Mood:
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I seem to be adopting Carolyn's early rising hours. But that is o.k. Being up at 4:30 in the morning isn't necessarily a bad thing. I get to see the sun rise, and have the house to myself for atleast an hour and a half. I kind of like that. :)
So this is what I have been working on for the past couple of nights.
Spinning up small skeins of each different wool that I will have for sale this weekend at the Colonial Spinning Bee and Webs, and again at MA Sheep and Wool. The above skeins are a cormo/silk/angora blend (80-10-10). Very soft, infact I'm having a hard time not keeping this all to myself. But there are only so many fleeces and rovings that a girl can keep, so I'll keep a little, and sell the rest.
All this this wool that I'm talking about came back from Wooly Knob Fiber Mill this week. Two very large boxes full. These guys are great. For $4.50 per pound, they will not only process your wool, but they wash it too. O.k. I admit it. I'm lazy. For the past couple of years, since I started actively selling roving here at Bay Colony Farm, I've spent many hours at the washing machine, washing fleeces. It is NOT my favorite job. But it needed to be done, because I wasn't about to pay an additional $4 per pound to a processor to wash what I had to send out (trust me, I'm already spending hundreds of dollars each year on processing, but hopefully, that will end soon because I want to buy a carder). So when I found out that these guys do it all, well, they get the majority of my business (again, because I'm lazy
Today is our town fair. We'll take the kids up there later today, and let them ride the rides, and then it is dinner at my parent's house, since my brother Luke is home from CA. Should be a nice day today. :)
Posted by baycolonyfarm
at 6:44 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, 15 May 2004 7:39 AM EDT
