simple is good

After a morning of research my brain is numb.  It has occurred to me that I have spent the past 6 months cramming by brain full of new knowledge.  Colleges, International Study, Non-Dairy Cooking, Computers, Blogs, Writing...no wonder all I want to do is knit simple things.

The latest simple thing

Sock Pixie, #1 DP’s.  One sock all done, the second at the heel.

We in our household are not good consumers.  The living room chairs and sofa are hand me downs.  The dining room furniture too.  Come to think of it, everything but the mattress’ are probably second hand. We do not replace things, we fix them.  We are conscious of the resources used to make things and we usually decide we can do without. 

So how did it happen that we are about to have 5 laptops in a 6 person household?  The last holdout being only 9 years old.  And how crazy is it that we all need  to work on computers just to get our stuff done?  The kids for school, Husband for work, me for writing.

I know not everyone reading this blog is of my age, but the fact that I am sitting in bed, typing to a world connected by the internet is amazing.  I remember the first time I saw a computer.  It was housed in a 10’ by 20’ climate controlled room and it did not do squat.  30 years later and everyone has a computer that slips into a backpack.  Wow.