Fall Festivals

September 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm | Posted in spinning | 3 Comments

In Michigan, the best time of year is the fall.  There are so many festivals taking advantage of the wonderful weather.  Warm, yet not too warm, cool, yet not too cool.

This weekend I took part in an agricultural heritage festival complete with a tractor parade.  It was quite cool actually, seeing half century old tractors looking brand panking new, driven by young people.  I really don’t think that, even with all our technology, we will ever not be reliant on the agricultural society.  Hopefully we will get less toxins, and more organic as our culture awareness grows.

Next weekend has several major Michigan festivals.  The Wool Festival at Mt. Bruce is pretty big for the SE Michigan and Thumb area.  There is also the Northeren Michigan Lamb and Wool Festival out of West Branch.  I’m not sure which of these I most want to go to.  One is 15 minutes away, the other is about 1.5 hours.  Each has it’s own draws, and drawbacks.

One of the neighboring guilds has a day trip planned in November to Zielingers in Frankenmuth. I think I might just have to take a personal day off of work to go.  Priorities, priorities!  Bringing neighborhood guilds together is a very, very good thing.