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Mar 11, 2019 04:52AM
Just be careful you don't end up knitting what's on the page or knit the book into what you are knitting. Mind if you knitted what was on the page then you could read your knitting.
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or get a new case for my Kindle 10 - Lucifer - it holds the device up to a neat level for reading - sometimes we have to adapt - I do not think it has become too late for me to change La Reine s'avisera
mrbooks wrote: "Just be careful you don't end up knitting what's on the page or knit the book into what you are knitting. Mind if you knitted what was on the page then you could read your knitting."Rather like the dangers of quilting with a hoop while watching TV. More than once I have sewn the quilt to my clothing! LOL
LOL My mother had the same problem she gave up the hoop and went to a full frame. Now she doesn't do any sewing or quilting or Crochet as her dementia has progressed to the point that she can't remember why she is doing it let alone what she is doing. She can do it but she can't remember what she is doing.
How you both have so cheered my thoughts - I did not see your post Mr Books - you may have been writing while I was writing my bit - Ori dear I recall a story I was told - hmmm I have a nice large tapestry frame - OI shall see what I can do - and you guys will be the next to know the result
To sew or not to sew that is the question. or you could try a mid summer night seam or King lacer the machinist of Venice and Julius Tweezer. I could keep going all night LOL.
I am here to announce that my body seems to have reset itself after 10 years of dealing with terrible insomnia. Which led to a lot of midnight reading, but I'd rather have the sleep! It took a major change, breaking ties with some toxic relationships and just getting some space, as we used to say, but I did it! Now I fall asleep round midnight and wake up round 8 or 8,30 without an alarm. I even dream sometimes! It's really cut into my reading time, but you can't have everything. LOL
Awesome indeed - my congrats too !!!
To Crochet or not to crochet - that is the pattern; Whether it is nobler in the mind - to assert oneself using a hook of suitable dimension and by opposing finish a pattern. To fall asleep - perchance to dream or to die with hook in hand - ah who knows in that last long rest what buttons and clasps and notions may wake us.That's me for today - I am hoping now to find a lovely 6mm hook of enchanting make - all rich ebony - if I do not find the thing I shall have to write a requiem - ah no - he was black and beautiful - THAT he was
Reminds me of a sonnet I once wrote on a (sadly now defunct) vegeterian website. It began, "Hummus, do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." More sadly still, I didn't keep a copy.I love your last line!!
Panic over - I found my Ebony 6mm hook - he was paying court to a Knitting needle of Bamboo
Needles, pins, triplets, twins! But if she got involved with a male hook(er)...who knows!
Aye Aye - complete confusion in the workbox
You smaller needles and hooks to look forward to now. or a new cross breed Knitting hoodles or crocheting neeks.Congrats on the sleeping Ori.
mrbooks wrote: "You smaller needles and hooks to look forward to now. or a new cross breed Knitting hoodles or crocheting neeks."And this is why I love you, MrB. I'll be chuckling about this all day.
Then Ori I have done something right for once I would rather have you laugh then worry or rale against the nothingness that is politics.Did you know Politics is like a black hole, yup it's true Politics like a black hole sucks everything in and it will never escape.
Message 67 by Mr Books - I shall recall your words when I hear Politics mentioned in my neighborhood again - I am scampering back to my chair - ably assisted by a stout stick - thinking and chuckling to myself - your mment entirely expresses my thoughts on the matter - bless you
I have been averaging 8-9 hrs a night since Palm Sunday. The night before that, I went to bed at 9 PM and woke up at 9,30 AM! Glorious. Even with tinnitus!
I have been affected by the way the guys responsible mess with the time! Spring fwd and Fall Back - I need so much less sleep - I have an hour up at six, coffees as soon as I can bully the pot - slice of Toast with Obligatory Marmalade - and way to go till ten or eleven of night - now where is Mr Books - could he climb off his shelf and tell us his side - this is of interesting comparison - love to all
Patriciaenola wrote: "I wonder why it should not be true I woner if I could resurrect one similar - sure - but less words12 Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Twelve kaffir lime..."
This post immediately reminded me of our kiwi version of this song and the 12 items are:
Twelve piupius swinging
Eleven haka lessons
Ten juicy fish heads
Nine sacks of pipis
Eight plants of puha
Seven eels a swimming
Six pois a twirling
Five - big - fat - pigs !
Four huhu grubs
Three flax kits
Two kumera
And a pukeko in a ponga tree!
Love it! Welcome back, Tui!!
I will have to as my friend from New Zealand about that see if she knows it?Why they can't just let nature be I don't know. Time is the question but who invented the term time. Time is truly mans invention. before that it was just day and night, you got up in the morning with the sun coming up and went to bed with the sun going down. we laboured hard in the spring summer and fall and just as hard in the winter. Our sleep was governed by the cycle of the year not by a clock. We got more sleep in the winter, but not by much and it didn't even come close to covering what we lost the rest of the year. Our labour of was the labour of survival our sleep was the sleep of the exhausted.
Hi, Ori. I'm home!!!Dare I ask what you've been up to since I've been away?
Although this has been a very stressful summer, I did manage to enjoy it. I'm still dealing with a situation, but all in all I'm going to try and be as positive as I can.
On a good note, the US Open is next week. Yea!!!!
So basically you're gonna cheat on us with tennis again next week eh? LOL I don't know how long the Open lasts...watching sports wears me out as bad as doing them. In my head I run every meter, swim every length, jump every obstacle...and I am so aware of the clock in the corner of the screen ticking away the tenths-of-seconds I end up exhausted!
That's true. As long as you come back soon! And see if you can find Mr Books. It gets lonesome in here.
MrBooks, where are you? Ori and I miss you. Come back! Are you out there?Let's see if that works--LOL! Have a safe weekend, Ori:)
Hi precious! Enjoying the tennis?
Yes!!! I'm going to have withdrawals when it's over--LOL. Be safe. Have a fun weekend:)
I hope to do that. Won't have much work in September but I have big plans to do some heavy cleaning and decluttering. I realised, I've never had a paid vacation...just periods of unemployment.
Hi all I'm back sorry I have been away so long but a lot going on. I hope all of you are doing well. Glad to see you back Groovy hasn't been the same without you
Oh MrB, how we have missed you! I've been in here all on my lonely. Miss Groovy has been worshipping at the Tennis Shrine lately, but I hope she'll come back now you're here.
Like Ori said, MrB, welcome back, we missed you. I could only hope you weren't dealing with an illness, that you were just very busy. I've had a lot to deal with lately, but am glad to be home, thanks to Ori:) She did not forget me, and I truly appreciate that.LOL. Now Ori, I sent you messages in between plays:) I'm still watching the replays, but I'm interested in what the two of you are up to. Let's get this started!
Well, I've had two bad nights in a row after blessed months of good sleep, and I can't figure out what I dood wrong. Guess I'll have to go buy some kiwifruit. They don't make you "sleepy" but if you eat one or two at night, you rest better.
Sorry, Ori. Hope there's nothing stressing you out. No telling what it could be. Are you eating something different from your usual diet?I never heard that about kiwi. I don't know if you remember the BC headache powders here in the US. If I take one before bedtime, I sleep very well.
Ah yes, those BCs...when I was coming up, that stood for Birth Control pills! LOL
And when I was coming up, it was just a word, because no one in my high-school thought of using them!
Groovy wrote: "And when I was coming up, it was just a word, because no one in my high-school thought of using them!"Nor in mine, but those were the days when YA fiction for highschool girls were full of the dangers of unwed pregnancy. In 73, some girls "went to visit relatives" for awhile (when they started to show). By 79, pregnant girls were staying in school locally till the baby was born. One even had her water break in accounting class.
And to add to that, I remember them wearing big coats to hide their pregnancy; or holding everything they could carry in front of them. Today, you can walk through school pregnant and no one lifts an eyebrow.We've been suffering 100 degree days here in the US and my plants are suffering. I just hope they revive next year.
Have a safe weekend, Ori. We're also suffering mass shootings here in the US partly thanks to Trump stirring up hate and division. Just about everyday someone has shot up a mall, a Walmart, anywhere people gather; or a bitter employee has gone to his job and taken it out on everybody else.
So be safe and have some fun:)
Unfortunately I will not be on as often as I was or as often as I want to be. As A man I really can't contribute much to this conversation as I didn't see much of it in school. It also helps that my graduating class was 96 of which there were only 12 girls so not very big. In my town there were over 1000 graduating seniors that year but I went to A vocational high school as they thought back then a school for dummies and delinquents. As I wasn't a delinquent that give you an idea of why I was sent there. Yup you guessed it I was on the other end of the intelligence scale, or as I call it the BA of the SPS. to explain Below Average of the Smart People Scale.
Not that it bothered me at all.
100 degree temps lovely and toastie. We have been having temps in the high 80's low 90's here in England and are having the same problem. I have been trying to get my boiler fixed for the last three weeks. Finally got it fixed last fri, only to find out my water mains are leaking. I am hoping it won't take 3 to 4 weeks to fix it like it took them with the boiler. I am having no luck this year. and next year is promising to be as bad. At the minimum I will need new windows. I ned to get a power flush done on my boiler and get a filter installed. Kitchen is in need of up dating, oh I also need new internal doors.
Next month I am going home to see my mother but we have to take a side trip while we are there to see my sister in law as she is in a bad way with her heart because of thyroid problems.
I hear you MrB. We desperately need new kitchen cupboards (as in, the drawer fronts are falling off), DH wants to get a new fridge before our 13 yr old one croaks, and I have no work and not a nibble for the new term. Which leaves us DH's 700E a month for everything: food, utilities, any extra expenses. Which is not much.Sorry, *rant off*.
I hear you both. My house is only 6 years old. Already we've replaced the patio doors, repaired the roof, work done in the bathrooms. Now we need to get our ceiling redone because of leakage, a window and bathroom fan replaced, and who knows what else. This is my third house, and I have never had so many headaches to deal with. It just shows that people don't care about the quality of their work anymore. Just get them up as fast as you can. My first house was THE best house built, and that was back in 1980.
I'm sorry we won't hear from you as much, MrB. I knew the day would come when the three of us wouldn't be in contact as much, and our conversations and 'pun fun' would end. I really hope you're doing okay. All the best to your mother and your sister-in-law. Try to stop in every now and then.
And Ori, I hope your job prospects turn around. I know you like teaching others.
Fall season has started, Ori. When does fall begin over there? We're in a drought and my plants are brown.
Well, the year has started to turn, Groovy. We had some lovely cool weather and yesterday it warmed up to 33 again. We need rain! The rest of the country has had floods and here it comes in an eyedropper. Half an hour does not constitute "rain."
An eye dropper it sounds like England right now, well the last few weeks anyway. We have had constant steady rain for the 4hrs. I was thinking about your eye dropper, it is like offering a man dying of thirst salted peanuts, then giving him one tablespoon of water to slake his thirst only after he has eaten the peanuts.
Dam now I want some peanuts LOL.
And we are in a drought where I live, MrBooks. Everything is brown, and I haven't had to mow the lawn in a long time. I would love some constant steady rain.
Groovy wrote: "And we are in a drought where I live, MrBooks. Everything is brown, and I haven't had to mow the lawn in a long time. I would love some constant steady rain."TRUTH.
Two 15 minute showers does not constitute real rain.
Or as we say here in the South--TRUE THAT!
