Juliblue

Well, I am laying here in bed waiting for my upgrade on my coffee- thanks dear!! My daughter Tigerlily, has given me a lovely card, and a great pen made into a flower in a little pot- the perfect thing to grace my desk when I finally get that dream teaching job:)

Here is the Acrostic poem she wrote using my name:

Juli

Unsmall

Likes Me

Informational ( she said that was because I was a teacher!)

How sweet! Her teacher asked if she really wnated to put that I was ‘Unsmall’ and she said yes which is funny….because we almost wear the same shirt size, in fact she fits in my small tees even though she is only 6.5 years old. She is very big, so thinking I am ‘unsmall’ is pretty funny…

She took over my new spinning wheel on Friday. I was teaching for the Kindergarten Class at her school and Daddy came to pick us both up- because I was carrying SO much stuff, and wanted to get home to my new present ASAP!!

So, as soon as it was up and running, Tigerlily was the one spinning- not me:(

But she did a pretty good job…I ned to show her how to pull the wool out better, she is getting some pretty thick yarn on the bobbin… but she’ll get there, probably before me, she is soooo smart…

Our Hindi classes are going pretty well too. I opted out of my first one last night, just couldn’t get out of bed yesterday. I spent the WHOLE day in bed working on my second (kind of) lace project. I am doing a KAL with the Loopie Groupies on Ravelry of the Shetland Triangle.

I broke out the Wollmeise for this one, because it takes at least 500 yrds, and I wanted no knots in this baby. I am using my Veilchen color, a mix of blues and deeper blues, beautiful. And going pretty quickly. I am nervous about putting it down, and forgetting what I am doing, I dropped two YO’s already, and figured out away to fix it without it showing up so far. Of course it could be a trick of the lace, so I am tempted today to steam block what i have done already just to make sure that it is exactly what it should be….otherwise, I’m ripping back!! So, far no lifelines, just stitch markers, but it is not too big yet, and maybe in one or two more rows, I will start adding them!

So, off to the left here, you can see my Tiger and her attempts at spinning….and soon I will be posting my attempts, I need to work while I am alone to find my own rhythm and then I can help her better, once I understand the machine better myself!

Well, the blog is going great! No one has visited yet. I haven’t figured out how to load up my photos yet and still have strangers displayed in the corner there. I will figure this out because- I need to load up the pics I took yesterday of my big adventure. Actually, I dragged Tigerlily and Tony to go with me too. They wanted to go, but just to see, I was the real participant. It all began about two weeks ago. I decided I was going to drive all the way to Encinitas to take spinning lessons. I found a great lady at the yarn store, Common Threads. Her name was Jeri, she is no way affiliated with the store, she just volunteered her services to have paid lessons there. I drove up at the last minute and got there 1/2 into someone elses lesson. I felt badly for her, she had her adorable baby girl with her, but it was obvious she wasn’t getting much doen because she kept needing to deal with the baby. This was the reason I went alone. I got a whopper of a lesson. Jeri is a great and patient teacher. Then, another lovely lady came to the back, an indie dyer named Julie Soto. Her company is Natasha’s Handspun. I bought some roving form her it was so lovely ( I don’t even have my wheel yet…) They continued my lesson together with Julie showing me how to ply what I had just spun! It was amazing. Then they told me they were going to go buy fleeces – the whole sheared sheep’s coat. I really wanted to go and begged her to call me. we kept in contact through Ravelry here…and then it was time!!

We drove out to Descanso yesterday, it was a 45min drive and ended up out at a little farn on top of this BIG hill. The lady who lived there is named Eileen. She had ten sheep being shorn. We sat and watched and Jeri patiently showed me the highlights and lowlights of each fleece. It was so fun!!! I learned so much! I love learning. My goal as I am a teacher, is to go everyday learning something!! I have to . It courses through me like a disease…. anyway we were there from 4-6pm after a full day of substitute teaching at my son’s High School – La Jolla High. I had a great day. Long and exausting, but amazingly fun. Tiger andTony spent the time petting cows, chasing lizards, and talking to the herding dogs. They had fun too. Such a different life out there, out in the edges of society…out in the wilds….

Now I have five fleeces to process, soon. I already don’t have enough time in my day, I may send some off to a company to do for me, we’ll see…

Anybody guess on my other post?? My husband has Hep C and HIV infection from the great Hemophiliac Decimation of 25 years ago. There is a group called the Committee of 10,000. COTT. They represent the hemophiliacs that were infected by the tainted blood companies like Bayer and others flooded the market with. They infected wifes and other, on accident and nothing was ever the same. Our lives are different everyday too. We definitely understand the importance of now, the beauty of having each day, not wasting our time on petty things. Life is so short. We are so lucky that the protease inhibitors came when they did. We have today, and so far, tomorrow too….

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