Monday was good!

Amy Detjen was a great speaker at last night's MKG meeting. She's a wonderful tall person with great stories and even greater sweaters. If you go to her blog you can see the sweater with all the squares....I got to touch that sweater! I didn't go up to say hello during the break because I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound too dorky. Yeah, silly, I know. She teaches some knitting classes at the Sow's Ear in Verona besides working with Meg Swanson. She was very funny last night and made me feel so good about being a knitter. That isn't what she focused on during her talk but she so obviously is immersed in knitting. I was smiling and laughing all during her talk. Life is good.

I'm on the road. No surprise. That is part of what I do to make my living. I am, however, very much looking forward to Thursday night when I'll be home and getting ready for the next week (plus a few days) of family, hunting, eating, and tree-sitting. (Oh, yes, and knitting.) I can be quite sure that there will be some nights in the next week when I'm bone-tired but it will be a good physical tired....not a *mental* tired. Not that I enjoy getting up at three a.m. in the darkness of the night but it is only for a few days. Besides, once I make it up my tree, I can, um, rest until the sun comes up. *g* Don't worry, I won't fall out of my tree. I have a tree house, a virtual Taj Mahal castle of deer blinds. (I didn't realize the Taj Mahal was actually a mausoleum. Lovely architecture but my blind is not a mausoleum. I may be old but I'm not that old.)

But, I'm getting ahead of myself. No tree until Saturday.

Comments

[jen]

I hate that I can never go, but I"m really glad to hear you had a fun time. Thanks for the well wishes--I think I'm slowly getting better. :)

[Kim]

It is good to be a knitter! I get all tongue-tied around knitting celebrities too. Will you be wearing an Elmer Fudd hat while hunting/sitting in your tree?

[Cookie]

At least, you won't be killing the tree and bringing it home. ;^)

[Angie]

You are lucky to experience such gifted speakers and knitters.
You are very lucky to spend your time in your tree when so many are complaining about the concrete jungle and loss of contact with nature. Even in my rural home on a salmon river, 5 minutes from the dairy farm I grew up on and the wooded mountain above it, I feel the encroachment of traffic and urban density.
Savour the smells, the strength and age of the tree and how alike you are to the other animals hunting in the forest around you.