Archive for the 'NaBloPoMo' Category



Things I am thankful for

Published on November 26, 2009

My three children, and their children. Enough said.  I’m not cooking a huge turkey dinner on Thursday. Daughter is cooking at her house, 3 hours south, and invited us all; Pop has to work Friday and the rest of the weekend, absolutely; one of  the joys of working in “retail.” We decided early on that we were […]


More yarn coming

Published on November 25, 2009

Here’s a niddy noddy in use.  Yarn comes off a spindle or bobbin of a spinning wheel, and is wrapped around this simple device. (Simple in that it’s been around, virtually unchanged, since the beginning of time, and was an old device in Biblical days) There are two end pieces, and they are turned 90 degrees […]


Saga of the noddy

Published on November 22, 2009

A while back, I told the sad tale of the demise of my niddy noddy. It wasn’t the finest available; actually it was rather on the cheapie side. It came free with my first spinning wheel, which was bought used. Mom always said, You get what you pay for.  She was almost always right. It’s demise […]