While away over the weekend, I learned many new things. Here they are as they pop into my head:
- Google Maps can be used to see photos of the road and Carol showed me how!
- Single plied yarn knits up visibly different from multiple plied yarn (I always thought I was doing something wrong but it was the yarn – thank you Mendocino Yarn Shop!)
- Acrylic painting has many additives available to layer and mold and make relief type paintings. (How could I have never known this before? Because I am an OIL painter!)
- Seaglass is much more abundant after a storm. I read this; now I know it experientially.
- Finished seaglass is rounder and translucent; the differences are subtle but they matter to the collector.
- Most hot tubs are set at 104 degrees but 100 is still comfortable.
- My cell phone is capable of texting but it isn’t necessary nor convenient in my life.
- There is a new kind of dimmer on light switches that is so tiny one can (and did) miss it!
- A song I love, Gabriel’s Oboe, is from a movie called The Mission.
- The center of California is delineated on Hwy. 99 (already knew this but now know how to find it!)
- ALWAYS have a map with you when you are on a road trip because there might be a traffic problem that will negate your Google directions. I knew this but was ever so grateful to have followed this wisdom.
- ALWAYS have simple knitting in the car with you, even when you are driving alone, because you never know when the freeway will transform itself into a parking lot.
- NEVER drink too much coffee. (see #12) (I sure felt badly for the woman in the white sedan.)
- There is a specific (and odd) way of walking to increase one’s speed; Carol and I got a great laugh out of experimenting with this (easier to do when in a place where no one knows you.)
- Abstract art causes me to think of yarn. (Many things do this for me.)