Random Fridays

I'm not sure who started Random Fridays, but a lot of knitbloggers are doing them and today it just works, so I'm doing Random Friday. Yesterday Caleb was playing with his LEGO's and had built a really big tower, but when I looked again (going back and forth doing laundry yesterday) I saw this: He had built an entire city! In the tallest tower there is a restaurant (or resteryknot as he says) and a toy store. I have no idea how he came up with this idea but I love it. The fact that he knows at least some of the businesses in the buildings cracks me up. This is the first time he's built something this big with the LEGO's and its also the thing most unrelated to the LEGO kit things we've gotten him. He owns quite a few of the Star Wars LEGO kits as well as some cars/trucks and dinosaur kits. The kits are fun, but I really think LEGO's should be used to build random things and not just follow the directions and Caleb really did that this time. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next!

In other random news, I have reserved my first fleece! Its for the 2007 shearing so I'm not getting it any time soon, but the sheep (ram actually) is growing it right now - grow, baby, grow!) I had purchased a bunch of Finn roving from Kary that came from a sheep named Emmi from Firefly Fields Finnsheep. I haven't spun it yet but its absolutely gorgeous stuff. I have been wanting to do something for Mickael and being male, I knew he would appreciate a dark gray or black something. (I'm leaning towards a sweater something but I'm not sure if I have the intestinal fortitude to do one this big - he's 6'3" and wears a size 52 suit. You haven't seen gorilla arms until you've seen his arms.) So I looked at her colored sheep. I finally narrowed it down to Bo or Usko. Both are black rams. Despite the fact that Usko can apparently fly (scroll down to the bottom picture on his page if you don't believe me), I decided to reserve Bo's fleece because Bo Duke was my very first crush ever! All of the really knowledgeable spinners who have written books on how to pick a fleece will tell you to look at the crimp, the strength of the individual locks, the amount of VM, the amount of grease and other really important things. None of them really address picking a sheep's fleece because he has the same name as your first crush. I could rewrite fleece picking guidelines for spinner's everywhere! Well, anyway (yes, there's more to this story) Tracy - the sheep's human mommy - emailed me and apparently, due to the fact that they had a chocolate colored male lamb born this year (chocolate lamb's are huge for Finn sheep in the US) and because she has limited space for wintering rams (sheep are like teenagers on a church retreat - must keep boys and girls separate), she is going to sell Bo so I will probably be getting Usko's fleece after all. Have a great weekend, and if you have any other helpful fleece picking tips that the experts might have missed, feel free to leave them in the comments!