Lucky you, the local yarn shop here closed years ago. And you summed up spinning pretty good, it's not all that exciting. fun doing different fibers but have pretty much tried them all plus some... bison for a friend, and wolf shedding, won't do those again. My husband is that way with animals, I never know what he's going to bring home, some of them are fiber producers too... like I need more, last purchase was camels.

If you plan on doing any needle felting please don't buy any wool, I will send you some, free, I've been trying to figure out what to do with it all. Years ago I went to a garage sale, the woman had died and her husband was getting rid of her stuff, we had a little Ford Ranger with a topper on, I came home with a spinning wheel and so much fiber we smooshed into the back of the truck and hurried to shut the topper before it pushed it out, plus had to put some in the back seat.

Last spinning project, some wool and silk spun to make it interesting.

Very nice. Great story! I"m a yarn-aholic 🤣 I enjoy watching spinners, but never had the desire to do it. I've felted some but not a lot. I probably have as much yarn as you too & about 10 projects going at once...get bored so have to try somethin new.