Well, yesterday, my turtle, Athena, was adopted by a new family. She'll be well taken care of and be a beloved pet for another little girl. I'm a little sad that she's gone, but we haven't been taking very good care of her - especially when we lived in our last place and I couldn't get into the room that she was living in. I'm confident she's in good hands and the new family said they'd keep me updated on how she's doing. Here's Athena's goodbye picture...
Laurie and I had a big dinner party last Saturday with our church dinner group and some of their family members. Dinner was fabulous, we had a belgian ale pot roast beef stew, yorkshire pudding, and roasted vegetables. Basically, all of our favorites and it was delicious. When we were shopping for dinner at Trader Joe's we found the coolest thing! Brussel sprouts still on the stalk! I took pictures while Laurie prepped them for roasting, she called the zeal in which I photographed the sprouts the equivalent of vegetarian hunting. :)
Lastly, an update on knitting and spinning. I've started 2 new knitting projects this past weekend. One is the alpaca February Lady's sweater that I'm using the alpaca from Chile to make. It was a bear to try and wind into balls. We ended up with a tangled mess that Laurie's been picking apart. I think we're going to try wrapping it around something like a chair before trying to wind again because the hank is too big to fit our yarn store's swift. I also started the first project I've ever used my own handspun for. I'm knitting up a little kerchief with the lace weight silk that I just finished spinning. It's going really fast and the pattern's been easy to memorize so it's been a good out and about project. I also just got some new fiber. The purple in the pictures is BFL from Pagewood Farms in the colorway "River Rock". The second picture is of a BFL/silk blend that I got from Spunky Eclectic. The colorway is called "Joshua Tree" and I'm totally in love with it. I'm planning on making a pair of stocking with it and I'm really excited about it. I also got a little bit of Wennsleydale wool handpainted in the same color as the BFL/silk combo. I've been curious to try out new fibers and Wennsleydale is new to me, and I'm looking forward to try out spinning it. I'm going on a fiber diet for about a month or so now, I have so many projects to do and I really don't need more fiber. I do have sad news, my 12" russian spindle sustained an injury, the top broke off in my bag. I'm very sad about it, but I'm working on getting a replacement and also making a bag to protect the future new ones.
PS. Laurie said I could have an Angora bunny for Christmas!!!!! I'm so EXCITED!!!!!!!
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I actually said that chopping the sprouts off the stalk was like vegetarian hunting. You were just getting all excited about the butchery. :)
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