Flagel Knitting Files

A few days ago I wrote about the kind people at Chapman Antique Mall in Orange, California who helped me secure a cab.  I asked readers to offer ideas about how I could thank them and several good suggestions came in.  Thank you all for informing my decision about what to do. I decided to knit a thank you.  (Jami, thanks for asking the question about whether a thank you could be knit.  Apparently, yes it can.) This is a relatively small item that I made with the help of an alphabetic graph designed by Julie, a knitter from the UK, found on her blog   Little Cotton Rabbits .  My Mom, someone not known for her great skills in using technology, turned me on to this lovely site.  I strongly recommend looking around her entire blog rather than just the alphabet graph I've linked.  You'll find adorable patterns to knit, some free, some not, or just lots of happy knitted projects. Now that I have my knitted portion of the thank you comp...

Oh, a story from California.  It is worth sticking with this because there is a happy ending and a question to be answered.  It seems to me when one is not sending off bad vibrations into the world, the world holds your hand and guides you and so it was for me the last day in California.  I wanted to travel from Anaheim to Orange.  Orange is a small city for Los Angeles standards, about 135,000 in population.  It is located about 6.5 miles south and west of Anaheim.  Orange is unusual for a California city because many of the homes found in the Old Town District were built prior to 1920 and remain standing and in use today.   Orange boasts of having many of its buildings listed on the National Registry.  So I decided I'd catch a cab from Disneyland to check out this Old Town District. Getting a cab in Anaheim, especially around Disneyland is no problem.  All one has to do is stop by any major hotel or just wave your hand at a passing cab ...