Since somewhere around Fall of 2002 I has been harboring some red, green, and white wool and some white soy silk in my spinning supplies. On May 3rd I was invited to a gathering of spinners so I got out my spinning wheel and dusted it off and began spinning. Both fibers have now been turned into yarn and await a new fate. Hopefully I can knit the wool yarn into a small blanket. The soy silk is still waiting for inspiration. -Karen
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
On our recent visit to Canton I saw the red, green, and white wool gracing Dave’s living room sofa. I knit it into a small blanket as we were traveling the country in the Fall of 2008. The soy silk is still a ball of white yarn sitting in the second drawer of the chest in my studio….