Now that I think I sufficiently teased you all yesterday, it is time for the details. The twins and I went on a nice little road trip yesterday to CT to visit a dear friend.  Yes I saw her last weekend at the festival, but that was all too briefly and she was busy paying for a new wheel.  My comment to her post was innocent enough, but it set the wheels in motion.
Wheel Ho 
Now that’s the way to be surrounded!¬† There you see Chris flanked by her two (yes TWO) Norm Halls with her lovely Reeves in front.¬† She let me spin on the new Norm Hall. I wants one.¬† But I digress, that Reeves in front?¬† The 24″ Oak is well, no longer hers, but mine, tucked way in the back of my mommy mobile:
Reeves in motion
I don’t have any super fabulous pictures of my new Reeves, but I’m gonna link to Chris’ intro post of when she first bought it 
 
Beyond playing (and paying) for wheels, we had an excellent day, beyond 3 hours in the car.¬† Can I just say, I’m glad I bought those dual dvd headrest mountable screens for the kids.¬† Kept them mostly quiet for the trip.¬† Need more movies for the car as I got tired of listening to Little Mermaid ¬† That and I need to find them better headphones so I can skip listening to it at all!¬† Lunch at the super healthy McDonalds, awesome ice cream next door (darnit, I can’t remember the name of the ice cream parlor) and then kid runaround time at an excellent kid park.¬† It was really nice to spend time with Chris.¬† Thanks Chris for an excellent day!
I spent some bonding time with the Reeves after dinner, feeding it some of Jessica’s fiber.¬† I pulled out a braid of 4oz of SW Merino in the Toasted Banana.¬† Somewhere someone has a photo of me wearing the roving around my neck at a fiber gathering at Jessica’s.¬†¬†¬† Anyway, Reeves apparently loves to spin FINE.¬† No pictures as the lighting is terrible in my room and there’s no way I would have been able to get a good shot of this last night.¬†¬† I foresee a long happy relationship with it/her.
I did a little rearranging in preparation.¬† I moved my desk in the den to the corner so that I could put a wheel down there.¬† The Vermonter is now living in the den where I can spin and keep the kids company while they play.¬† Already put that to use on Saturday night after dinner when I pulled out a huge bag of recently rediscovered (like Friday night) roving processed by Wooly Knob of what I assume to be CVM.¬† I spun up a full bobbin in an hour or so.¬† Forgot how much I love that wheel.¬† Anyway.. so now I have a production wheel in the den, and the two Schacts and the Reeves (appropriate somehow – though this isn’t a Schact-Reeves) in my room.
As Lizzy pointed out, I still haven’t shown the last addition to the herd:¬† the ashford joy.¬† Well, still don’t have pictures of her.¬† She’ll be used sparingly as a real travel wheel, primarily on the boat or where there will be lots of long distance schlepping (like across a fairground), otherwise, the Ladybug gets the travel call.¬† While this isn’t mine, this is her twin
Guess I need to do some updating to the wheel roundup again
Oh yes, since a wheel came in, something needs to go…
Craft on!
