Archive for November, 2009



My Inbox overfloweth

Published on November 27, 2009

When I got home from work on Thursday, I checked my e-mail, and there must have been 50 advertisements sent to me! Staples, Bose, Dell, JoAnn’s Fabrics, Bath and Body Works, Sears, Victoria’s Secret, Borders Books, Patternworks, The Loopy Ewe, Amazon.com, Wolf Trap, Journey Music, Little Knits, Audible.com.  Some of these companies are now sending […]


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 […]