Line Dancing and Knitting

Recent post-retirement pursuits I've taken up include line-dancing and knitting and crocheting. And no, I'm not doing them simultaneously.

Line-Dancing:

The dancing class is great fun and good exercise too, even if most of us stumble and trip over our own feet pretty often. Our teacher, Leoda, is 93 years old!! She told us that she can't see or hear so well anymore, but from the neck down, she's fine. She can out-dance most of her students.

After we do dances like Cotton Eyed Joe, Elvira, and dozens of others I can't remember, my buddy Terese and I go somewhere nearby for lunch and then we return to the same venue for our afternoon class ----

Knitting/Crocheting!

I've tried to learn to knit before and gave up. But I've always admired the look and touch of knitted things so I decided I'd try again. Lucky for me, Terese was game.

Our group of about a dozen ladies split about half and half right away into wannabe knitters and wannabe crocheters. Most of our fellow knitters seemed to catch on right away from our 95 year old instructor, Mineola. Maybe they already knew the basics.

Mineola, by the way, knits and donates over 400 hats every year. Her mother taught her to knit when she was seven years old.

Terese and I are slow learners. We keep ripping out our weird, lumpy, uneven stitches and then we start again from scratch. A fellow classmate looked at my first sample, giggled, and said wasn't it nice that I'd already learned how to make buttonholes. Har de har har.