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Record breaking snowfall

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Since it is the season of giving, I GIVE.
We give up. We give in. We give out.
We give and I am done fighting with the elemental forces that are now breaking records.  At least they are here in the Pacific Northwest.
I mean really if Mother Nature is going to go to all the trouble making such a winter to do, especially in the flaky really cold white stuff falling from the sky and covering every surface imaginable realm.
She is clearly exceeding her personal best here and I do believe she has quite a bit more at her disposal.

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So dearest, most powerful Mother Nature, we here at Blue Moon humbly and most graciously (yarn in hands) bow to you!
We take our lovely knit hats off to you and say way to go with the snow.
You really are rocking this whole snowy winter wonderland thing.

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What this means order wise is we are doing our very best to get you your yarn.
There are only two of us here trying to get orders out.
This will last as long as the power does ( it has already gone down once this weekend) and as long as Don can get to the P.O. without risking life and limb.
Email is the best way to get in touch with us right now. The phone system does not do well in these conditions.

Thank you for your patience.
Be safe and stay warm!

posted by tina

December 22, 2008

depraved dyer

Snow, snow and yet more snow.

It will not stop snowing. I do not think it is ever going to stop snowing.

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The weather is not cooperating at all. It is almost like it has a mind of its own and does not care that we have all of this yarn to get out and yarn to get delivered and we will not even talk about how unprepared I personally am for this upcoming holiday. Did you know that next week is Christmas?  I do not think anyone has informed Mother Nature about this or horror of horrors she is perfectly aware and just does not care that she is way early on this one.
I do not want to believe that the latter is true but the evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point.

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She had to hear the crying this morning, the weeping and moaning over how I have all of this shopping and errands to run and I keep loosing time to all the havoc that this current winter escapade of hers has caused.
I do not think I can ever remember being so unprepared for Christmas. I love Christmas everything about it, the smells of evergreens and gingerbread baking, the carols and candles and light and family...all of it every single little piece makes my heart joyful. I love giving presents and finding that certain something that brings a light or a smile.
I love the spirit of celebrating light and love at the darkest point of the year. 
And while the snow is certainly adding a nice visual and a certain coziness to this wintery holiday, it is also hindering the more practical aspects quite a bit.
I am just not pulling it together and living up to my previous holiday potential, not even close.
The only reason the tree is in the house and decorated is because we had to get it off the porch since we caught the deer eating it. 

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( who me eat your tree?)

I put the lights on it one evening and Sophie decorated it last night. Which for those of you that know me is no small thing. ( I fell asleep after telling her I would be right there)
I decorate the tree. Actually I like to think of it as orchestrating decorating the tree It is an artistic thing with me and well, it has to be what I think it should be. I have a very clear Christmas tree vision.  It is a family joke. We have a video of my son at about age 6 and I doing this “together” . Yeah, they all laugh when we play this but I for one do not see what is so funny, Christmas tree decorating is serious business.
I think I need to work on letting go, yet again about the letting go.

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Sophie did a lovely job!

Well, I started writing this post to tell you where were in shipping out the sale yarn and how we were doing on Sock Club registration. Obviously I have other things on my mind.
Today we are getting a whole lot of packages shipped. Which is awesome because evidently we are in for another heavy snow hit this weekend.  The snow is putting quite a damper on progress here in blue moon land. We are up high in elevation so we get quite a bit. This makes shipping more of a challenge. Actually it makes getting to work more of a challenge. Please know that we are doing our absolute best to get you your yarn in a timely manner.

On the Sock Club front we seem to have worked the bugs out of the system and things are rolling merrily along.
If you had issues or need help please do not hesitate to contact us at

thanks for your patience!

posted by tina

December 19, 2008

General News

RSC signup glitch-S


IMPORTANT UPDATE 12/16/08

One day when I try to streamline a process in order to make all of our lives easier please just hit me over the head it will actually succeed in doing this.

As of today there are still declines for some of you. We are still trying to figure out why this is happening. Please bear with us and know that you will get in so no worries on that front.

The system is bogged down. Please do not hit submit over and over.

This system is pre-authorizing your cards. We were told this meant just validating them in fact it means it is holding those funds. Since I told you that we were not charging the cards this is leading to some confusion and problems in relation to available funds for the holidays.

I cannot apologize enough for this, it is not what we thought was happening. If this is a problem for you and you have not registered please wait and do so after the holidays. If you have already registered and this is a problem please contact me; and we will take the preauth on your card off. It does take a few days to release those funds back to you please keep this in mind.

What we do know is that there are browser issues. We think we have addressed this issue. You will need to clear your cache before trying again because it does have the old script stored there. and that is what it keeps pulling up.

I think that covers it and again I am very sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you. It certainly was not our intention.

Ok back to it.

posted by tina

December 15, 2008