Following up

Here's Blair during a meeting of the Friends of Blair's Club in San Juan Capistrano I love you Blair!

We took a leisurely drive up the coast from San Juan Capistrano to Long Beach we rode the Ferry across from Balboa Island to Newport Beach
The lights of Newport Beach Ca. from the Ferry
After all the trunk shows and VK Live Mike thought a good Restful Sunday activity would be to finally plant my Orange trees


Done!
For Valentines day we went to Julian CA. which is up in the mountains near San Diego, we strolled around and found this clump of Spring

After strolling around Julian we went to Orchard Hill Lodge and Mike took a nap while I looked at the bag of vintage buttons I bought
The next day we drove to the Desert.... this is an Occotilla bush in Anza Berrigo Desert
Wild Flowers in the blazing sun
Mike strolling around
Ummm pie at the Julian Pie Company
While we were back in Julian Ca. Jan was in Oregon at Fantasy Fibers using her skein winder
After strolling around in the desert we drove to the ocean and had dinner at Las Brisas in Laguna Beach CA

Sunset on a lovely trip
On return we found Lily had made a friend of Angela
This is yarn that now is at Atelier Marin and Atelier in San Fransisco
We also dropped yarn off at Knitterly and while Angela and I were in Northern California, Steven was making deliveries in Southern California. Angela, Becky and I did 62 skeins last week! Now onto Becky's house! hurrah

We're in Eureka California!

Angela and I are on the road heading home to Oregon. Presently we are in Eureka California, looking forward to a wet and exciting ride since it is snowing in Oregon. Spinning Guild has been canceled tonight so our haste is somewhat diminished. We were suppose to go to Washington for a Northwest Regional Spinning Event, but I'm thinking it will be cancelled as well.

Meanwhile I'm going to think about good times past. This is a picture of a glorious spring day in Southern California at the Huntington Library with Jan and Neil... I would love a little sanctuary like this to sit in.....

Mike and Neil looking up things on the computer at one point three of us were on three different computers.... don't you love technology
While the men surfed the women worked
Jan is harvesting her Meyer Lemons to take back to Oregon
Happy Birthday Jan!
Wish us well on the road!

Random Thoughts

We have been seriously making yarn. We even had stock for one brief moment! We went to Jennifer Knits for a meeting and a yarn delivery and while we were there I taught this knitter an easy way to cast on and join her cowl in the round, of course she is using Tanglewood!

This is work in progress, Newport Rocks in Cashmere/Silk
The dyes ready to go
While we are dyeing Angela and I sat plying
It's been a long time since we went the grocery shop and here is the result a lot of groceries
Last Sunday we had "Restful Sunday" both Angela and I had trouble sitting still but I'm glad I did as I saw the first Aprium Blossom on the tree. We also witnessed Anna's Hummingbirds courting.
We have been waiting for our shipment of Cashmere for a long time. It's not any one's fault but the weather sure made it hard....
We went right to work on it
Wednesday we had a visitor from Connecticut Jenny on the left and Angela on the right. We went to my remedial knitting class and I worked on a very sad hat. I ended up ripping it all out and starting again.....Afterwards we went out to dinner!
My Dad's been poorly so I've spent some time doing jobs, taking him to the MRI and shopping for him. While I was there knitting watching the cleaning service I started to really miss my Mom, it was so odd for her not to be sitting knitting, almost like she was just out of the room, but it was hard to pretend and I got very sad as this month marks the two year anniversary of her passing....
Look Angela's dyeing!
Erica's Sunstone in Cashmere
Sara waving to us all after another lovely day of hair magic on my head...
It's been quite a few weeks and Angela has been working hard and I think enjoying it, but she has a very quiet gentle approach to life so it's hard to tell. She is working hard and trying to keep step with me, a hard task to be sure. It takes time to really "get" what has to be done. I'm a random thinker so there is a learning curve, we are settling into a nice work pace and I'm so happy! We are still in Los Angeles dyeing up fiber and hope to be on the road later this week. So keep your fingers crossed!