I really am one lucky gal!

This past Saturday, Joe offered to take me to Woolbearers, my just right outside of local yarn store that had just recently moved into a bigger space.

I have to tell you, at that moment, I felt two things. The first naturally being absolute happiness, after all, I am a yarn addict. The second, dread.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who can spend an hour or two at the yarn store, just looking at yarn, patterns, chatting with other people. I'm completely content doing so, but would Joe be perfectly content waiting around for me to just buy some damn yarn already?

Well as it turns out, Joe is awesome yarn store company. Not once did he rush me, roll his eyes or exhale loudly in an attempt to hint that I should hurry. In fact, he wandered around with me, pointing out various yarns, asking questions such as "Can't you knit socks with any yarn, does it have to be "sock yarn?" Why can't you use this? It's really pretty." He also offered up help in the color department, pointing out that I "need brighter sock yarn", as I always pick such muted colors, and pointing out that the skein of Cherry Tree Hill I passed up really would have brought out the color of my eyes. [It was cute.] He also helped steer me away from the yarns I'm allregic too, pointing out that I should not buy that skein I saw in the bottom shelf, because there was mohair in it.

But the moment that really floored me was when I spotted the sock knitting books and wondered outloud if they had a copy of Knitting Vintage Socks. Joe's reply... "Isn't that one of the Nancy Bush books you really want?" A man who knows who Nancy Bush is, now that's a keeper!

So with Joe's help I walked out of there with four hanks of sock yarn, two of Nature's Palate, and two of Claudia's Hand Painted in the Plumicious colorway [pictured below]:



After the yarn store, we spent some time wandering around downtown. There are some really cute shops in Mount Holly, including a teddy bear shop where he bought me the cutest stuffed porcupine.

Eventually we made our way to the Crow Bar, The waterfront bar part of the Robin's Nest Restaurant for a light dinner. Joe ordered the Salmon Cakes, and I ordered the Nachos. 30 minutes after we placed our order, they came out to tell us they were out of Nachos. So I then ordered Buffalo Chicken Tenders. Our food arrived shortly after that. Joe's salmon cake was really good, however the chicken was ice cold. Despite the bad food service, the bartender was great and the drinks were really good. I doubt I would be going back there again however. I'm normally not one to complain, but there were just too many issues getting our food.

Other yarn aquired this week include but are not limited to:

Vesper Sock Yarn in the AquaMelon colorway:



And a hank of Yarn Pirate in the Isobel colorway that The Plucky Knitter was kind enough to let me take off of her hands for her:



My apologies about the crappy picture quality. I currently have no digital camera, all the cameras in my house are currently on vacation in Florida, along with the rest of my family.