I got a library card!

Okay, not a big deal, but DH has been trying to get me to use our local library for some time. He doesn’t understand why I buy my books . . . I’ve had a card for the Boston Public Library for years, and I do use it from time to time.

This, however is a card for our local library. I took Pixie Dust to pick up a book for school. (Thank you Bess for the suggestions, she picked McCarthy’s Abigail Adams.) Unfortunately, I have to report that my local library is the saddest, most pathetic library I have ever been inside of! Very, very disappointing. It was dirty, dusty, books lying on the floor, tossed aside in a corner. A librarian who couldn’t find the book we were looking for, on a shelf only about 3ft long.

For perspective, the town I grew up in has a terrific library. When I was a kid my Dad used to take us at least weekly if not more often and I had my own library card at age 4. Here is the library that set the standard in my mind for what a local library should be, the Sawyer Free Library. So how does one go about improving ones library without trying to take it over or anything?

Knitting content:

So I’ve updated my planned list of projects to reflect yesterdays thought on the subject. Of course, that was before my trip to the LYS yesterday . . . . I was fairly restrainted, since I really, really don’t need more yarns. I did by “The Knit Stitch” by Sally Melville. And yes, I’m planning an Einstein Coat, finally. They had one knit up at the store which is what made me ask, I’ve got this yarn, its a handspun romney, a bit course, but something that I’ve wanted to make a jacket out of for a while now. Of Course, I don’t have enough of it spun for the jacket yet, but I certainly have enough of the fiber left to finish up enough for the coat. I’ve been planning to dye the yarn red and that happened to be the color of the sample jacket they had in the store. . . . So now I have to decide where in the order of things the coat will fit.

I’m thinking, since I’ll need to finish the spinning and to dye the yarn, I may try it either after DH’s sweater or after the Liv, depending on how I do with the spinning. Not that I’m in a hurry or anything, but it might be a nice thing to have over the winter . . .

Hint on the picture from the other day: Amie: Good guess, but its not soy silk. It is yarn. Almost 90 lbs of it actually . . . . Big things are coming very, very soon!