I can’t find any arrival pictures for Thursday’s mail call!

Imagine, if you will, a cheerful mail lady in the driveway honking so that she doesn’t have to get out of the truck. I wasn’t dressed yet* so Michael went out to retrieve our mail. Turns out, she’s very interested in Dish Rag Tag and wants her mom to play next year! So no picture of the mail in the box. Or in Michael’s hands. Or even unopened on the table. That must have been when I set the oven on fire a little bit.

Even a small oven fire didn’t keep me from numbering the boxes in the order in which they were received.

The 13th spot (I hear it’s lucky) is occupied by the Rag Time Gals!

Many thank yous to Sheila!

I ate the cookies yesterday (I’m kind of surprised that the lasted so long), and I have decided that I am adding them to the starter boxes for next year. I will get enough so that I can eat as many as I give away. Yum! See the spider web votive holder? Inspired me to finish the first trickertreat sock. I never could have done it without you, Shelia! The Gals’ Team Captain, Tiffany is going to love her earthy dishrag when it finally gets mailed**.

The box ranked fourteenth belongs to the SuperSpeedyStitch7!

Stickers! It’s almost like decoupage under the packing tape!

Once again, I am floored at some of the great “small gift” ideas folks have had! Scissors are always a welcome addition to any knitters home. You can never ever have too many. Brilliant, Stacey, I’ll remember this one too. Thank you so so so much – and your Team Captain, Kirsten, will be thanking you for the gorgeous dish rag soon!

Drum roll please:
The fifteenth box to complete the race: the Cotton Conquerors!

Another Sheila! And what are the odds that both Sheila boxes would be from TN?

You can’t see it well, but that little zippered case will be great for holding tiny notions (like a yarn needle and the row counter) . I can’t wait to try the “Chocolat en Poudre.” I am sure it is going to be delicious – I can tell because of the word “Chocolat” in the name. And in my experience, packages with the ingredients and directions printed on the back in six different languages means that the contents are deliciously special. Speaking of delicious, the peachy delicious dish rag is for captain, Laura – Sheila, she’ll love it!

ADDED: Chocolat = yummers.

Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel Round-Up
1… Deuces Wild 9/24/2008
2… Rag-Taggers 9/25/2008
3… Dishrag Taggers 9/25/2008
4… Dishin’ It Out 9/29/2008
5… Cotton Queens 9/30/2008 (amended)
5… Cross Country Knitters 10/1/2008
7… DISHY DOZEN 10/2/2008
8… Rag Olympians 10/2/2008
9… Dishrag Divas 10/2/2008
10… Phaster than Phelps 10/4/2008
11… Scrubbing Stars 10/6/2008
12… Rag Tag Fleet 10/6/2008
13… Rag Time Gals 10/9/2008
14… SuperSpeedyStitchin7 10/9/2008
15… Cotton Conquerors 10/9/2008

*You try to find time to get dressed, bake brownies and bread, feed cats and boy and baby, put a chicken in the crock pot, set the oven on fire a little bit, unload and reload the dishwasher all before 9:30am. I don’t know why there is so much more to do all of a sudden.
**I’ve had the prizes (and team captain dishrags) together, wrapped up and ready to mail since Wednesday! I just haven’t had an hour and a half in my day to go to the post office and watch the guy print postage for 36 plus 9 (now 12) packages. I made a great plan on Friday to send Michael with a representative sample of the different weights to just buy the appropriate number of stamps to get them all done. But of course the credit card machine was down and we had no cash. He did get the guy to weigh them, so stamps.com here I come!