Whine. Sort Of.

Toe that had surgery last week is feeling achy tonight. And I'm feeling whiney as a result. Oh well. Blog for awhile and then crawl into bed with a good book and a couple magazines.

I feel like a hunter-gatherer today. At our monthly weaving guild meetings we hold a raffle. You bring in stuff you don't want anymore (I donated 4 partial cones of red and orange weaving yarns), buy 4/$1.00 raffle tickets (I always buy $5.00 worth; it supports the guild), and put your tickets into paper cups next to stuff you want. I won a book (_The Root of Wild Madder_ by Brian Murphy; it's about Persian rugs), a nice batch of hang tags for selling handwovens, and a wonderful skein of black wool yarn flecked with white that I had to rescue when Stewart and Nicholas just ran off with it (Stewart has a thing about wool and mohair skeins; he thinks they are wild animals). And, I bought a back copy of Handwoven magazine that I didn't already have.

After the meeting I took a Borders gift card that I have on a shopping expedition for the latest copy of Vanity Fair, Stampington's newest Haute Handbags, and a very interesting book by Jeff Sharlet: _The Family, The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power_, although I'm not sure what's so secret about it.

To top it off, when I got home my copy of _The Art of Bolivian Highland Weaving_ had arrived. This is a very exciting (to me) out-of-print book that I found on Etsy for all of $11.00 with shipping. Elsewhere it costs at least $30. And on up. So I was pretty excited to find it at a bargain price. Turns out it is signed by one of the 2 authors, and it arrived with a bunch of weaving patterns and notes from the original owner who was obviously a weaver!

Last but not least, I brought home Roxanne W. Furrperson's heart pills and my toenail fungus pills, and 2 Linn's chicken pot pies for dinner. Linn's is a local company that makes the best pies, both sweet and savory, in the world. We hadn't had Linn's pot pies for dinner in a long time. They are a little pricey, but worth every penny. It was a grand dinner. I also got a multigrain baguette, and made a green salad which I served with a little of that Rogue River Caveman Blue cheese.

To top the day, we just watched an Atlas rocket launch from Vandenberg from our south-facing upstairs balcony.

Okay. Tomorrow I thread those heddles for sure. I promise. I can't wait to start weaving those broken twill block serviettes!