Anne and Joanie spent last weekend at Meramac Community College while attending the Midwest Fiber Festival. Both Saturday and Sunday were all day affairs. On Saturday, she took a class on yarn dying, the products of that class are drying in the basement, and on Sunday she studied needlepoint felting and created the pictured landscape work. Naturally, some yarn was purchased too.

I was left to my own devices. Mostly I chilled. I did retrieve our bicycles from the bike shop where we had left them for a start of season tune-up before jetting off to California. This shop offered various levels of maintenance, bronze, silver and platinum. Anne’s bicycle only required some lite bronzing, while mine was given an upgraded silver level. Anne seemed somewhat miffed at this disparity and viewed my bike’s level of maintenance with envy. I just figured that my bicycle had seen more action and consequently needed more work done.