Level 3 and Oh My God It's Flippin' Hot

I've been up since quite early.... I worked this morning on my novelty yarns and I even managed to finish one of my t.p.i. questions. That means that I have three sections left to do... I am on the home run and can see the light at the end of the tunnel...But today is hot, hot, hotter. I am so warm that my brain is fried. It is 41 degrees and painfully hot. I think I am going to be ill it is so hot. Nobody wants to go out in this weather and we are all waiting for some kind of break.... rain would be great. Meanwhile my brain is so fried that I am not even sure that what I am writing for these yarn samples will sound right. Then there are the flies.... there are flies buzzing around my head and arms and a-- .... I am starting to feel like I'm living in Africa. Days like this I wish I had a lovely little air conditioner. Sucks to be me!

Last evening after it got cool, Teapot and I decided to shear one of the poor sheep which we didn't get to in the spring. We sheared Oscar the ram.... he's black and was panting heavily so we did the job on him. We decided to try something different. We cut his wool with scissors! Yes you read right. We hauled the fellow over to the shearing table and rolled him on to his side which let me tell you, he hated. Then we proceeded to use the pack of cheap scissors that I had bought for other purposes. His fleece came off clean except for a little straw that he had gotten on him in our struggle to get him on his side. A lovely BFL/Merino fleece in black with a little grey on the hips. Quite lovely actually..... I think we'll work on another sheep this evening, if it ever cools down!

Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the novelty yarns I have finished and my 1 tpi skein.....

The novelty on the left is a Turkish knot yarn and the novelty yarn on the right is a cabled yarn with a commercial thread as a binding thread.
This novelty yarn is a 3 ply using sari ribbon as one of the plies....
This is a 1 twist per inch (t.p.i) skein of yarn.... it looks so fat and luscious.... Yum!
I think I will go join the girls in the living room and have a bowl of ice cream for supper... and then a nice cold shower wouldn't go astray. Maybe then my brain will work a little better... we'll see.