This was not one of our more typical weekends.   We played just enough LotRO to get our main characters from 19 to 20, and no more.  We went to Wood Craft, where Sisca  bought a lathe, and to a new spinning store Wool, Warp and Wheel, where I bought a few things – including a hand-spindle after the owners spent ten minutes or so showing me how to use one/having me practice.  While my purchases were rung up, Sisca happened to mention the lathe, and the owner asked him if he would be interested in making some tools for her – she sells ‘hand weaving’ kits at reenactments, in which she puts 4 ‘weaving needles’ – they looked rather like fat wooden knitting needles, albeit shorter (about 6”), and the non-pointed end was actually flattened with a hole in it for the yarn to be threaded.   She said she was looking for 50! sets of 4, and would he be interested in supplying her?  She said that the person who used to make them for her just used dowels as the base wood, and warned him that they were really boring to make, but he said he’d make up a couple sets for her and then discuss pricing.   

As to the rest of the weekend, somehow it revolved around television /bemused.  I tend to treat the DVR as something that watches TV so I don’t have to, but Sisca actually watches what he records, usually while I’m playing Civ or spinning.   Saturday morning while I spun Sisca finished catching up on his dvr’d episodes of Monk; technically I don’t watch the show (the spinning wheel is in an adjacent room) but I find it entertaining, so I listen, and occasionally come out to clarify what’s going on, or watch ‘the reveal’ at the end.     Despite not watching Monk, I still ended up watching more TV this weekend then I normally manage in a year – the remainder of the weekend was spent catching up on the only show taped for me – we watched at least 2 months worth of episodes of Numb3rs, I’m almost caught up!