Penni rambles

Feeling nostalgic. My sister visited us when we were living in Spain many moons ago and we re-visited 'our' castle, the castle at Manzanares el Real outside of Madrid. Beautiful place. Here we are peeking out of the huge main doors. I am missing Spain, California, and most of all family and friends in the San Diego area. Recent news, my sister's son will be heading off to university soon; my twin Peter's surfing dog Nani won first place in the Purina Dog Challenge large dog surfing division which will be aired sometime in August; my niece Alicia's daughter will be heading to kindergarden in September, although I don't know how, as it seems she was just born; my cousin Pam's son was married today in California, I am sure it must have been a lovely wedding.

As for me, I am still working on finishing the second sock of the Pomatomus (Cookie A's design). (previous post) It is coming along well, but I took a break to practice my spinning with a drop spindle for a class at a local yarn store. There were about fourteen students and all were amazingly quick at getting the idea and had yarn! on their spindles when they left after about four hours. One student in particular was spinning what I would consider consistent lace weight yarn. She must have learned before! That was last weekend and it took me a couple of days to recuperate from all the energy expended in practicing and worrying about what to say, which as it turned out was needless, or at least most of it was.

I want to get back to my handspun yarns and knit with them and do some more dyeing and spinning.

Glad that the tropical storm possibility fizzled out and hoping that oil can be controlled!