from the Heartland
in the past few days i have......
traveled many miles, looked at many farms, lazily slept-in every morning in a four-poster bed that was my Grandmother's and is promised to me someday, ate way too much food, visited with relatives, learned more about my geneology...
taught my Mom to knit, knitted some myself, listened to the Weather Channel for hours (told you i would), took drives in the country, drove by dozens of houses that "so and so use to lived in", ate at two different cafe's with cheap paneling and chicken curtains for the decorations but they served the best food ever...
tried to build something with a set of Dominos and my 5 year old 2nd cousin while his brothers, 2 year old twins where jumping around crazy and trying to get my attention with something else!!! (okay...that was a crazy night)...
watched fishing and hunting shows when not watching The Weather Channel, did watch Grey's Anatomy Thursday night but had to "fill-in" my Dad all along the way, talked about the weather, hunting and fishing when we weren't watching the hunting and fishing shows......
and welcomed in the count-down to the "30 days till Christmas" on the tailgate of a pick up truck, piled with blankets and warming my hands with hot coffee while watching the best homemade, heartfelt floats, decorated horses, haywagons hauling Baby Jesus' in a Mangers, and Santa Comin to Town in his Sleigh......
.......my daughter recently came to my little knitting shop and taught a Basic Fair Isle Knitting Workshop. so i kind of have Fair Isle on the brain.
and do you know what i've, noticed.....
the tops of old, stone and brick, round silos, the really good ones, hundreds of them, are patterned like Fair Isle?
just an observation from The Heartland.
tomorrow i travel home. it's been relaxing. time.....well....spent.
