Bout 13 years I reckon ;) Things have changed! I don't see as much fussin and fightin as I used to, maybe I'll stick around. One thing about it, I met my "sister" and best friend for life here, Nathalie Forster. Karen posting to one of our yahoogroups about MLI's passing is what got me to thinking about this place. I called up my podunky co-op ISP and asked what the news server was. "Huh? A what?" Um...for Usenet? Every ISP has them? Not mine. Had to search a bit for a free one I could read in my mail client. And still ended up reading it through Google interface. Anyhoo, how yall been? I'm trying to slowly get back into stitching, I hurt my back in a car wreck back in May, so between that and having to get new glasses (bifocals! at 41!), I haven't been stitching much. But I do have a wonderful wizard & dragon kit I'm going to be starting. Just nothing smaller than a 20 count for anymore I'm afraid. I'm from Texas, widowed mom of 2 teen boys who were just itty bitty when I first started posting here..from dialup AOL! lol I recently quit smoking (day 5!) and need some "fidgets" for my hands, so what better than a needle? My youngest, Jacob, is 12 (turns 13 Oct 2nd), and came to me the other night and said "Mom ya know what? I want to knit. I want to be an amazing knitter." Now I can't knit to save my life. I've tried the "Teach me to knit" kits and all of it. So I asked him why he wants to knit, he wants to make a blanket for his bed. I told him of the difference between knitting and crocheting, and I think I have him convinced to try crocheting and start off with an easy patchwork quilt with scraps me and my mom have left over, rather than buying a ton of yarn only to have him get bored halfway through and give up. Anyway I'll quit rambling, nice to see yall again! Melissa L.
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