It was cold and rainy Thursday morning as we walked the two blocks over to the cafeteria. I did not weigh before I left home but I tried not to stuff myself at every meal. I did partake of the nice crisp bacon each morning for breakfast since I don’t usually eat that at home. Ok, so I also partook of the ice cream every day for lunch! Barbara rode back to the barracks with the gal we had breakfast with. I elected to walk so I would get a little exercise. Back at the barracks we knit until time for lunch. More gals arrived throughout the day. We put the things we brought to sell out in the room designated for that. I had three knit theme fabric bowls and one towel, the one that said “If I knit fast will it count as aerobic exercise.” Barbara had yarn and books. We spent the morning knitting, visiting, and looking through any new stuff people brought in to sell. I sold one fabric bowl that day.
We drove into Port Townsend about five and had dinner at the Bayview Restaurant. This was where we went last year and met the Chinese lady whose mother had the bound feet and was a knitter. I’m happy to report that she is still here at the age 86 but is no longer knitting because she can’t see well enough to do it. Back at the barracks we knit and visited. Barbara didn’t go to bed as early as on Wednesday, but once she retired I moved over and visited again the same gals from the night before. I was trying to get my first small block finished and I kept knitting along, finishing it just before eleven o’clock. Then I was off to knit and read in our room until about midnight.
Friday was a nice day weather-wise. By then we had been joined by a couple of ladies at our meals who are librarians. One has retired and the other still works part time. They hit it off well with Barbara since she is a retired librarian. After lunch we took off to visit a yarn shop in Port Hadlock called The Textile Arts Company. It was a very nice shop that we somehow missed last year when we were at Fort Worden. We spent a couple of hours there seeing all there was to see and I came away with a couple skeins of yarn for charity hats. I was surprised to see a yarn called Tofutsies Sock Yarn which has shrimp and crab shell fiber which makes it antibacterial. There was another yarn that had milk product in it. Who knew?
I’ll wrap this up tomorrow. I spent the day trying to catch up after being gone for several days. Now I’m going to find some dinner and then knit and listen to my audiobook – a Karen Kingsbury novel called “Oceans Apart.”
God, give me the faith of a little child!
A faith that will look to Thee—
That never will falter and never fail,
But follow Thee trustingly. —Showerman
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