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This is what greated me this morning when I went out to the barn at 6 a.m.
All four baby bunnies were out of the nest for the first time ever.
After keeping the babies inside, here in my office for 5 days, I decided on Friday that it was time to move them back outside with Mamma. Annie wasn't quite sure what to think about having that big old nestbox back inside her cage, but she stepped up to the plate and has done her job well. She isn't at all sure what to think about these babies hopping all over the place, trying to nurse when ever THEY feel the need
Last Monday night I started a night class at a not so local college, 25 miles away. The class meets for 3 weeks, two nights a week. For an early morning person like myself, this is torture. However, it would be even worse if I had to take the same class, and drive out to the Boston area for 3 days, so I'll go with sleep deprivation, and convenience. The class has been really interesting so far, and the instructor is funny. He has lots of experience in our field, and many amusing stories to tell. Best of all, the group sponsoring the classes wants to hold more classes in our area, and since this college is less than ideal (they can't even get an overhead projector to the classroom so that we can view all the slides that go with the text), I have offered my services of setting up more classes in other places that will offer better location, times and amenities to the students. I LOVE doing things like this. I used to do it when I was an executive secretary for another organization similar to this one, and it is great fun. A lot of work, but a lot of fun.
Yesterday (Sunday) was spent down at the Wool Connection in Avon, CT. I took a class with Melissa Leapman called "Untangling Cables". You may remember that I had signed up to take a whole weekend of classes, but due to us having to move Calvin's birthday party to Saturday afternoon to accomodate several of my family members, I wasn't able to go down on Saturday. But yesterday more than made up for that. Our class was small; 3 students and Melissa. We were missing one other student, but we got lots of personalize attention, and it was so worth the trip down! Here is a picture of the swatch we made in class yesterday (and incase you can't tell what it is, the top part of the swatch is an anchor that is 3/4 finished).
And this is what I bought:
Actually, there is more to come as I also purchased Melissa's book "Hot Knits" which comes out in May. That will be mailed to me from the Wool Connection when it is released and in stock.
Melissa is a delightful teacher, who has written some wonderful books. It doesn't hurt that she is a Mount Holyoke grad, so we sit and chat about the area, and how much things have changed. She is also convinced that once her book "Cool Crochet" is released, that I won't be crochet impaired anymore either. She said that if her husband could learn how to crochet using her instructions in the book, then anyone could learn. We'll see. She doesn't know just how crochet impaired I really am. ;-)
Posted by baycolonyfarm
at 11:18 AM EST
Updated: Monday, 29 March 2004 11:29 AM EST
