TGIFF

(Thank Goodness It's Finally Friday!)

For most of this week I've been thinking it's a day ahead -- on Wednesday I thought it was Thursday, so yesterday should have been Friday already but, alas, it was not. I may complain about all the work meetings I have to attend, but they do help me keep track of what day it is when I get reminders for them! Happily my meeting today is of the "put your updates in the chat" variety, so I get a little break. And I need it, because it's been a busy week but we have a big weekend coming up!

First, an update on the handspun you saw on the bobbin on Wednesday morning: I had time that afternoon to wind it off and wash it, and thanks to the cooler weather we've been having our radiators are on again, so it was dry by yesterday morning.

This skein ended up being the thickest of the last few I've spun, all fractal spins from fiber from FatCatKnits. This one is approximately 295 yards of mostly DK (there are thicker and thinner spots, as usual). I do like seeing the trio of them together, too!

At least two of these will be going into the Etsy shop, if I can ever get it open again. I succeeded in signing into my account to change the name of the shop (I'm rebranding) and change my email address, and when I tried to sign in again, I'd gotten locked out. So now I'm waiting for a response from Etsy support. If it takes much longer, I may just give up and open a new shop because it's not like I had a huge number of sales before, so my sales history isn't much to write home about. In the meantime, I'll share with you the rebrand and the awesome logo that Molly designed for me -- amazingly, she put together some options that were exactly what I had in mind without my having to explain what I was thinking to her.

I'd hoped to share a progress photo of my Sugar Maple today, but yesterday it was so rainy and dreary that I could not get decent light. I promise to share and update soon!

As to the weekend, there is a lot going on. Our ovens are not going to be delivered and installed in time to host Passover, so we'll be back at my parents' on Saturday evening. We'll be a little crowded, but we'll make it work. My brother is hosting a smaller second seder at his place on Sunday, but only the Mister will attend from our little family because Molly and I will be driving out to Washington, PA, to meet the van bringing Ruthie to us! It's supposed to be there at 4:30, so even assuming it's completely on time and we get right on the road, it'll still take us at least an hour to get home, and I don't think it's fair to the puppy to take her to someone else's house with a bunch of strange people. So we'll just come home and try to get her as comfortable as possible in her new home.

I will do my best to provide an update on her arrival on Monday, but I may not get to post until later in the day. In the meantime, I'll leave you with another photo of her -- this is the one the rescue posted that truly captured my heart:

Have a great weekend, friends!