I got the blue silk wound off the spindle this week, and onto the tube. And yesterday, I went with the girls in the Girl Scout troop to the Susan B. Anthony house. We got a brief tour and lecture on Susan B.'s life and work. I found it extremely fascinating that different aspects of her life and time struck different girls harder than others. Some of them fastened onto the ideas about dress reform, some were concerned with the right to vote. A couple of girls were unhappy with the idea that if they had worked, their money wouldn't have been their own. One was harping on the concept that women didn't get paid as much as men for the same job. Whoops - guess we're not done with that one yet.

I did get some spinning done while we had the discussions. The girls were given a discussion assignment in small groups. They were all leaning forward, busy working; I was leaning back, busy spinning. The group leader came around, watched me for a moment, then grinned and said "you aren't going to do the work for them?" I just laughed and said that they were bright girls. They didn't need more than a nudge from me to get off and running.
The grape hyacinths are up and going, without even a nudge from me. They're just opening up, and from a distance (i.e. from the kitchen window) they're just a faint blue cloud.