Things that go bump in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Howdy Y’all! I Verged and Vestried. Those are now words. I et leftover pre-TDay feast and achieved nappage. The biiiiiiiiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow and ‘tis lookin’ rainy out. Thus is the news from da cave.

shoe inaccessible for me as well.

shades I had a turkey boob in da freezer so we had a practice Turkey Day yestiddy with leftovers today and tomorrow. Some got sent home with JDD and Partner last night, else we’d have it all week. I tend to overdo it when makin’ a feast.

Taters glad Adam had a fun second bday celebration with the grand parents!

All this talk of tatting gave me visions of folks sittin’ around tattoin’ themselves. I bet one could learn to do that from youtube videos.

Redneck Eggs Benedict for those who asked.

Tatsy welcome! Do come back to the playground. You are now one of us!

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No, sorry!

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Or a short stay in prison :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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That’s something I’d like to try, but I don’t know anyone with a loom and I’m certainly not going to buy one, so I may never get my chance.

My father-in-law made a beautiful spinning wheel - he did woodworking for fun in his younger days. They met someone who knew how to spin and she tried it out - turns out it’s a pretty good wheel. We may well get it when he dies - I suppose I should save all the cat hair I vacuum up against the day I may want to spin it… :open_mouth: Tho what I really lust after are the dulcimer and the hammer dulcimer that he made.

Soup has been ingested. I think I’ll assume the recline-and-knit position, but I’ll keep my tablet nearby to check up out you rowdy bunch…

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Forgot to mention this. This mornin’ (bein’ as today is The Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi AKA St. Francis is a sissy) we sang All Things Bright and Beautiful. I did indeed sing those lyrics outloud. However, in my haid I was singin’, this.. Monty Python made me do it.

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Glad Adam had a good birthday taters.

unknown, my grandfather learned to tat from his mother. He used the skill to make lake fishing nets. He taught my sister (she’s the one who crochets / knits / macrames).

shoe, your necklace reminds me of one of the travel videos of the Cadillac Ranch. The layered paint that falls off the caddies is collected for jewelry such as your necklace.

Moooooom, I would be interested to see his dulcimers. I’ve been known to play around with a hammered dulcimer or two.

I got the new tire on and even got out the door for ~$30 less than the online quote. :slight_smile: The chicken tortilla soup was good and Nelson has been bathed (his coat is nice, clean and soft now).

I’ll mess around in the studio after KP before trudging to bed with the chickens for another week.

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When we visit them later this month, I’ll try to remember to take some pics. They’re works of art.

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Afternoon all. Steak from Outback was quite edible, been happily watching the Browns win at tackleball this afternoon, need to get up and put the dishes away here sometime. Rain has been on-and-off all day, never a real heavy storm, but enough to get you soaked if you’re out in it.

Can’t comment on spinning/weaving/tatting/stitching as none of those interest me, my Mom did do some counter-cross stitch stuff IIRC, but I’ll leave that to the artists in our group.

shoe, no pics for me, either.

I like the name Tatsy; welcome and stick around awhile.

And that’s about all (outside of solving the Sunday crossword without peeking at the anwers) that’s fit to print. All y’all take care and I’ll catch you on the next MMP.

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Stoopit technology! (Same pic went to Book of Faces, for anyone who’s got me there.)

Meanwhile, laundry is in the dryer, litter box is scooped & bin is at the curb.

Potatoes take forever and I’m hungry now dammit, so I baked up a couple of taquitos as a snack, plus a frozen crab cake … but it’s sticking to the foil & probably gonna be a big crab-flavored mess instead.

Made plans to Zoom call an old friend later tonight. Now my creaky old ass has to stay up late enough to still be chatty!

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Thank you ever so much for the earworm Swampy.

I keep reading Tatsy as Tasty.

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mine love to do that while sitting on my lap and then act surprised when I move off them my lap

We did have a cat that when shed get over-excited when being shown affection shed fart and just for double eww shed have a wet one occasionally … let’s just say when learned when to stop the tummy rubs…

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It put me into the google log-in. I’m sure I have a password, but since I haven’t used it in a bunch of years it has been long forgotten.

So, perhaps you don’t want to look up “pulled and drawn” work. It used to be a big passion of mine, I liked ecru and white work, but have seen it done with colors and its very pretty that way as well.

I was starting to reconsider learning how to tat (but its small, and easily portable, and pretty, and a nice conversation starter, and…) but then you mentioned counting.

Full stop, I can’t count. Or maybe I can’t remember, but if I’m forced to count while stitching it goes something like this: OK, how many threads for this part? count. How many threads have I done? count. How many threads did I need, go back and count off pattern again. Reverse stitching needlepoint is tedious enough, untatting would probably make me say a lot of bad words.

I’m fairly new here, so didn’t realize you came out of lurkerdom to talk about playing with string. I am honored! Welcome!

Your afghan has wonderful colors and looks very cozy and warm, thanks for the pic! Thanks also for the FB friend request, but I didn’t think I should go there while I was working due to lack of free time and now that I’m not working, I just never got around to it.

I knew someone who spun dog hair and made a sweater. It was beautiful, but couldn’t be worn in the rain. Wet cat doesn’t smell wonderful, so maybe you might reconsider your idea. You have to wash afghans once in a while too.

I honestly don’t consider myself to be an artist. I am very good at reading the instructions and following them, but I couldn’t design a piece to save my life. Needlework designers are artists IMHO.

I’m finishing up the chimney on my current project and I couldn’t grasp what the end result was supposed to look like until I took a pic of the finished piece pic on the package and enlarged it enough to see the stitching. I LOVE modern technology!

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Mom was a cat person and Dad was not a pet person, but when I was in 5th or 6th grade she talked him into letting her get a kitten. The kitten had a gas problem. Dad basically ignored the animal: we’d all be in the living room, watching TV and playing with the kitty, and he’d be sitting in a chair reading a newspaper. But whenever the kitten farted, from behind the paper we’d hear “heh heh heh.”

Vocal workshopping has been done, and paper towels have been purchased. One reason why I like having groceries delivered is because there’s much less temptation…half a sweet potato pie snuck into my cart. :smiley:

(My loathing of oatmeal raisin cookies as chocolate chip cookie imposters pales in comparison to my disappointment whenever I think I see sweet potato pie but it’s actually pumpkin.)

(I feel the need to clarify that I didn’t cut a pie in half; my store’s bakery sells 1/2 pies. :slight_smile: )

Lunch was a weird and late-ish amalgam of peanut butter, protein shakes/bars, and almonds; therefore, I’m not very hungry but I know I need to have something. So, dinner is a mug of LonoLife low-sodium chicken bone broth, which I finally got around to trying. It barely tastes like anything but it’s palatable, which is a good thing because I have a feeling bone broth will be a big part of my liquid diet. I’m glad to have something I can make in my Keurig…thanks for the inspiration, shoe!!

Dessert shall be a significant portion of the 1/2 sweet potato pie. :slight_smile:

For whatever this is going to say about me and where I live, I’m not even sure where the nearest Dollar General (or dollar store) is. It seems that the entire world is out of my preferred Viva paper towels, but plenty of others are available in-store. I went with four rolls of the store-brand paper towels.

So did I until just now. :woman_facepalming:

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Cleaned, and did a load of whites. I came up with a project of the kitchen. I’m going to make a beverage rack to fi in the space between the fridge and the wall. Also the Packers won, so I’m celebrating with a Wisconsin Old Fashioned.

LMAO

My version, in layers:
White sauce(with extra pepper, sage, and cayanne)
egg(fried, salt and pepper to taste)
Country ham(thin slice, seared on each side briefly{none of that high falutin’ city ham})
Jiffy cornbread(cut into squares)

Gordie’s are so bad, even he flees them. :open_mouth: :dizzy_face: :face_vomiting:

It’s easy, all you need is a good pub or 3. Oh, fabric weaving
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I am a lily of the field: I toil not, neither do I spin. My siblings all inherited Mom’s excellent fine motor skills. I inherited Dad’s lack of same. But I’m excellent at applauding those who can make all that beautiful stuff.

I walked to the store, watered plants, cussed out the Part D insurance company (They’re almost doubling monthly premiums.), and did some organizing. Both kids called. Itching is under control as long as I continue taking massive doses of antihistamines. Life is good.

Is Viva better, do you think? I usually get the store brand, unless I order from Costco. You know what I hate? The pick-a-size or tear-a-square rolls that seem to be ubiquitous. I almost never need just one small square, and that’s where they want to tear.

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It was more snarky sarcasm or something than a serious thought… :wink:

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Well, in that case, I’d like to encourage you to bag up all the cat hair you sweep up in a month and share the results! I haven’t done it because I’d just end up brushing our cats bald.

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“Better” is totally subjective when it comes to paper towels: I prefer Viva’s cloth-like product because it cleans my glasses (and my Swarovski crystals) nicely. :slight_smile: When that isn’t available, though, I’m fine with generic.

HA! When I was picking paper towels today, I specifically looked for the select-a-size option. :smiley: I almost never need a full-size sheet, so I like being able to get a smaller sheet. I can always take two smaller sheets if needed. I kill enough trees as it is.

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I’m way too lazy to quote but just have to say that not only did the Packers win, they beat the Steelers! I’m not a football fan at all (I find the game utterly incomprehensible and boring) , and Ruble hated the Steelers, so I’m always happy to see them lose.

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Then we are all happy. :smiley: :cheese: