This is spun from roving from my good friend Martie.  Martie has one of the grooviest yarn shops in.......well.......probably the world.  She has so many exciting things going on in the next couple of weeks.  Exciting people are going to be at her shop doing workshops and demonstrations.  Each year with the climax of Taos Wool and Sheep Festival she works incredibly hard behind the scene to get the shop ready for all the shoppers that come to wool festival.  When you go in the shop it is a feast for the eyes, this due to the talent of Martie and her staff and their ability to arrange and decorate the shop to make yarn shopping a blast.  Also the shop is in an old historic adobe building that embraces you as soon as you walk in the door, with its thick walls, high ceilings and lovely wood floors. Make sure if you go to Taos for the festival that you drive up to Arroyo Seco to visit Taos Sunflower!!!!!.........(about a ten minute drive)
 





So that you will know that my life is something other then yarn and fiber I like to try and include another picture.  Usually this picture is of my dogs........so you will see that my life is......yarn, fiber and dogs. 

I made a wonderful pound cake the other day and let the dogs do prewash.  I actually did a tiny bit myself.........

I consumed a great deal of batter as a child......cookie and cake batter.  I couldn't wait to get the beaters and hope for lots left in the bowl.  At that point it was always as good as the baked cookie.    And then someting happened, something really scary........the FEAR of the raw egg!!!!  This pound cake day I had no fear, I was not grossed out like I was when I was a vegetarian, I just wanted to go back to that place in my Moms kitchen.  That place where the counter top was at about eye level, little fingers gripped around the edge ......waiting.......So, I am as you see, still alive. Happy to share batter with my little ones after I had a couple of good licks first.

Penny
ps......one after thought.......my Nana always seemed to leave a bit more batter in the bowl......