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A little longer than planned!

Posted by kenleighacres on March 29, 2011
Posted in: Farm Life, Felting. Tagged: , , , , . 10 Comments

My whippet, Paisley, and I headed over the mountain to attend the High Desert Wool Growers Fiber Market Day over the weekend.  The original plan was to leave Saturday morning and come home Saturday night.  When I looked at the road cameras of the passes on Friday morning, my plan changed to staying with my grandparents on Friday night and driving over from there.  Staying with them, put me an hour closer, cutting the drive time to 2 hours instead of 3.  However, that plan changed again when I looked at the weather forecast.  I didn’t want to drive over the pass in the snow in the dark, so I made reservations at a hotel and drove over Friday afternoon.  I was determined to enjoy myself and not worry about getting home until that time came. 

There aren’t very many hotel choices in Prineville, Oregon and even less when you wait until the last minute.  So I had to take what I could get.  Unfortunately, that was a room right above a bar that had a happening night life.  The building was innocent looking in the daylight.  The music was so loud, I could feel it thumping in the room!  Morning came very early!

Paisley did her best to convince me that we needed to go back to bed.

It was a wonderful show and was well attended.  I had ‘May’ with me and she displayed my nuno felted scarves nicely…

These were a new project and very fun to make.  The base is a chiffon silk scarf and the wool is finely felted on the top and through the scarf. 

I also had a lot of bags…

I wish I had had a chance to walk around and visit the other vendors, but Paisley wasn’t willing to watch the booth.

I checked the road conditions mid-day and it didn’t look good.  I really wanted to go home, but again I didn’t want to drive in the dark and the snow and ice.  After I packed everything up, I made the choice to stay in Bend and drive home in the daylight on Sunday.  All of a sudden my quick one day trip, wasn’t turning out to be so quick! 

Paisley and I enjoyed a nice, quiet stay in Bend and woke up to snow on the ground…not a good sign for driving over the pass!  It was apparent the roads weren’t going to improve much, so I left at noon and headed up the mountain.  It was much worse in my imagination.  I was glad to be home and Paisley quickly crashed on her bed in front of the fire 🙂    

High Desert Wool Growers Fiber Market Day

Posted by kenleighacres on March 30, 2009
Posted in: Fiber, Jacob Sheep, Snow, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , , . 3 Comments

Yesterday was the 12th annual High Desert Wool Growers Fiber Market Day and the first time I made the journey over the mountains to check it out.  I have been wanting to visit this fiber show for the last couple of years, but it just hasn’t worked.  The main reason has been snow on the mountain passes.  This year I lucked out!

My sister and I had signed up for a vendor booth and left early in the morning.  The following picture is pretty blurry, but it was really dark out!  A herd of about 30 elk were on the side of the road on the way up.

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I kind of shocked her as I started saying “Look, look, look, LOOK!!!”  She finally turned her head and saw all of the elk.  The rest of the trip over was uneventful, which I was thankful for because my sister and I tend to have adventures on our trips 🙂

The fiber day was so much fun and very well attended. 

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Here is my sister in our booth. 

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There were a couple times throughout the day that the entrance was blocked by people.

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All sorts of fiber goodies were available and there were workshops on different subjects throughout the day. 

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There were a few vendor booths outside as well as llamas, alpacas, pygoras, and sheep. 

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My sister and I both had a successful day, we sold a little bit of everything.  She makes beautiful and yummy smelling goats milk soap and our booth always smells so good.

This was a last minute tote that I made and the lady who bought it was so delighted.

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We packed up in record time to make it home before the forecasted winter storm hit the mountains.  We made it home before dark and before the passes looked like this…

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We drove on bare pavement and I am so thankful for that!!!  I was really concerned about getting stuck in the snow.

We were in the car longer than we were at the event, but it was nice to not be gone for the whole weekend.  I spent most of today adding the items that I am carrying in my studio to my online store. 

I am also back to lamb watch duty for this girl… 

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She is officially due on Tuesday and is very uncomfortable!