Maiden voyage!

Being the first post on my new blog - in which will figure regularly : family, knitting, gardening (read: roses), spinning, travel and whatever else crosses my mind. So, yes, there are approximately a gazillion blogs out there and the chances of anyone reading this one are miniscule at best, but I really don't care - I will just enjoy writing it!

It is funny how people who never seem to hear what you say ( the person next to you makes the exact same suggestion/observation that you have made a scant thirty seconds before and is hailed as a genius/philosopher extroidinaire when your suggestion/observation is completely ignored ) when you speak, will pay rapt attention to what you write!

So, OK, I knit. And for Christmas I was gifted with a spinning wheel - a Kromski Sonata - by my DH, who traipsed from fiber store to fiber store and fiber festival with me in search of the "perfect wheel". So, I spin. I love roses and orchids, especially antique roses. I adore the children who call me Nana - Sophie and Christian. I will read anything that catches my interest, from sci-fi to travel books to stodgy biographies about people who lived so long ago that few today even know who they are - or furthermore, care! My weakness in reading is impatience: after reading the first two or three chapters, I flip over and read the last chapter. If I hate the way the book ends, I put it down and rarely pick it up to finish it! ( yes, I can feel the collective shudder from here, thank you very much!) Why waste time reading a book that will only leave me sorry that I spent the time?

Just recently, I succumbed to curiosity and joined facebook - a strange community that seems to grow as you watch it. And today I am blogging - weird!