Posted in Dogs, Friends, Home and Hearth, Love, tagged country adventures, country living, Critters, dog photo, Dogs, dogsitting, Finding New Friends, Home, love, visitors on September 8, 2015| 36 Comments »
Bill and I made a new friend today. I think he likes us.
He was a little apprehensive at first but loosened up after a snack and conversation.
His name is Pichu and we will be dog-sitting soon. Today was just a day to see if we liked each other.
I think Bill and Pichu may have made a connection don’t you?
And we were both delighted to have a furry critter in the house once again!
Posted in Country Adventures, Country Fotos, Country People, Country Thoughts, Friends, Humor, tagged Beginner Crochet, Crafts, Crochet, Finding New Friends, Friends, humor, Knitting, Lexington VA, Sewing Circles, The Stitching Post on April 13, 2015| 25 Comments »
” Interior of The Stitching Post, Lexington, VA
Today was the first day of Beginner’s Crochet Class!
I realize I may be too old to be a “beginner” at anything, but trying something new may stave off brain freeze.
Oh, maybe sky diving would be more daring, but meeting new people and learning new things are more than enough to stir up my somewhat sluggish metabolism and might even stimulate the close to dead imagination.
With growing excitement this afternoon I made my way to The Stitching Post in downtown Lexington, Virginia. There I met five ladies who were all dedicated to conquering a single hooked needle and a skein of yarn (note how I am already into the “lingo”).
We are all making the same thing with the same weight yarn. And we are all novices in one way or another.
I was reminded of the ladies in olden days who sat in a sewing circle of peaceful contemplation while their men were out hunting and gathering. It was not long before I realized this totally relaxed group was making me smile.
We were all struggling in different ways:
“My hand keeps cramping up!” said one sweet lady. And no matter how our teachers tried to tell her different ways to relax her hand, she kept saying, “My pinkie is cramped and I can’t un-cramp it.”
“Can you see which hole to put this in?”
“Litle V’s?”
“I don’t see any little V’s.”
“A half double croche huh? Ha!”
“Make it looser?”
“I have to count the V’s? How many?”
“Every time I count it I get a different number.”
We were all beginning to giggle a little and then talked of homey things like what to make for dinner and a husband’s sprained ankle, and where the knitting club meets.
I have been invited to sit in on knitting club sessions even though I can’t knit. Talk about a diversified unprejudiced group!
I do feel so very welcomed by these strangers, and for over an hour they were delightful company. We are all making a market bag. The end results should be as varied as their makers. But what our completed bags will reflect is the coming together of sweetly pleasant people engaged in creatively pleasant activity on a delightfully pleasant Sunday afternoon.
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