Crochet Me Crazy

We've been helping the owner's out here get ready for their big party. Yesterday I washed out the stalls and blew off and washed off the barn porch. I don't know who's birthday party this is but they are really going all out. There will be people here from Saturday through Wednesday. Today they moved the chuck wagon from the 1800's that has been restored out in front of the barn. We went down there to help them set it up. Michael knew how to tie the kind of knots they needed. One night they are having a chuck wagon dinner.

We had a BIG day scheduled for trail rides at the stables tomorrow. Maybe over 40 riders but it rained last night and there is a large percentage for heavy thunderstorms tonight and a 50% chance of rain tomorrow. We are going to have to make a judgement call on whether it will be safe to ride tomorrow with all the mud but it's really not looking too good. It's really bad timing for the rain which may cause us to have to turn away that badly needed business. Jeff switched his off work day from Sunday to tomorrow so he could go do the rides for them. The good news is that this is his last week of only 1 day a week off! Next week, he'll have Sunday & Monday off and then it's the work 6 days / off 2 day schedule! Yay!

I've been trying to find some type of joining method for my yo-yos. Everything I see is Join as You Go where you join on the last round...my yo-yos are already finished. I tried some braid joining methods but the videos were confusing and it ended up warping the shape of my yo-yo. Also, I don't know that I want all that extra yarn in between my yo-yos. I like the simplicity of just the yo-yos joined together so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I better stop making so many yo-yos because if I have to sew these together I'm not going to like that.

Today I tidied up my yarn bag that I had been using the yarn from to make yo-yos with by winding it into tighter balls with my yarn winder. The bag was overflowing and I was able to condense it quite a big by rewinding a lot of the loose balls into tighter, smaller balls. I love my yarn winder.

Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend! Looks like it's going to be a messy one for us but thank God for the rain!