I finished washing the charcoal Corriedale fleece for my friend, Sandy, on Sunday and it finally finished drying by the time I got home late last night after work.  I weighed both bags of wool (two fleeces total) and it came to just under 9 pounds.

Now, nine pounds of clean, uncombed wool is a lot.  In fact, it filled two 33 gallon trash bags.  I brought them to work today and Sandy and I filled out the form for the processing mill and waited (im)patiently for 5:00 to come around so we could take it to the UPS store around the corner from our office and get them shipped out.  The processing mill we are sending it to is having a 25% discount if you get it there before the end of the month, so you can see we were scrambling a bit.  (UPS has promised to get the box there by Thursday.)

Well, now, UPS doesn’t charge by the weight as much as they charge by the dimensions of the box.  So, what could Sandy and I do with these two HUGE bags of fiber?  Yup!  We sat on them and squooshed all the excess air out of them.  While Sandy sat on hers, I pushed at it from all angles and let me tell you, those were two flat bags when we got done.

Sandy and I were laughing when we left wondering what the guy behind the counter was thinking of these two middle-aged women sitting on trashbags together.  Sandy said it was too bad we didn’t get pictures.  Then I thought about it and commented, “Oh, I’ll bet we’re on film somewhere.”  Don’t these places have security cameras?  If so, I hope the person watching that one isn’t taking a sip of coffee or anything because he’s gonna spew it across his console laughing at us.

But one batch is off and I’ve got to wash mine and get it off for processing.  Needless to say, we’ll be watching for the UPS man to bring a box of goodies in the next few weeks.  It’s like being a kid and waiting for Christmas!

On the 10,000 Step Club front – Scott nearly has the logo done and I should have it up on the site in the next day or so for those joining us to copy and place on their site.  Cheryl from Acorn to Oak is joining in, a former weaving student of mine is joining, there are a couple of others thinking about it and we hope you will, too.  I’d love for this club to become something special to help people get active, lose weight and get fit.  This means me, too!  And if misery loves company, so does laughter and fun – but even more so!