Hi Honeys! I'm HO-OME!
What a day. I fought sleep on the highway for much of the way back. I stopped at a rest area about an hour into my journey home and took what I thought was a 10- or 15-minute power nap, and continued on. But I was still fighting to stay awake. So I pulled off in the Clifton Park, NY, rest area, got my pillow out of the trunk, and lay down in the back seat of my car with the doors locked for at least a half hour. Then I got up and competed with 1.2 million Canadian Hasidic Jews for the toilets and the vending machines, felt more awake and alive after eating my bag of SmartFood popcorn and a bottle of water, and continued on my way. I thought I'd never get home, but here I am.
It was a great time, and I had a full plate of wonderful experiences, though as has become the norm for these things, I missed seeing some people I wanted to see, and saw some others for far too short a time. Sadly, it often went something like this:
"Hi!!! Oh, it's so GREAT to see/meet you!"
[hug]
The End.
Oh, yes, many times it was accompanied with promises to see each other later, call each other later, or this is just left unspoken in the honest belief that those things will happen on their own, but despite best intentions it often doesn't happen. It's great fun to see the faces if even for a minute, but it is rather sad that it has come to this. I'm home and feeling so sad and disappointed that I did not get photos of more people and inexplicably got separated from others with whom I was strolling about. How does that happen?
I know I promised modeled sweater photos, and hopefully some more will arrive soon, but in the meantime all I have is this one quick, sort of rumpled, over-exposed snapshot that my lovely Jean (who I was SO GLAD to see and to at least be able to exchange a few words with) took with my camera under the blazing noontime sun:
Now here's a funny story:
When Sandy went out to put stuff in her car from the hotel this morning, she came back in and said, "You're not going to believe it! It seems like there is deer pee and poop RIGHT BY THE DOOR to Entrance C!!" (our entrance and exit to the hotel)
Well, I'm not saying I didn't believe her, but I mean really! It was a little far-fetched, wouldn't you say? So I went down there. And holy deer scat, Batman, get a load of this:
Exhibit A:
We had to JUMP over it and had to lift our rolling suitcases so we didn't have to pull them through it. How in the HELL did that happen?!
Are you sure that wasn't dropping from a giant rabbit? I don't know nothing about no deer poo, so I'm just guessing it should be bigger than a cat turd. :)
Posted by: Dave Daniels | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 06:13 AM
Sorry to have missed you yesterday Norma!I'm one of the naive festival goers who thought she'd "just run into" everyone she wanted to see. NOT! Nov 15th in Montpelier, the Knitting Studio?
Posted by: gale (she shoots sheep shots) | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:08 AM
CP(withouta)H fits like a dream. Lovely!
I missed you all ...
Posted by: Ruth | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:14 AM
It is beautiful-Just the right color. I LOVE it! Glad you had a great time.
Posted by: Ann | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:29 AM
Your sweater is GORGEOUS. I'm glad you had a good time. ~ksp
Posted by: Kelli | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:34 AM
Ahahahahaha! I think you should talk to Kathy, Cheryl or Carole about that "deer pee." They may know something about it. But I could be wrong.
Posted by: Teresa C | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:35 AM
Very pretty. I like no hood idea.
Posted by: Jean E. | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:39 AM
Gorgeous sweater on a gorgeous woman! The colour is fabulous.
Posted by: Renee | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:40 AM
Tasty venison loves you, Norma. It wants to follow you everywhere.
Posted by: jodi | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:53 AM
The sweater was indeed gorgeous! Glad you made it home safely.
Posted by: carol | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:53 AM
Hahahaha! Terry is not wrong. Although I see she neglected to mention Margene. Let's not let Margene get off scott free in that fiasco.
Posted by: Cheryl | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 08:10 AM
I have no idea what these people are talking about. Looks like deer poop to me.
Posted by: Carole | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 08:24 AM
I second the bunny poop motion. I had hoped to run in to you this weekend, but our booth was so nuts, and I got away so rarely, and there were SO MANY PEOPLE, that that didn't happen. But wasn't it wonderful?!?
Posted by: Kayten | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 08:28 AM
I was only an innocent bystander. But, the stories I could tell about Cheryl, Carole and Kathy would rival something from the Keystone Kops.
Posted by: margene | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Kathy who???
Posted by: Kathryn | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 08:46 AM
You look gorgeous in the sweater!
Posted by: Elizabeth | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 09:28 AM
You are beyond beautiful in your FABulous new sweater! Holy shit, it's GORgeous! Sounds like the Women were up to something sneaky.... what fun!
Posted by: marianne | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Again, I don't know how in hell I missed you TWO days, for Pete's sake, but I think that is a great photo! (Is that Kim I see in the background? I did see her several times.) I think I must make that sweater...Peace Fleece, eh? As for Rhinebeck? Hated Saturday. All these new spinners and knitters have either got to learn how to walk and shop politely or stay away so we can have our Rhinebeck back! It was hideous. Sunday was much better...for a while.
Posted by: Marcia | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Great photo of you in your new fantastic sweater! Good color :)
Posted by: jessica~ | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:05 AM
A sweater to be proud of, Norma! I think that's the same shade of Peace Fleece that I used for my daughter's mittens.
Posted by: Sheila | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Wow - your sweater is wonderful! I wouldn't have guessed it's the same one Interweave photographed.
Posted by: Cathy | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM
The sweater is, indeed, perfect. It looks so cozy!
Posted by: Cheryl S. | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM
It always comes down to pee.
Posted by: claudia | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Love the sweater on you. Just wondering, maybe hotel doors are like deer fire hydrants?
Posted by: Sunnyknitter | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I love the sweater...especially with no hood, as I am not personally a huge hood fan. That came out wrong, I am not a hood fan at all, but I also am not a fan of hoods! I would love to go to the CIA sometime. My son has two friends who are studying there.
Posted by: Doris | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Beautiful sweater, Norma.
I was thinking maybe it was deer that were jealous of all the attention that the sheep got over the weekend, but I have a feeling, after reading the comments, that I may be wrong.
Posted by: Cookie | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 01:35 PM
The sweater is very, very nice.
Posted by: Carolyn | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Your sweater turned out great, love the color.
Posted by: Michelle | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 02:30 PM
country girl, huh?
Posted by: Judy | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 02:47 PM
You look so beautiful!! And did YOU make that sweater?? It's amazing!!! Please make one for little jeffies?!?!?! (...but in blue. blue is his color.)
Posted by: Abigail | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 03:03 PM
Your sweater looks great! Glad we got a modeled shot. Makes it look really good.
Posted by: Stephanie | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 03:29 PM
Oh, deer.
It was GREAT to see you. And totally what you said: much, much too short. With Rhinebeck it is ever thus.
(How many people do you suppose were there on Sat? The mind reels.)
Posted by: Lucia | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 05:17 PM
Looks like sheep poop to me, actually. Did you actually SEE all the folk staying at that motel? Maybe Delores dropped by....
LOVE the sweater. Perfect perfect perfect.
Posted by: gayle | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 05:51 PM
That sweater looks amazing on you. I just love the color. :)
Posted by: Zardra | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 06:24 PM
It was great seeing you, too, Norma--however briefly! (And, I DID get a picture of you, even if it's not really a sweater-model shot....)
Posted by: --Deb | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 06:26 PM
The sweater looks great. I was hoping to see it in person but didn't run into you at Rhinebeck.
Posted by: Suzanne | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:44 PM
The sweater looks great.
Posted by: ellen | Monday, October 20, 2008 at 07:58 PM
I can't believe I am one of those people you saw for two seconds and then I never found you again! I did ask where you were. Ask Margene. But she didn't know either!
WAH!!!! At least we got our hug in.
Posted by: scoutj | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Where else could you find a fibre festival, a finished cardigan and deer crap all in the same blog post? No where, that's where!
Fantastic job on the cardi, by the way, but you probably knew that!
Posted by: AmyP | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 02:30 PM
I think someone didn't like one of you gals. Went to scoop a pile of deer dung from the woods and deposited on your steps in the middle of the night. I'd DNA the pee.
Posted by: hillary | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 02:33 PM
I loved that sweater. Loved. And I thought that nice rambouillet one was gimmex.
Posted by: Laurie | Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM