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Now where did four months go?  Well, I’ll tell ya…  As Grace Slick says, “It’s a new dawn” and it surely is.  I was going along this year minding my own business, teaching my workshops, when in August I went up to my beloved Vermont for my annual workshop there, held by Margaret Klein Wilson of Mostly Merino.  Dear Margaret listened to me whine yet again about how I wished I could live in Vermont and she handed me the newspaper so I could look through the rental section.  Well, long story short, I found, or was directed to, the most wonderful house in the world.  It fits me like a glove and I couldn’t be more thrilled!   The room that has a whole wall of windows is my bedroom and each morning I wake up to a view of the meadow and woods beyond.  (That’s my daughter Chelsea in front of the house.) Of course, this photo was taken in August, and the leaves have turned and fallen now.  There’s even been some snow.  I have brushed up on my fire-building skills from 30 years ago, to use the fireplace.   It’s a new phase for me, living without the kids around.   I am excited with the prospect of having time to do all those things I want to do… like spinning, weaving, maybe get back into dyeing, as well as finishing up a bunch of knitting patterns and sweaters, and The Book.  I finally figured out what the real name of this blog is, so once again I have changed it– this time, for good.  And I am rethinking my goal of writing every week.  I simply do not have that many interesting things to write about.  So rather than waste your time and cause myself great stress, I will aim for posting once a month.  And if I am seized by a need to post an extra time, well, fine.