In five days, our plumber is scheduled to come to Houndstooth Hall. This is VERY exciting news to me! If things are fixed on Monday, it means we’ll have gone two weeks without hot water in our house. I’m quite tired of doing dishes and bathing in old-fashioned ways (i.e., having to heat water for everything) and am ready to be back to modern-day conveniences.
I shared this old photo on Instagram a while back. It’s Lynne and me on vacation with my parents when we were probably fifteen. This is the trip where we forgot to pack our cassette tapes, though we had our cassette players. The only tape we had with us was Jethro Tull’s Aqualung. Neither of us ever wants to hear it again to this day.
My Instagram followers were quite taken with my knitted purse, and Lynne said she wished she still had hers (she has hers here, too, but you can’t see it in the photos I have). I think hers was slightly different from mine. I don’t know when we let our purses go, but just thinking about them drove me to search online. In what can only be thought of as miraculous so many years later, I found the identical bag.
It’s a little faded by time, but it’s like getting a piece of my happy, hippie youth back in my hands. It’s pictured with a candle I got around the same time. How that candle has traveled with me and been stored in attics and un-air-conditioned buildings without melting is unbelievable. I wish I were anywhere near as well-preserved as the bag and the candle. =)
Lynne is creating her own pattern similar to this to crochet a bag for herself. I can’t wait to see it!