Yarn Wars

 I love yarn...bright, colorful, dark, white, it doesn't matter. When I walk into my local Hobby Lobby I have to buy at least one skein, usually more.  I want to just sit down in the store and start making something, usually a bear or a hat. And hey what do you know you can also buy hooks and needles in case you forgot them in your purse!  

All those soft, cuddly yarns waiting to go home with you. The warm speckled ones that beg to become hats. Who needs a blanket, raise your hand and even if you don't I am making some anyway!

Socks...ooo the concentration it takes to make socks is very appealing to me...sometimes I need to dump other stuff in my head and socks are the perfect way to do that. I have to concentrate on sock knitting, all that counting and marking....

I am retiring this December and I cannot wait to have more yarn time!  There are so many projects I want to do!  Sorry, cannot volunteer for that I have hats, bears, socks, blankets... you name it. My volunteer times is knitting, crocheting and sewing!  I will teach my grandchildren to work with yarn and fabric!

Yarn is in my future! 

The Frog

 I was on my way to our storage rental the other Saturday and as I stopped to get in the gate I glanced at my passenger side mirror.  Hmm that was weird, some strange green thing was perched on my window edge. I thought it was a Magnolia blossom from our neighbor's tree.

 

 I leaned back to look in that side mirror when I saw a pair of eyes.  Little black eyes. Suddenly the green thing moved. Why, it was a tree frog!  He was hanging on for dear life on the edge of my car window.

 

Suddenly he jumped onto the mirror, his webbed feet sticky tightly to the glass.  I began to laugh and even more embarrassing I started to talk to him. He rode with me into the storage facility and as I stopped and parked I got out to take a  picture of him. 

He hung out until I was finished loading some items into my car. As I drove off I wondered if he would ride all the way back home which I figured is where he had gotten on.  But as I went down two blocks he must have seen something that interested him and off he went.  

I was worried about him, now he was in a strange neighborhood and could get squashed by another car. But there was no car behind me so he was safe that way.  While I missed my green companion I wondered if he had just gotten bored with the old neighborhood and wanted to explore town. What a way to meet new...um...tree frogs?

So I wished him good luck and drove back home, a little sadder for having lost a companion who thought the trees were greener on this side of town!