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 Happy Halloween! 

Thursday Thunks - Hootin'Anni Style

Thursday Thunks - Hootin'Anni Style

Welcome to the October 21st edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)

Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!

We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.

Write about it on your blog... simple as that.

Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!

Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.

Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.

Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!

That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?

We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Today's questions are brought to you by the color purple, witches' brooms, the number 800-555-1000, and hootin' anni.

1] We all love snuggly things, right? In your own words, explain how the "X" and "O" became symbols for kisses and hugs!  Because a great kiss can have the same take your breath away impact as a knock out punch - so X for a kiss,  And a hug can just surround you and cocoon you from the world so O envelopes you in a hug!

 

 

2] Besides eliminating sticks, what would you put in a non-stick pan? Well tonite it will be sauteed mushrooms and gnocchi.

3] x=y over pi squared. What are your thoughts on crematoriums having discounts on those that die in fires? OMG!!  The thought of being cremated is the biggest creep out to me ever!  Burned - alive or dead makes me shudder!

4] Tongue twisters are fun...but, it's torture to try to say lisp with that "s" in the word. What is your favorite tongue twister? Risque answers get extra credit! I don't know any except for the She sells Sea Shells, or Peeter Piper and his Peppers

5] Cold weather is coming up. If it's zero degrees Fahrenheit, and tomorrow night it's predicted to be twice as cold, what temperature will it be?Well 0 degrees Farenheit is -17 degrees Celcius, So twice that is -34 degrees Celcius  which is -29 degrees Farenheit.

6] Your significant other is upset with you, would you rather be skating on thin ice or be in hot water? Why?  I'm a hot head - which a lot of  my friends know.  So if I were skating on thin ice I'd just melt the ice and end up in hot water anyway.  My style is big all out fight, and then be over it (hot water) Curt is more roast and stew and avoid conflict (thin ice) and those differences are actually the biggest thing we fight about!

7] What's worse, expecting the unexpected or being a wise guy?  Any of you actually following my life know that at this point the unexpected is the norm, and I'm usually a wise ass - so I think being in an rut of the expected or being boring is the worst.

8] What brand of vacuum cleaner sucks the best? Mine really sucks!!!  Hoover.  may lose suction and need to be emptied but I want that Dyson guy to show me how much dirt he actually vacuums up at once that it would be a pain to empty, or does he have already vacuumed concentrated dirt in his closet until next time?  We checked it out once,  Dyson doesn't lose suction as it fills, but if you have a half full or less Hoover you will get more suction.  And I empty mine every time I use it!

 

 

9] How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? Do you like playing with fire?  Cause you aren't trying to build a campfire in the pine needles at the side of the path??  Actually, thanks to some psychotic apocalyptic relatives, I can build a campfire w/o matches.  Can't tell you how unuseful that is in my life.

10] Toys R us...what was your favorite toy?  Really tough call,  my Robin Hood Long Bow? My Erector Set? my Etch a Sketch?, my Lincoln Logs? my Spirograph? my BeeBee Gun?  my chemistry set?

11] Halloween is near...let's go grave robbing....what would you like to find? How cool would it be to find an empty grave??

 

 

12] Do you wake up or open your eyes first? I'm not sure if it's a good idea to open your eyes before you wake up, what if you are face down on your pillow??

 

13] What mask would you wear to a Halloween Party? Masks make me claustrophobic. So i do makeup but no mask on Halloween!

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Freestyle 

 

Closing my eyes I

can feel the heat of your breath

but you are not there!

 

Closing my eyes I

want your warm embrace to be

real not fantasy!

 

Closing my eyes I

want my memories to be

real in life again!

 

Opening my eyes

I know I am lucky to

have loved before loss. 

Your Sleeping Position Says You Need Peace

You are calm and rational person with a good deal of balance in your life. Friends consider you to be kind, caring, and truly loyal. You are easy going and trusting. However, you are too sensible to fall for mind games. Open to the world, you are not afraid to be yourself. If you don't get enough sleep, you are: Able to cope It's hard to sleep next to you because: You're a bed hog

What Does Your Sleeping Position Say About You?

Blogthings: Quizzes and Tests and Memes, Oh My!

       

Before their baths (Kimmy/Samantha spoilers)

Tomorrow I am planning on felting my Samantha and Kimmy bags.  I followed the lead of several people in the KAL group and used the leftover yarn from Kimmy to make a dumpling bag.  I ended up having about 3 yards of the light brown left.  Talk about close.

So here's the dumpling before:


Kimmy all ready for her bath:



And Samantha before felting - the sun was at a weird sideways angle - this picture sucks but is actually the best shot of the pockets:



I didn't do the handle the way the pattern called for,  I didn't like the way it came out in other people's pictures.  So I made a braid - but didn't create a loop to attach it, but had each cord in the braid attach to the bag evenly on the ends:



Hopefully I will have the after pictures later in the week.

I just finished the last square for my VJAC afghan - now I have to seam it together .... ughhh...
 

Lunch!

OTomorrow there will be pictures of the three bags I've been working on before felting. (Hoping to felt Mon or Tue)  I think I have figured out the football cowl I plan on making to utilize those adorable buttons I got.  This morning, our power went out for about 45 minutes.  THere was a very loud bang and then these two things that seemed to attach to the things that look like giant springs on the pole next to the transformers started swinging loose.  I think they waited longer for the cop to show up behind them so they could start working than it took to do the repair!  We did do a final harvest on about 90% of our plants on the deck and then cut them down and tossed them (wish I had a compost) We have a handful of green tomatoes I hope will grow a bit more before I fry them up.



And because it came out so yummy, a picture of lunch!