Well, it has arrived. Our last morning on MV is here and we are all very sad to leave. Well, the kids and I are very sad, David is kind of fine with it. He's not so much a beach and hanging out kind of person, although he will miss the endless Frisbee games with Emmett.
I will try to catch up on stuff and then expand with details when I load the pictures. There is still a little packing to do and Fiona has some shopping plans before we get on the ferry.
I won second place for my Foliage hat that I entered in the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Fair! And really even cooler is that Fiona won a first and a third for a Malabrigo scarf and a hat that she designed herself. It had started out as a scarf, ended up a square hat and then when she put it on she thought it looked like it had ears so she embroidered a cat face on it! My friend Susan won first place for her goats so it was a good year at the fair.
We did get to help Susan and Patrick with the goats one morning which ended up being a real highlight of the trip. The kids got to ride in the back of Susan's farm cart out to where the goats were pastured which was a fun and bumpy ride. Each of my kids got to feed three Susan's kids that are still on the bottle and I have to say it was adorable! They had a drinking race and Sweet William won for the first time ever! We then helped Susan and Pat move the fence. At first we tried to keep the goats inside while we moved it, but when we saw that it was hopeless we let all the goats out stopped trying to keep the goats in. After setting the fence back up and getting most of the goats back in Sweet William, no doubt still high from his milk drinking victory (and really just acting like a goat while Emmett did a fabulous imitation of a very inexperienced herding dog) wouldn't get into the pen. He is such a little cutie that I figured I would pick him up - and after checking with Susan that it was ok, I did. I really wouldn't mind picking up all my fiber that way, in an adorable little warm bundle. Sweet William was not really all that happy about this however and showed his disapproval but swinging his little horned head around. After he connected with my ear, and took to wiggling a lot, and getting his foot caught in the fence, I finally got him back into the pen with his compatriots. I am blanking on the names of the other two bottle fed babies, but I will make sure they are all correctly identified in the photos.
I actually got quite a lot of knitting done while we were here. I didn't finish anything, but started an awful lot. I even had a bag of Sheep Shop 2 delivered from the company so i could start a sweater that is in the most recent issue of Knit Scene. The ladies at the front desk of the inn really got a kick out of it as I asked on a daily basis if my yarn had arrived. The woman I had spoken to before we came here knew to ask. I didn't know what address to use to have it shipped because the address on the package changes depending on the carrier and sometimes the post office get a little confused here apparently so I really had that package over-addressed. It got here though and I can't wait to put pictures up and update my Ravelry queue and all of that.
I can't put off packing any longer as check out is in 35 minutes. I will have fun putting up all the vacation photos when I finally get them onto the computer. I will be at the store bright and early tomorrow, but I will try to get the pictures up soon.
So long until next year Martha's Vineyard.
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