First post and purpose
This is my first post here. I hope to spend some time talking about my knitting, spinning, herbalism, and gardening. We shall see how well I blog about things. It's a new endeavor for me to do this here. I have another blog that was all about being a mom. Well, I'm still a mom but I'm an empty nester so I feel things are going in a new direction. Just a little over a month ago my mother died. She had had dementia for many years then had a stroke and lived another 20 days and died with me and Dad and two of her sisters there with her. Some folks couldn't make it up to see her or couldn't actually see her die so they stayed away until it was over. Some of us saw it first hand every single day. It's not that I'm morbid but no one needs to die alone unless that's what they want. She had dementia, so she was very child like and didn't want to be alone. My Dad was her ever present companion in life all the way to the end. A little over a year ago, my