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Spinning demonstration went quite well, better than I expected. I was prepared for lots of young children, and instead we had all adults, most of them of "senior" age groups. There were three men, none of whom actually tried spinning but all of whom asked intelligent questions about the process and equipment. One came because he has an old spinning wheel and wants to rebuild it to make it work as it should.

There were perhaps a dozen women, most of whom did try spinning, and made their own spindle to do it with. Several took the spindle and a yard or so of wool roving I sent with them for practice purposes. Overall, it was fun and not too stressful. I worried that I had taken too much equipment and too many samples, but at one time or other I used everything. We ran overtime, and I ended up leaving all the stuff in the meeting room, locked up. I'll have to clear it out early tomorrow morning because they're cleaning the carpet in there at 9 am. Overall, it was a success and reasonably fun.

Now I'm tired and have to get up early, though.