Getting all this together; tree stuff.. bows, balls, and in this case small pants and shirts, (it’s a uniform company) shiny decorations, a tree skirt, well… it takes a lot of time.  As I mentioned yesterday, I spend a whole bunch of the time in my office / studio making stuff and tying bows.  A tree might take three or four dozen smaller bows and a big ball of a bow for the top, that sort of thing.  You’ve got to stay entertained while you’re doing it.  I get books on tape and with my DVD. play it on my computer discovery, I get movies.  Today I discovered another web find.  I found a really fine web radio station named "A".  Check it out if you like a mix of folk, blues, latin, and easy listening.  It says it’s broadcast form Antartica.  Maybe it is, who knows.  Sounds good to me.  It’s all streaming mp3 files.  Wish I could figure out how to record it onto my ipod, it’s that good. 

All of this leaves me with plenty of time for dreamin’ about knittin’..  I do, dream.  And, my stash is pretty much right behind where I’m sitting*and* working.  This afternoon, after seeing Margene’s post with her little cabled cap and seeing this during my walk in the woods

( I walk, I HAVE to walk, my back demands that I walk.)  I remembered some grey alpaca handspun (Grey is the color of November.  Look around you, you’ll see I’m right on this one.  It was nearly dark at 4 pm.  I had to put my headlights on.) sitting right there behind me in box number, well.. some number, and I went and got it and wound it right into a ball for a new fast project.  Some quick gratification is badly needed these days. 

hmmmm…. where has time gone??  Thursday C drove to NH and swapped my MIL for a frozen turkey (the turkey was a perfect house guest, can’t say the same for .. ermm…),  Friday we swapped a nephew for a daughter at an airport,  oh, and gave the turkey to an ex spouse to cook for Thanksgiving,  can I make this sound any weirder??  Truth is, it was a pretty good weekend.  I’ll see the turkey (and the MIL) later this week, can’t have everything, right?.

The season has begun.  I have to turn this..

 

into lots and lots of this..

I’m not sure what took me so long to catch onto what every kid with a computer already knows.  Movies can be played on the computer.  It occurred to me the other night while I was tying the first of the season.  Since then, I too have started watching DVDs on my computer (there isn’t a TV in my studio) while turning thousands of yards of 4"-6" wide stinking flocked ribbon into hundreds of stinking red bows.  This morning a trip to the library is in order.  MORE MOVIES!  So how about some movie suggestions.  Any must sees, all time favs I should hunt for?

Sunday, I took a lovely break from the red curse.  Laurie, Cindy and her daughter, and Sue came by.   I spun nearly a bobbin full of Bess, emptying my basket of carded rolags.  We ate, we talked, we knitted and spun the afternoon away. Marissa and I modeled our Ribby Cardis. Thanks girlfriends for a lovely respite.  I think it was Laurie that mentioned that it isn’t even so much about the knitting as it is about the possibilities.   It’s all knitted dreams in my near future. 

 

ps.  You know what??  Cindy is usually the only one in the group that
remembers to take pictures.. I bet if you pop  over there, she’ll have
something up.

 

   picture from a report by WJAR, no cameras, no anything with picture taking abilities was allowed into the area, yesterday.

Some things are just meant to be.  I literally lucked into tickets for the Dalai Lama’s talk yesterday.  Yes, I did have to go wait in line to get them, but I was third in line.  And Chris did go back and get an extra ticket for my nephew, who decided to fly here from Pittsburgh for this one in a life time opportunity.  He too just walked in and bought the ticket.   That was all there was to it.  300 tickets opened up at just the right time.  I heard the announcement and went to get them.  Security was very high, secret service was everywhere.  We arrived nearly 2 1/2 hours early.  Parking was a mile or so from the event and we knew there would be lines for the shuttle, lines for security checks, lines, lines…. we wanted good seats.  We got them.  When the Dalai Lama entered and exited the tent, he walked right by us.  We were thrilled.  He spoke of peace and compassion, told stories of his youth, laughed a laugh so infectious that he charmed the crowd into giggling with him.  Smiles and tears.  He answered presubmitted questions, honestly.. one with an ‘I don’t know‘.  He preached (well, I don’t think he does preach) that all religions have the same basic principles.  He asked us to be unbiased and learn compassion for others.
Behind him I could see the waves rolling in, the sun on the sea.   

I’d tried to write yesterday morning.  My internet was out early, then Typepad the rest of the time. 

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