Other than the day of my wedding or the birth of 2 of the 3 kids!!!!!! Today was the best day ever!! Not only did I pick up my daughter, Dare (who I haven’t seen for four months since she has been working in Alaska), from the Kansas City airport but we got to go…
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August 22, 2019 – Knit 2 Together, Russellville, Arkansas
Every time I think I’m out, they pull me right back in!!!!! So, we are back in Little Rock for a couple of weeks and enjoying spending some time in old stomping grounds. Unfortunately, the temperature and heat index has been incredibly high and we are missing the low humidity of the west and haven’t…
August 12, 2019 – Alabama
We won’t make this mistake again!!!!! Well, we high-tailed it to Alabama to get warranty work done on our fifth wheel at Dixie RV. We moved in with my parents for the week thinking it would take some time. We got a call the afternoon that we dropped it off saying, “Good news and bad…
July 16, 2019 – Mountain Meadows Wool Mill and The Fiber House, Wyoming
I think, technically, they’re called Bison!!!! We pulled into the KOA in Buffalo, Wyoming late Sunday afternoon – it was a long drive but interesting to watch the landscape change again. The mountains turned to rolling green hills with few trees. It is very “empty” looking, there were few houses, cattle or civilization – just…
July 12, 2019 – Beads, Yarns and Threads, Joseph’s Coat, and Rockin Rudy’s
Well, this was a pleasant surprise!!!!! Missoula has two yarn shops and I visited both today! (ED. NOTE – I told her to spread the visits out but does she listen???) The first one is in the southwest area of Missoula that I haven’t been through yet. Beads, Yarns and Threads is a shop filled…
June 18, 2019 – My Sister Knits and Lambspun, Fort Collins
Well, this is a beautiful neighborhood!!!! I visited two of the loveliest shops today! I drove up to Fort Collins and went to My Sister Knits. The shop is located in the carriage house of a lovely home on Mountain Avenue, which is a grand street with a tree lined median running through the middle….
June 8, 2019 – Estes Park Wool Market and Fiber Festival
Finally!! Finally!!! We get to see sheep!!!!! Today was the day I’ve been looking forward to for several months! (ED. NOTE – I think she meant years!!!) I LOVE a wool and fiber festival 😊! It’s the anticipation of all the buying!!!! Yesterday I drove up to Estes Park by myself for a sneak preview…
June 5, 2019 – Your Daily Fiber and The Loopy Ewe, Fort Collins, Colorado
I guess you could eat it if you really tried!!!!! I took a little drive to Fort Collins to visit a couple of yarn shops – Your Daily Fiber and The Loopy Ewe. Your Daily Fiber (cute name!!! Years ago I told someone I was going to a fiber festival and she got so excited…
May 18, 2019, Denver Public Library, Art Museum, Lamb Shoppe
You know you’re from there if you have a library card!!!! Today the hubs and I headed back to Denver for a little sight-seeing. After parking to go into the Denver Art Museum, we realized we had stopped in front of the Denver Public Library. It’s a large, beautiful downtown library with this interesting sculpture…
May 11, 2019, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Well, don’t make it sound like a punishment!!!! It’s back to just the two of us again, so it’s time to figure out what we want to spend our time doing. After our snow two days ago, we woke up to a beautiful, sunny, mid-60’s Saturday and decided to go to Colorado Springs (again, an…