As The Yarn Turns

A Very Good Day

I really meant to post to my blog before now. The problem was that we took off the week between Christmas and New Years Day. Well that wasn't exactly the problem until we had to go back to work after that time off. We got used to those lazy days during the holidays. Of course things got very hectic as soon as we got back to work. Now we expected that, but it didn't make it any easier. So now we've finally settled into our routine again. But we did get a break on Thursday. We had an appointment early on Thursday morning in Huntsville, a little over an hour away. We also had another appointment in the evening. Since we rarely get to spend time in the bigger city of Huntsville during a work day, we decided to make a day of it.

Now this is Alabama. Spinning and fiber shops are in short supply around here, so it's a real treat when I get to actually touch the fiber before I buy. After our first appointment, we headed up to Harvest, Alabama to Little Barn where I spent about an hour fondling fiber and yarn. It's a homey little store and even Rick gets a kick out of going there. They are always friendly and they have some of the neatest old spinning wheels on display, not to mention some nice handspun, knitted shawls.

Now they happened to be restocking that day but I still managed to find plenty to buy. I bought some more Shetland because I really liked the last stuff I spun, some charcoal merino and other wool, some bright blue wool that Rick liked, some variegated silk (mostly rose and cream colored), and some carded fiber that was a mixture of wool, camel, alpaca, llama, silk, and mohair. That's me, below, making my purchases. And no, that large bag to my right isn't my purchases, that's some fiber they are working on. It's probably good that I didn't spot it before I checked out. It's black and white merino and silk - very nice stuff.

So with purchases in hand, we head back to Huntsville for lunch and then to go to the library for a little genealogy research. On the way out, we stop at the library used book store and Rick comes away with two bags of old rare out of print magic books. (I didn't really think it was quite fair since I found nothing, no matter that I had a trunk full of fiber.) By then we had enough time to stop for coffee and do a little shopping. Then off we go to have dinner at our favorite little German restaurant, Ol' Heidelberg, with some out of town magicians and ended up talking and laughing and talking and laughing until way too late when we all made the long drive home. I had so much fun on our day away that my brain was tired the next day. That's a good thing.

I have gotten some other knitting and spinning done since my last blog but I'll save that for another day. Now I think I need to rest just from telling the story again.

by Sydney  |