First, the time-lapse video of what happens at the Creston Auction, from Day 1 to Day 4:

Pretty cool huh? DD#2 and I watched it this morning. We were able to pick ourselves out but probably no one else can.

I am so excited about tomorrow—it is the county-wide mass casualty training at the airport and I am going to participate as a pretend patient! Actually, I get to go very early (we need to be there around 6:30 a.m.) and help my friend Louise do the makeup—it's called moulage—on all the patients. Louise is one of our fire department EMTs. She arranged for me to be a "red" patient (a severely-injured one), and then she asked if I wanted to help her with the moulage before the training starts. Of course! I'm not much of a hand with my own makeup since I never wear any, but I think I can handle making realistic-looking bruises and wounds on other people. We have an hour-and-a-half to get 50 patients ready to go. It'll be fast-paced and exciting.

This is a very serious training and once it gets underway it is intended to be just like a real incident. I am curious to see 1) how other departments perform, given what I know about our own department's training, 2) how the various departments perform together, and 3) what we might expect if we were to have a mass casualty incident here. DD#2 thoughtfully farmed herself out for tonight to a sleepover at a friend's house, because the husband is also going to participate tomorrow. He will be in an engine, though, and I probably won't see him unless he is working as an EMT instead of a firefighter. I also think I will be riding in an ambulance at some point. Part of the training involved assessing how long it would take to get patients from an incident to the hospital, and how the hospital would respond to a sudden influx of injuries.

Because of privacy laws, I won't be able to post any pictures of our training, but I will definitely write about the experience afterward.

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More details will be forthcoming when I know something, but it may be that Fiber Trends will continue to act as a distributor for my patterns. I know some of you asked what would happen, and to be honest, I just wasn't sure. I've gone forward with the premise that I no longer had a distributor, but as of a phone call yesterday things may have changed. Let's all be patient—I know it will work out (whatever "it" ends up being) in the end. Bev left a great legacy. I want to honor that.

I'm not so stressed over my knitting anymore, either. I've got a couple of projects underway (no sweaters, though). It's enough just to be knitting right now.