This is the real meaning of Easter!
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cimorene(Not really. I mean, the execution of Jesus is well attested, so I'm confident that that is legitimately the origin of Easter, and the seasonal spring celebrations are more later accretions than any sort of ancient survival of a unified spring equinox celebration. The spring equinox still feels like a way more interesting and inspiring holiday, but it's not well supported to call it 'Easter'. It's just more clunky to say "The really moving part of the time around the spring equinox".)
We went to the open house at a local sheep farm, Stentorp, for all the new lambs and bought a lot of wool yesterday! I've been wanting to work with more undyed Finnish wool, hopefully for some colorwork, and the wool from Stentorp is especially soft even by finnwool standards. In general finnwool is slightly less smooth than blue-faced Leicester, but very close to it, which is to say, second only to merino. The combed skeins we bought yesterday are just as soft as the blue-faced Leicester sweater Wax recently finished making me, and more lanoliny, which is a big plus because it smells nice, is good for your skin, and helps the wool be more resilient against both physical wear (like pilling) and dirt and microbes.
The Stentorp house, a charming little 1907 villa with adorable rustic Art Deco details, was also open and we got to walk around the downstairs. I was enraptured. The doorways! The windows! The door handles!!
Boulder arena, a great little natural stage where they hold small concerts, and their guest house on the water which they rent in summer. It's also got adorable Art Deco details. (Wax has a knack for taking a picture of me at the absolute most unflattering and awkward-looking moment, but the other picture didn't show the porch.)
The lighting wasn't great inside the barn and it was crowded, so no lamb pictures, but I got to hold one and it peed a little on my jacket sleeve! So cute!
And we both still have two days of vacation left right now, but Wax almost immediately after that sproinged her back out trying to pick up too much cat food at once at the grocery store. That didn't prevent her from making an English chicken mushroom pie and some peanut butter cookies yesterday, but it does put a crimp in our activities and her enjoyment.
We went to the open house at a local sheep farm, Stentorp, for all the new lambs and bought a lot of wool yesterday! I've been wanting to work with more undyed Finnish wool, hopefully for some colorwork, and the wool from Stentorp is especially soft even by finnwool standards. In general finnwool is slightly less smooth than blue-faced Leicester, but very close to it, which is to say, second only to merino. The combed skeins we bought yesterday are just as soft as the blue-faced Leicester sweater Wax recently finished making me, and more lanoliny, which is a big plus because it smells nice, is good for your skin, and helps the wool be more resilient against both physical wear (like pilling) and dirt and microbes.
The Stentorp house, a charming little 1907 villa with adorable rustic Art Deco details, was also open and we got to walk around the downstairs. I was enraptured. The doorways! The windows! The door handles!!
Boulder arena, a great little natural stage where they hold small concerts, and their guest house on the water which they rent in summer. It's also got adorable Art Deco details. (Wax has a knack for taking a picture of me at the absolute most unflattering and awkward-looking moment, but the other picture didn't show the porch.)
The lighting wasn't great inside the barn and it was crowded, so no lamb pictures, but I got to hold one and it peed a little on my jacket sleeve! So cute!
And we both still have two days of vacation left right now, but Wax almost immediately after that sproinged her back out trying to pick up too much cat food at once at the grocery store. That didn't prevent her from making an English chicken mushroom pie and some peanut butter cookies yesterday, but it does put a crimp in our activities and her enjoyment.
