Fire it up.

When I was a freshman at Emerson I decorated the walls of my dorm room with colored vinyl. My roommate, Miss Teen California, Miss Jolene (no kidding) brought a lot to the room. A lot of hairspray. A lot of makeup. A lot of cigarette smoke. I brought colored vinyl and a featherbed.

Most of the records were from Newbury Comics, where I would look for anything colorful. I hadn't heard of most of the bands. I didn't listen to any of the records. I was in it for the color.

Seventeen years later I still have those records. Almost everything I bought remained as obscure as it was then. But there was one record, the orange one, that went a little further. Some guy named Kid Rock.

I still haven't listened to it. I hope he's worth a shingle or two.

Fire It Up. On Ebay.

Bluefaced....

This is the first yarn I have spun since the Farmer's Market ended this fall. Bluefaced Leicester, kettle-dyed this summer. I had intended to put it on Etsy when the twist was set but I had a tricky time plying it and am rethinking my intentions. I overfilled my bobbin. Got all tangled. Didn't pay attention to my wheel. Now I am afraid it is too twisted, too energetic.

That aside, it is very soft, very light, and very blue. I will give it a few more days to rest. Then I will see if this yarn helps me raise the rooftop.

Full Disclosure

I feel like maybe I am starting with an unfair advantage. I have a savings account already that I plan on using to squirrel away all my roof money. I think I should tell you it has a little in it already: $11.73. Now you know.

Something new?

Winter is here and with it its doldrums. What do we do to get out of them? We dream. What do we dream of? A new job. A new life. A vacation. Or, if you are like me, a new roof.

This is my new dream. That somehow, against the odds, I can come up with enough money to get a new roof. I have some skills. Some of them are marketable. I am hoping that with a little bit of creativity and a lot of hard work I can make lots of little bits of money add up into a whole roof of money. I've heard that's how addition works.

I have a lot of things in my house. Maybe they can leave my house and be replaced with money. Maybe the things I make can turn into money. Maybe I can busk. Abby says I can watch over people to get money. However I do it, there is one big rule: it can not be money that already comes into the house. That money goes away on its own. It has to be money from new ideas.

Think I can do it? I don't know. But I am going to try. And I am going to document it here. Be aware that I may try to get your money onto my roof. I make one promise: hilarity will ensue.