Drunk Man Who Wandered Into New Rockland Yarn Shop Still Trying To Figure Out What Goes On In There

ROCKLAND, Maine — When Mim Bird’s 13-and-a-half-year-old son (“the half is important when you’re 13”) decided to go to school instead of continuing homeschooling, she didn’t know what to do with her life. She had been a homemaker for 16 years. “For the first year I just wandered around thinking, ‘What will I do now?’ The second year, I thought, ‘I’m doing this. I’m opening a yarn shop.’ I’m fascinated by yarn,” Bird said Friday as she spun purple-red wool on a spinning wheel. Bird opened Over the Rainbow Yarn on School Street in Rockland last month, on her 50th birthday, as a present to herself. “My mother taught me how to knit when I was 7 years old. Then I forgot. She taught me again when I was 9 and I forgot. She taught me again when I was 13 and it stuck. I’ve been knitting ever since,” she said. (read more at BangorDailyNews)

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