Cinco de Mayo and Randomness.
1. Double points if you know what Cinco de Mayo actually celebrates -- nope, not Mexican Independence Day. That's in September. It celebrates the victory by the Mexican army over the French in 1862. Begs the question why, but honestly so do a lot of invasions.
2. "This pring is wah-tach-ed to my toy. If the pring comes off, it is un-wah-tach-ed. If it comes off wapidwee, it's care-wee." This is my 4-year old interpretation the inner workings of the toy below. (Yes, admittedly kind of a weird looking toy.) Although I completely understood him, I realize his some of his statements need to come with a bit of a translation as his speech moves between a tendency to drop leading s's to keeping the Shakespearean tradition of pronouncing the "ed" at the end of the word as a separate syllable. So we have "This spring is attached to my toy. If the spring comes off, it is unattached. If it comes off rapidly, that's scary." Verwy imple.
3. I've knit a couple of items from my own handspun yarn which does make it doubly satisfying. Here are some socks 'cause you can't have too many handknit socks.
Pattern: Basic top-down socks
Fiber: BFL from Amy at Spunky Eclectic - Lovely soft sheep breed (The BFL not Amy. Although I'm sure Amy is lovely, she's definitely not a sheep.)
Yarn: 247 yards of my 327 total
And I'm particulary proud of this as I had the design in my head, found a basic template in The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd and customized the pattern to get what I had envisioned.
Pattern: Vest - basic dimensions from The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns
Fiber: Wool and Llama from StoneEdge Fibers. I know the shepherd as she goes the same spinning guild which is very cool. I feel very connected to the fiber, yarn and vest -- very Zen.
Yarn: Two ply with one ply white and the other fawn. Used less than 300 yards.
4. If any of this entry doesn't make sense it's because DearSon talked to me non-stop for the hour I was typing. Literally. Talk about multi-tasking. The general gist was: Where is the big paper? (Next to the couch), Where are the markers? (In the playroom.) Why does the red marker write brown? (Wrong lid) How do you spell "Halloween"? How do you spell "Midnight"? (I'm good at multi-taking but it is difficult to type and spell a completely different word at the same time.) How do you write a "D"? (A line with a big belly.) What's the day before Halloween? (October 30th) How do you make a care-wee "H"? (Make the lines wiggly.) "Mommy Loooooook!!!!!", What's cotton candy? (Candy made of sugar.) "Not cotton?" (No.) Where is the wooden fish? (I don't know), What is care-wee? (Ghosts?) , "Mommy looooook!!!!!" Do you like my ghost drawing? (Yes.) Are light sabers care-wee? (No. I was corrected. Yes they are.) Do all light sabers have red buttons? (Yes?), "Mommy looooook!!!!!" When can I have a Halloween party? ( This last one at least explains the theme of the questions.....Except for the wooden fish one.)
5. And finally, spring has sprung in western NY. And by finally, I mean that it snowed giant fluffy flakes for several hours a week ago. Then two days later, it was 80. What?! I took the plunge and put away all the wool hats, gloves, scarves, cowls and mittens. (OK, I left out a pair of mitts for everyone, just in case it gets chilly again. 'Cause I just know that it will.) So the following is brought to you by spring in my front garden.
(Yes, I have a garden gnome. Yes, I think he's cute. No, I do not talk to him. Well, maybe sometimes. Yes, I know.)
2. "This pring is wah-tach-ed to my toy. If the pring comes off, it is un-wah-tach-ed. If it comes off wapidwee, it's care-wee." This is my 4-year old interpretation the inner workings of the toy below. (Yes, admittedly kind of a weird looking toy.) Although I completely understood him, I realize his some of his statements need to come with a bit of a translation as his speech moves between a tendency to drop leading s's to keeping the Shakespearean tradition of pronouncing the "ed" at the end of the word as a separate syllable. So we have "This spring is attached to my toy. If the spring comes off, it is unattached. If it comes off rapidly, that's scary." Verwy imple.
3. I've knit a couple of items from my own handspun yarn which does make it doubly satisfying. Here are some socks 'cause you can't have too many handknit socks.
Pattern: Basic top-down socks
Fiber: BFL from Amy at Spunky Eclectic - Lovely soft sheep breed (The BFL not Amy. Although I'm sure Amy is lovely, she's definitely not a sheep.)
Yarn: 247 yards of my 327 total
And I'm particulary proud of this as I had the design in my head, found a basic template in The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd and customized the pattern to get what I had envisioned.
Pattern: Vest - basic dimensions from The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns
Fiber: Wool and Llama from StoneEdge Fibers. I know the shepherd as she goes the same spinning guild which is very cool. I feel very connected to the fiber, yarn and vest -- very Zen.
Yarn: Two ply with one ply white and the other fawn. Used less than 300 yards.
4. If any of this entry doesn't make sense it's because DearSon talked to me non-stop for the hour I was typing. Literally. Talk about multi-tasking. The general gist was: Where is the big paper? (Next to the couch), Where are the markers? (In the playroom.) Why does the red marker write brown? (Wrong lid) How do you spell "Halloween"? How do you spell "Midnight"? (I'm good at multi-taking but it is difficult to type and spell a completely different word at the same time.) How do you write a "D"? (A line with a big belly.) What's the day before Halloween? (October 30th) How do you make a care-wee "H"? (Make the lines wiggly.) "Mommy Loooooook!!!!!", What's cotton candy? (Candy made of sugar.) "Not cotton?" (No.) Where is the wooden fish? (I don't know), What is care-wee? (Ghosts?) , "Mommy looooook!!!!!" Do you like my ghost drawing? (Yes.) Are light sabers care-wee? (No. I was corrected. Yes they are.) Do all light sabers have red buttons? (Yes?), "Mommy looooook!!!!!" When can I have a Halloween party? ( This last one at least explains the theme of the questions.....Except for the wooden fish one.)
5. And finally, spring has sprung in western NY. And by finally, I mean that it snowed giant fluffy flakes for several hours a week ago. Then two days later, it was 80. What?! I took the plunge and put away all the wool hats, gloves, scarves, cowls and mittens. (OK, I left out a pair of mitts for everyone, just in case it gets chilly again. 'Cause I just know that it will.) So the following is brought to you by spring in my front garden.
(Yes, I have a garden gnome. Yes, I think he's cute. No, I do not talk to him. Well, maybe sometimes. Yes, I know.)
You didn't even let me answer so I could earn those double points. Not only is it not Independence Day, but the victory over the French which it celebrates is the victory of one small town, not all of Mexico. And the ******* French took the ******* town back within the next week or so. Cinco de Mayo is a lot like, well, if Americans happened to celebrate June 17th: Battle of Bunker Hill Day.
I know someone just asked--out loud or in his or her head. Sigh. Google it.
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Um, not all Americans celebrate it but the good citizens of Boston have a day off on June 17th to "celebrate"...you guessed it...Bunker Hill Day.
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Wow. Maybe it's a "remember the dead" sort of thing? The BRITISH won that battle, not the Colonists. Wow. I'm not sure people know how holidays are supposed to work. Or maybe I'm the one who's lost. Perhaps it's: 1) Find a losing battle, or a battle of little significance; 2) Make sure this battle's soldiers are largely of a culture & country which is not your own; 3) On the pretense of celebrating heroism and/or diversity, declare this A Great Day to Get Wasted; 4) Besiege local restaurants of said culture and country while engaging in moderately offensive caricature.
So, on St. Patrick's, you find an "Irish Pub," go get drunk on Guinness and Jameson while wearing green, carrying a shillelagh, and muttering about lucky charms. On Cinco de Mayo, you find a Mexican restaurant, don a sombrero and pencil in a moustache. Get drunk on Corona and bad tequila and continually screech "arriba" while muttering about how "This is why those people need so many siestas." On Bunker Hill Day, I don't know, wear fake teeth which look decayed, condescend, and get drunk on some sort of spiked tea. Wait. I'm not sure which country I'm supposed to be satirizing with this one.
How about this? Maybe, on August sixth, we should all go to Plum Garden, bow repeatedly and exaggeratedly, and request beverages by saying, "Me rikey some saki, prease!" You know, technically they lost that particular battle, I guess, but thanks to rebuilding efforts, they eventually won the techno-industrial war.
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I agree, kids specially now a days aren't tought the real meaning of holidays. They celebrate them for what they see on TV. My children when they are old enough will know what they are celebrating.
Sharron Burnell
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This post is awesome! Your kids are handsome and your pictures of the garden are beautiful! I wish my kids would appreciate this, but they are too busy worrying about stupid things like justin biebers cell phone number to do so!
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