papercranes

If you've never heard this group, you must check them out. To quote Satellite mag's review, "Rain Phoenix's sweetly organic and ethereal voice guides Gainesville's indigenous papercranes' album, Vidalia, over beautifully painted landscapes and out into the spaciest corners of the music's final frontier." "a modern sonic Monet".

I just love them.

http://www.papercranesmusic.com/

I lived in Gainesville for a time when my ex was going to UF. It seemed an average college town surrounded by little redneck hamlets. I went to nursing school just south of there in Ocala. I totally loved living there and miss it a lot. People were a lot more laid back in FL than here in NC. and generally a lot more open minded. dont get me wrong, I'm appreciative to be able to provide a low crime area with good values for my kids to grow up in, but one of the 2 seem to be gravitating towards the right and buying into what he hears around him. I grew up under similar circumstances and know the perils of that. It took me nearly 40 years to get my head right from growing up in a part of the country overrun with judgemental evangelical fanatics. And here I am raising my kids close to home. Not a well thought out plan, eh?

Sometimes it's hard to know just how narrowminded people are til you spend a little time with them and they start to say things. Although some hide it down much deeper or they don't even realize that there is another way of thinking ....

Well, off that tangent now....I've returned to crocheting and am currently working on yet another scarf, with some yarn I bought just because I like it, with no real project in mind for it. It's a soft novelty yarn in green with little bits of other bright colors. I actually used it recently to ply some handspun yarn that I'll be listing on www.wildblackberries.etsy.com soon.

I thought it'd be great for some mittens and it was not til after starting that project that I discovered that in order to be able to see past the poofiness to see the stitches, it has to be too loose a stitch to work for mittens. I needed to crochet last night at my girl's practice, so I started a scarf. It would be really helpful if I would take note of the gauge and hook size on projects, but I don't. I am so instruction reading impaired that I just usually wing it anyhow. sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.

screeching. russian tea.

There is some horrible screeching noise outside my window. bird or squirrel or something. there are a lot of squirrels here. sometimes they scare the crap outta me jumping on the window. are they cute or just rats with fashion tails?

I'm not going to go with the 'this is my first time blogging' entry even though it's the first one. just jump in with some random thoughts. my life is too boring to talk about, so just some random stuff.

russian tea. that's what they call it. maybe it should be called Tang tea. it's made with tang, instant tea if you have it, cinnamon, an ungodly amount of sugar, and my favorite part, cloves. I could drink it all the time, but only this time of year. we can call mine de-caf since i didnt have any tea to put in it. and i used artificial sweetner which will kill me.

i have new artsy yarn on etsy at www.wildblackberries.etsy.com