Showing posts with label Helen Simonson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helen Simonson. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2025

Freecycle again, learning to dress, Knitting Ministry, and reading

 For people who missed my last explainer about free cycle


To start, you do a search on Freecycle.org to find your town to sign up. Choose a screen name, password, and you're in action. You can browse on the offers and want requests, and get the hang of how your own community does this. It's good to check what's been taken, too, for an idea of what's likely to go. Sometimes you can be surprised, too.

In other news, as part of my pre Helen-replacement prep, I started this morning learning to dress myself using the grabber. Because I don't want to ask handsome son for very personal assistance, this is a good thing to learn now. I will need his help with compression stockings, but that's not too personal.

And I'm currently listening to yet another Andy carpenter mystery while finally getting to the second glove, yarn courtesy of C. thank you.



His titles are great. The reader, Grover Gardner, does a nice job of sounding exactly the way I think Andy should, complete with timing on his jokes. 

And when I have to switch from knitting, I've started this on Kindle


I've liked other novels she's written, in the early quarter of the nineteen hundreds, around World War One and the aftermath. The characters, not visualizing there could ever be another world war, usually refer to it as the Great War.

She has quirky, daring women characters and is definitely worth a look.

Happy day everyone, try a new skill, or not, if you can't bear to learn one more thing.