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silva soxes seven

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how cool is this??

my ball winder arrived from etsy!  can you believe they once made these and somehow they died out??  it’s just perfect:  it’s pure vintage, i’d say somewhere from the 1920s-40s?

i had never seen one before and always wished something like it existed; i’ve been winding my yarn by hand as the winders i’ve seen were either aesthetically atrocious or/(and)  cost hundreds.  but this vintage tool was reasonable, and not a spot of plastic on it. just painted wood and a metal gear with a rubberish washer, it works (and looks)  just like hand rotary eggbeater:

and makes this yarn-egg!

yes, center-pull if you want that.  what could be sweeter?  why on earth did they ever go away and, even curiouser, why isn’t somebody making them again now?  in exotic floofywood, anointed with hand-pressed fleen juice, even?

 

eta:  plus, operated strategically in its yarn-free state? it could make such an eloquent gesture for those times when words simply will not suffice…

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the last day…

of my 4day weekend.  today i must clear stuff away, do things like change the linens, plan my observation lesson for thursday, and get some knitting in, as well as practice spinning before i forget again. somehow i lost an entire day yesterday when i just never got up, but instead read in bed all day and kept falling asleep for long periods.  the day before i’d spent all day learning about spinning and making a total fist of it, which is apparently normal. (i was supposed to go to the spinning group again yesterday, but i was asleep…)  friday, of course, was sitting around waiting for the car day.  and that was my 4day weekend.  so today i  must do sunday chores.  sigh.  the real spring break is just about a month away…perhaps i can get the painting on the front door and kitchen wall done then.

 

to do:

put away laundry

launder linens

change linen

swif floors

clean bathroom

unload dishwasher

straighten up kitchen, etc.

spin

plan lesson for observation

“new” toast!

my “new” toaster arrived, and the ongoing purge of plastic from my home continues.  it makes two normal sized pieces of toast (have to cut our modern slices of bread in half! so what does that tell you?) by turning that knob on the side to open the flappy doors.  to turn it on? plug it in!  what a concept!.

the second best part, apart from the aesthetics, is its footprint is about 1/4 of the cuisinart 4slice box it’s replacing.  wish i could get rid of the microwave it’s sidling up to there, too, but even though it’s more than 15 years old it still works fine (except its carousel) and there’s really no need to replace it.  and, of course, i do use it more than just about anything else (quick boiling water for coffee, etc.) so it makes no sense to get rid of it.  i’d like a much smaller one, if not less powerful, since this one takes up the whole of that counter, really.  needless.  but until this one conks, it’s here for the duration.

4day weekend

they moved spring break to just before summer because of testing month (yes, month) so they gave us a 4day weekend in march so we wouldn’t run amok.  whatever.  can’t fool mother nature:  aunt eleanor’s lilies have come up in front of my house this year—sometimes they do, sometimes not.  this year these came back.

pardon me…

just parking this here so i can share it with the gang on ravelry, move along, move along…

NOT ONLY A GRAPEFRUIT…

but a beautiful pink grapefruit, so juicy and tart, i’m eating it for my breakfast today, since this is a day i hadn’t expected in any way, as i wait for the verdict on the car.  signs point to good…

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it was supposed to be a lime tree…

it’s about 10 years old, but this is the first time it's ever fruited.  perhaps the neighbor cutting down the tree in his yard had something to do with that, all the resultant sunlight.  but anyway, this is what’s hanging off it now:

   

they’re not ready yet, but those blossoms smell incredible!

i brought one in and washed it off.  i ask you, does this look like a lime to you?

 

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kathleen spinning on the magical mystery wheel!

she made her spinz! :D

Flickr Tags: spinning

this one took an amazingly long time to finish

mostly because every row is a different strand of yarn which means every row X 2 ends to weave in up the instep arch and back of the leg.

not nearly as long as  did the first batch of silva soxes, however, currently residing somewhere, we know not where, between here and brigadoon.  light, will ya, soxes?  you’re making me very nervous!

 

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