Sometimes it is good to be blissfully naive. We escaped town on Monday morning for our annual "Best Friend Thelma and Louise Trip" not realizing that the torrential rain we experienced on Sunday had paralyzed the area. OK, we noticed that the traffic going into town seemed a BIT heavy, but we were listening to our CDs and remained pretty much unaware of the situation until we started receiving calls from our staff members who couldn't make it into the store. MANY, MANY THANKS to Adrian and Karina who struggled in Monday, and to Martha who logged in an unbearable commute from Southern Maryland to work Tuesday. And many thanks to our fabulously patient customers who shopped as well. We are a bit embarassed that we missed it all. But we were slogging though the rain ourselves on the Eastern Shore. Even during the deluge we got to see a great new knitting store in St. Michael's (FRIVOLOUS FIBERS) and the entire BLUE HERON YARNS operation in Easton. And got to have a bit of fun with our best pal, Alex, as well. It was, however, wonderful to see blue skies and sunshine today. Hope everyone is safe.

ANNIE MODESITT has rescheduled her KNITTING WITH BEADS for SUNDAY, AUGUST 20. We will, of course, be personally contacting every participant from the original sessions, but feel free to call us at the shop and let us know if you can make the new date. If not, your money will be cheerfully refunded. But we hope you can attend!

And Martha just phoned with word that our FALL 2006 MANOS DEL URUGUAY order has arrived. We will be checking it in and shelving it tomorrow, and we will have to raise prices slightly, just $1.00/skein. So if you want some of this yummy yarn at the existing price, hustle down to the shop, or call us with a credit card. By tomorrow afternoon, the new prices will be in effect!!!