Back to School

Back to school, that bittersweet time where classes are just starting, but the summer weather is still around. I arrived back on campus on Sunday with my parents driving my stuff and myself down. After getting into my room we started the immediate unloading of the car, for once I am not living on the top floors of the dorm.

My room

Mostly the last couple of days has been going to classes, meetings, buying some school supplies, and buying the few books that I was not able to get online. One of the books I have still been unable to buy as the book store has yet to get it in as of today.

There is a farmers market in the Village Commons every Thursday, I walked through it while going to check to see if the book I need for class was at the bookstore today as it was supposed to be.

Beyond that there is no news, I have been unable to knit, crochet or spin because of injury. In other stuff I have discovered "Welcome to Night Vale" the wonderful podcast that it is.

Fiber Frolic and stuff

Still alive! I need to work on posting on a regular basis.
In good news, I went to the Fiber Frolic down in Windsor. It was fun if hot and sunny. I managed to get a small sun burn along with my fiber. Mom was wonderful and drove down with me and carried all my fiber, she bought some stuff as well(actually I paid for it because she left her purse in the car). There were llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, and bunnies there with all of the fibers for sale.

The vendors that were there had awesome stuff, and the makers of Merlin were there(the wheel not the tv show).

I bought fiber, from quite a few vendors. I now have fiber in colors called: Thor's Hammer, Downeast, Galaxy and the like. Though my favorite fiber was the yak and silk blend that I bought(Mom bought it for me actually but I paid).

So very pretty

All in all it was a very successful shopping trip.

In other news I signed up for the Tour de Fleece, hence the fiber buying. I am knitting my self a cowl that is hooded, Thorin's Hooded Cowl, so far I am still working on the cowl part.

Trying something, I am dyeing yarn with Kool aid, it is coming out greener then I wanted but is still a good color. I think I might over-dye it at a later date.

The dogs are enjoying the nice weather and so is Estel as now that the dogs spend time outside she gets the run of the house.

The flowers are doing well, as are the garden though the vegetable gardens are all fenced in to keep the dogs from eating everything again.

Hellebore

Rogue pansy

In other stuff: SPOILERS

Spring Break 2013

Last week was my spring break. M came up and visited home with me, after she had some auditions in Boston for theater. Her auditions went well. She got into the bus station on Monday with me right behind the bus to pick her up. We spent Tuesday watching the snow and Lord of the Rings with one of the dogs.

M and Jazz

Me and Jazz

There was a flurry just about everyday that we were there. We got some work done and watched some movies. We are both officially caught up with Doctor Who, just in time for it to start up again. There was also some cooking as we made three dinners for my family.

On wednesday we went to Acadia and found out that it is not open.
Later in the week we went to Deer Isle, which was pretty and cold, the trip was so that M could see the ocean.

shells in snow

M with articulated clam shell

Lobster claw

In other news, I have started on Mom's xmas present, it is a shawl called Roxbury Pond. Mom picked out the yarn with me helping, the color choice was entirely up to her with the restriction that she could not have neon pink yarn.

In random youtube videos: we have the avengers as seen using Merlin characters:

It should be noted that I did not make this video and I do not want to hear anything about season 5 as I have not watched it yet.

PI Day 2013

It is pi day today and the SciFi/Fantasy club on campus is celebrating by having pie with their movie tonight. I celebrated by having some pie, also wishing people happy pi day.

Courtesy of my brother

I finished the hat I was making myself, most of the knitting time I had was during class time. Knitting during class helps me concentrate so that I learn better as well as being less distracting with all of my fidgeting.

Beyond that, the last horse show I was in I got to try reining, and it was fun. I had no idea how to do some of the stuff, other things I only knew the theory. It was fun, and I did ok, the class wasn't a serious class, so it was really fun to watch all of us go. The class that I actually competed in I did alright in, and the horse I was on was wonderful. This past weekend I went to regionals to watch and cheer on my teammates who qualified, it was fun, we had two people who qualified for semi-finals in California for there classes as individuals. The team will be sending a full team as well as we won the region. Once again I have no pictures.

Because it is my neighbor's birthday today, I leave you with this:

Knitting and Horses

I have been busy with classes, western riding team, and some knitting. Classes have been going well with the occasional lack of sleep but that is life. Beowulf is interesting as I am slowly learning Old English.

My computer has decided that now is the time to start a slow slide to death. This makes doing some of my homework a little interesting as the speakers have decided that they don't always want to work.

The riding team is fun. I will post some pictures eventually.

The team, jumping off a wall.

Progress continues on the hat, I am on my second chart about half way through it. A friend let me borrow her hand cards so I am working on processing some of my raw alpaca fiber.

The hat

M was in a play called "Summer at Yasnaya Polyana" it was a student directed and created work. The play was about Tolstoy, his wife and a piano player. M was the piano player and she had a beard.

It was worth going to and seeing, I do not feel bad for skipping the other two plays as I had a free ticket due to being a student.
The weather has turned and now there is mud everywhere.
ON that note, the Doctor is coming and with him comes soufflé girl.

On a positive note Kilgharrah(my bike) now has lights, not just the reflectors. And yes that requires a dancing Ood.