Wow, its saturday already! Time sure does fly when you are having fun!

Yesterday was a great day. A came over around 11 am and we made choc. chip cookies. Yum!

Our other project for the day was to teach her how to scour raw fleece ; ) I had lots of raw materials we can “practice” on. So in the spirit of a true, old-fashioned apprenticeship we got to work on about 2 1/2 lbs of very greasy corriedale. First we teased the locks open a bit, then stuffed them into mesh laundry bags. Once we had 4 bags full we started running the hot water. We then did 2 washes and a rinse on each bag full, putting the rinsed fiber into a pillowcase so we could restuff the mesh bag for the next batch. Once we had 3-4 bags worth in the pillow case we gave it a spin in the washing machine. It took us almost 12 hours to do it all! Of course we did bake cookies while the sink was filling and watch a couple of movies while we were teasing the next batches of wool . . . . but it was a long day worth of work and she hung in there quite well.

We also got permission for her to stay over and had planned to start the next fleece this morning. However, the day and my husband had other plans for us and so far we’ve been to the Grocery store, the bank, the post office and Home Depot. I’m about to take another run back to HomeDepot and then we are going to make bananna bread and apple pies. My Dad is coming for dinner tonight and Monday is his birthday so he is getting a birthday apple pie (he likes them way better than cake) and A has some homework to do, but we might, just maybe, find the time to scour just a little more fleece before we call it quits.

thats all for now!