Healing Nicely and Fiber Folk

Tom is healing very nicely and, though he isn't allowed to lift heavy things and is taking it easy and is not allowed to curl yet, is mostly back to normal.  We went to the Island Fiber Folk meeting today and he wound the last of the yarn we had made from Rosemary and Glenn's wool.  I plan to wash it all tomorrow!

Rosemary is our newest spinner and is doing beautifully!  She spins lovely singles and learned to ply this afternoon, with Harriet and Anna Marie's help and advice.

I knit socks today (working simultaneously on 2 pair) and several other people were busy knitting scarves for the Island vetrans, and the Islanders stationed in Iraq (the overseas folks will get cotton things and the local ones get wool). The West Tisbury principal was just called up (he is a Marine reserve) so we are all concerned about him.  He will be in charge of and teaching bridge building, I think.

One lady is working on finishing a quilt.  She is part of a project to teach quilting to nuns in Haiti, in order to raise money for the people they teach.  Islanders went down and taught quilting, the nun students made the tops and the Islanders are finishing them. The next step will be to teach the steps after the piecework of the tops. (Hope I have quilting terms right!)

It has warmed up here - one of the very elderly Cochin hens is not handling the cold well.  One night when we were bound for single digits, I found her outside the coop at the base of the ramp.  All other chickens had long ago gone inside, but she just couldn't make it up the ramp.  I brought her in and she was starving - I guess it was just too cold for her to get to the food - anyhow we fed her and pampered her for two days and she is fine and dashing around like a hen should.  But if I hadn't happened to see her hiding under the ramp, she would certainly have frozen. 

Tom is an interviewer for Columbia and done 4 interviews with two more to go.  He interviews applicants from the Vineyard and the Falmouth area.  It is interesting how many of the Falmouth students seem never to have been to the Vineyard before and don't know how the Steamship Authority works.  He has talked to some truly amazing students this year!