Busy Fair weekend ...

with no fair photos lol. We were graced with the gift of a little guy over the weekend; an 18 month old cutie patootie who was the epitome of sunshine and butterflies. Our whole family is wildly in love with him. And I thought an 18 month old would be difficult. I realized at some point this weekend that B. was about the same amount younger than Iain, as I was younger than Bev. Mom, you didn't let on how much fun it was when there were older kids in the house as well :-). B. is currently transitioning to a forever home, and is future mommy and daddy will be blessed.

I finally actually submitted something to the fair this year. Managed to wash and block them the night before; bought tapestry needles and sewed in the ends at a cafe in Picton just prior to drop-off; they were actually still damp when I submitted them lol. I guess they dried by judging time (or else that's why they placed 2nd :-P). Kev will finally get his Father's Day socks!






The ribbing pattern is called More Fun Than Cables and can be found here, although I didn't actually use this pattern but modified my own toe-up circ needle pattern instead.

During the last week, Alison (and I!) also spent heaps of time on the 4H Sheep Club display. I should have taken a photo at the fair with it's 3rd place ribbon, but didn't lol. Here it was when finished in our family room:




MOST of the stages on the Fibre Processing display are Rosemary. Her show photo from last year, her fleece -- I realized at the last minute that the shearing photo was actually Loralei (you can tell by the large Blue-faced Leicester ears she inherited from her sire). The handspun was even done from her lamb fleece (and is still in process, but hey :-) ...)

I am definitely looking forward to some slowing of the pace of our lives :-). Pretty please?

And a couple of thought on fostering. Because there are so few children needing care right now in this area, our start has been slow. We haven't felt like foster parents yet, lol. We've now had three children, albeit only as relief care, and we're starting to feel a little like this is something we do! I am considering calling a neighbouring county that seems to have a higher need for foster families ... we'll see. The increased travel would make visits more difficult (although travel expenses are covered, once can't get time back lol). I did a car seat training course last week with CAS: MY, HAVE THINGS CHANGED since our guys were little (let alone since I was little and used to ride upside down drawing dinosaurs with my feet on the window ledge!). I had to borrow a carseat for this little guy ... a $400 carseat may I add, and had to drive to CAS and have in installed by a carseat technician. I have a document to show to the police should I ever get stopped for a carseat inspection. Wow. And this week I have to take the van to our local Ford dealership and have them install some hardware so it is legal for us to have a front-facing car seat installed! This van had years of front-facing car seats in it, mind you, however we were legal in the U.S. where much of that took place.

Anyway, the girls are off, breakfast and science and language with Iain beckon. Have a great day, all :-).