fleeces

The reason I went to Estes Park was to look at fiber.  I knew the chance to see my best friend was such a long shot that it would not happen but after missing SAFF I so wished to go.  

Things I learned at Estes:  I do not like how llama and alpaca smell in enclosed spaces.  I almost got sick.  I am a sheep and goat person.  The pretty sheep above were for sale. 

I bought two bags of fiber that were from a Blue Faced Leichester/Shetland mix from Black Bar Farm and an unprocessed Bond sheep fleece from Gleason's Fine Woolies.  I was so excited.  I wanted to start spinning right away!  But I really needed to start heading home.  (More mountains in the background.  Already so missed!)

Once I got home and unpacked, the boyos verbally downloaded their life without me, I sat with one of the Blue Face Leichiester/Shetland fleeces from a sheep named Rain.  It is such a lovely dark brown.  I have spun a bobbin of yarn every day I have been back.  I am thinking that I would like a turtleneck like an old JCrew sweater I had in graduate school.  I am also thinking it may go very well with the yellow roving I bought.  I might not have enough of the grey yarn I was making for the sweater I was thinking of.  I am babbling I know.  It is how my head is working tonight.  Exhaustion has hit. 

The white roving may become a yoga rug.  I am making one for my best friend and I am changing my mind as I spin on how wish to put it together.  Welcome to my head.

I need to get into my garden and sit at my sewing machine.  There has been so much rain and heat that there are many weeds and mossie.  And I always have quilts to work on.  There are just not enough hours in the day.

have tea, will travel

I could have named this post, "have tea, tent, fiber, and boards.  will travel."  I did not have boards with me on this trip because I knew I would not have time to ride.  I thought I might not even have the possiblity to ride or a surface since none of my skateboards have off pavement tires.

After work on Thursday, I got into my old truck and drove to Estes Park, Colorado.  There was a wool market I wished to attend.  Actually, the original plan was that my best friend and I would go to the wool market together.  She started crocheting and I got her even more hooked.  

But then she scheduled a job over the time of the fair.  I decided to go anyway with the very off chance that I might see my best friend.  The closest she was was Vail.  Oh well.  We are trying to go together next year.  Or maybe I can talk her into going to SAFF.

I had a pretty fabulous camp site in the Rockies.  The skies were lovely.

I really did not have the best camera with me.

I sat.  Drank tea.  Watched the sky.  Enjoyed the mountains.  

I will right more about the market tomorrow.  I wish to drink tea and spin yarn.

By the way, have tea, will travel.  Traveling again this coming weekend but in the opposite direction.  My old truck and I.

me and my old truck

I am taking my old truck and heading to these skies this weekend.  There is a wool market I wish to attend.  And even though life has thrown more then a few curves in just the recent past, I decided that I am going.  I get to see mountains again.  Which is just does not usually happen so soon.  And maybe I will get to see my best friend.

The drive will be interesting.  I took my normal walk with Koda Bear this evening.  The first with him since we got back which also gives a few ideas on the curves that have been thrown.  Koda Bear does not walk.  He runs, jumps, droops, drags, hides, spins, hunts.  Everything small boys should do but holding my hand.  My arthritis does very well with one speed but add in all the different speed and gait changes?  I can barely move right now.  I am hoping a both in salt and ibuprofen will help.  At least I can sit while I drive.

I am down to my phone for a camera currently but hopefully, I will get some good photos.  I will share more mountains.  A bit of the dirt bag lifestyle going on!

May you live in interesting times

I am back from the mountain.  Have a Koda Bear.  It was interesting.

I took pictures of the travels to the mountain of mountains.  But there was so much rain and wind and clouds that most of the pictures look the same even though they are from all over the United States.  I miss all the mountains already though.

The were Great Grandparents on each end of our mountain per request of Koda Bear.  I found a place to by second hand fabric and yarn by the pound.  I found places to take interesting classes.  New quilt shops with very interesting ideas on the walls.  Only problem, not where I live most of the time.  This may require more traveling.  Such a hardship.

And the interesting.  A major automobile breakdown.  I got us to a rest area where there was a phone, bathroom, and a place for a small Mister to play.  But, because it was Memorial Day weekend, the diagnosis was not delivered until Tuesday afternoon.  The next day was spent on a bus, a train, a streetcar, and a plane.  The car is still in Utah.

Also, all the stuff is in the car in Utah.  Which means I do not have my normal camera for this blog.  I may be thin on the ground for the next couple weeks.  Also, I was planning to go to the Estes Park WoolMarket.  It does not look like I am going to make it.

I had a conversation with a lovely lady at the Museum of Natural Curiosity.  She asked what I was doing in Utah and I told her.  She was surprised that I could smile and laugh.  But you know, everyone was safe.  We had food and roof.  I could figure it out from there.

So.   I am just figuring things out if I am not here.  It is going to be that way for a couple of weeks.

surfing concrete

My boards have come into my life.  I am excited.  However, life has gotten a bit in the way and I have not had a chance to try them.  The trucks need to be tightened and my hips need not to hurt.  Though, I will totally admit that sometimes it is much easier to push a skateboard then it is to sit when my hips hurt like this.  I believe stress at work may have been the trigger.

These are beautiful decks.  I have a feeling Koda Bear may enjoy the one on the right.  I am going to take some of the older longboards to Grandma Sally's so everyone can ride.  It is why I bought helmets for her house.  I can clean and bandage scrapes.

Half the day today my hips did not ache.  That is better then yesterday.  I am going for no ache just tired tomorrow.  And a ride on Friday morning.  But even though I have these to play with, my Long Rodriguez may be my first ride of the day.  Just happiness.  There is no surf forecasted and my ear is not reacting well to allergies.  Surfing concrete it is.