I sat down at my spinning wheel this past weekend. It has been a long time and boy am I rusty! I threw away the first ounce or so that I spun because it was really bad and then switched to my plying head and started over with the intention of leaving them as singles.
This is the fiber I got a couple of weeks ago in Cambridge. I am not enjoying this particular Romney blend at all. Some of that reason could be that it has been a good long time since I have spun and this probably wasn’t a good choice to start off with. But another reason is that my hands look like this after handling it…Yuck.
I finished two books recently. The first was The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman. I kept thinking about not finishing this one, but then thought it was going to get better. It didn’t and then I was done. I need to get over the thing I have with not finishing books that I am not enjoying. The second book was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I was pretty unsure of this book before I started it because the story is told in a series of letters, which I thought might be tedious and confusing, but it wasn’t and I ended up really enjoying it. I was sad when I finished it and that always means I liked it a lot. Yesterday, when I was waiting for an oil change and to have my snow tires removed (Yay! good riddance snow tires), I started What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I don’t usually read many non-fiction books but the title of this one piqued my interest, plus it’s about running, which is enough for me. Mr. Murakami is a long distance runner who started running in his 30’s after giving up a 3 pack a day cigarette habit and I am enjoying his memoir so far. It’s a small book so I need to get my next book picked out soon. Any suggestions for something you just finished that was wonderful?
