Mossy Cottage Knits

sex vs. yarn-- well, of course our priorities are right- i'll bet very few of us complain "..but i have a headache.." when it comes to knitting-

i have several other board games that include $$s so feel free to look into additional property- this is wonderful- i can spend to my heart's content here-

yurts? did you say yurts? aren't they *felted*? we definitely need a leader of the felting division don't we? i'd offer my services but sad experience has taught me that we would all need to drink an 'alice potion' and shrink ourselves severely-

ryan, you have just made a very dull and weary week delightful- thanks-

stay happy-

*sigh. you make more whole day more compleete with fantasy world. Thank you!

See, once again THIS entry did not get lost in cyberspace-via-Russia. I'm just sayin', can you spell KARMA? Just one warning about the title "Positions" in light of Cuzzin Tom's sutra and all (heehee).......Ryan.....THANK YOU for a fun week. You are Top Dictator of The Great Commune. btw, PINK HOOKER NAILS? You???!!! Of this I want photographic proof. Forget what I said to you in an email not long ago about posting about fingernails.

I forgot to mention that I see that Anne (Miss Fuzzy Buns) forgot to mention that her DH is an ORNITHOLOGIST. Does Cuzzin Tom need an assistant? She also forgot to mention that she spins magical beaded skeins of sinful yarn.

I see the position of Flautist (I think I spelled it right, I meant flute player) to the Masses is vacant, I'd like to apply to that one. I can bake a jolly decent English Scone too. Can I come? Can I? Please?

It took me so long to read the comments on Wednesday's entry that I didn't have time to reply before I had to go do some pesky work stuff. I'm delighted to be included as nautral dyer, but I feel my real talents lie in the area of wool procurement. Farmers long to give me their shearings, which we'll certainly need if we're going to be felting yurts.

Seriously, you're killing me with the fantasizing. Betty Roberts, who makes the gorgeous spinning wheels, lives just north of that area in Oroville (which has a brewery and a pretty good pizza place, just for your future reference). Since I went to pick up my wheel in person, I had the joy of seeing the beautiful high desert in person. It's full of sagebrush and buttes and apple orchards--really beautiful. I contemplated chucking my current life, finding some crazy banker to loan me money, and moving there to start an artists' retreat. Big cabin/studios, tasty meals delivered at all times of day and night. Sigh.

Melinda

Hey, do you need a doctor? I think every commune should have at least one!

I laughed myself into the hiccups when I saw "yogyurt" and then the description of CT's meditative prowess just sent me completely over the edge! Thanks for letting me play along--you definitely have helped me survive with these last two posts!

(And yes, I really am in "da 'Burgh" and supposed to be behaving studiously right now rather than fantasizing about communes...)

Happy weekend to everyone!

Um...lets see...I'm an artist,so could paint portraits of everyone.I'm getting quite good at extracting funding and equipment from various official sources [ needs must and all that !].I share a number of very valuable skills with everyone else - knitting,spinnig and dying,and gardening.I have international connections !

:0)

I keep trying to think of a skill that I have that isn't already listed... I don't think a "manager" is needed. You've got tech support. I sing... but I think Nathania sings better than I do.

I did think that this group would need an official photographer... and I make killer Spaghetti sauce. Is that enough to get in? :-)

Fantasy?!! You mean this really isn't REAL--it's not going to happen? Boo-hoo! I think what your readers are telling you, Ryan, is that we need to have a Mossy Cottage knit together for all who can attend, and for those who can't make it--plenty of pictures taken by TMK so those who didn't come will know what happened.

And as for my part in the commune--I am a medium-to-good cribbage player--love the game and play it as much as I can with my son in honor of my Dad who was the cribbage player of all time. I will be happy to be anyone's cribbage mentor. I also can help Susan complete second socks (and will promise to not make sarcastic comments to the non-sockfinisher) and I will help Karen with the newsletter recording our efforts for posterity. I serve as her "Lois Lane" on occasion anyway.

I so desperately want to meditate while floating--doesn't ANYONE have an extra 50K and buy this land? You know with only 20% down the payments are only $230 a month....
Mary

While I don't fly while mediating, I can teach "flying" yoga poses.
This has been such a marvelous topic, Ryan. I seriously would be there in a heartbeat. Gosh, what a lovely dream...

Mary, Mary, Mary, have you been playing at "Fantasy Realtor" again? Actually, TMK and I've got you beat. We've already figured out that if we put 50% down, for each of us it would only be $70 a month from that point forward. See, we can play "Fantasy Realtor," too! (Oops, I just noticed I haven't given you a "job" yet. Will reread your email and figure sumpin' out.)

To everyone else, thank you for continuing to play along! Anyone who posted a new commenting applying for a "job," has been assigned one.

holy crap, we've even got a doctor!!! now all we need is a second lawyer to argue with the first (to give me employment security) and we'll be all set. Wait, we need an electrician and a plumber. THEN we'll be all set.

You guys crack me up... I love it and have always talked (joked) about living in a commune.

May I humbly add my skills as a Reiki master/teacher and reflexologist to your esteemed list of communants? I do knit and crochet as well, and recruit volunteers for a living. And I can add salsa, as well as chocolate cake with peanut butter icing to the list of gastronomic delights. Oh, and rabbit husbandry. Let me know. Thanks bunches - love your blog.

I'll play cribbage with Cuzzin Tom if he promises not to float around the room while doing it...

Norma, forgive me for not saying earlier my husband was an electrician AND plumbing contractor in a previous life. He also does beautiful woodworking with recovered wood - i.e., barn wood, etc. Perhaps he could share the woodworking area with TMK?

Good heavens, Ryan, with this kind of interest, we at least need to do a potluck, don't we? We'll all chip in to fly Barb from Texas (sans children, of course) up, won't we?

Well, I'd be happy to run movie nights. But our movie theater would be all big cushy chairs and couches with an end table next to each spot for the knitting bags/baskets. I'm a very good hedonist. I think I should just share the hedonistic fun. Pie for breakfast, hors d'oevres for dinner, PJ days, root beer floats, Sean Bean marathons, Balderdash tournements, etc. I would like to be your cruise director.

(Pssst: Hey, Ryan, someone just told me that this ISN'T a clothing optional kind of place. I'm feeling a little embarrassed now.... Why didn't someone give me the high sign before this? You got a towel?)

can we please have a weavatorium, and a spinnatorium? and if you add a backgammonatorium, my dh would love it, he's also a attorney. and you know these days you can't have just one lawyer...

Ladies. Recall the photos Ryan posted. What kind of meditative power do you think I possess to get *that* body off the ground? Although, if I taped Scooter's feet to my head and made him flap hard...

Cuz, I think you neutralize the cognitive dissonance that forces Santorum's smug mug into our consciousness by shortening the title to Sanctum Stashorum.

And, do we call the outside space the Freshairium? Oh, wait, this is Washington. Maybe the Precipitarium. Oh, and we done forgot the Scrabblarium.

WAIT! WAIT! We don't have a massage therapist yet, do we? I positively can't commit until we have at least one massage therapist. Aroma therapy, naah, people channeling ancient Egyptian spirits, no-can-do, (both specialties in Washington, some of you might not know...)
But we CERTAINLY need a massage therapist or two. Even, with this many hedonists, as many as three?

Holy Crap. I wander off for a couple of days and when I come back, you have all arranged an incredible fantasy world. One of wonder, possibility, beauty and spiritual promise. In this world of aformentioned fantasy and possibility, where everyone has the mystic ability to fulfill destiny...and in this unbelievable world...in this world...I have my SAME JOB!!!

Screw that. If we're getting a commune I want something good. I want...well I don't know what I want, because frankly, I'm not real good at anything else. I've got a monopoly game and I'm looking in my couch for change too and if I come up with anything over $1.84 (which is how much I think is in there) then I say I've got the kind of significant capitol to get to be something really good that I've always wanted to be....like.... a Shearer.
Yeah.

Oh, CUZZIN TOM, I'm totally down for the Scrabblarium!!! And I'm glad to see we've got the electrician and plumber taken care of AND the 2nd lawyer. See? What'd I tell ya? Ryan, I think I need to be co-emperor. I really do. I promise not to be like Wicked Agrippina, I really do.

Alright, Scrabblarium! Norma, me, Cuzzin Tom and I bet whole lot of you wordsmiths out there. Let's go! I have been desperately thinking about it, but I don't see any way to put scrabblarium on the board - never mind the dictionary....

I believe I have discovered a major lack in the commune planning. I know I am not alone when I admit that most of my knitting is done IN FRONT OF THE TV!!!!

We need to plan several TV setups. I mean, do we really want to fold over the issue of Judge Judy or Oprah?

I hereby offer my services as DVD librarian. I am sensitive to the needs of the knitting movie fan. We are intelligent and, need I add, sophisticated, yet subtitles are out. Complex plot lines that hinge on the viewer noticing subtle details of the background in a scene that flashes by--also out. Suggestions welcomed.

I would love to come to the commune, but am not sure I have any skills that aren't already covered. Unless you need someone to quote Joss Whedon-written/produced television shows at random intervals as appropriate in free-form conversations. I could also do tarot! Or be a gardening/knitting/bellydancing/baking/basketmaking apprentice?

*looks on wistfully*

oh, yay!

I'm sure Sam will be delighted that he gets to come farm worms.

This is indeed an honor.

When the several TV sites go up. Sam and I want the one showing Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, Law and Orders I, II, and III, CSI I, II, and III, and any other shows concerning Dead People We Don't Know.

Thank you.

In return for this, I will make Lavender Pound Cake.

OK, Anne. Noted.

You see, although I am not officially yet in charge of the TVs, I am taking the job seriously.

Janine: Can we have a satellite dish. Huh? Can we? Can we? ... and at least 20 remotes!

;-)

OK, here's what I've been singing all day:

"Nobody likes me,
Everybody hates me,
I'm going up to Cuzzin Ryan's fiber-ific, semi-lesbian commune and farm worms."

oh, thanks for flying me up- after i sent all the monopoly money to ryan i found myself a bit short of funding- you'll all recognize me because i'll be accompanied by a rare and exotic 'texas llamadillo' and i'll be saying 'knitters? you're all knitters? but you look like regular people to me'-

and thanks for barring the door to my tribe-

ryan, this has been a real treat- thanks for having so many fun and clever ideas- it always makes monday, wednesday, and friday better-

stay happy- and the same to all you DR-

Sure, TMK--satellite dish it is. The bigger the better. But we'll disguise it as an extremely large ball of yarn.