The yarn for my deadline project has finally arrived! Hooray! Now I'm going to have a little knitting race with myself.

Sorry, I can't give you a better picture. But isn't my new project bag nice?

And we still have no news on potential new baby chickens. Since I don't remember exactly which day she started nesting I'm not too worried. And since the first mama hen was on the nest for about 48 hours after the first baby hatched I just have to accept that if she's still out there she'll come home when she's ready.

My plans for this weekend involve a LOT of knitting. Maybe some canoeing (Neil can do the paddling) and definitely a trip to the yarn store (because I don't own all the needles in the world yet) Oh, and I need to re-rack my apple/tart cherry wine so the big glass jug will be available for something new! Wine making doesn't take much active time, just lots of patience.

Next week I have a DNA conference in Burlington for three days. It's always fun to hear the latest new techniques, and this conference tends to have a lot more discussion rather then just the speaker speaking, which adds to the interest. Three days of conference knitting should be good for my project too.