I got a box from Martha’s Vineyard today!

That’s a pound of Cormo/Kid Mohair blend. Soft as anything, but with a lot more VM than the last two shares of spinning fiber I’ve gotten.

The letter points out that “the mill we use doesn’t use dangerous and toxic chemicals to dissolve the vegetable matter in our fleeces, so you may find the occasional piece of hay or grass in our roving.”  Environmentally, this is a wonderful thing, even if it means more work for the spinning.

The cormo, though? So, so pretty. Half a pound of pin-fed roving. Mmm, mmm, mmm!

What else today? I went to the eye doctor for a checkup for the first time in six years. (Yes, I know, terrible.) The good news is that my prescription has barely changed, which means that I didn’t need new glasses. Particularly because I barely wear them, so spending a few hundred dollars on new ones wasn’t really top on my list of things to do today.

I talked to my friend Cindy, today–the one who had the heart surgery last week. She’s home now and her dog is driving her nuts, barking all the time because they keep getting visitors and flower deliveries, stuff like that.

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