So, thank you guys...glad to see that you like the new colors. Holly will be back to install them on the site tomorrow but it was nice to find a couple of resourceful people either call or email for them. Oh yes, they can be done in other fibers and will.
How do you know when someone that works with you is a happy camper? Well, I was ready to be without Brenda today because she was scheduled for cataract surgery this morning. I kept telling her not to come because she needed to gear up for it, yatta yatta yatta. I get an email that she will see me in a couple of days and then, while filling orders in here I see a little mouse walk up the driveway...HEY, what are you doing here, little mouse (who will forever be Tonto)? Here comes Tonto's Husband walking up the driveaway behind her. How cute. Tonto wanted to show her husband (who works a million hours a day but who had taken the day off to see her through the surgery...good man) where she works and what she does. I got the biggest kick out of it, thinking that it was kind of like bringing dad to meet the teacher. Too funny. She got to do it and then he whisked her off to the doctor's office. I told her that the next time I see her, she will be telling me that there is a lot of dog hair on the floor, simply because she will be able to SEE it. Blush.
So, Tonto is coming up with some great swatches and I need to dye some yarn for her so that I can dazzle you with her cute stuff at Convergence. She came up with a great idea for those pesky mill end short skeins that are dogging me. We are going to dye them in solid colors and you can use them for oodles of things, especially heels and toes. Smart stinkin', Tonto. :o)
Everybody...now hear this. Kids get shots for measles, don't they? It has been one miiillllllion years since The Daughter got those shots and so I couldn't remember the timetable. She tells me that it is at one year of age. OY! 
Yeah, guess what is going around the daycare primordial slime? Measles. Shnicklefritz has another notch on his belt of life...dots.
Time to get in and apply color to the long awaited spinning fiber for my poor abandoned roving customers. I'm doing it...really! Sky Drama and Jonquil happened yesterday afternoon and so I'm finally getting my head above water!
This weekend we have to pull the stuff out of the MIL's apartment. She will not be returning. Now we have to find a board & care home for her. Awful. The best part of that is that she can have some of her things around her and will have her own room and some dignity. I guess that the mind going is a blessing at this point, so that she does not know precisely what is happening. I have received phone calls from her friends, all of which are 88 or older and they are still sharp as tacks. Life is interesting, isn't it?
He's got the measles?? Goodness, do you think you could talk them into moving to Palo Alto so *I* could watch him so he could stay germ-free? And yet, he looks like he's taking it in good stride. What a cutie.
My husband's grandmother used to drive his sister nuts--because half the time, Grandma didn't remember her, and Lisa--yes, her name is Lisa, too-lived nearby and visited often, but whenever we flew 3000 miles into town, Grandma knew perfectly well who I was: the granddaughter of her best friend from 1952 on. Dementia is a random thing. I hope your MIL's belongings help keep her centered, and I'm awfully glad she has you.
And I'm awfully glad you have Brenda!
Posted by: AlisonH | May 16, 2006 at 08:20 PM
Does anyone out there have an immmune system that they can spare? It doesn't have to be 100%, just about 50% even!! The entire family is sick now and I am sporting a 102 temperature. I figured that MB's blog would be a good place to advertise for a donation request. :)
Posted by: The Daughter | May 17, 2006 at 12:25 AM
Yeah, life is interesting. THere is no pattern, no rhyme, no reason to who gets what or why. Some stuff makes sense, lots doesn't. All I know these days is not to be surprised by anything after about the age of 75.
Posted by: Laurie | May 17, 2006 at 04:43 AM
My father is suddenly in a nursing home due to Alzheimers - went to the hospital for a little fainting spell but was so combative with the caregivers they wouldn't send him home. So I imagine I might be helping my mother pull stuff out of their house sometime later this year too. It's interesting and sad the endless variety of confused illusions the mind can invent for itself when it decays.
Lauren, look at it this way, by the time Shnicklefritz is 5 he will have the GREATEST immune system...
Posted by: CarolineF | May 17, 2006 at 05:05 AM
So sorry about your MIL. My GMIL went into a nursing home after falling and made a mad decline, and then bounced back after stopping some meds and getting over an infection. We'll enjoy for as long as it lasts. Meanwhile, my parents visited my grandmother in Japan, who doesn't recognize family anymore. She recognized my mom one last time, though. My dad said there was a picture hanging of when she first got there, and boy did she look scary, mad and grumpy. Now she's quiet and happy and gentle. Maybe being cared for by people who understood what she was going through, and who were there 24/7, helped her relax?
Posted by: Monica | May 17, 2006 at 08:06 AM
are we going to get a measles colorway?
Posted by: vanessa | May 17, 2006 at 03:56 PM
Hahahahaha! Shmeazles, maybe. :o)
Posted by: `Lisa S | May 17, 2006 at 04:00 PM
Like that gorgeous Delft? Hey, I'd snap it up.
Posted by: AlisonH | May 17, 2006 at 05:11 PM
Hehe....I just get the feeling...that I will bite Shnicklefritz in his butt.....*LOL* I remember when the kids was babies....a naked baby after a bath..smelling good....and laughing and crawling...ewww...good for him he is over there....so I can't do it!*GRIN*
Posted by: Helle from Denmark | May 18, 2006 at 02:52 PM
Oh - endlots! I have a bunch of yarn that isn't enough for socks, so that would be perfect!!!!!
Posted by: Stacey | June 05, 2006 at 07:43 AM