So, I am working on a fun project that is taking a lot of my free time. The finished knits parade is not quite over (groan from the crowd.) It will pick up again in a bit.

Rob and I are headed up to New Hampshire this weekend for the NH Sheep and Wool festival. This will be Rob’s first fiber festival and well, he is not so excited. Shocking! I know!

In fact, Elisa and I had to bribe our respective partners into attendance with promises of “boyfriend alone time” (background here: Mike and Rob have many of the same interests and sincerely enjoy eachother’s company independet of Elisa and my friendship. This is great and we have all dubbed their affection for one another as you would if they were dating one another.) (Kellee is still working on hers).

Their expected reply was: “Grumble, Grumble, well, I GUESS I’ll go if he’s going. (Sudden smile) HEY! I bet there are MUSIC stores up there.” Dear Mike has mapped out a thrilling weekend for them both. I’m hoping that Rob will spend some time at the event, just so he can get a taste of the fun sheepy goodness.

Maybe he’ll even make it to the TGKWB* lunch event (details here if you’re interested).

Here’s your opportunity to lend him some of your best advice.

Leave a comment with one (or both) of the following:

1 - Why he should attend.
2 - Survival techniques for negotiated the hysteria that may occur when Knitters (and Spinners!) are faced with SO MUCH FIBER.

They funnier the better. I will have him pick the most compelling and we will send you a bit of something from the festival.

Deadline for responses: 6pm Friday, May 12th. We’ll announce the winner that night.

On another note,

I ran into two interesting items in today’s papers. Check them out, some food for thought.

Poll Gives Bush His Worst Marks Yet
Graphic of Poll Here. via NYTimes. Generally Polls drive me crazy. I have a background in statistics and the media’s warping of the statistics behind the polls is, more often than not, really quite irritating. This is true no matter how I feel about the topic. However, general trends like these and the details about perceptions is quite interesting.

Scraping to fill the shelves of the Bush library Op Ed in Today’s Boston Globe.

* The Gaggle of Knitters Who Blog.