Knitting Guild

At the Guild Meeting last night, several beautiful items were displayed including two hand knit shawls. Each had a light weight, web-like character and showed the diligence and patience of the creator.

Voting for the new officers for the upcoming year, succeeded in placing a few new people in the ranks of the leaders for the group. Future meetings will be anticipated with glee as we see the new programs and seminars to be lined up.

Gratitude

How easy to forget to be thankful for the very basics! Those in New Orleans have realized that these are the things that they need the most. Gratitude is an attitude needed by all of us in our relationships with others and with our Creator.

A simple "Thank you." is always welcome to be heard by any listener. I know I enjoy hearing it when any effort has been made to do something for someone else. Maybe I need to say it more often to others for the common things done as well as those times when much effort was brought to bear to help me.

Thank you so simple and yet very important.

September 20, 2005

My typestyle reflects the skies of Colorado this past few days. A Harvest Moon rose over the horizon and irradiated the sky with its brightness. The stars lost some of their luster in competition with the orb of the night.

The Waldo Canyon Fire started sometime Monday and the firefighters made tremendous efforts to fight the flames on mountain goat terrain. Helicopters with large red buckets dropped retardant material to help extinguish the flames. A line was drawn as the sun was going down to encircle the conflagration and hopefully contain the forward march of the fire during the night.

Our son, Jonathan, had two of his wisdom teeth removed this morning at the Army dentist, and is currently off-duty until Thursday.

The "Wild Babes" met this morning at the YMCA for the Tuesday, Thursday water aerobic exercise class. One new person joined us, Jamie. What great fun to get to know these genial ladies! This class is a hoot!

Monday, September 19, 2005

Finished the Debbie Macomber title, 311 Pelican Court. Enjoyed the book and the semi-rural setting of a small town. Reminds me of when I was young and growing up in a village in Pennsylvania.

On Sunday, ate Chinese food at Garden Cafe located at Powers and Palmer Park in Colorado Springs. $1.35 for a one and one-half cup to two cups scoop of food, whatever was in the steam table. Very good selection and taste. Can't beat the price.

Denver Broncos won in a game they certainly should have lost against the Chargers. They tried numerous ways to lose that even high school teams don't do!

Mid-September Day

Fall is in the air; especially in the mornings with the long shadows and crispness of the breeze. White whispy clouds and bright blue skies belie the fact that the leaves will soon be painted yellow and slowly descending to the earth. Warm temperatures during the day entice people out of their offices to wander aimlessly enjoying the sunshine.

Spinning Fiber

Fibers slowly slip through the fingers as the wheel turns twisting the coat of a sheep into a single thread, thick or thin depends on the hand that holds the wool. Developing patience in the deliberateness of the drafting of the yarn, new skills are gradually being learned and applied in the second of Green Valley Weavers' classes on spinning.

The wheel is an Ashford, double treadle, scotch tension which runs smoothly and easily pulling the yarn gently onto the bobbin. Having filled two bobbins at home for part of last week's assignment, I was ready to learn how to ply the threads together.

Plying the threads together to make a yarn goes much quicker than the actual spinning. Remembering to get just enough twist without the turning back on itself, the process moved along at a nice clip. Finally, I had a completely full bobbin ready to be turned into a "hank" by winding it on a niddy noddy. After which it was tied, looped and twisted for the end result of a skein of yarn. Now it is ready to wash and hang to dry.