion phone calls to the passport agency later - I finally got an appointment this morning. I still need to go back tomorrow and pick up the completed passport - but hopefully it will be OVER!!! You gotta love government workers though - really... I mean how else can they have fun except to play with people's nerves when they really need something.

Case in point... I need a passport... I need it now... I need it or I can't go on a trip... They have the power and know it... One *nice* lady told she made me an appointment and would email me the details and confirmation number later that day.

OK - this is the 21st century - emailed info - cool! Or so I thought....

Later that day... no email... next day... no email. Phoned them again... New *nice* lady on the phone say, "Email?... we don't email appointments. Someone told you the wrong information." (A.K.A. - you were the butt of some government worker's joke!)

So - I finally got an appointment for today thinking I'd actually get the new passport in my hot little hands immediately... wrong.

I feel like curling up in the fetal position and crying for my mommy to make it all better. (Nah - I'd rather just complain to you all!)

Oh a position note - I did get to have Cosi this morning... Mmmmm Cranberry Orange square bagels with butter.... heaven! They are one of the things I miss about working in DC.

Anyway - sorry I turned my short story into a long one after all - sometimes you just need to vent!

In other news... last Friday - I was in Virginia for the annual PeopleSoft Mid-Atlantic Regional Users Group (MARUG for those in the 'biz) and also got a chance to meet a fellow blogger! Since I was in the area - I shot Jinann a line and asked her if she was free for a visit! It's always cool to actually get to meet online friends in person - isn't it?

We met at Capital yarns and I bought some yummy Mountain Colors sock yarn and I finally got the Favorite Socks book I've been lusting after.


After that we ate some yummy BBQ at a local joint next door to the yarn shop... you could smell the BBQ in the shop too!

Here we are after our BBQ feast!




It was cool to get a chance to meet up!

Before I met Jinann - I had some time to kill and was driving around - looking for something to do when I spotted a sign for Sully Plantation. A plantation!? I had to check it out...

It was the home of Richard Bland Lee, Northern Virginia's first congressman, and was built in 1794. I didn't take an official tour or anything - but I did walk around the grounds a little and took some pics:







There were plenty of pretty yellow goodness around to suit the new Project Spectrum colors too :)



Definitely worth a quick stop if you're ever in the Herndon area!