Bad Manners and Brimstone

I loved “The Borrowers” too.  I also always wanted a doll house and never had one.

  “The Borrowers” allowed me to make use of shoe boxes and bits and pieces from around the house to make my own “Borrowers” residence.  My creativity was applauded in my family but I never did get a real doll house.

I say get yourself a doll house right now. I always wanted one as a child too, and when I turned 40 my husband built me one. I had more fun decorating and furnishing it! Go for it! As they say--you don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.

We've all been inside a uterus.  We're all going to die.  If we can't joke about either of those things, what can we joke about?

Yep, you can either laugh or cry. I choose laugh. Bring it on!

Red lentil soup for us today. Red lentils, crushed tomatoes, chicken broth, onion and celery. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of dill. Yummmmmmm!

I used to work at an alterations shop and we did a lot of ripping, hence we went through seam rippers fairly quickly. They do dull in time. Every few months the boss would get a new batch for us, and we would come in to find notes taped to our sewing machines: "Caution! New seam rippers. They are SHARP!"
It does make a difference, because I have been ripping merrily down a seam with a new one and veered over into the fabric before I knew it. Disaster!

Quote from: bridalviolet on September 08, 2020, 07:38:00 am

As an aside, were these salespeople wearing masks? Anything to protect themselves or you?
I'm surprised (although I probably shouldn't be) that anyone is going door to door in the midst of this health crisis. I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and in March we made the decision to suspend our door to door ministry for the indefinite future. We've been carrying out our ministry by phone, letter, text etc. in order to keep everyone safe.

My peep hole doesn't always clearly show things, but it appeared to me that they were NOT wearing one. In my area, I believe that the guidelines / law say that we do not need to wear one outside as long as we keep six feet from people. So if I am accurate, it's possible that they planned to stay back. It would have been in my preference that they did wear one, though.

Thank you for sharing this personal detail, as I have been wondering why I haven't haven't been visited by any Jehovah's Witnesses during this time. I do find reading material at my door every so often (but not since March for sure). I posted about a student a year ago that I was trying to learn more about her religion. I am not sure if my curious questions would have been welcomed, but I suppose that I would have welcomed the visit to ask them!

I have also mentioned that I had to attend an event a month ago where I was exposed to a number of people. (No one that had tested positive, though.) However, I was playing it safe and attempting to quarantine myself as much as possible. I would not have wanted to answer this door at this time for their safety!

Questions of any kind are always welcome! And good on ya for staying safe. Hope you continue to be virus-free. 

I think a small wedding, with a larger party later on, is the way to go. A wedding, after all, is the legal and/or religious ceremony that joins two people in matrimony; to have a second actual wedding later on makes a mockery of the first one. I can understand family and friends being disappointed to miss the ceremony, but them's the breaks. We're all making sacrifices right now for the safety of others. And a party later on is something to look forward to. The bride could even wear her wedding dress again, have a cake, dancing, etc.
As for gifts, that would be up to the couple. Of course there's nothing stopping their friends from sending a gift by mail at the time of the wedding.

Are you following a written pattern or just winging it? If a pattern, it should tell you the gauge. Experiment with different needles, doing swatches and measuring the stitches-per-inch until you hit it.

Firing up the knitting needles! What a great way to help.