When you are confined to the limitations of dial-up internet and you can’t get a dial tone… you can’t blog, or get email, information, order from any online service or… get the picture?? Real inconvenient! That’s been my problem, intermittent service. Well that and too much of everything else. I’ll post when I can get through, and I’ll make pretend I can post until then.
Good news..
Berry Report: ( I know no one cares, but I’m really impressed this year)
Sunday: 10 qts
Tuesday: 15 qts.
Bad news..
I am totally out of freezer space. I almost didn’t get it closed after putting in the berries last evening and the vegetables haven’t really started. I’m still down one freezer after the smaller one crapped out this spring. Today I had planned to drive to the nearest Sears (that’s still the closest appliance kind of dealer in this rural area) and pick up a new one. Sure can’t phone and order it, can I? That was before the phone completely went dead. What is it with the phone repair people, anyway? You tell them that you are without ANY service, and the next question they ask is if you can be reached at another number. You have to remain at the location with the dead phone service from 8am – 6pm (translated loosely as ALL DAY) and they want another number?
If I had that would I be calling them?
Monday I spent the whole day in Burlington getting the brakes done on my car. I took my knitting. I took my spinning and my lucet. I have finally found a use for the lucet.. making little bracelets to give to the littlest kids that visit us at the fairs. SO CUTE! We always tie a bit of roving or yarn on their wrists. Their faces light up, and they’re off with a ‘bracelet’, sometimes two.. ‘mommy needs one’. I made bracelets. Around 12:30, they took pity and loaned me a car. I headed over to my favorite Japanese restaurant for a lunch box, soooo good! then a trip to Costco. It blew the day. On the way home (it’s 1:40 hr) the brake light came on. Shop closed, I drove on. It’s been like that.
Saturday and Sunday I managed to fill almost 5 bobbins on the Joy with a gorgeous grey Shetland. Today looks like a great day for plying it up. The motor on my Louet ( I know, weird huh, but fast) is so loud that I decided to take it off and treadle. You can’t beat the soothing sounds of a treadled wheel. I love the huge bobbins for plying.
Tivoli has a few inches to go. I’ll try her on again and decide where she should end. I’m happy enough with the pattern at this point to be checking out some black Calmer in my stash for a second one. That round and round mindless knitting is a terrific break from lacework, know what I’m saying?
ps. finally connected… after the phone guy was here.. at a whopping 16.8Kbps know what that means???
Comments
5 responses to “is 16.8 Kbps better than nothing?”
That just plain sucks! We have dial up at home and somedays are better than others. 28.8 is better than nothing but 16.8 could be/would be h*ll.
I’m loving knitting lace with your yarn! The color changes are entertaining to watch. I’m also having trouble with your email bouncing back so maybe it’s wrong in my comments.
I just wish I could drop by and take some of the berries off your hands!
I feel your pain. I have very slow dial up here (they tell me it’s the rural phone lines.) Some days we get 16-17kbps..some days it’s 25-28kbps…and on a really GOOD day…we get a whopping 34.2!
I love reading knitting blogs, and of course we all love to see pictures. It can take several minutes for each one to load if it is picture heavy, and I still have to refresh some pictures individually.
Some day something faster will be available in my area. (A girl can dream!)
OMG, *I* care about the berry report. It’s totally putting me to shame!!! I never got 10 quarts in my LIFE in a day! That is fantastic and I’m so jealous. Yes, perhaps I should take some of those off your hands. So sorry about your dialup hassles. That rots.
No wonder I haven’t heard from you!!! A pathetic dial up speed %#@#@! Just send those berries down to Little Rhody if you’re out of room 🙂
Any chance we will see you soon?
That was me at the farm – especially with spring summer fall thunderstorms and winter icestorms. I am totally happy with dialup here coz it freaking works! Today, I am gonna Joyspin doghair… if I get 2 bobbins done I will be in virtual spinning heaven! You set a good example, as always.