Fiber Arts Friday: Tour de Fleece 2013, part 3

More Tour de Fleece this week.  :-)

Friday, July 5 - Holiday from the Day Job

Today I had a real, honest-to-goodness day off.  We slept in.  I leisurely goofed around on Facebook and Ravelry for a while.  We did some chores around the house but I did not have to be anywhere or do anything for anyone today.  It's been a long time since that happened.

I got word of a bear in a tree nearby so I went to check him out.  It was a young black bear they think had been spooked by the fireworks.  Parks and Wildlife was on site.  They had the area taped off.  He was snoozing while I was there but came down on his own sometime in the night.

After a great day off, I only really spent about 10 minutes spinning,

Saturday, July 6

A trip to the Farmer's Market had me spinning on my very first supported spindle.  No photos, but a lady we met there was spinning a beautiful wool-silk blend for an eventual sock yarn and let me try a little.  :-)

Then we had a day trip with a couple hours in the car, so I spun a Romney Lamb/Alpaca blend while Hubba drove.  This is my first time using my new, super-light spindle.  It was all park-n-draft in the car, but I will get some more time while traveling later this week.

I'm afraid this is my alpaca for the Tour.  I don't have any other prepared alpaca and the only other camelids I have in roving form is llama.

Sunday, July 7

I started the morning with about 15 minutes of spinning cotton today.  It really is a lovely way to begin the day.  :-)

Monday, July 8 - Rest Day

I spun for about 15 minutes today to make up for not spinning on Day 1.

Tuesday, July 9 - Traveling

Travelling today for the Day Job.  It was such a long day but I was able to have dinner with some friends.  So I spun maybe 10 inches of the Romney Lamb/Alpaca blend.  Not a lot, but it counts.  :-)

Wednesday, July 10 - Traveling

Another incredibly long day.  I spun at the MSP airport while waiting for a delayed flight.  A bunch of passengers were upset about the delays, so there were a couple of Police Officers hanging around.  It seems people have forgotten about the "benefits" our modern Hub-and-Spoke air travel system.  :-/

Weather on the East Coast caused Air Traffic Control to hold flights in Chicago.  Our plane was coming from Chicago.  So while Southwest Airlines does not use a Hub-and-Spoke system, they do use Hub airports and are therefore affected by the traffic backups in the Hub-and-Spoke systems.

Then I spun while waiting at the DEN airport for the shuttle to my part of the state.

I did not spin on the plane because I was in the middle seat and didn't think it would be kind to elbow both of my seat-mates for two hours.  I also did not spin on the van because it was way too dark and frankly, by then the only thing I could think about was how anxious I was to see my pillow.

Hubba and the dogs gave me a great welcome home.  I'm pretty sure they love me.  :-)

Thursday, July 11

After the late night, I was able to sleep in a little and spun for about 15 minutes while making coffee before logging on for my first meeting.

I am no longer down a day and I have spun an alpaca blend.  So I'm feeling pretty good about my Tour de Fleece goals so far.  :-)

But last week I spun 1/2 ounce of cotton, this week 1/4 ounce of cotton.  Only 4 3/4 ounces to go.  Yes, there was other fiber involved this week, but I don't think I will finish this wad of cotton before the Tour is over in about 10 days.  ;-)

Happy Fiber Arts Friday.