Wednesday

Yesterday, the green fun fur scarf project was finished, and most of it looks great except where there are holes that I had to close up with additional green fun fur yarn, and was soon wearing my own creation.

tried to start the fairly new lawnmower, to cut my lawn for the first time this year and it wouldn't start. can hear another lawnmower right know and wish mine would work, but not to worry, a friend will get the mower started in a couple days.

time to put a new row of stitches on my poncho project, (I knit three new rows on this a day just to keep this project in progress) One of my friends asked of my many knitting projects, something to the effect "how can you bear to not just finish them?" Well, I decided to take her seriously and just finish only two knitting projects at a time, until they are all done.

I will get some cool items like project and tote bags and a shirt frm "Cafepress"that let the world know that some men like myself do indeed knit and this is a hobby not just for women alone.

Past history includes the fact that men have knitted as sailors, fishermen, (whether to make sweaters, mend their nets,) or to make blankets, etc to support a war effort, etc. and that men in some cultures like the native peoples of the Andean mountain regions of Bolivia, etc, knit as they sit or walk.

Males of all ages, I have read are taking up knitting right here in the USA as a hobby, passtime, stress-reliever, etc. maybe more men might do that, perhaps when they feel a craving for a cigarette.

Just to keep themselves occupied with a better thing and could maybe just knit up a storm, chew gum, drink water and even talk to themselves (even if noone else is around to talk to) if necessary all at the same time rather than engage in a nervous, addictive and health damaging smoking habit.

Fortunately, even though I have tried smoking a few times, I have personally found the lingering taste and smell of burning tobacco so unpleasant (in my clothes, hair and skin) plus accidentally burning a small hole in my clothes and car seat due to misdirected small hot cigarette ashes blown on inward on to me by a slight breeze, that I never acquired the smoking habit and never have had another cigarette for about 4 years.

My own thoughts are also that crafts that create useful things like my candle-making and knitting are valuable indeed. I am not relying on some foreign country to produce every last thing for myself, my friends and family, I do am doing that right here in my country the USA. I am creating rather than merely consuming and doing something for my own spirit as well.



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