Front row at the Cineplex

I am having a weak day...he made me do it, The Husband. If he had just gone off to his Model Railroad meet this morning like I had planned, none of this would have happened. I am shuffling around in the ugly robe, trying to figure what my plan of attack for the day would be and he says the words..."I don't have to be there until two, let's go into Walnut Creek to the Apple Store". Oh, ok, sez I, sure, I would like to see that computer that you seem to think I need, what the heck. Famous last words. I get into the Apple Store and there are choirs of angels singing when I see The Monitor. Yes, my friends can all make fun of me, the woman who was computer illiterate 6 years ago. I am sitting in front of (cue angels) AHHHHHHHHHH. This. I told you, front row at the freakin' Cineplex. I have gone from squinting at my little iBook screen to this. Ahhhhhhhh. Of course now I have to spin my ankles off to pay for the darned thing but you know...POWER.

I digress. I finished that project, you know, the cake o' fiber, the pin drafted roving from Genopalette. It felt a little scratchy after I plied it but I thought that perhaps there would be a little bloom upon washing. Well, the angels were singing in the bathroom as well. It went from a signet to a swan (brown is nice, you know, brown can be beautiful).
Magnificent and soft merino emerged from the sink and voila...the finished product. I got it to over 1600 yards from that pound of stuff, without even trying and so I ordered two more pounds of it today, for the stash. Mindless spinning. I did have to switch the WooLee Winder back to the plying stage of the project, simply because it is not fast enough to keep up with me when I am spinning on a tear on dear old Rose. (that wheel, who is not really old, simply goes like crazy)

I put that yarn in the wash and hung it to dry and immediately dove into this.
I can not let any more grass grow under my feet, simply because I am in the countdown mode to the next show, which is in Santa Monica, the second weekend in June. Lots of work to prepare for this show but I am renewed and ready, after my inspiring and fun weekend in Maryland. I loved being around other artisans and their color, drinking it in for soul renewal. I actually think that buying a skein of another artisan dyer's yarn once in awhile and then putting it into my pallette for a sweater is a wonderful thing...a bounce on a trampoline up to another level. I can take in their energy and bounce mine off of it. Weird? Not in the least and when I can buy the other person's handspun yarn directly from them, I am giving them my highest compliment.

Vanessa said that she would like more dog pictures. Ok, I hear you. I took two new ones of the Tankinator just now. He is 13 weeks old now and getting gangley like a 12 year old human. He wags his whole body and I was telling someone that he reminds me of an articulated bus...the kind that bends in the middle to get around the corners. Yup, that's my baby.
I hope that gives you a little puppy fix for the weekend. Oh yeah...the fur on his head is turning chocolate. Good thing that I did not pay show dog prices for this dear little boy...Chocolate Hed, that's my Tanker Truck. (Mama is a Chocolate Lab and well, there you go.)

Comments

[Joanne]

I can't believe your desk is that clean. Amazing. I have paper piles on every side of my (not so lovely as yours) monitor! Also, I love every photo of your dogs--Tank and Sasha both. :) Joanne

[Renee]

That puppy picture is so sweet! I just want to eat him up!

[Lisa S]

Oh, the desk is clean but you can't see the pile o' stuff on my work table...sigh. Before long there will be plenty of the usual crapola on either side of the keyboard, believe me.
Tank looks like such a sad puppy in so many pictures but man, when he starts playing with Sasha, the grin gets to be a mile wide. What a lovely and loving boy he is...a real favorite with all of the LABS that live on this street. (someting in the water supply??? There is only one foofoo dog and she thinks that she is the queen of all the giant dogs...why IS that?) Oh, he found a new way to recycle cardboard cones from giant cones of yarn...crunch crunch crunch, shred, spread. There is a lovely grey scattering of cahhhhhhhhdboard near his favorite bathmat/dog rug. Lovely...

[Angela]

Tank is a cutie :) And I'm heading over to Genopalette ;)

[elizabeth]

That pin drafted stuff is something i gotta try!!! It looks great.

[Lisa S]

It is great stuff. It spins so fast and has enough of whatever came out in the wash in there to keep it sort of stiff, in comparison to most merino. Granted, this is not the superfine merino but any colored merino is less soft than that. I highly recommend it and I am grateful to whoever sent up the enablement alert that I followed. Yummy yummy. Elizabeth, your Rose should just devour the fiber and make you feel like a spinning diva! The price is great and certainly worth it.

[Helle From Denmark]

Ohhh, your poor ankles...want some help??*LOL* I denie to start talking about, how it looks around my minitor!:-))) It is a crafthome you know...*Grin*

The color on your wheel.......hmm..., i gues i have to hope to get a millionaire, if i want to get around at have a little "taste" of everything you have to sell!:-)))

Cute puppy....i had labs on my own, until 1998...they are just food-lovers, right??:-))

[vanessa]

thank you thank you thank you!!! that'll hold me over for a while ;-)

[Beth]

Great puppy pics - aren't black labs the best?

[Kerry]

Tank looks like a good kisser. Very cuddly dude. Thanks for the puppy fix!

On the far left of your wall, there's a cartoon that looks funny. What is it?

[Lisa S]

Recognize Bill the Cat? He sez in his Prayer For the Stressed:

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I cannot accpt and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow

Help me to always give 100% at work...
12% on Monday
23% on Tuesday
40% on Wednesday
20% on Thursday
5% on Friday

And help me to remember...
When I'm having a realy bad day,
and it seems that people are tring to piss me off,
that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend my middle finger and tell them to bite me.
Amen

This cartoon was sent to me a few years ago and I had it in the dye room (tell-tale dye splatters) to help me through a time when I was dyeing for "others"...

The poster on the right side of the computer is one of my favorite paintings at The Palace of the Legion of Honor, Teh Broken Pitche by William-Adolph Bougeureau.

[greta]

Oh, that APPLE store....
nirvana!
Sorry I missed you at Sheep and Wool, but glad you got to meet my pal
maryAnn...
she just emailed to tell me she
*might*
start thinking about blogging,
especially after seeing your site....
but what if it takes over her life?
bwahahaha...

[CarolineF]

That brown really DID turn out beautiful! Now, I am not a brown person so a voice in the back of my head would be saying, "overdye, overdye".

[Lisa S]

Hey, Greta! Mary Ann (of Three Waters Farm, you guys) is very talented and fun. I am so glad that I went into her booth on our second run around the big building. The work is beautiful and I told her that I am going to keep petting the skein that I bought from her because of the hand but also because her color sense fits right in with my own palette. I can't wait to find a perfect fit for this beautiful yarn. I know, she will blame ME if she gets sucked down into the vortex of blogging. I blame Caroline for my falling down the fleece rabbit hole after all of these years. Thank you, Caroline. Mmmmwaaaah!

Caroline, I thought about the over-dye thing and may do that with the second project with it. I know, all of you blue lovers think that we brown lovers are goofy. One of the charcoal fleeces that I bought will probably get a color treatment because it will be rich and deep and glorious. You just have to be more careful about what goes over brown...grey is a lot easier.