Fiber Over Load, 2010

The last (also the first) time I went to BSG, I thought I was in heaven! I'd never been around sooo many like minded people! When I walked into the building on Friday morning, I was instantly euphoric! So much fiber! By Sunday, I was saturated with fiber, and I was actually ready to come home. Yeah, I know, weird right?
The time between Friday morning and Sunday evening was spent with new friends and old friends, spinning, gawking, buying and admiring all kinds of fiber and breeds of sheep. Mim and I even got to help a shepherd show her romeldales on Saturday morning! That was a treat! I haven't shown sheep in what... well long enough that I really had to think about what I was doing :) Too much fun!
I finally got to meet Michelle and her wonderful sheep! And Lois and her sheep attended, as well as Corrie and Kristy, and many many others!
Laura (from Walton, west of Eugene), Heidi, Toni, Robin, Linda, Sharon, Ian, Ilene, ...did I forget anyone? oh and Linda's significant other, from the Reno area were there as well. We all went out to dinner on Friday night to a neat little Mexican food joint in Eugene, we kinda filled the place up.
Ok, so back to the first day.
Mim and I got there on Wednesday evening, just so we would have plenty of time to make a trip to Florence on the coast. Laura had given us our hats (mine is going to cost me Babs' fleece this year, but its worth it :) and we got to wear them to the beach! Which was great, because although the wind wasn't too strong, it definitely had a bite to it.
The white wool in this hat is Babs!
I had a great time, and was delighted to show new things to Mim who hasn't spent a lot of time wandering beaches. We saw sand dollars, starfish, lots of shells, a few jelly fish, and a couple of beach houses that were to die for!
Kevin and I had gone to this beach when we were there last year for OFFF, it is covered in driftwood. I want this one...
Kev and I were in the car, so I couldn't take it home then, and Mim refused to take her topper off her truck so we could put it in the back... there wouldn't have been any room left for her two little ewe lambs, so I guess it was for the best. Sigh.
After wearing our tennies out on the beach, we went to the Sea Lion Cave, the largest Sea Cave in the country they tell us! I don't doubt it, it is rather large and holds an amazing amount of sea lions. Kevin and I went here too, on our trip, but it was no less fascinating to me the second time around.


More later! Have an eye doctor appointment in Elko today, and today is mine and Derek's 20th wedding anniversary! Going to have a steak sandwich at the Star I think... or lobster, whichever ;-)

Bubblin' Brew

I was walking through my back yard on Wednesday (something I do surprisingly little), when I came across a bubbling puddle. Nope, not black gold! Exactly the opposite actually, it was sewage.
I'm going to spare you the gory details, suffice to say it was an adventure from the start, thank goodness we had Kevin to help, I am so horribly dependent on him! What am I going to do when he leaves?
We hired a back hoe to do most of the digging, and the guy actually stayed and helped a bit with replacing the lines, which was great because Derek was on graveyard (always happens that way doesn't it?). Whilst digging up the sewer lines a water line to an outdoor hydrant was broken, which I capped off thinking it was a dead end and wouldn't hurt anything, well it wasn't. We had no water for 2 days while we tried to figure out the problem... the lines in the back go every which way (a legacy of the previous owners, and probably the ones before them) turns out the line that went to the hydrant also feeds the house. Who'da thunk that the line that comes out of the pump house would go out into the middle of the yard to a hydrant, then circle back around to the opposite end of the house? ugh.
We have water now, and no bubbling brew, but I'm pretty sure I've got a big question mark over my head begging the answer to the riddle of my water lines.

BSG
I will be taking a train to Reno tomorrow morning so my family will have two vehicles while I'm gone. Kevin is house sitting for a friend that's on vacation, and so is spending most of his time there. I only have one problem with the train idea; I have to get up at 4AM tomorrow. I hate getting up before the sun!!! I think I'm spoiled.
It will be fun though, Mim and I will get to visit for two days before we leave to Eugene, and I always enjoy visiting there. A vacation from my reality. We'll leave her place on Wednesday to go to Black Sheep Gathering where we'll stay with our friend Laura who lives outside Eugene. We're going to the coast on Thursday, then bright and early to the festival on Friday. Yay! :)

Talk to you all when we get back, have a great week!

Oh my, I'd forgotten how fast they grow...

Derek and Jari watched "Wolfman" yesterday, with Joy on the floor playing and she has learned how to growl... not sure how I feel about that... I gave them a talking to about watching this type of movie with the baby in the room, although neither of them think she's old enough to be affected by it; clearly she picked up something... but then Jari is watching E! all the time, don't know which is worse, a serial killer or a prima-donna.... yeah Ok, but those women truly irk me! lol
It is certainly very cute regardless :)
As you can see she's crawling (kinda) now, and it wont be long before she is pulling herself up onto things, and making all of us jump through hoops.