Lynlee drove up from Wichita last Saturday to hang out. We drove into Hutch and had lunch at my fave fast food place -- Taco Hut. She had heard an ad on the radio about a yarn place in Hutch, and my mom thought she was talking about Yarn Yard, so after lunch we went there. It was an OK place, but you could tell it had been around a while. There were boxes every-freaking-where, and it was rather difficult for Reba and me to get around. I finally found where the lady had some cross-stitch kits, but it was impossible for me to get back to look at them, so I went back up to the front and just looked at the patterns. I found a Lavender & Lace brand angel that I'd like to make for one of my online pals who is COMPLETELY into angels. L found some really soft yarn.
After that we headed to the Renaissance Shoppe to check in on owner Connie. I love Connie, and I love her shop, even if this WAS only the second time I'd ever been in it. Connie is the person from whom I bought my mahogany obsidian pendulum at the RenFaire. She had two m.o. eggs and a lot of m.o. rocks in the shop that day, but none of them were speaking to me. I DID, however, find an amber ring (cognac, almost cherry), an amber pendant (with butterscotch, cognac, and green stones done in a five-pointed star), and a rainbow moonstone pendant. I spent a lot of money there -- but not as much as Lynlee! She got her money's worth though -- she also got an amber ring and a moonstone pendant, but she also got a beautiful crystal sphere that looked like it was just singing to her. She could hardly put it down once she picked it up. It really wanted to go home with her, so it did.
As we were paying for our riches, Lynlee mentioned the radio ad she had heard and that she remembered a 14 and a 15 in the address. Christine grabbed the phone book and found a place called simply Yarn -- at 15 East 14th. We went there and found a hip yarn shop with a coffee bar, a fireplace, and inviting tables and chairs for looking at crochet books or working on projects. And ALL KINDS of groovy yarn. I'm going to have to take Mom back there and pick out some yarn for her to make me some socks and/or hats out of. I think socks made out of merino wool or alpaca would just be heavenly. Though, if I pick a wool, I may have to pay L to make them for me since Mom's kind of allergic to wool.
I rode into Hutch with Mom yesterday to run errands. She had to get some money orders for Dad so he could pay his bills, and she had to get a money order to pay my uncle who was at our house with his crew laying the slab for the addition (my folks are adding a master bedroom and handicap-accessible bathroom to the North side of the house). We paid Alltel, Sears, and Home Depot for him, then went to Walmart to get stuff for lunch. As we walked in the door, there was a display full of "Walk the Line" DVDs. My folks' anniversary is tomorrow, so I grabbed the movie for Dad -- I even splurged the extra $3 and got the bonus pack with the soundtrack CD. I had no idea what my mom wanted, so we headed over to the jewelry counter and I told her to pick out something. There were quite a few mystic topaz rings (I got her a m.t. earring/necklace set for Christmas, and she LOVES it), but they were "too expensive," according to her. She finally picked out a braided silver bracelet that fits JUST RIGHT on her wrist so that she can even wear it to work and not worry about it catching on a resident's wheelchair. While she was being indecisive, I found a pair of CZ earrings cut into the shape of stars, and Mom showed me another pair of star earrings. I got both. On this particular trip, I also found something groovy for Naomi (not saying what just in case she reads this) and the new Laurell K. Hamilton "novelette." While there, Dad called to ask us to bring home charcoal, hamburgers, and buns -- he decided to make Uncle Marvin and crew lunch as an additional thank you.
By the time we got home, though, everyone but Uncle Marvin had left or was going to leave. My uncle stayed, though, and it was nice. I don't get to hang out with my mom's side of the family much since the family blow-up eight or nine years ago (when my grandparents sold their land -- including the acreage we were living on that my parents had been given as a wedding present -- to my cousin, and then she wanted to charge my folks rent on the land and wouldn't even THINK about selling them the acreage). It was nice to be able to talk with him for a while. He asked me tons of questions about New Orleans and seemed glad to get an "insider's" POV.
Late in the afternoon, Elizabeth drove out. We had supper and then went to see "Firewall." The movie was entertaining, as long as you don't think TOO hard about some of the things that might actually happen in real life. E cracked me up after the movie was over when she asked, "Is it bad that I was thinking all through that last fight scene: 'Harrison Ford is going to break a hip'?" ::laughing:: I love HF, have since Star Wars, but he IS getting a bit too up there to be doing action flicks. Like E said, it's time for him to go the Robert Redford route. I do have to say that Paul Bettany is hot even as a bad guy. He does COLD really well. My favorite character of his, though, is still Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale."
Incidentally, there were no cops on this outing with E. ::grin::
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