Intervention ~

I've heard it called intervention or tough love, or perhaps we were just being pesky friends. Friends know what friends need, and that is the really great news about friends. We have a good buddy that has a warped and wonderful sense of humor. His quirks include: hates Styx, hates ABBA, hates Air Supply, hates Hallmark, hates clowns...... so when he is having a bad day (or week) we know just what he needs... a few years back he was fighting cancer, and his sweet wife was fighting cancer and there were some dark days. His sweet wife called Ms. M to say that he was having a very dark week.... so we knew what we needed to do.... Send In The Clowns.. and we did..... We have another amazing friend that owns a consignment shop, so we took our lunch break to get into these amazing outfits from her shop and drive to his home...Check out the red shoes ~ they ARE Dorothy's shoes, they really are... they were magic!!!

...plus she found a beautifully tacky clown painting on plywood.... As he came to the door and saw us, there were so many emotions that flashed across his face (after the initial "I HATE CLOWNS" look) and we knew that our intervention had worked. Then he laughed and laughed and laughed, plus did a lot of shaking his head... perhaps he couldn't believe how much we care....

Fast forward to last week. Ms M and I wanted to be sure he and his sweet wife were still feeling the love.... so we installed this at their home....

what does this have to do with yarn? We are trying to get him to begin importing alpaca (or just bringing alpaca to us) from his far away work & vacation destinations... I'll keep you posted how that is working out....