Thursday, July 20
another first for Sabrina
She went to a pow wow yesterday! Our Aboriginal Affairs manager hosted a two-night pow wow in the day use area of the townsite in celebration of the Paspiwin Cultural Heritage Site. They asked the big fella to attend the opening entrance ceremony in red serge. It was so colourful and interesting to see all the different costumes of the dancers.
[I love the sunglasses along with the ... uh ... white buffalo ? headpiece]
It was nice to see so many young people involved in the dancing. They all had such beautifully created costumes; I was disappointed I couldn't get better photos. I think because they were under a tent and the background was bright sunshine my camera was confused as to what shutter speed to use - and used too slow a speed to freeze the action. However, the blurriness does convey movement, I suppose.
After the elders, veterans, dignitaries and dancers entered the tent, they formed a circle around the edges. These are some of the women dancers.
I had to include this one for two reasons - the cute little boy and his costume, but also the adult dancer in black. Sabrina almost had a mouthful of his feathers while we were waiting for the ceremony to start. He was standing near us and Sabrina ever-so-casually sauntered to the end of her leash. I glanced at her, saw that she wasn't going to bother him, then I watched as she telescoped her neck about eight inches further and opened her jaws to taste some eagle feathers!! He escaped unscathed, probably never knowing how close he came to greyhound feather assault!
My two sweeties! She's keeping her eyes on the dancers. Again, I am amazed at how well she did in a big crowd, lots of sounds - singing, drumming, loud speakers, etc. Little kids running up to her, the dancers - which are out of her normal realm. What a good dog!
Elann had some Socka/Fortissima 6- ply sock yarn that I had to snatch up. I can never find 6-ply sock yarn when I want to, so this justifiably needed to be added to the stash. I included my toe (bottom left) because in the upper left is Sabby's tail.
One of the two swatches I did for the Marble yarn. I tried with a 4 mm needle and got 19 st/25 rows for 4". The pattern calls for 22/30. I dropped down to a 3.5 mm and got 21 st/29 rows; close enough. And the fabric is nice and firm. I'm going to finish swatching the yarns I have before I start anything new yet. Next up is the Elann Peruvian Collection Highland wool.
It wouldn't be an entry without gratuitous Sabrina photos:
Sabrina knows the benefits of good dental health:
The better to kill the hedgehog!!
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