ESTO Y ESO

About the Book

This book is an autobiography but it is surely an educational book as well since the author shares with the reader the year of her life when she bought a delapidated, out-of-use feed store, bartered with an architect to draw of plans for remodeling the old building into a very attractive commercial building. The architect got six months free rent in the newly refurbished building for the payment of his services. Then the author shares with the reader, the acquistion of a business license, the buying of needlecraft merchandise and the display fixtures that would present the merchandise to the buying public. The author designed and set up her own ledger, inventory book, customer service book and handled the many other tasks that it takes to start a new business. A few years after her business was up and running, the author began traveling to the different continents of the world. She traveled every year until she had lived on or at least slept on all seven continents. Believe it or not, the trip to Anarctica was her favorite. So the reader will read about each and everyone of these trips. Since the author is a very family oriented person, you will get glimpses of many of her family members as they kept in touch with each other over the years. The author's three main hobbies are gardening, writing and knitting. When she is not keeping the house tidy, she is busy with one of the three hobbies. Since the Taos area, where she lives, has a good four months of winter, she does most of her writing and knitting during those months but in the spring, summer and fall she gardens and she gardens seriously. Her backyard is a serene environment for her very active lifestyle. The backyard is a quarter of an acre and is divided into eighteen small gardens separated from each other by four foot wide, wood chip covered pathways. The pathways meander around each of the eighteen small gardens so it is a very peaceful place to just stroll about. But the author spends very little time strolling about as she does all of the weeding, watering and light pruning herself. Weeding is seldom a problem since the smaller gardens are less of an intimidation than if the auther faced a quarter of an acre of weeds. The author has planted, or helped in planting, every tree, shrub or perennial that occupy the small gardens. The author has been retired from her yarn shop for four years now and is easily found these days in her backyard.

About the Author

The author started Esto y Eso, the yarn shop, in Taos, New Mexico, from "scratch", operated it for twenty years and then closed the shop, in 2002 when she decided to retire. She keeps herself quite busy, in retirement, with her gardening chores, her household chores and her knitting. She does write, on a daily basis and Esto y Eso, the book, is her third book to be published