[Blind-rollers] hello

[Becky Frankeberger]

Hi Jackie, I happen to love knitting.  I make products and sell them.  In
fact my teacher was here yesterday and was blown away by my incorporation of
knit and crochet into my throws and blankets.  This guy is published in any
professional knitting magazine you can find.  I was blown away.  He knows me
well enough and have seem my feet of clay enough that he knows I have a BS
meter.  He knows not to placate me.  

The NFB has a crafters division with blind teaching blind via the phone all
sorts of crafts from soap making, basket making of all sorts, knit and
crochet.  The president is:
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com 
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Ok, when I have gotten snowed in and was stir crazy, I took transit to the
mall.  I went on off hours so I could better meet people and make friends.
I started out with the walking club in the morning before the stores open.
These nice usually elderly folks took me right in.  They gave me the heads
up on stores and nice people who work there.  These elderly friends becames
shoppers who helped me, as well as one or two got close enough I could ask
them to take me places.  Don was such a man.  We were very close. He had a
stroke at fifty, so he understood far better then the others to make
accommodations were just not a big deal if you really care.  We went all
kinds of places.  His wife still young enough to work joined us.  We went to
breakfast, concerts, movies, don fixed my computer many times, lol.  He had
a second stroke and just had energy problems, so he had to find things to do
around the house.  He learned how to cook.  Prep time was the day before.
He did his family tree.  He arranged a huge party for his extended family
tree.

So possibilities are endless what you can do from your computer when it
really isn't safe to go out, and when you can go out.

We went to Disney World in Florida and it was really nice.  We went through
American Airlines travel.  They saved us almost a thousand dollars off
season, as a friend of mine who is a travel agent.  Very same package and
one was almost a thousand dollars cheeper. Most places indeed are whellchair
accessible.  They will also let you transfer to a seat if that is helpful.
I had one bus on the site who did not tie me down well and I bounced and
nearly freaked out.  My husband made him stop the bus.  That scared me.
Other then that, wonderful experience.  We stayed fairly low key.  Some of
the rides are more kiddish. My husband enjoyed Soring, transfer, the honted
hotel thing, smile, the roler coaster, smile, the shows, the food, the
parades etc.  There are miles to walk.  Never will I do this in a manual
chair again, never.  You can rent power chairs, I gather.  The place is
super clean. They also have this really cool little device that lets you
know where you are like a GPS.  I gather it also tells you what attraction
you are near and a short description.

Warm hugs,

Becky and guide dog Jake   
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:36 AM
To: blind-rollers at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blind-rollers] hello

Hi how is every one doing?  I am doing ok.  Here there is a lot of snow.
When there is a lot of snow it makes it hard to go out.  What does every one
do when there is a lot of snow out.
take care jackie
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