Huh?

I was driving through town the other night and I noticed one of the local church's signs--you know, the fancy lit up kind that can flash whatever they want. Not the old fashioned sort that my traditional church has where one has to go outside, in the elements and actually change the words by hand. Well, in big red lights it reads "English Second Language classes Thursday 7:00", which is really no big deal until you think about it. Okay, if one needs to learn english as a SECOND language, one would assume that they don't already READ english. How about a novel idea--write it in SPANISH so that the people who need to learn english as a second language might be able to read it! (I single spanish out as we have a large number of hispanics in this area and very few other immigrants. We do have some businesses in the area from outside of the U.S. but they can probably speak english better than I can.) If that doesn't get a big "DOH", I don't know what would.

On the yarny front, I just finished spinning and plying some lovely blue/green merino superwash fiber into a 2 ply approximately DK weight yarn. I was really worried about how it felt, as it seemed rough and "cord like" but once it was soaked in some nice warm water (and swatted against the side of the tub to try to even out the twist) it really softened up. Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do with it. I may try my hand at making some handspun socks. After all, how hard could it be?