What a heavenly weekend! The weather has been just perfect, nice and cool but sunny. Of course yesterday was VERY windy, which kicked up the dust at the county fairgrounds as we walked all over it. My brother, a piano tuner and rebuilder, came up for this year's fest to hear some of the wool lectures and find out what he could about particular breeds of sheep, and shearing techniques (wool is essential to the piano trade, both for covering hammers and for the strips of felt bushing). So my mother drove up as well, and we had a lovely day. I was very good about not adding to my unfinished...well...unstarted projects from past fests until we got to the cashmere booth in the main exhibition hall, and I picked up a lovely plum-brown skein of laceweight and a kit for a laceweight scarf. Mom went nuts over the Orenburg lace shawls so one of these projects will be her Xmas or bday present. We watched the sheepdog trials (mom & bro are dog people and Mom had a pet collie-shepherd mix growing up), ate gyros and lamb sausage, and came home to sit on the back porch nibbling and sipping after Mom unloaded the hostas, hollies and cherry laurel she'd brought me, and my bro dug out the lilacs for her. The big surprise was a garden bench kit for our yard (my birthday's coming up)!
All in all, a perfect day!