Sitting & Stitching & Watching the Economy Tank

It's good to have something to do with my hands (besides biting my fingernails) while everything around me slides deeper into recession. It is just for times like these that I collected my stash in the first place.....what I call my Just-in-Case stuff. It makes things harder to move...even to find, sometimes. But I'm never without something to do...keep those hands busy, I say...I say (yes, I meant to say that twice :). Sewing machine, lots of thread, needles, thimbles, a roomful of storage cabinets for my huge collection of fabric, art supplies, cross-stitch supplies, mosaic tiles & glass, cutters, carvers, grinders, books (to read and to learn from), etc. etc. etc. I am a 'stuff-to- do' collector and my DH (a practical kind of guy) is the 'food-for-hard-times' collector. Buckets of wheat, beans, freeze dried meals etc...I could go on....and on....and on....and.....on.

In a couple or three years....if times is still tuff...and even if times is not so tuff....we can retire and run off to our cabin in the mountains of Washington state...where I can make quilts, stitch, carve, paint, tile anything that doesn't move and enjoy the music of wind in the trees...and DH can split logs, grind wheat, bake bread. shovel snow, and build stuff (he's thinking of stuff like root cellars and geodesic domes). We'll keep a couple or four laying hens...and maybe a goat or two. The dogs will happily flush rabbits and pheasants and act like country dogs act.

It's a great day-dream, isn't it? Kind of like Little-House-on-the-Prairie meets Green Acres. Co-o-o-o-o-o-l !!!