Today I am grateful for chocolate. Most women are. Some men too. I got a chocolate cookbook for Christmas. I don't even have to make anything out of it. Just reading the recipes makes me feel better. But I will make some things, just to make sure they are as good as it sounds like. Chocolate can make everything better somehow. Actually, scientists can tell you how, but I prefer just to think of it as magic.
Today I am going to tell you about an amazing experience I had last fall. I had started carding the colors when my mother came to visit. I was excited to show her what I was doing because she had given me the wool in the first place. So we spent one afternoon on the porch carding wool. It was fun. The next morning the weather was great, so we went back out on the porch to spin the yarn.
We were enjoying the day. I was spinning away when a car pulled up in front of our house. It had the call letters of a local TV station splashed all over the side. Two guys got out and walked up to the porch. I thought they would ask us for directions or something. (Just to clarify things - our town has a yearly festival, like all small towns are required to do. Ours is centered around Oliver Hardy, who was born in our town. The festival would be the next day.) But no, they were looking to film a color piece to tie in with other things they were doing in regards to the festival. What on earth was I doing, and could they film me while I did it?
This all seemed very strange to me, but I love to get more people interested in spinning. So I said, "Sure." I took the main guy into the house and we looked at hand spun yarn that I had laying around and a couple shawls. He said those would be great and we took them back outside. "When would we be doing this?" I asked. "Right now." Seriously?
Because we were going to go out on the porch and spin wool that contained lots of debris despite the carding, I had dressed in my oldest jeans and a ratty old T-shirt. I hadn't had a shower yet, no makeup, hair was leftover from the day before. This was pretty much the worst I ever looked unless I was sick.
The guy said I could go put on some makeup if I wanted, but it would take me a couple hours to make any real difference. I thought about it a minute. I knew how these things really go. They film all kinds of stuff and then show about 10 seconds in the real broadcast. I just couldn't take it too seriously. So I said, "Let's just do it."
So they put mikes on me and my Mom and I started spinning and they started filming. The main guy asked us questions and we talked to him and the camera guy filmed different things. I wasn't nervous because I didn't think anything would come of it. Normally, doing anything in public makes me very nervous. Very, very nervous. It all took about half an hour. They finished up, told us to watch the 6:00 news that night, and were on their way.
We had planned to go out to eat that night, so we put on the DVR to record the 6:00 news and left. When we returned we decided we better watch and see which 10 seconds they decided to put into the broadcast. I was very surprised to find they had done a remote broadcast from downtown and they were using a clip of my hands spinning as a teaser between every segment. "Stay tuned to see who is spinning a yarn." My portion was at the end of the broadcast and they used most of what they had filmed. I got more time than the biggest industry in town - a pecan factory. It was crazy.
I learned a lot from this adventure. Don't take things too seriously - they turn out better. And you never know what might happen. However, I haven't spun out on the porch again since then.
Here's a link to see the film at 6.
http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2011/oct/01/out-theresomewhere-harlem-womans-sp-57298-vi-104965/
Today I am going to tell you about an amazing experience I had last fall. I had started carding the colors when my mother came to visit. I was excited to show her what I was doing because she had given me the wool in the first place. So we spent one afternoon on the porch carding wool. It was fun. The next morning the weather was great, so we went back out on the porch to spin the yarn.
We were enjoying the day. I was spinning away when a car pulled up in front of our house. It had the call letters of a local TV station splashed all over the side. Two guys got out and walked up to the porch. I thought they would ask us for directions or something. (Just to clarify things - our town has a yearly festival, like all small towns are required to do. Ours is centered around Oliver Hardy, who was born in our town. The festival would be the next day.) But no, they were looking to film a color piece to tie in with other things they were doing in regards to the festival. What on earth was I doing, and could they film me while I did it?
This all seemed very strange to me, but I love to get more people interested in spinning. So I said, "Sure." I took the main guy into the house and we looked at hand spun yarn that I had laying around and a couple shawls. He said those would be great and we took them back outside. "When would we be doing this?" I asked. "Right now." Seriously?
Because we were going to go out on the porch and spin wool that contained lots of debris despite the carding, I had dressed in my oldest jeans and a ratty old T-shirt. I hadn't had a shower yet, no makeup, hair was leftover from the day before. This was pretty much the worst I ever looked unless I was sick.
The guy said I could go put on some makeup if I wanted, but it would take me a couple hours to make any real difference. I thought about it a minute. I knew how these things really go. They film all kinds of stuff and then show about 10 seconds in the real broadcast. I just couldn't take it too seriously. So I said, "Let's just do it."
So they put mikes on me and my Mom and I started spinning and they started filming. The main guy asked us questions and we talked to him and the camera guy filmed different things. I wasn't nervous because I didn't think anything would come of it. Normally, doing anything in public makes me very nervous. Very, very nervous. It all took about half an hour. They finished up, told us to watch the 6:00 news that night, and were on their way.
We had planned to go out to eat that night, so we put on the DVR to record the 6:00 news and left. When we returned we decided we better watch and see which 10 seconds they decided to put into the broadcast. I was very surprised to find they had done a remote broadcast from downtown and they were using a clip of my hands spinning as a teaser between every segment. "Stay tuned to see who is spinning a yarn." My portion was at the end of the broadcast and they used most of what they had filmed. I got more time than the biggest industry in town - a pecan factory. It was crazy.
I learned a lot from this adventure. Don't take things too seriously - they turn out better. And you never know what might happen. However, I haven't spun out on the porch again since then.
Here's a link to see the film at 6.
http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2011/oct/01/out-theresomewhere-harlem-womans-sp-57298-vi-104965/
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