Went to
Maryland Sheep and Wool with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
temve, and managed to see the whole thing in six hours, including the exhibition barn full of different breeds of sheep. The Valais Blacknose were a breed new to the festival this year, and looked as much like plush toys as you'd think.
I bought a lot of plants: hot peppers (Joe Parker, buena mulata, pasilla, Islander), tomatillos, dwarf cherry tomatoes, and cotton (3 different fiber colors!). Also bought three jars of honey, two bags of honey candy, a CD of hammered dulcimer music, one spindle, one bundle of fiber, one basket, two knitting kits, and three skeins of glow-under-ultraviolet sock yarn.
I received three compliments for the red linen lace shawl I knit myself years ago and wore because it was only slightly cool today, not boiling hot nor unseasonably chilly. It did rain, and I did have to duck outside into the drizzle when my brother called my about setting up my dad's new cellphone.
Also, I spotted one of my coworker's had entered the garment competition and got a very respectable Third Place in a crochet category, so I will congratulate her on Monday.
We shared a bag of roasted, cinnamon & sugar coated pecans -- Tem hadn't had them before, because almonds are the more usual thing in Europe -- and had lamb-burgers sold by a troop of Boy Scouts, who were adorable and trying very
hard to be good at the customer service thing, but still needed coaching from their dads. (Also, the dads and older boys were doing the cooking, leaving the customer-facing service to the younger boys, who at least couldn't set themselves on fire accidentally with that responsibility).
After we left -- right on time since it began to rain in earnest -- we stopped at the Trader Joe's on the way home, and I now have enough chicken to make either chicken & dumplings or chicken pibil tacos tomorrow, depending on how much energy I have.
