A Day Out

Today I got to spend the day spinning at the New Hampshire Farm & Forest Expo!  Coincidentally, this was the event where I first saw someone spinning, 20 years ago, and bought my first spindle and roving to learn how to spin!

On the way to the Expo I stopped and bought something I've been considering for a while:  a portable wagon.

It holds everything I need to bring to a spinning demo, and folds up quite small when not in use.

This was our set-up at the Expo.  In this photo, my wheel is the light-colored one on the far left.

And this is the whole group.  Two people are absent from this photo.  (Well, one actually, as I am taking the photo.)

The expo was fun.  There were baby goats, baby chicks, some wild creatures (hedgehog, possum, giant toad, and a snake), two booths had ponies, there was at least one angora bunny and a bunch of different breeds of chickens, and a couple of farms had some alpacas.  There were feed dealers, farm insurance agencies, maple syrup equipment vendors, several state agricultural agencies, some food (and ice cream), tractors, solar equipment distributors, fencing vendors, and I'm sure others that I'm not remembering.

Besides lunch, the only thing I bought was this shirt.  Freebies, however, included several pens, some post-it notes, some dog bones, and some black oil sunflower seeds for my bunnies.  Oh, and some Norway Spruce seeds!  I'm looking forward to planting those in the spring!