05.09.07
Random Wednesday
Being Wednesday and all I’m adopting the ‘Random Thoughts’ post trend I see on other Knitting Blogs. So here goes.
#1. While sitting in the recliner, reading The Daily Triplicate and working my Sodoko, a commercial for Mother’s Day popped up on the telly. There stood a beautiful YOUNG woman in a skimpy nighty holding a teddy bear in an advertisement for some big retail chain. I personally have never known a 18 year old mother to look that good first thing in the morning or last thing in the evening or any time of day if she was that young with a baby in the house…..very flat tummy, no upper curves and standing in what appeared to be a designer bedroom. This commercial must have been scripted by some young ad men in a back room who are out of touch with reality. I pitty their wives and the reality that will hit when that first child arrives.
#2. Yesterday was shearing Sylvester day. With the weather so hot the previous day I knew he was overly stressed and I had to get that 4 inches of angora off him. Many thanks go out to KJ and her granddaughter JJ for their help feeding and grooming him as we were doing outside house paint work. What this has shown me is I need to pass him on to another deserving fiber artists. Know anyone who wants a pure bred Angora with papers?
#3. Knitting update. I’m currently working on a baby sweater in blue because it was pointed out to me this weekend I had no boy sweaters for sale. I’m using the The Ashford Book of Spinning. Not only does this book have a great deal of basic and valuable spinning information but it has patterns in the back to use with your hand spun yarns. This is the Toddler’s Jacket which is worked in one piece starting from the back bottom, casting on for the sleeves, over the shoulders and down the front. The finishing is a front button band, cuffs and sewing up the side seams. Quick and pretty cool!
#4. Why is it that I am the only one who sees that the kitchen garbage can is overflowing? Perhaps my family thinks that the Travolosity Knome empties it at night and takes it out to the can. Here is a picture of our illusive waste manager as he backs down my drive. Once again we’ve missed filling our two cans. Our trash pick up has been on Wednesday for 17 YEARS why am I the only one who can remember this?
Thank goodness he didn’t see me take this picture or he would think I was stalking him.