Of Moose And Men
The Best Laid Plans Of Both Often Go Astray

The local DC area community, no stranger to government funding lapses, has done a good job in stepping up for furloughed Feds. One of my local yarn shops is running free classes to teach knitting and crochet, with donated supplies, other places are offering food or drink discounts, etc. So yesterday the husband and I took advantage of one of these and went out to an alpaca farm. They were shorter than I expected; I think I was thinking llamas, which are taller. Mostly well behaved – no spitting, though there were some disagreements over who got to come up and take the snacks we took out to them. ‘Twas quite fun, and I’m glad we got to do it. Of course I bought some yarn, though I’m not quite sure what I’ll turn it into yet (which is a violation of my recent ‘no yarn buying unless you have a pattern picked out for it’ anti-stash rule). All in all a nice way to spend a late Tuesday afternoon.