Date: 2013-01-08
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Well, here I am again after wondering if I should stop this journal. Last night we had dinner guests...one of SOS's 80 to 90 1st cousins and her husband. She has been a faithful reader so decided to keep on writing once in a while! It was nice to finally meet you, Barb and Dave! I was also remembering the article that Fort Wayne Magazine did on our house and went to their website to see if it was still there. It was...complete with pictures of the house...so thought maybe people out there still reading might like to see where we live. Following is the website: http://fortwaynemonthly.fortwayne.com/?q=article/more-to-love We are both continuing to clean, sort, and organize spaces in this house. I got out my spinning wheel for the first time in months and realized that I am clueless about how to put it back together. It is a travelling wheel and has been folded up for the months I was gone and I seem to have forgotten most of what I knew about it...so I will take it with me on Friday when we go to Esther's Place in Illinois which is where I bought it originally. I took a "crash" course at that time but I have slept since then so need a refresher course!! My friend, Meredith, will meet me there and we will spend the weekend doing something artsy/craftsy. I am interested in learning to needle felt and saw that they had once offered a class in needle felting a nativity set. Since we have a collection of nativity sets, I thought this would be a good addition. We will see if we can take this class or something else. It really doesn't matter to me because the joy will be in spending a weekend surrounded by friend Meredith and fiber of all sorts!!...all this is in a beautiful Victorian house which is the store, the "school" and a B&B. This was one of my gifts from SOS for Christmas...a winner!! Pictures will follow when I return. Until then...do a random act of kindness for someone! SOS and I are doing 26 in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy. So far we have done 6...20 to go! I made little cards explaining what we were doing (without our name)and included a small amount of money so the recipient could buy a treat. We just hand them to someone we choose who looks like they need a lift and walk away. Try it...it will bless you and the recipient. So far recipients have included a young man standing in the cold and blowing snow holding a sign for "we buy gold", our neighbor dog who is so large and loud that we figure he is protecting our house along with his...(he got homemade dog treats), the checkout lady at a small store who looked exhausted, the nurse at the Red Cross who nicked my tendon while trying to find a vein and felt terrible, etc.... A funny grandkid story: I got a call from Sam who is 4. He lives in Michigan and goes to preschool. He gets to visit sister Chloe's Kindergarten room soon so called to inform me that he needs to learn his ABC's BEFORE (don't know where he got this idea) he goes. He knows that sister Chloe came to Fort Wayne and spent time with Oma learning her letters so thinks he should come soon and learn his also. Since this is not so easy to do since they live 4 hours away, Oma made him a worksheep with large letters and then pictures of his family beside the letter and sent it off in an email. His Mom printed them off and he worked on them but called again to say that now he needs a worksheet with his cousin's pictures and letters! Needless to say, Oma got right to work on that one and off it went...wonder what he will need next??? (I love it!!)