A Surprise

Last night at 9pm my daughter-in-law rolled in here.It`s still your birthday,she said,& my sisters & I feel that you should have mom`s spinning wheel.
They are going through their mother`s things before the house gets locked up as she had financial debt & didn`t own her home.
The wheel was never used by her.She & her husband bought it at an auction.
It is antique & is missing some parts.But it really touched me that the girls would want me to have it.They said they remembered their mom saying,don`t touch that,don`t spin that around,get off it.
I had to smile ,I could hear Nancy saying that.Now I have to find someone to work on it,but the dh has already started.The bobbin is really small.I will probably need someone`s help at least to make more bobbins.

It smells like Nancy`s home,a mixture of cigarette smoke & Vicks she rubbed on her legs.
It is a small wheel.Theresa found a part in her car that was missing,today,the mother of all.The dh made a footman thing for my antique flax wheel,it`s a piece of wood that connects the pedal to the wheel,this one will need one too.Maybe the Mannings will know someone who works on them.

Spinning Wheel

We found an antique spinning wheel.It was usable at one time,but was missing the wooden piece to the wheel,the wheel had a rawhide cord tied to the tredle to move it up & down.It also didn`t have a drive belt.The guy had placed an ad in our Sun. paper & we drove to the boonies to get it.At one point we saw the sign saying Ski Roundtop & I thought of Carolyn who writes the blog,Roundtop Runimations, that I like to read,I believe she lives near where we were to get this wheel.
Well,to back up in my story,Sat.I got a call from Paul who was responding to an ad I had placed in our shopper about finding a used wheel to buy.He said he didn`t want to sell his,but I could come over when he`s in his shop & spin on the wheels.Mon.when we got this one home,I called him & asked if I could bring it over,& he said yes,he`d look at it.It was so kind of him to do that,he sat with us for about an hour or more going over the wheel,telling us what needed to be done to get it going & so forth.It is so nice to know that there are still alot of kind-hearted people out there....so hubby worked on it,& it`s ready to roll.He made a piece for it,greased it real good,put some dowel pins in places...the only thing is it seems to turn the bobbin so fast,I don`t know if that will change once there`s fiber on it or not.I wish Becky lived close to me to show me!