As I am a newbie to this WS community, I'll share an experience that made me laugh and feel special for being involved in this hobby.

So, I'm at a store looking at one of those herb light growing thingamajigs, calculating in my mind how many soda bottles I could buy and just pour out instead of figuring out how drink in enough time to WS for that grand price, when a nice little lady walked up looking at the same thing. We struck up a conversation about it and she told me how she buys some kind of light at W-M instead. I began telling her that my mother-in-law and I are really into winter sowing this year and with this we don't have to buy anything at all like that. At that time she started telling me about all the differnent quilts and dolls she crochets when it's too cold for her to get out, and about how she prefers crocheting. I thought to myself, while maintaining a generous smile, "what is this crazy woman talking about? Why in the world is she talking about crocheting? I wonder if she's okay, skipping over and around topics like this." So, we ended our conversation with me wishing her a rather confused good luck with her (crazy) crocheting. So, still thinking about that confused little woman and how sad it is when someone gets like that, I browsed a few more items. Then it hit me! She thought I meant SEWing. Duh! Like SEWing in the WINTER. She probably thought I was the crazy one. Heck, she might have thought me crazier if she'd understood what I was talking about! This story has provided my mother-in-law with lots of laughs and inside jokes for a few months, so I now share it with all of you with thanks for letting us in this not-so-secret society:)