>If other people caused as many accidents as Daddy did, there wouldn't be any. >It's really amazing what you can see when you "can't see." He was in the >Bikini Islands in the Pacific, testing atomic bombs in about '58. They were >off loading supplies off the ship. There was a 20' drop to the sea, and 2 >planks over which to drive the trucks off the ship. No one was willing to do >it but Daddy, and he did so without mishap. Legally blind doesn't mean you >can't see anything. > >Thanks for sharing about that lady. That's the sort of thing others need to >know. No one is getting any younger, we love making lace, and yet eyesight >frequently does not improve with age. This problem has been solved before, >and if we know that, the impetus to do so ourselves is there. > >Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where the weather is still cold and windy. > 38F 3C with wind. > >Robin wrote: >>It's a little scary hearing about someone legally blind driving, but I do >>admire your father's 'can do' attitude! I have a blind friend who makes >>great bobbin lace. Yes, someone pricks her pattern for her and she uses it >>"upside down" so there are bumps where the pricker needle went through the >>paper. That's how she finds the pinholes. Very fine laces with pinholes >>crowding together (the kind where you can't see the lace till the pins are >>pulled out) are beyond her, but as long as she can get a finger in to the >>back-most empty pinhole, she can do it. Someone usually describes the lace >>to her, like there's a trail following that arc of pinholes, and so many >>pairs come into it along the swing, and then at the nth hole two pairs leave >>toward the right to plait out to those holes that loop out from the >>trail....". I'm always amazed at how much detail she can keep in her mind's >>eye, till it's time for a description of the next region. She's blind from >>infancy and she knit s! >> and does other great things, too. And teaches knitting (and taught >> "blindfolded bobbin lace" at the lace group meeting a few years ago. I was >> sick that day, but those who tried it had that much more respect for her >> accomplishments!
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