*NEW YARN*! *NEW YARN*! What-Am-I-Gonna-Do..??

.."WHAT??"-AM-I-GONNA MAKE WITH *YOU*??!!


oh! BTW, before I Forget...

**HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRINCESSES'-MOM**!!

WOOHOO!! -- I got OUT *BEYOND* the Laneway, Today!! And, OVER to TRAINYARDS!
-- Even My "PLA$TIC" was *Excited* to be OUT & ABOUT...

BUT, First, We had to drop by over to CANADIAN TIRE to "Return" the VCR that MOTHER *INSISTED* on Buying Last Week. -- Turns out that IT'S *not* the SAME as Her OTHER ONE...
A *looong* Story that We are NOT going to go into!

Thankfully, I had NO Problems with the Transaction and after some more minor Shopping There, We were on Our Way to MICHAEL'S...

YAY! - MANAGER-DAVE was "IN" Today! Haven't seen Him for a Few Weeks... After a few minutes of "Catching-Up", He had a CUSTOMER to "Assist", so I wandered on over to the YARNS...

hmm... THOSE look "NEW"..? Oooo! COOL-COLOURS, too!! -- And, "100% WOOL"..?!

"..ohh, DA-VID..!?"

[MICHAEL'S "LOOPS & THREADS" Brand *KALEIDOSCOPE*
50g - "5-Bulky"-Weight - 100% Wool - Made in TURKEY]

So. He's trying to *Convince* Me that THESE have *BEEN* Around for "awhile"..??! -- yeah.
I'm not so "sure" about *that*! - However, IF THEY have, then THEY *MUST* have been Stuffed *between* SIMILARLY-Coloured SYNTHETICS!?

NUTS!

Anyhoo... Despite being a tad "Pricey" even at $4.99 for *that* Sized-Balls, the COLOURS were BRAIN-WASHING Me into BUYING! -- Unfortunately though, I later Discovered at CHECK-OUT that the Price was actually the "CLEARANCE" One..?! - [the Price-Check Machines showed IT as "Regular"] - Sooo, NONE of My Trove of COUPONS were *USEFUL* on THEM!!

pooh!!

WHATEVER... Despite NOT being of "LUX" Fibers, I'm still going to Add THEM to My *SPECIAL-STASH*! -- If *only*, for THEIR *HUES*...

Some Time LATER, as MOTHER was Hunting about for OTHER "Bargain"-Bits-and-Bobs and I was picking out some EASTER-Stuff - [to be shown at a Future Date] - when I "Hear" My NAME being Called over the P.A. Speakers..!??

o-kay..? -- Hope nothing is awry with MOTHER..? -- And, the part about "WHERE" I'm to
"Report-TO", was somewhat Garbled...

Alas, My "CALLER" spots Me! -- IT's AMANDA...

Apparently, She was in Need of My KNITTING - [cough!] - "EXPERTISE" for a CUSTOMER with a "STITCH"-Question!?! And, Their "INSTRUCTOR" wasn't IN...

Needless to say, I "Corrected" Them BOTH on My LACK of *KNOWLEDGE* for THIS Particular QUESTION! Then, promptly directed Them to MOTHER! -- SHE *KNOWS* HOW to Read KNITTING-Pattern-"INSTRUCTIONS"!

Honestly, I'm much better with CROCHET, COLOUR, and CREATING... Although, it was NICE of AMANDA to "Think" of Me!

And, as IS Her *Way*, MOTHER just happened to Show-Up at *that* Moment! -- She and NICE-OLDER-OUT-OF-TOWN-LADY subsequently went on over to the BOOK SECTION to "Look-Up" the ANSWER...

-- I also have a *KNACK* for "Connecting" PEOPLE-WITH-QUESTIONS to the - hopefully - PEOPLE-WITH-THE-ANSWERS...

Seriously. Sometimes, I swear that I must have "F.Y.I." Tattooed to My Forehead! -- After all of My Decades of LIBRARY Work, I must give out some "SEARCH-ENGINE"-AURA or *Something*!??!

EVENTUALLY, after Spending TOO MUCH MONEY, and Providing USEFUL "EDUCATION" to the CRAFTY-MASSES, We DEPARTED!! -- There was a *NEW* Nearby STORE to "CHECK-OUT"...

"FARM-BOY"! -- IT's a more "Produce"-Oriented Grocer. And, the Best Source for My FAV "BLUEBERRY JUICE" that I *Live* ON!

There's a Smaller Branch located a bit Closer to Us, however, the TRAFFIC and PARKING Logistics There is, in a Word - "HORRIFIC"!! -- So, having This NEW and much Larger One over at TRAINYARDS is Extremely CONVENIENT!!

IT Opened Last Weekend, but We didn't have Time to go over Then... Probably for the Best, as there were still CROWDS Shopping There...

We ended the SHOP-FARI with THE MALL...

There was yet ANOTHER Piece of "ELECTRONICS" to be *RETURNED* to WALMART!
-- Without the afore-mentioned VCR, This ITEM was NO longer of USE...

MOTHER and "TECHNOLOGY"... IT never really goes "well"...

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