Yarn & Tails

 When you don't have money, but you do have more time --and a bag full of yarn, you can make things.

  When life is a dirt road lay down some gravel… Today marks seven weeks of fractured arm Hell and I still can’t get a full 7 - 8 hours sleep. It’s sleep 3 hours wake up in pain, walk the floor for an hour, fall into bed exhausted and wake up 2 hours later, still exhausted. A few nights or a week ago I gave in and swallowed five low dose aspirin between 10:30 and 11 PM. By 3 AM I woke up because I was dreaming about being in pain and because I had to pee. I got up, took 4 or 5 more aspirin, drank some water, lay down on bed, woke up at 5 AM in pain. No more aspirin; it doesn’t help, and neither did Tylenol BTW. Online I read of the wonders of recliner chairs and sleeping semi - upright in them. I scroll through Amazon’s offerings and Lazy Boys website and decide there’s no way I can take on more debt. I will have to grit and bear it. Speaking of grit and gravel…there are things you can do with gravel. You can build a decent driveway or road, and skip the mandatory hot sticky blackt...