Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 236, which we are recording on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021.

We have a special episode today, don't we? Happy anniversary, Gail.

And happy anniversary, Charlene. What number is it? This is our ninth anniversary.

Ninth anniversary. Which means we recorded that first episode back in January of 2012.

Holy smoke.

A long time ago.

And one of the fun things is that during 2020, while much of the world has been

sheltering in place and quarantining, we have gotten a lot of new listeners and new members in

our Ravelry group. And one of the fun things that I have noticed, and maybe you've noticed this too, Gail,

is that many listeners have commented about going back, especially to those very first episodes

and how much fun they're having, listening to those, comparing them with the episodes

now and have mentioned to us a couple of things that have been funny about how some things

have changed and how some things have remained the same.

I know.

One of them, somebody mentioned Mohair for you because you didn't knit with Mohair

back when we started and now you're knitting with Mohair.

And for me, somebody mentioned how many basketball games I used to attend in person because my children were half the age.

Yeah, it's true.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, my youngest graduated from, well, both, both Gail and I, our youngest children, graduated from high school

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