Mossy Cottage Knits

Good Thoughts, Please!

Please send thoughts of encouragement and hope and a mentally-projected bubble of protection to my sister and her family whose home is threatened by the Southern California fires. Last I spoke to them, they were packed and ready to evacuate. Sister, let me know how things are going!

On a lighter note, you know you own too many push-button operated things when, in the course of one weekend, you try to unlock your car with your TV remote control, and you try to change channels on your TV with your cordless phone.

Knitting Knews
The network administrator where I work is one of the most remarkable young people I know. He has been deaf and mute since birth but is the most amazing communicator, thanks partly to a great sense of humor and a complete lack of inhibition. It is not uncommon for him to leap up out of his chair and flail and dance and bounce around a conference room, acting out what he is trying to say. People who aren't used to this are, of course, startled but for the rest of us it's just business as usual for this odd little company.

A few of us have learned some American Sign Language and eat lunch with him every Tuesday. We frequently end up laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. Of course, this is all quite confusing to the other people in the lunchroom who only hear long periods of silence punctuated by sudden, loud and, to them, inexplicable outbursts of laughter.

What does this have to do with knitting? Well, he and his equally charming wife (who is also deaf but not mute) had their second child last week. I bought this yarn this weekend to knit socks for the new little one. Something to knit that's not mittens—Callooh! Callay!

Dye Garden Dyegest
An end-of-the-season, flowerless, "good-bye" photo from the dye garden to all My Dear Readers. The Mysterious K is in the process of cleaning it out and cutting down the annuals—especially those honkin' big sunflowers—for her compost piles. With the flowers that I have left and the jars of dye that I kept, I may be able to keep dyeing for a little while. I'll continue posting pictures as long as I can. On a happier note, plans are already in the works for a larger dye garden next year!!

Posted by Ryan at October 27, 2003 09:53 AM