A Winter's Day
Today it reached a balmy FORTY SIX degrees outside! I had started to forget what that type of warmth felt like.... Anyway. Joe and I took part in a wonderful Syracuse tradition- go to the car wash and get the incredibly thick layer of salt and chemicals off your car before the temperature dips below freezing again! Yay! Seriously, it was like a party at the car wash. There was a line for the automatic carwash (I am not exaggerating) at least 10 cars long. Then there were us peons using the manual carwash. This was my first experience with the manual carwash. What a thrill! The feisty sprayer nozzle and the weird foaming brush! Then again, maybe I was just intoxicated by being able to breathe in without feeling my nose hairs freeze...
Earlier I went with Joe to a woman's house where she has a small mill for making her own yarn. Surrounding her mill are the animals she gets the wool from- goats, sheep, alpacas. It's a fun place. The barn is full of an unknown number of cats. The goats are very sociable. And Janet, the owner, is very keen on teaching people about her business. As a result, I got to pull bunches of wool apart and feed them through a carding machine for probably about an hour today. Aside from that we did some wool conditioning, dying and spinning. Awesome.
Earlier I went with Joe to a woman's house where she has a small mill for making her own yarn. Surrounding her mill are the animals she gets the wool from- goats, sheep, alpacas. It's a fun place. The barn is full of an unknown number of cats. The goats are very sociable. And Janet, the owner, is very keen on teaching people about her business. As a result, I got to pull bunches of wool apart and feed them through a carding machine for probably about an hour today. Aside from that we did some wool conditioning, dying and spinning. Awesome.