Moth balls

Well the time has flown by since my last post. Lots has happened . The last thing on Friday my husband had a incident ,that is how the young Dr Alan described it. The upshot of that was my Husband spent the day under observation in the Hospital. I won't go into all the details but we were told to call the ambulance right away next time. When they were releasing him to go home I said"" so basically we go home and" "Wait For God". The Doctor smiled and said more or less.

After a day of eating hospital food which is all wrong for a person with Diabetes type 11. I decide to put on a pot of very hearty fresh vegetable and black bean soup. His Nibs one time had listened to the radio and then informed me we should be eating Cumin. Not knowing what Cumin was :) the people in India don't suffer from Alzheimer's because they put Cumin in the food. "You should buy some" Every time we eat beans I have been putting a pinch of cumin into them. OK you are way ahead, I decided to put in a whole teaspoonful into the soup. I'm umummum!!!!!! this taste really good.

Supper time rolls around and we sit down for our meatless meal, hot homemade scones and soup. His Nibs is half way through his meal, when he turns looks at me and say' "what is the Moth Ball taste in this soup". Cumin "OH OK" I'm cleaning up the dishes ,"well you finished " "Yes but only because I told you Cumin was good for us" "I had no idea it tasted like Moth Balls" this is you regular old English man born before World War Two . We just looked at another and laughed. Today for lunch we are eating the remainder of the soup I have added some curry powder after another discussion. It has completely obliterated the Moth Ball taste.

I won't even go into the fact that I've got him going to my Tai Chi classes with me. That is a total hoot. I'm just not ready to Moth Ball this old man yet.

On the weaving and spinning front. I am weaving a double weave very slowly. It's overshot woven as double weave. I haven't taken any photo's of it thus far. I have been Hand Spindling and this is my Alpaca and silk and some Cashmere and silk. I'm very slightly obsessed with the drop spindle. It take some of the wrinkles out of my life, in other words its very soothing to spin. I'm also back spinning silk on my wheel. Well I did find a picture of the beginning of my double weave not very good but it gives you an idea. It took me over a week to thread that up. First of all I had to figure out the draft which was only half . The overshot part, then I had to put in the double weave part. Meaning every time I threaded a 1 I then had to thread a 3 and so on and so forth. The biggest stumbling block for me was forgetting about the light threads go on the even heddles, and the dark threads go on the odd treadles. Weaving Overshot as double weave doesn't work like that. I'm happy that I stuck with it and didn't just give up. Because I'm happy with the colours that haven't shown up very well here and the weaving of it it self.

Well it's now time for lunch. Tonight I plan to watch "Celebrity Apprentice".I get a kick out of that show and the Amazing Race. :0