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Yesterday’s blog left us at Silver Mountain Winery trying some tasty wines. From there we rolled down the other side of Lempster Mountain  toward Washington NH. After more beautifu scenery we arrived at our intended destination - NH Wool Arts Tour - Stop # 3 - Mirage Alpaca Farm.

Greeted by the scent of sausage cooking, we knew it would be a quick visit to the vendors the first time around as lunch was calling to us.  At  Cindy Yeager’s Ewe & I Farm booth I purchased a roving of ready to spin wool - teal, one of “my colors”.  I am a beginning spinner, but feeling somewhat confident to move forward. I do not knit or crochet. I have some ideas rolling around in my head for some weavings I’d like to make though.

Active Daughter took her daddy out to the pens to see a couple hundred alpaca, animals sometimes mistaken as llamas by the uninitiated, but smaller and more gentle. Young alpacas fed on hay amongst the adult animals, truly a picture to enjoy! Active Daughter particulraly like the one peacock wandering around with 3 white turkeys. I heard the owner of the farm say, in response to a question, “No they won’t make it through Thanksgiving, they ARE Thanksgiving!”

The sausage was delicious, but one was large enough to serve two!  Chocolate chip cookies finished us off, food-wise, all provided by the Washington NH Historical Society. On a great weekend like this, it must have been a lucrative fundraiser.

With lunch over, and having money still in my pocket, I treated myself to another wool roving - this time in a varigated amethyst.  I have come home, tuned up the spinning wheel and started practicing on my ordinary wool before I take to the colors.

With all said and done, we walked back to the van, feeling it was a half-day well spent. I look forward  to attending this event next year amist the golden leaves of autumn.
Ewe and I Farm news at: eweifarm.blogspot.com

NH Wool Arts Tour: http://www.woolartstournh.com/index.htm

Peace, Ann

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