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Want a coupon?  Click here and print it out.   Vermont’s Sheep and Wool Festival is two weeks away and I am dyeing like a fiend.  Last week, just before the family arrived, as in hours before, I signed up Ball and Skein for a booth.   We’ll be in the State Building.  It’s been too cold for the tomatoes to ripen.  Without a counter full of tomatoes to put up, there is a hole in my schedule.  The flip side is that all that cool weather is perfect for dyeing.  Yarn for tomatoes. 

It was a great week with my family.  The first day of their visit, we went to the Orleans County Fair.  It was the same day as the Demolition Derby; there was something for everyone.  By the end of the day, I’d bought a fleece.  It was sopping wet from all the rain and as I found out later, full of burdock.  It has been well skirted and now waits for a bath.  Sooner than later would be good, but…. I am way too busy.  It was one of four fleeces that I acquired that week.  The other three were alpaca, two white, and one a gorgeous grey.   Knitting didn’t happen.  I managed to kitchener the toe of one sock.  That’s it. 

Funny how the quiet settles in immediately.  Must be a state of mind. The car had no sooner rounded the bend in the drive, when the week disappeared and what remained was silence, thick and heavy.