msfledermaus | Shopping in the Land of Multicolored Sheep...

...I ran an errand or two with friends yesterday--well, more like yarny errands. Heh. The Queen of Stuff and I were dropping of a large bag of weeds over at Ben and Peaty's chicken nirvana. (Turns out chickens are natures great weed-whackers. They ate the entire bag's worth, which had to be at least 15 pounds. Who knew?) Happily Ben and Peaty and Rocky and Ben's mother were all congregated out on their lovely porch, so after some quality time burbling at the tame geese and feeding cute feathery bowling balls we decided to go buy roving at Depth of Field. (My own little slice of woolly heaven close to home.)
I think the lady behind the counter was a bit alarmed when we came in--Rocky has a big pointy Mohawk these days and Peaty immediately went happily bonkers over the selection of roving colors. Sounds like Peat's taking his new spinning wheel with him to Sweden next week...Yikes. Couldn't he just make do with a drop spindle and maybe borrow a wheel in some of his classes? That can't be cheap--especially now. I can just imagine the customs guys poking the wheel and saying, "Und vatt is THIS for, yung man?" when confronted with the threader and the oil bottle... At any rate, we spent a while playing in the sale loft and picking and choosing and putting back and picking and choosing some more. I got some decent orangey-stuff for a hat with fox ears for a friend. And some colored wooly bits. And some different colored wooly bits. *siiiiiigh* Good thing most of it was on sale:)
We also took Ben's mom to Keefer Court (an amazing Chinese bakery) and stuffed ourselves with buns. Curry buns. Custard buns. Spongecake. Sticky rice dumplings. BBQ buns. Oooooooh, the buns!!!! The BUNS!!!!!

I love days like that. It tired me out a touch, but in a good "I'm having a day off" kind of way...and I dreamed of multicolored sheep. Beeeeeeeh...