{"id":277,"date":"2003-10-19T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/fate-luck-cosmic-karma\/"},"modified":"2003-10-19T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T01:11:44","slug":"fate-luck-cosmic-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/fate-luck-cosmic-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate? Luck? Cosmic Karma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I promise pictures of my goodies tomorrow &#8211; I was too tired (and lazy) to take pictures today.  And too busy playing with my drop spindle.  In the meantime, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofoto.com\/I.jsp?c=uknz3dj.2zdwtn8v&#038;x=1&#038;y=rp3axa\">pictures from the festival<\/a>.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re dying to hear about our weird coincidental encounter.  We stopped at a rest stop near Utica for dinner.  We were sitting down already with our food when a tour bus rolls up&#8230;consisting almost entirely of women in their 20&#8217;s &#8211; 50&#8217;s.  (Hmmm&#8230;wonder where they&#8217;ve been?)  I overheard one of them say to another, &#8220;well, we&#8217;ve been on the road a little over two hours, so we&#8217;ve probably got another two left.&#8221;  (Hmmm&#8230;that sounds a lot like our trip!)  Using the fact that I had forgotten napkins as an excuse, I got up to get some, and lo and behold, one of the ladies was wearing a souvenier sweatshirt from&#8230;the Dutchess County Sheep &#038; Wool festival (aka Rhinebeck)!<\/p>\n<p>Well, long story short (ok, not really), I asked if they had just been to the festival, and where they were from.  Get this: it was a tour bus out of Rochester, organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvhg.org\/\">Genesee Valley Handspinner&#8217;s Guild<\/a>&#8230;which conveniently meets just down the hill from my house!  Be still my beating heart!  They said to absolutely come and bring my drop spindle and fiber, and they&#8217;d be more than willing to help me out.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have another hobby to add to my ever-growing list of things I do in my spare time.  Heh.  Good thing I&#8217;m gainfully employed, or I wouldn&#8217;t be able to afford myself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I promise pictures of my goodies tomorrow &#8211; I was too tired (and lazy) to take pictures today. And too busy playing with my drop spindle. In the meantime, here are pictures from the festival. Enjoy! So I&#8217;m sure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}