Back from Thanksgiving and in the home stretch on my knitting. MILs lap afghan is well on the way to being finished. But I just had to go and add two more projects to my list of things to do before Christmas. Darn this hobby is becoming a chore. I'll get it all done I hope, if not oh well. I am glad to be back home.
Our stopovers in Charleston were lovely but the only knit shop was closed Sunday. Dratz. Drivers there are one of two stripes---slow as molasses or in a hurry and obnoxious. Is there no happy medium? I was a tourist so I'm going to drive a little slower naturally. Is that any reason to pass me in a 25 mph zone on the wrong side of the road AND flip me off? Then again maybe it was my window stickers. Charleston seems to be a liberal town. First night there we had to listen to the inane liberal drivel at the table next to us. Like the BIL says...stupid should be painful. Unfortunately the pain will extend to all of us thanks to the uninformed and clueless voters. The weather was uncooperative too but we'll go back in the spring, Lord willing and if we have extra money for a trip by then.
I found a neat little book by Benjamin Franklin while there called The Way to Wealth. It's a quick (30 min) read but well worth it. I'll be quoting from it often in the coming years.
I'm slowly working my way through the writings of Thomas Paine. We need a Thomas Paine now. I say slowly working my way through because the wording used back then is difficult read now. Yeah...it's English but way different than the way we'd say things now. And there are some words I cannot even find in the dictionary. Yikes. The founding fathers would be truly appalled at the level of federal government interference in our lives today. You can tell from their writings that this was what they feared most.
Our stopovers in Charleston were lovely but the only knit shop was closed Sunday. Dratz. Drivers there are one of two stripes---slow as molasses or in a hurry and obnoxious. Is there no happy medium? I was a tourist so I'm going to drive a little slower naturally. Is that any reason to pass me in a 25 mph zone on the wrong side of the road AND flip me off? Then again maybe it was my window stickers. Charleston seems to be a liberal town. First night there we had to listen to the inane liberal drivel at the table next to us. Like the BIL says...stupid should be painful. Unfortunately the pain will extend to all of us thanks to the uninformed and clueless voters. The weather was uncooperative too but we'll go back in the spring, Lord willing and if we have extra money for a trip by then.
I found a neat little book by Benjamin Franklin while there called The Way to Wealth. It's a quick (30 min) read but well worth it. I'll be quoting from it often in the coming years.
I'm slowly working my way through the writings of Thomas Paine. We need a Thomas Paine now. I say slowly working my way through because the wording used back then is difficult read now. Yeah...it's English but way different than the way we'd say things now. And there are some words I cannot even find in the dictionary. Yikes. The founding fathers would be truly appalled at the level of federal government interference in our lives today. You can tell from their writings that this was what they feared most.
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