Mike got home about 1pm (which was a nice thing) and I figured he'd be pretty pooped out. Wrong--he'd gotten his second wind and what better project than hauling big ol' chunks of downed tree out of the woods for next years firewood. After loading up the pickup, unloading the pickup and acquiring a lightly sprained wrist and a back-ache in the process, we called it a day. Shortly after getting back in the house, the Paranoid Mail Lady arrived. Now, we live out in the boonies. We have several different mail deliverers each week on our rural route. There's the Nice Mail Lady, there's Bored Mail Man and there's Paranoid Mail Lady. PML (for short) doesn't like going up to people's doors. She pulls into the driveway, stops long enough to leap from her vehicle, deposit the package in our carport (even going near the front door is just too much) and then peels on outta here. Luckily, I usually hear her car come crunching up the gravel, but I've never been quick enough to actually talk to her. By the time I make the front door, she's already flying up the driveway. Maybe if I left her a few cookies, I could slowly coax her closer to the door....
Anyway, PML arrived which meant there was a package. This one turned out to be from Blue Moon Fiber Arts--one of the best sock yarn places in the world. I brought it inside and left it unopened for a while, figuring I'd leave it until a little later; you know, kind of savor the moment. There were a couple of different yarns in there, but the one I was really looking forward to was "Little Bunny FooFoo". It had been "resting" and not available. Terrific looking socks kept showing up on Ravelry made from it and I've been lusting after it for a while. Now, it was back and in spite of having just dropped a chunk of change to join the BMFA Rockin' Sock Club, I was excited to finally get to order some. Four skeins, my friends, four skeins were going to be mine. All mine.
I finally got around to opening up the package. Who am I kidding? It was allowed to sit for less than an hour before I had the box ripped open. There was Mochaberry, every bit as beautiful as it looked online. There was "Knitters Without Borders", also very cool. But the baggie with LBFF looked...odd. It looked salmon!!! No offense to anyone who's fond of salmon as a color (I really do like it in the fish), but it isn't anything I would have knowingly chosen. I figured the color on my Apple was out of whack, although Mochaberry looked the same. Maybe it was a bad picture or the lighting was strange. Then I looked at it a little more closely.....I didn't have "Little Bunny FooFoo", just "FooFoo", an entirely different color. I checked my online confirmation--no, I'd put down the right one. The invoice with the order confirmed that it should have been LBFF. Whoopsy!
So, sad panda. I know BMFA will fix things. I've already sent them an email and am waiting back to verify where I need to send little Salmon McSalmonpants back to. And I know that LBFF will eventually be mine. It's just been a long day.......
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