Girls Night Out

Oh, what a wonderful night I spent last night having a girls' night out with my friend, Lory Sanchez. I've known Lory for ten years when I started working at the local high school library and she was the Technology Director for the school district. Lory is the person who encouraged me to take a course in PC repair, then continued to mentor and assist me for the next ten years. Lory has been battling breast cancer this last year. Many of you have seen me knitting a shawl and soft hats on the road. Well this is the lady they were for. Lory is a brave, brave women and someone I admire greatly! It takes a lot of guts to battle cancer.

We wanted time for just us to chat and laugh, so Lory suggested we go to one of the last drive-in movies around. We went to my favorite restaurant, Baldo's, and then went to the Movie Manor Drive-In to see "Mamma Mia." Oh, what a great movie and so empowering to women!!! We chatted during the movie and got caught up on our lives and plans for the near future. It was such fun to be at a drive-in!!!

During the day Jim insulated the cabinet under the kitchen sink in preparation for freezing weather in Coffeyville, KS. I did 8 loads of laundry, having to battle Chorizo's bone away from him so I could wash all the dogs blankets, pillows, and bone. Oh, was he happy when I brought his bone back....I had to throw that silly thing for an hour afterwards! This was a big wash day doing jackets and rugs, getting the rig ready for this next year of traveling.

This morning it was 29 degrees. Definitely time to move on....there was actually snow in the Denver area above 10,000 feet....

Fiber Floozies

Fiber Floozies is the name of a fiber arts group that meets monthly to share information, love of fiber and camaraderie. There are weavers, spinners, those who crochett, and those who knit. There are college students and some on social security. It is a wonderful group of fiber lovers from many different disciplines! It started several years ago when the local hospital put out a call for caps and hats for new borns in the nursery. The staff of the library where I worked took it on as a project. Library patrons saw us knitting and crochetting little, bity hats for premmies and ask about it. Patrons asked for patterns and started bringing in hats to add to the count. Then a patron said that she would knit some if someone would teach her how, so an evening of instruction was scheduled. We kept meeting, others joined and soon Fiber Floozies was born.

This is Salai Taylor, Head Librarian of Alamosa library and my dearest friend.

I spent the day going through my craft projects and decided I am more of a knitter than a quilter these days. I like to quilt small , quick projects like purses, jackets and maybe lap quilts, but no more bigger quilts. It just takes up too much room in our rig and things have to stay out and around too long. So I gathered up most of my fabric and quilt patterns and took them to the local quilt store to give to the quilt guild for charity projects. I also gathered random skeins of yarn I had purchased because it was pretty or soft without a project in mind, and brought them to Fiber Floozies for the charity blankets they make and give away. I must have lightened up the rig by 25 pounds!!! Now I only have yarn for set projects I really want to make - mostly socks - I love knitting socks. Knitting is so easy to do while rolling down the road and is a good conversation starter when sitting outside the rig under the awning.

Today Jim and I will begin to do some preparations to spend a part of the winter in Coffeyville, Kansas, working for Amazon.com in their distribution center. We start Oct. 5th. We're told it gets in the 20-30 degrees in December so we are going to insulate lower cabinets to prevent pipes from freezing - which happened to us last winter in Deming, New Mexico. This morning it 37 degrees, so it is time to get out of here. We will leave Monday, Sept. 15th.