My friend Mary just gave me this nice large ball of handspun variegated purple yarn. It's a soft and warm wool and I look forward to devising a project to make with it.
In other news, the back of 'haystack' jarngerd plods along as I knit my way back and forth across 171 stitches per row or whatever it is. For a lace-knitter this is a tame experience. Kevin Costner's '500 Nations' helps.
I've been spending a lot of time on the genealogy pages at rootsweb. I've found out - through rootsweb, not through my family - that a place I loved to take long Sunday drives through with my boyfriends in high school, turns out to the be the place my ancestors lived for generations! They lived there - in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in case you're wondering where - from the mid-1700's til the mid-1800's. I never knew! No one told me, even though I was like ecstatic about Bucks County and would come home from these day-trips with stars in my eyes! I guess I wish I had known because it might have given me more of a sense of direction than I had as a young person. Well, it's great to be re-discovering all this now. I guess it just proves that you do carry 'home' inside you wherever you are.
That's very cool! I do think that there's an atavistic part of us that recognizes "home" when we meet it.
Purty purple yarn!
Posted by: Carrie K | December 10, 2006 at 01:46 PM