Zilch....I got Zilch

A little humor for you all.  I don't have a picture or appropriate word for the letter Z.  The two previous posts were titled Zneesy and Homeless and Finding Zen.  I didn't come up with anything new to share with you.  

Doing a google search it gave me the words zero, zilch, and zone...but I got no where trying to tie those words to being homeless.

Thinking about knitting, crocheting, yarn, looming etc I can think we're in the zone when we're busy at work...but that's about as far as my mind goes.  Any ideas from you all?

By now, you've probably noticed the count down to Spring in the right sidebar is in fact counting down.......yippee Skippy.  Also by now, you've probably noticed the new goal numbers for the year of 2019.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Yarn....truly Yarn Helps the Homeless

Blogging in alphabetical order brings us to today's letter Y.  In the previous round of blogging in alphabetical order,  the letter Y's post was titled Yarn, A poem.  I've posted it here on Bridge and Beyond a couple of times, the poem that is.  My darling SIL wrote it for me and I really like it.  Please check out the previous post and her poem.

Back when I was blogging in alphabetical order for the blog challenge, the post for Y was...Yarn Helps Homeless.  Always nice to have folks go back and re-read or read for the first time previous posts.

Soooooo, it seems I've not come up with anything new for the letter Y.  Before you is a picture of yarn...of yarn helping the homeless.  What you don't see here in this picture is the rest of it, lol.  I decided it was time to tame the stash and  brought up every container and bag from the basement and sorted the stash based on color.  It was sorted that way a few years ago, but with additional yarn being donated, my having bits and pieces left from projects, taking yarn out to use and finding it not quite the color I needed and it might not getting back in the proper place.......... it needed to be done again...........this yarn organization took almost a whole day.  

Additionally, I was making up projects bags by laying out projects to work on and selecting the yarn needed to put it in one of my many project bags.  I now ...drum roll...have filled 7 bags here in my office for 7 projects with the yarn necessary to complete them....all afghans.  There's still plenty of yarn, and plenty of empty bags...but I was trying not to go crazy with the idea, lol

This afghan was designed sometime back from stripes someone sent that were too short and narrow to be scarves.  They will be joined, and added to enough to make a afghan.   I laid out green, rose, and tan for possible colors to edge and join...stay tuned for which one I ended up selecting.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Xenium, Xenophobia, Xanthic and Blogging in Alphabetical Order

In the previous round of blogging in alphabetical order, My blog title was Xenium and Homelessness.  That post was published on  April 2, 2018.  When I first blogged in alphabetical order as part of a blog contest April 2th, 2015, my X post was Xenophobia.  If you didn't read  those posts, or don't remember them, please click on the words to go to those posts.  

Currently doing a google search for another X post word I came up dry.  In that I found a list of 340 vocabulary words connected in some capacity to homelessness and X was blank!  Yikes.  Searching further, google tells me there are about 400 words in the English language that start with the letter X, and that includes names, and places, and words no longer used.

Digging a little deeper, I found a word I used once before for the letter X, just not on this blog.  One year when I did the blog challenge I entered all 3 of my blogs (once was certainly enough to do that, whew!).  On one of my other blogs, I used the word, XANTHIC which means yellowish....there's yellowish in my cartoon above, and the fact that's it's about sheep/yarn/fiber.........believe that's the best I can do for this round of blogging in alphabetical order in search of a word that starts with X.  

I thought the comic was cute, and perhaps you do as well.  Funny even, but certainly nothing about being homeless and cold is funny.  So please folks, do your best to keep busy with your yarn and crochet hook and or knitting needles.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Woebegone and Wretched Homeless Emotions

Blogging in Alphabetical order (which if you're new to this blog is done on days when I am without donations to share).  I do this to have blog posts appear more often than we would if I only blogged when there were donations to share.  In so doing, Bridge and Beyond appears more often in the search engines which aids folks finding us.  The more people who finds us on the internet, the more helping hands we may have........and the more helping hands we have, the more people we can help. And by the way, do you see the tab across the top of the blog so titled.....if you open that tab you will see all the posts that have been written and the letters they represents.

So, blogging in Alphabetical order brings us today to W.

Doing a google search for words that start with the letter W that pertain to homelessness I find:
Without
Weighed down
Woebegone
Wretched
Withdrawn
Wrecked

Woebegone popped out to me, not a term we hear much these days, but a word I remember my grandparents saying.  The definition I found is: sad, miserable in appearance.  When I did a search for a picture that might represent the word, I go the above woman.  It's not hard to imagine how often homeless men and women feel this way, or do this exact pose with covering their faces.

Wretched also popped out as an extreme word.  This picture says a lot.  The defination I found says very unhappy or unfortunate state.

When we help a homeless person with warm hats, scarves, socks, mittens etc I believe we help them not feel or look as woebegone or wretched.

We can not eliminate it all, but we can make a difference.  Please keep your knitting needles, your knitting looms, and your crochet hooks busy.
**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.