Hello, I am happy--I think-- to join you ladies!

Hi,

My name is Page, op, opcola, whichever you prefer. I have a lovely daughter, Laura, you can meet on: http://www.caffeineandcrochet.blogspot.com
who fell in love with skirt and emailed me (she is in San Antonio getting ready to move back home to Virginia where I am) to inform me that I was joining this KAL and making this skirt for her. All my yarn is in Virginia where I am heading tomorrow from Pensacola, FL where we have lived since retiring from the Navy in '99. My parents in law are feeling elderly and need assistance so we are going home to look after them --altho we are not giving up our home in Fl. Just leasing it to our son and his friend. We just got it rebuilt from Hurricane Ivan and could not face getting it just like we wanted it and then selling it, so we will hold on to it for our next retirement. I have some horses and a covered wagon, that I love to drive around, we --my best friend and I-- do parties and events, festivals etc. My next wagon will be a chuck wagon and then my wonderful husband is building me a hearse that I can do transports from funeral home to cemetary with, I cannot wait! Business should be good for that one!

In the meantime, I knit a LOT, socks is my new passion, and I have a circular sock machine, from 1902 that cranks out socks! I have three or is it four spinning wheels, an electric carder that was hand crank and I broke my shoulder falling out of the boat, so my husband converted it to electric the first time I had him card for me! Love that man! We have been together 30 years, only because he was gone to sea about half of that!! HA HA!! He came back from Desert Storm broken and we are still working to repair him.
I am ordered around by an African Grey Parrot named Zorro, who is 20 going on 2! His vocabulary is awesome and his ability to duplicate sounds is phenomenal! His partner in crime is a little chihuahua named doll baby that we call Dolly! They travel with us everywhere, we just got back from Texas and now we head to Georgia tomorrow and then on to Virginia where I will finally be back to my horses!

I have several projects going right now, some dish cloths with the KAL, Selfish Sunday Knitters, and the Sheep Shawl KAL, now the skirt. I will probably use handspun wool for the skirt, it will be chilly in Va. for Laura who has been in Fl or Texas for the past 18 years. Lord help us when she gets on the road in the first snow storm!! Well, my best friend in high school was named Velma, in Socorro NM!
Happy to meet you all~~ op