Ever since returning from the festival, I’ve been busy photographing the items we came home with and getting them posted in the shop, and I still have a long ways to go. (Today I need to get a new camera battery so I can continue to do so.) I brought home some beautiful bright yellow yarn from the festival and have been having fun photographing our shawl pins on it. I like to have lots of color in the shop, and have been especially gravitating towards yellow lately. Bright yellow. I really love the combination of black walnut wood with yellow yarn too.

Good things that happened this week = 1) Jeff not requiring surgery, of course would be at the top of the list. 2) Getting a washing machine delivered yesterday!! We’ve been without one for awhile and though I don’t feel like I can complain, because a good friend goes to the laundromat and has been for many years, I can’t begin to say how grateful I am to be able to wash our clothes at home again. We spent our “extra” money on a tool for Jeff and then had other tool parts that needed replacing, so decided to wait on the washing machine a bit longer. Then some friends offered us their old one, which was so sweet of them, but life without a truck can have it’s challenges sometimes. (It wouldn’t fit in the back of our Subaru, as you can imagine, and we just didn’t want any of our friends with trucks to have to haul it all the way out to our place, not to mention it really takes more than two people to heave and ho the heavy thing.) We ended up finding a good deal on a secondhand one (I had no idea the news ones cost so much!) and not only did they deliver it, they hauled our old one away. We washed our first load of laundry in it right away. I feel like I’ll have a very positive attitude every time I run a load of laundry because being able to do it at home feels like a luxury now.

Not-so-good things that happened this week = 1) A bear ate all our grapes! Darnit! We were so busy before our festival, we didn’t have time to harvest them. When we came back, we meant to, but we were one day too late and the bear devoured them all. What a disappointment. That’s how we learned our lesson about not waiting too long to pick the apples. For some reason, it didn’t even occur to me that the bear would go after the grapes, which is really silly to me now. Of course they would! Oh well, next year we will be more prepared to save our precious grapes.

Well, today we are off to the Eugene Saturday Market. You can find us in booth 350, our regular spot. The weather forecast looks beautiful, the perfect October day to walk around the market! Wishing you all a lovely weekend!