Last Saturday I flew out to western PA for a family visit. I packed the usual, plus three spindles, roving and some knitting (a shawl in progress and the Embossed Leaves socks). Just to be safe, I checked everything but the socks. There wasn’t a problem, I knitted as usual. A friend of the family went to Maryland this year for the first time and bought herself a lovely Golding Tsunami spindle. She needed a lesson. I packed mine. I took the olive wood Hardy that is spinning the llama & silk and I took Ed Jensen’s Osage Orange Turkish spindle, just to show off. The Friday night before I left, I threaded 600 beads onto the next skein of my own Alpaca & Silk hand-dyed yarn that I am using for the Spring Things Shawl. These were the things that were in my checked bag, the important things. Things I did not want airport security, the TSA people, to take away from me. Things to keep safe. When, at 2:30 am on my return trip, I reported my bag missing, these were the things I pictured my head. I sweated it out for two days. Early in the morning, first cup of coffee in hand, I saw the bag sitting just outside my back door Things I hold dear. You can’t knit with crossed fingers. 600 beads. A shawl half finished. A spindle full of singles but most importantly a spindle out of several already completed for a project. Hours. Dreams. But the thought that kept coming back was that really, in spite of how very much I wanted them returned, I was home. Safely. I would have more dreams, and projects, and that what was lost were things. Easy to say now that they are home again too. Easy to say on a bright sunny day. Easy to say, hard to remember.
Have a beautiful day. Remember what you have. Pictures tomorrow.
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That’s a well known problem in anesthesia when using a tube changer to swap out tubes in tracheas. If the tube changer (the spindle post) is smaller than the tube (the straw), there is a certain percentage of tubes that will hang up and not pass easily or at all. It becomes something upon which one does not depend on working, so we don’t do it if it is mission critical. I like your method better.
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