Once again a post with no knitting content. In fact, I am feeling at loose ends and anticipate a bit of rambling …..
The election is less than a week away – I came across this interesting link at Pam’s site. Truth be told, Pam had linked to this herself — so in blog etiquette, to whom do I link? Is one supposed to have an endless succession of links in order to give credit where it’s due? We need a blogging Miss Manners. hmmmm, there’s an idea!
Shall I regale you with my Onslow experience yesterday?
If you have the idea that I am a with it, together, unflappable type of person and don’t want to be disabused of that notion then look away, go somewhere else, run along.
As I have said before, Onslow is a six-speed manual and it has been a learning experience for me. I have been doing wonderfully well, surprisingly well in fact. I have been concerned about a particular hill and the traffic light at the top of it – this hill is on one of my regular routes around town.
I began practicing on hills. Anytime it was possible, I would stop Onslow on a hill and then throw him into first and proceed. It was working! I realized that Daughter #2’s flute teacher lives on a huge hill. The flute teacher’s hill made that other hill look like a complete nothing. Why hadn’t I thought of this before? During her lesson on Monday, I stayed in the car and just drove on that hill. Up and down, starting and stopping. I could not believe how great I did! I figured I had gotten the knack and that since this hill was by far the steepest thing around, all my worries were over.
purlingswine 
