A swift surprise

[celticdragonfly]

So, there's this mystery package....

T'other day it arrived. I had a friends over, and we found it at the front door while I was walking them out. I just saw a triangular box with a yarn store type name on it, from Oregon. Well, I'd just ordered a couple of yarn purchases from two different stores, one of which was somewhere in the Pacific northwest, so I figured it was one of those, think no more about it, great, I'll open that in the morning when I'm ready to cast on.

Well. I went to open it. It was a long box for the amount of yarn, but I didn't think much about it, just figured whatever, that's what they had handy. Then I opened it and pulled out a wooden handle... what? Found the front of the box and opened up the little packing list thing.

Oh. Oh MY. This box contains a medium Swedish swift.

Is this for me? I didn't order a swift. I covet a swift, sure. Did someone send me one?

Did they possibly send it to me by mistake? And if so, do I have to send it back?

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

http://carolinahomespun.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/umbsw.jpg

You use it to hold a skein of yarn, and it revolves as you roll the yarn into a ball. Using, in my case, a ballwinder.

Oh, aha, here. Pic of them in use
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~kfairchi/ballwinder.JPG

The amazing thing is that the invoice is marked "PAID"

[sandy-tyras.livejournal.com]

So someone sent you a present. How lovely. I assume it wasn't Karl? Robin maybe?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I just found out, birthday present from my parents, bkseiver and rlseiver!

[sandy-tyras.livejournal.com]

When's your birthday? Are you and Karl both January babies? (I seem to recall a comment that his birthday has just passed.)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

January 29th. His is the 8th. Thus we two, you, Joe, and Margaret Middleton forming the basis for the Second Annual Housefilk Birthday Bash!

[(Anonymous)]

In which case, there will be CAKE!

Sandy