Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 where we ask 4 questions every week.
Labor Day is Monday, Sept. 7. The original Labor Day was September 5, 1882 when over 10,000 workers took to the streets to protest 12 hour work days for low wages and cruel practices of employers.
The first official Labor Day was on September 7th in Oregon.
President Grover Cleveland signed on for the first offical federal observance of Labor Day following the Pullman Strike in which government forces shot dead many unarmed workers strking over dramatic wages cuts and dramatic cost of living increases in a company town. Workers pay was cut 30% and they could not afford basic food. When a group of men tried to negotiate with Pullman, they were fired and 34 of them were unalived by government forces.
1. How do you observe Labor Day and were you aware of the background of it?
We took the day off and did nothing.
2, Many holidays become just a day off rather than a real commemoration of an event.
How do you propose we can remedy that?
make a special day of it.
3. What is the most labor intensive job or activity you have done?
working retail stocking shelves.
4. If your income was cut by 30% could you still survive? What would you do?
Yes, Now that Im retired i look for free things and always shop sa;es.
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Yarn Over Yonder: A Cozy Craft & Hobby Mystery (Junie Harper Craft Mysteries)
The annual Millbrook Pop-Up Craft Fair should be the highlight of Junie Harper's year.
Her booth is ready, her wreath kits are selling fast, and the fair is driving traffic to Harper's Handycrafts just like it does every summer. But when fair organizer Clara Whitting is found dead behind a wall of yarn displays, and her private ledger of vendor secrets goes missing, Junie is pulled into an investigation that threatens everything she's built.
With vendors feuding over booth placements, whispered side deals surfacing from the shadows, and her best friend Nora caught in the crosshairs of suspicion, Junie must decode a trail of booth swaps, color-coded tags, and hidden financial arrangements to unmask a killer hiding among the craft community she loves.
But someone doesn't want the truth to come out. And they're willing to do more than cut a few threads to keep it buried.
YARN OVER YONDER is the second book in The Junie Harper Craft Mysteries, warm, witty cozy mysteries where hands-on hobbies become investigative tools. Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Ellery Adams, and Paige Shelton.
Can be read as a standalone, but is best enjoyed as part of the series.
From our library hobby class :
We have classes on crochet, knitting and needle work.
EASY KNIT DISHCLOTH:
Instructions: Cast on 4 stitches Row 1: Knit 4 Row 2: Knit 2, yarn over, knit across the row. Repeat Row 2 until you have 48 stitches on the needle. Row 3: Knit 1, Knit 2 together, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit to the end of the row. Repeat Row 3 until you have 4 stitches left on the needle. Cut your yarn leaving several inches.
Slide those last 4 stitches onto a crochet hook and loop the tail and last stitches one through the next as shown in the pics below. Pull tight to secure.
making crafts with pasta and paint.
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