Knitters, spinners and weavers one and all,

I want to thank all of you who have helped support the Young Writers Project these last few years. Your small donations have added up, have helped us reach thousands of students and have helped us develop as a strong nonprofit.

I am writing to ask you to help us start the YWP Digital Writing Center at Champlain Mill (our new home). This space will serve students -- particularly "at risk" immigrant and low-income students in the surrounding area -- as well as college mentors, teachers and the community. This center will allow us to bring many small groups in for training, workshops and events that promote writing, expression and the creative use of multimedia.

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6/3 We lost our beloved Vic, Jamie's dad, last Friday morning. We are very sad...to report this. It's been a difficult month... and we are hoping that things settle down soon.

Love to all. Kathleen, not knitting much due to arthritis in the hands.

5/25/09 LIlacs are blooming...and doing so well. We have 10 varieties at least. Lilac, blue, white, dark violet, dark violet with white edge, pink. So gorgeous. These are my favorite flowers and our house is filled with big bunches of them, and you can smell them from the street, we have so many blooming. The gorgeous crabapple blooms are gone, sadly... the lupines are beginning.

I love Spring. Martha's graduation was divine.

Love, blessings, and thanks for getting the donations up to 4%. It's great.... Kathleen

May 18. I am so proud. My daughter Martha is graduating from U of Maryland on Thursday, in violin performance. I am so proud I could burst.

If anyone wants to send Martha a congratulatory note send it to me at kbruce@together.net with Martha in the subject line and I will pass them on to her.

Hope you are all enjoying the marvelous spring. It is glorious here.

5/16 and the key word here is rain. It's POURING. I can't even get the dog to go out and do his thing, because he hates the rain, and wants to just stand there, get soaked, and chew grass.

Sigh.

My husband is away visiting his parents, and my daughter is at a prom, and it's me and Rem and the two cats.

going to eat ice cream, and look up how to knit a sock on circulars.... from the toe up. I have this cool new yarn. Navy blue with actual sterling silver in it....to retard smell, etc.

Neato. Love, Kathleen

5/9 Has anyone done business with a new Chinese cashmere company that has surfaced? I got an email this morning, and they look legit, and have some very nice yarns,...although no prices are posted. One can buy a kilogram of fiber or top, it says, though no prices, again are posted for yarn or top.
http://www.chinacashmere.net/product/product4/page_1.html
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Ollie, the Wonder Corgi, ...: Rainbow Bridge 5/7/085/5 Thinking of Ollie, who went to the Rainbow bridge on 5/7/07.... what a good dog... Love, Kathleen

PS A wonderful note from Emily, Ollie's sister, to him...

"dear ollie,

Pippin: 8 weeks5/5 here is Emily's new puppy Pippin. He's 8 weeks old, and a biting machine (teething) and he is just as cute as can be. Emily, the new mother, is exhausted, as all new mothers are.

5/3 Thank you all...who donated. I am feeling better about this today.... blessings ... and keep up the good work! It's a door that swings both ways... Kathleen

April 25. Hi all. I have had many people asking me for email contacts so that they can contact the holder of an ad to buy a certain item. Please remember to put your address on your ad, so that those interested in your ad can contact you! Thanks. Kathleen

April 17, it's been great weather here... Spring is coming. Emily is coming in tonight from England to hear Martha's senior recital violin is next week and we are all so excited for her. The maple sugaring is almost over here, and the birds are singing up a storm.

Thanks to all who are donating to the Chip In fund for the Writing Center, for the Young Writer's Project. We are up to $342, with 21 people contributing since we started. Thanks to all who contributed..! it's wonderful.

Knitting a baby sweater and trying to get that finished up. Hope all is well with you all.

4/8 I am with my husband's family in Princeton NJ, and it's lovely weather, and all the trees and bulbs are blooming,...they are way ahead of Vermont, and it's lovely to be here with everything blooming. I love it. I bought some Easter flowers today for my mil, and tomorrow we will have Passover Sedar here at the place where they live. It's quite lovely, and I am looking forward to it.

I am so proud when I see that 14 people have contributed almost $275 in the past week. That's pretty good, everyone, and I thank you so much.

Hugs to all, and back to work. Kathleen

4/5 Hi there... .I have had people ask me for simple baby hat patterns ...these were taken from free sites on the internet...and if anyone feels like making a baby hat for one of my babies who I help breastfeed, please feel free to use up just whatever you have in the way of leftover wool, DK or fingering weight yarn (7 st/inch)... it's a cast on of about 80 stitches for a size 3 needle for fingering, and 80 st, or for DK weight (5-6 st/inch), size 5-6 needles, DK weight yarn...

4/4, Hello, from Vermont, on a rainy Saturday. Well this one doesn't have molasses, but it's a good one for little dark spring rainy days..

From Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries, www.nigelslater.com, have fun, and buy that book! it's a great cookbook.
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