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Knitting and spinning has been scarce for me the last month. I have been putting my energy into Chip 'n for Dale. But seeing the money coming in, and the wonderful good wishes for Dale, and generosity of everybody is certaintly worth the time spent.

Janette and I have met and spoken to many caring, generous people. We have dealt with some wonderful and very generous yarn store owners. I will be patronizing and hopefully everybody I know will as well www.spinningbunny.com/, www.heritageyarns.com/, www.knittingzone.com/, and http://www.yarns2ewe.com/. These vendors, donated very generously, while the local yarn stores we have been patronizing, didn't even acknowledge Dale. ( Dale spent many years shopping at these stores ).

Let's all get together and give business to the people who helped us, and the one's who are willing to give back to the knitting community.

Chris, Dale's husband, posted this incredibly good news on Dale's Journal. If you would like to read more about Dale, you can visit Dale's blog at http://www.jarrett.ws/daleSunday, 7/23/06 White counts are UP!!!!Sun Jul 23, 09:00 AM by DaleTis a beautiful Sunday morning and praise the Lord, Dale’s white count is on the rise! The graft has taken and her new bone marrow is starting to work and her white count rose today from 0.1 to 0.2.Doesn’t sound like much, but believe me, it is HUGE.

Praise the Lord. More to follow. It’s a good day!Chris

As you probably have noticed I have been very busy with Chip 'n for Dale. http://chip-n--for-dale.blogspot.com/We are over $1700, and Janette and I have surpassed our initial goal by more the $ 1,000. In fact, Janette and I have been spending so much time together that we seem to be finishing each others sentences.
My day has been beginning at 5AM, with either sending an IM to Janette or receiving one from Janette. Then of course, one of us will e-mail the other during the day, with phone conversations in between to discuss the blog. And then there are the in between house calls, and a night does not go by without goodnights at 10:30. Who ever thought that we would be able to stand so much of each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My finished Fiesta La Boehme shawl

Some of our visiting guests from Saturday at Barnes and Noble


Our Macot "ORBIT" and his owner and friend, Our Judy in her handknitted dishtowel sweater

Let me start by saying, I just can't get Dale and Chip 'n for Dale off my mind. I spoke to Chris ( Dale's husband) on IM yesterday and he said she was feeling a little better. We are now up to $1185.00, but we must raise more. Janette and I (and I am sure all our fellow knitters) will do anything they can to make this a very successful and substantial donation for the Jarrett's.

Yesterday at knitting we were pleasantly suprised when a church group of knitters showed up at Barnes and Noble and joined us. And then Marcie, a knitter from West Palm Beach, joined us as well. They are all such a group of wonderful people (but what else could knitters be), it was like we knew each other for ever. I will post pictures from yesterday, after work.

I just want to scream out with joy, Janette and I are so happy that we have collected to date $725.00 for chip-n--for-dale.blogspot.com/. We can only imagine how much we will have in contributions once the knitters step up to the plate. The generosity of total strangers, and there well wishes for Dale are so heartwarming.

I have been receiving e-mails daily from Chris (Dale's Husband). Dale has completed 2 days of chemo, with today being the 3rd. Today's round of Chemotherapy has been very taxing to Dale.
With their faith and our prayers, I know things will soon start getting easier for Dale.

Today is the day Dale gets admitted to MD Anderson for her bone marrow transplant. If you haven't seen the blog, please take a moment to do so. (chip-n--for-dale.blogspot.com/)

I spoke to Dale today, and she was in good spirits, and ready for the bone marrow transplant.

I just want to take this opportunity to once again say, we all love you and you are in our prayers.

I am calling out to all my fiber friends, please show your love and support for Dale by making a donation at http://chip-n--for-dale.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow is the big day, my Majacraft Suzie gets delivered. I can't wait to try it. From what I am told it comes in pieces, so tomorrow night Janette and I are going to attempt to put it together. I will take pictures tomorrow when it arrives.

Happy spinning to all, oh yes and a happy 4th of July.

Janette and I have been working very hard on chip-n--for-dale.blogspot.com/. We started getting responses from various fiber vendors, and our offerings are looking good. We are counting on the fiber community, to help make this a success. If one every person, that knits, spins, crochets, and knows Dale contributes, this should be a great success. I want to thank all the girls in the groups Janette and I belong to for there forthcoming donations and support. And off to work I go.