I can haz ribbon yarn kimono sweater!

Kind of like the one kightp dazzled me with when she came east last year.

Check out the yarn sale:

http://www.herrschners.com/products/product.aspx?sku=711346

But it gets better! With my sekrit code and customer number and calling on the phone, I am getting the stuff for $1.99 a ball.

I ordered three extra, just in case. I can always make a scarf...

Notebook: trashpicked piano, new amaryllis bud

Two things I will want to remember about today:

1. My next door neighbor Tanya called me and asked for a piano tuner referral. She and her boyfriend had -- wait for it -- trashpicked an upright piano. They were walking down the street and came upon a piano under a tarp with a "free to good home" sign on it. Someone found they couldn't get it up the stairs and/or around the corner into their apartment.

So I went next door and played their badly out of tune piano, assured them that the action was sound, and encouraged them to insist that it be tuned and only tuned, twice, before embarking on any repair work. If the pin block is shot and it won't hold a tune no sense spending anyt money.

Then they wanted to see my piano, so we trooped back to our house, and they were blown away by the sound.

2. I think I mentioned that I watered all my amaryllis, adults and babies, a few days ago. One of the offsets from the original Trader Joe amaryllis is putting up leaves. Also one of the larger seeding bulbs is putting up what is unmistakably a flower stalk, this one probably larger than the first one. Perhaps several of them will come into bloom.