Happy Monday!

Okay, so this weekend didn’t go quite as planned, but overall it was fun anyway! We never did go to the Gardner Museum on Saturday . . . we almost went to the Peabody-Essex Museum but it was getting so late it seemed pointless to go . . . so we wandered around a couple of antique stores in Marblehead and then the guys decided we really should be in Rockport so we headed up that way and had dinner (which was okay, but not great) and strolled around a few galleries and shops. All in all it was a fun and casual afternoon and evening.

Sunday I tried to get a few things done around the house, which turned into very few things getting done. I did read a little more of HP and worked on some of my knitting projects (includining the secret one) and I had my Aunt and cousins over for dinner which was fun.

I did start trying to spin this chocolate colored “wool”/llama blend fiber that I have a pound of. So far I’m not overly impressed, but I am learning something about picking fibers. I was in a sort of fiber induced daze when I went to NH S&W and wasn’t using all my senses when it came to buying stuff . . . . this fiber has what seems to me like a lot of guard hairs in it and it is either older or just not well processed or something because it isn’t spinning very nicely at all. In fact, its actually work to get it to spin! Now I’m glad I only bought a pound of it and not the 2-4 I was considering buying at the time!!!!

Silkworm Update:

Well, we are on the final stretches of silk production! As of this morning there were 5 worms that hadn’t started to spin yet and the first of the moths has hatched!!!! As soon as I manage to get my act together I will add the pictures I’ve been taking . . . .

Guess that’s it for now . . . more later if I think of anything . . . .