Thankfully, the weather has cooled down. What a relief after so many days of unrelenting heat. When I first moved to da mainland, this one wahine said, “Oh, but you don’t feel the heat here like you do in Hawaiʻi!” Not.
Oh sure, Kona weather with no trades is miserable. But most days have the cooling trade winds to keep everything comfortable.
What a whirlwind of spinning! And more spinning! But ho da fun! This was my best tour ever, I think. I was Captain of one team, and Co-Captain of another one, which involved cheering on my teammates, responding to posts showing some pretty impressive spinning, and encouraging people who needed encouragement.
And in between, I got to spin! Housework? What’s that? Laundry? Well, I did have to have clean clothes. I also had to put in a lot of working hours. And posting my photos did take a lot of time; gettum off the phone, crop if needed, re-save them, upload to Ravelry. That was pretty time-consuming, too. And somehow in there I managed to cook dinners and make zucchini bread. Continue reading
Today is a sad day for me after all the excitement of Tour de Fleece. One of our two Jacob sheep hasn’t been doing well; for the past two days he’s gotten himself all tangled up in blackberry thickets and wouldn’t come out. Our angel helpers, Danny and Joan, along with Nolemana, had to take clippers and clip away the thorny branches from around him. Now I wonder if Paul knew his time had come and was trying to find a hiding place.
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I got to spin for about four hours today at The Gathering. I took my time, also participating to the discussion, listening to my friends share, and having a really wonderful time. I wasn’t spinning fast, just a relaxed time, so my bobbin doesn’t look very full. And I was trying to spin pretty fine, too.
Our neighbors just cut their hay; I wish I coulda been there to watch.
We had an appraisal to do up in Government Camp; good timing for a rest day. This pretty skein is all washed and dried now. Ho da happy!
Well, here are some TdF collages to document that I really have been spinning during these past buncha days.
So it was an official rest day yesterday. Some of us rested.
Auē. Been ‘way too long since I’ve posted. And I can’t blame it all on Tour de Fleece, either. Because that started just a week ago. And I left everyone in Montana! Sheesh.
I’ll catch up with that, but in the meantime, here are my TdF collages for each day.
OMG. This is the cutest thing! The little girl let a pīpī into da hale!!
Love you, AFK! I bet this could’ve been you small kid time.
Since I’m still not feeling 100% good (this has been the cold/virus of the century. Two weeks already. Oh. Wait. I’m not even a century old yet (good ting, yeah?) K’den, virus of da past twenty years den. I can tell I’m getting better, but still stay congested lidat. Killfight dis. But I digress.
Anyway, pau hana, I just kicked back and re-read all the posts from Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed that I did back in 2009. All the way to Montana and back. Sometimes I crack myself up, reading what I wrote. I am so weird sometimes. But you know what? It made for fun reading. So I think I should be more weird on this trip. Oh wait. I was. I just haven’t been writing it so much. LOL.
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