we headed to the Taste of Mineral Point where the local restaurants set up booths in the park and sold a taste of some of their menu items. This was where I had the pasty, yum.
We were quite entertained at the local opera house, which is slowly being renovated. In the afternoon Turner Collins taught us about celtic instruments and music and serenaded us. The best part of the afternoon for me was the storytelling done by Marion Paynter Howard. She's a local woman who has studied the history of the local cornish population. Her story is of "Mary Ann," an immigrant from Cornwall. The story, set in 1832, was fascinating and also heart-wrenching, especially when she read a letter from home, from Cornwall, from her parents who expected to never see her or her family again in this life.
The remainder of the afternoon was spent nosing about local shops, then stopping at a local pub for a drink while we waited for DH to join us for dinner. After a wonderful dinner at a local brew pub, we headed back to the opera house for a performance by Rising Gael.
I got quite a bit of knitting done that day. I've started another scarf project. It's my old knitting-in-public-and-I-don't-want-to-concentrate-on-a-pattern scarf, the Farrow Rib Scarf. I did have My So Called Scarf along, also, but I was wearing a black shirt and the fuzz from the alpaca is a pain to remove.
This (drum roll, please) is also made from yarn direct from the stash. This is Malabrigo worsted weight.
I love the color variations that appear in Malabrigo's solid color skeins.
As the unpacking of the new Stash Haus progresses, so does the organization of the knitting room. (OK, it's actually a guest room, but we can all dream, can't we?) I dream of ways to organize my books, etc. Crazy, isn't it?
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