Non-Knitting activities
I spent the last four days on a community built playground putting in handrails and building mazes. I was a site captain. I ran crews from 7:00am to 9:00pm for three days and was then talked into doing one more shift Sunday morning. I will post pictures as soon as I can.
This site is designed by Leather and Assoc and built by the good people of Stamford, CT (and me). I had crews made up of all kinds of people, high school kids, soccer moms, executives, and people who just walked over that day and saw the building and asked to help.
The thing that I am taking away from this experience is how wonderful people felt when they realized that they had the skill to measure and drill and hammer and hold all that lumber. Everyone who worked on it took ownership for there part.
Much like the knitting projects I work on, casting off is satisfying but, watching the project come to completion is truly amazing.
More to come…. Also, this week’s podcast is going to be blessed multiple voices from the Boston knitting community. I am so thankful to Doria and Wren for all their time and energy.
May 22nd, 2006 at 10:57 am
That is so great! I love hearing how people are helping out their communities. I look forward to the upcoming podcast!
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:46 am
Guido Rules!
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 am
Guido, I have been listening your podcast since episode 1 where I was amazed and delighted by your tenderness of heart (calling your girlfriend “pumkin”) and your enthusiasm for knitting. I’m not sure that you would want to be called “cute” but know that along with cute, I think of you as manly, too. I’ve loved your endless search to find the perfect knitting bag. I’ve tried out all the knitting podcasts but there are only three that I subscribe to. One is Cast-On, of course, and the second one is yours. Keep up the great work!
May 24th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Hey Guido! I\’m enjoying your podcasts, I\’m catching up, haven\’t been able to listen to podcasts in a while, so I have a nice backlog…it\’s bad when you are all caught up and nothing to listen to, you know? anyway, it was cool back in episode 5 when you talked about Boston area and specifically Waltham, I spent two years there back in the \’50s! I lived in a little white house on Maryanne (sp?) road, I was 4 and 5 years old then, and there some kind of agricultural thing nearby, no other houses I think. I can\’t imagine (don\’t want to really) what it is like now, but cool that there are yarn stores and spinners and stuff, wow, say hi next time you drive by the area, catmum was a wee little grrrrrl there! and keep having fun with what you are doing. oxoxo to the pumkin too