colors of summer

Yarn delivery to The Spinning Room

4th of July cupcakes made by Crafty Girl

One of the Bocce ball sets we played with on the 4th, with friends.

We had such a great time. If I even were to start talking about Tall Son's girlfriend, I would do nothing but gush...so let me just say that we love her. Beautiful, smart, sweet, funny. Aside from that, she knows how to spin on a drop spindle, and she knits, too...

If you don't hear from me much over here, it's because of this.

I hope you are surrounded by friends and family at least some of the time this summer!

she's OK

There is a lot to write about, but I need to break it down into a couple of different posts.

First off, I have to tell you that I made it to Bennington, VT on Friday morning on the way to Burlington, where more cool things ended up happening.

This is the friend who's been having such a bad time the last few months. I finally had to go see for myself how she was doing. She had missed the NYS sheep and wool festival, so I brought her a piece of it and made her pick out a few of my skeins. Also, she just had a birthday. (She only wanted some yarn to knit for her little boy, and I had to twist her arm real bad until she finally picked out two skeins for herself! See where her right hand is? Those are the ones. I knew she wanted them.)

She also finally had a good night's sleep for the first time in months, and that always makes it easier to smile again.

Hope you keep feeling better, Abi, so you can put on a few pounds and catch up! And guess what! Obama is still president-elect!

More about what else happened that day, tomorrow.