Dawn Doran

Go ahead, sing it like Olivia Newton John. You know you did when you read that.

Here is a picture of the tiki-torch swimming that I mentioned in a previous post:

The phone-cam doesn’t rock so much in low light, but you get the idea. I am loving having this magical pool so much. I didn’t really know that would be the case either. We have belonged to pools in the past, and we always had a similar sized pool when I was wee. It’s just really good. I watched Rosie get under the ladder to play today and had an amazing body memory of doing the same thing when I was her age. I was thrown back to that totally engaged in the game feeling, and just remember looking at my hands as I typed on the ladder rung or something else silly. Anyhow.

I have other things to share. I finished knitting an acorn. It’s tres cute. It sort of looks like a little french guy who ate some fairie food here. It is holding my in-progress jaywalker socks at the moment. I knit the bottom of the acorn from yak yarn. The pattern is wonderful and from a blog which I have become fond of Roman Sock– check out her post for today too. I just love her!

And lastly for this post, I have been spinning up some lovely merino-tencel which bears the name of a LYS and my previous workplace. I have such fond (and some very funny) memories of my time there and my ladies of the lake. Here is Cloverhill. I am really liking the way the colors are playing.

( apologies again for the blurries. It isn’t your eyes– unless of course you haven’t had your coffee yet.)

I am taking a spinning workshop this weekend, and am very excited about it. It is with Jacey Boggs, nutty- spinner- extraordinaire ! There I hope to learn to spin with wild abandon, and with things that might not ought to be spun into yarn. There will be a LOT of people there it sounds like. If I can remember to just think like my kids and I am sure I’ll do fine.