Last night, I plopped myself down between 2 fans and finally finished up this sheep for Kim who won that contest back at the beginning of the month. This picture is the pre-felting stage. She is now felted and temporarily stuffed with plastic bags. Hopefully, she'll be dry by tomorrow so I can stuff her and mail her out. The sheep is nameless right now. The names come to me after the final stuffing when I can really get a good look at the sheep's character. Although I already have a feeling that this sheep is a she not a he.

I also need to mail out my package for the Sock Knit Swap. I've had it finished and ready to go for a week or so now. I thought that it was similar to the sockapalooza exchanges and everyone mailed them off around the same time. But I rechecked the details the other day and realized that it should just be mailed sometime before mid-August. I'll post some pictures after I send it off (even though I'm 99.99% certain that my pal doesn't read my blog, you never know for sure).

I took this picture a couple of weeks ago while on a bike ride in the park. The park runs along a river, but there is also this little pond which geese tend to hang around. Actually, geese hang around everywhere in New Jersey that has even a puddle of water. So the park is fairly overrun with geese, and I guess one of the bright ideas for eliminating or moderating the geese problem was to put up these dog silhouettes. But apparently the geese are too smart to be fooled.

I also wanted to share this picture from the same bike ride. There's a mini zoo in the park and they have mostly a lot of goats and deer (which is weird because there are already a lot of "wild" deer around, so I wonder if the caged deer get mocked at night by the wild deer). But they have this iguana and I liked the picture because if you look carefully you can see the reflection of me on my bike.