Bucket Brigade for the South

My wish is that The Red Cross uses the money that we are all donating, in our helpless "not in the area" way will be used to help our nation's hardest hit individuals. I have to admit to being a CNN junkie, cheering on the nation's military people who have been given the opportunity to use their skills in this country, to help their neighbors. I can mutter all that I want to about people that think that California, with our earthquakes, is a scary place to live. Puhleezzzze! I guess that life in Florida and the Gulf Coast is just so idyllic during the NON killer storm times that people just forget how painful giving birth to that punkin' head kid really was. So, while donations are still going into the MSF fund, we are donating to the Red Cross as well. Dog willing and the creek don't rise.

Now then, we did it. The Husband (I make HIM do the big purchases so that I can sleep at night) called up the Mini-mills guys on Prince Edward Island to order our skein winder. Yeah, we's gettin' a robot. :o) How much do I know that this is the right time? Well, someone else in California is getting a mill set-up delivered and so we get to gave our equipment delivered in about a week. Oh my...I told Kerry that by the time she comes for her visit, we will have to be winding yarn on the front PORCH, simply because the workspace for this thing has not been cleared yet. I guess that this means that His Nibs is coming on board with both guns blazing. I thank those of you that have responded to our new yarn and colors with such gusto, right down to my color sprinkled toes. :o)

Here are some new colors. Yesterday was the final dye day before I HAVE to tag the piles that await me for packing to the show this weekend.

The picture does NO justice whatsover to the Peacock color. I just do not know why my camera cannot capture the blue/green in its proper way (it does fine with all other colors but blues are just tough) but it is a deep rich Peacock.

Thanks to Sam, I was able to be forced to put some BFL into the pot the day before yesterday, to give her her heart's desire...Spring Green, which was only done in Silk/merino before this point.

It will be on the website when my turn comes with my web designer but in the meantime, I made a few extra little bumps to bring this weekend.

Time to tag and bag.

Comments

[Helle From Denmark]

Bad bad woman. I'm drooling. Not god when i have craters to collect lakes in!*GRIN* This fibers.....aooohhh......that must be able to do as yarn also.....that is just so yummy....!! I like the way it shows on my screen!!!*GRIN*

And the peacock......oohh, yum.....and then try to add a little varigated to it.....throw it in the pot, with other blues, purples, black......eeh...okay, I'm getting carried away now!*ROFL*

[La]

Someone mentioned on their blog that if you put NOLA or KATRINA in the "memo" part of your donation, or somewhere on the envelope if you're sending in a check, that it'll go directly to aid in those areas.

[Lisa S]

I just made a donation to the Humane Society via these guys (they handled Oprah's charity) http://www.networkforgood.org/ You can choose your charity and I decided to remember all of the poor animals that will be stranded and in need of help. You can specify Hurrican Katrina relief

[AlisonH]

My son helped cook 6000 salisbury steak dinners for the Red Cross after the last season's hurricanes down that-a-way. I am a proud mom. I think a college-age kid really needs that life lesson of how good he has it in life and how needed he is, how important it is to chip in and really help. Yeah, and when he was helping board up a building, holding a 6x8 sheet of plywood in his hands, the wind picked him up and sent him sailing through the air. (Mind you, he is 6'9".) Let's go flying! He thought that was really cool! Some adult told him, enough. GET INSIDE. Oh. Okay.

I just so much wish everybody else caught up in the latest could go safely home eventually afterwards too.

[Lisa S]

yup, I think that there is need for workers, from what I hear on the news. More Salisbury Steaks...and bowls of kibble.

[Sam]

Wahooo! Is that my Biffle? I'm happy happy happy. :-) And congratulations on the skein winder. The hanks will be flying around your place!

[Erik S]

The site looks great! This is a side of my mom I never see ;p Keep up the blogging!

[CarolineF]

Yay for Sam's BFL, I'm glad you got to it! Now, for me that streak of blue really MAKES it...

[Lisa S]

Yeah Sam, that Biffle came out of the same pot as yours! You should be up to your armpits in Biffle Fluff very very soon. Mmmmmmm.

Uh oh, The Son is lurking...I'd better start talking about him and his bride-to-be, so that he can say in his very deep voice..Mommmmmm. Yeah, everybody...that is my son, the famous slinger of chocolate. I sling yarn...he slings chocolate...it's all Art and good for you. :o)