Thursday Thoughts

I get a kick out of reading vanity license plates and trying to figure out what they mean. Some of them are easy; you can tell at a glance that the letters on the plate represent someone’s initials or what they do for a living. But yesterday I was driving to work and saw one that kind of startled me: CML WL DY. Somebody – or something – will die? That’s just a little weird. Creepy even. Or maybe they meant "will dye". Still a little strange. Of course, it was probably just family initials or some sort of acronym. I’d have taken a picture of it but it was still kind of dark and I was tootling along on the interstate doing 65 miles per hour, so I figured digging out the cell phone for some early morning photography probably wasn’t such a great idea.

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The other evening I wanted to do some stitching but I didn’t feel like dealing with anything large, so I pulled out my WIP of JBW Designs’ Country French Pear.

I don’t have a whole lot done on it and I had left off at the top to the left of the stem, so I finished up a couple of stitches there and moved down toward the body of the pear…only to discover that I had miscounted somewhere along the line and even missed a couple of stitches, which was going to throw the whole thing out of whack. It was eight o’clock at night and I just wasn’t equal to dealing with it, so I decided to put it away and think about it, and got out Celtic Birds and put in a few stitches on that one.

After some consideration, I’m going to just re-start the pear on another piece of fabric. It’s not worth it to me to 1) try to figure out where the heck I went wrong and 2) frog on 40 count. I love the fibers I'm using on both of these. The green on the pear is from Olde Willow and I think it's actually called Weeping Willow. The fiber for Celtic Birds is a skein of Needle Necessities that I had in my stash. I don't know what it's called but the colors in it remind me of water and the sea. I thought it had a kind of Celtic look to it.

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I was reading the book Dewey, so if you haven’t read it and don’t care to know what I think about it, or if you haven’t read it and don’t want to know what I think about it because you don’t want my opinion to color yours, then this would be a good place for you to stop because I’m going to tell you what I think.

I was very disappointed in this book. Dewey’s story would have made a great magazine article and it might have even made a good book in the hands of a better writer. But this book had too little Dewey and too much story about Spencer, Iowa, and the trials and tribulations of the librarian. That sounds like I’m belittling her and I’m really not, I just don’t care to read her life story. It seemed at times that the book was more about her than about the cat. I gave it 2 stars on GoodReads. When it comes to cat stories, I thought Homer's Odyssey was way better.

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Good reading and happy stitching!