I hope you all have a "Happy and Safe Holiday"
Hanna

Why thank you!

Hope yours has been enjoyable.

We had a nice, quiet New Year's. Even tho' I live in New York, we are not into the Times Square event. Hope yours was good too!!

You know, as a kid, I used to think that would be so cool to be in Times Square for that. Now, I see all those people and am so glad I'm in my nice, quiet, WARM, living room! My uncle also lives in NYC, although I think he lives on Long Island now. But he used to live in Brooklyn and that's where I visited him one summer when I was seventeen. I had a blast! The usual tourist things, Empire State building, Statue of Liberty, FAO Schwartz. It was great.
We had a pretty low-key New Years. Shot off our own redneck version of noisemakers. 9mm pistol! We shoot into the side of a hill behind the house. Never into the air. Very dangerous, that! Then eat lots of pork and sauerkraut. Groan in front of the TV. Fall asleep. Wake up, eat more food later. Stuff like that. It's fun for us anyhow.

I live in Brooklyn. Many, many.....lol....did I say many years ago.....when I was a kid and grew up in the famous place called Coney Island. What a great place for a kid to grow up in. Then you grow up and move away. Great memories.....remember the yarn stores that gave my Mom written instructions. Yup.....really!!! Didn't appreciate knitting then or those kind of stores....would love one now!!! Fell asleep with my kitty before New Years.....and woke up a bit after that. Times sure have changed.

We live in a small town in SW Pa, and it's the same town I grew up in. But it's certainly changed in all the years I've lived here. We used to have a yarn store in the next town over, and it was actually the front room of a ladies house. I'm not sure if she died or moved away or just gave up, but my Mom used to buy all her yarn there. I'm sure she carried nylons and acrylics, but mostly she carried real, honest-to-God wool! I was pretty young but the smells of that shop were something! I wish some perfume maker would recreate that!
Now when I want real good stuff, I can find some things at a JoAnn's and there is a LYS near where I work, but her hours make it difficult for me to get to her. Then there is the internet, but I like to pet before I buy.

Surprisingly, where I live there is not a LYS near enough. We have to go to Staten Island, over the bridge, at a cost of $10.00 to go to Joann's or AC Moore's. So we plan a sort of outing with the grandkids and make a day of it. That's why I buy so much/sometimes too much, of different kinds at one time. My shelves are now full that I don't want to look at another yarn. LOL.....last two times we went for something else....I wouldn't get out of the car to go into those stores. Can't help it if Chuck E. Cheese's is two stores down.!!!