the light hasn't been right in the den for the last month, but this weekend's snow helped. this is the beautiful wooden stool that
ben
gave me for christmas. it is to be used at my spinning wheel, and i am able to keep all my little junk -- needles, measuring tape, stuff that usually piles up on the ottoman -- in the drawers, and still have it all nearby when we are watching tv.
i don't know when i'll spin next -- maybe not until spring -- but i'll try the stool out then, and i'll also be trying out these feathers. rai sent them to me. you've heard about rai before; but what's best about being friends with rai is that we both suck. we suck at keeping in contact, and yet there are never any repercussions for this. so i never have to worry, when calling her after a YEAR of not calling her, that half the conversation will be about why i didn't call her. i recognized her handwriting on the package when the feathers showed up. that's good enough. i still spell her name two different ways, but she answers to both.
obviously the little feathers are going to be easier to use than the big ones, but there are a lot of both, so we'll see what happens.