Yes there is! I "liked" Cascade Yarns on Facebook, and their feed often features pictures of yarn stores all over the country. Kind of wool porn, showing racks and shelves loaded with skeins of all colors, not that I drool when I see them. One of the yarn stores caught my eye because it was in Juneau - heavens to Murgatroyd, I'm going to be in Juneau! And a few days later it was a yarn store in Ketchikan - I'll be there too! It looks like they may be within walking distance of the cruise ship docks - we'll see whether I have time after whale watching and lumberjack shows. I have kind of made a point of buying yarn when I go to new places - when my job sent me to Canada and Germany I found yarn stores and bought yarn, and I would have in Birmingham, England if the only local store hadn't closed.
No new projects to show you - working my way through what's already started. It has been too busy of a week. Part of our "wellness" program at work is a competition using step counters, and often I have to go out for a walk or to the gym to get 5000 steps. Sometimes on weekends if I do too much yarnwork, I don't even make 2000. But this week I was making well over 5000 before I even left work, then walking around the CSA farm, or grocery shopping, or walking back and forth at Yarnworks, so I think I upped my average. This week's farm haul - 3 heads of lettuce (butter lettuce!), 1 pound of salad mix, 1 bunch of kale (the non-curly kind that refuses to get wet), 1/2 pound of spinach, and 2 quarts of strawberries. I spent at least an hour washing all of the greens tonight - my salad spinner was a great investment. Tomorrow I'll buy more berries to freeze and check on my wild raspberries - I think they're just about ready to pick. I noticed tons of wild lamb's quarters (an edible weed) at the farm, but I already have more green stuff than I know what to do with, so I'll leave them for now.
Time to put up my feet and pick up my yarn.
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