I think I missed my calling; I should have been an ornithologist. Watching birds fascinates me. DH and I sat on the deck one evening and watched a huge flock of birds swoop and whirl and dive, then they split into separate groups and did some more aerial ballet before joining up again into one flock. It was amazing and the precision was incredible. How do they know to do that? Same thing with geese. There is a pond by the building where I work and Canada geese are frequent visitors. I love watching a group of them come in for a landing on the water. Which one picks out the landing spot? Ditto for when they take off. Which one decides when to take off and how does he/she communicate it to the others? But they do it all at the same time, almost in unison. Wonderful!
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How work attire has changed in the last 15 or 20 years! When I left the airport and went to work "behind the scenes" in um, lower management, business attire was the order of the day. I didn't wear suits, but I usually wore a skirt or nice slacks with a nice top. We could wear jeans on Friday, if we didn't have to go to an important meeting. That was 1997. Fast forward to 2013. The office where I work has a business casual dress code, with the emphasis on casual. I'm not complaining. The option of throwing on jeans and a tee shirt has been the answer on many "what do I wear to work today" mornings. But short-shorts, tops with spaghetti straps, and flip-flops? Seriously?
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Okay, I'll bite. I saw this on The Stitch Bitch blog this morning. I always get the JCS ornament issue and generally go through it 4 or 5 times before I turn down the corners of the ornaments I'd really like to stitch. The challenge is to list your 5 favorite ornaments from this year's issue (only 5???) Here are mine, in no particular order:
Peace Bird, from Rosewood Manor
Peace on Earth, from The Primitive Hare
Amaryllis, from Moss Creek Designs
2013 Ornament, from Milady's Needle
Peace, from Blackbird Designs
Those are my favorites today. There's absolutely no guarantee that they'll be my favorites tomorrow :-)
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And while we're on the subject of ornaments...have you been to Daffycat's blog lately. Here's the link. She's been doing reindeer ornament freebies for the past few years and 2013's offering is available. She has instructions on the blog for how to get a copy of the chart, if you like it and want to stitch it. They're so cute! In fact, I think I'll go start on it tonight!
Well, maybe one picture. Mimi, doing three of her favorite things -- sleeping, hanging out at the top of the steps, and guarding shoes -- simultaneously.
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Mimi is too cute. I'll have to look at the magazine to see what my 5 favorites might be.
I like your ornament list. I have to look at my copy again this weekend.
The shoes must smell wonderful to Mimi. So comforting to have her people smell close by.
lolol! That picture of Mimi is so adorable! What is it about cats and shoes, I'd like to know? lol! Like your list of JCS ornie faves. I've never been that into bird watching, but Garden Grumbles has me more interested these days. And dress code? What happened to the days when women wore gloves? :D
karen - Im not sure how I ended up here --- funny how that happens, but I noticed right away that you are from WV-- where??? I work in Huntington.
I love all the photos of your kitties -- we love kitties here at our house too.
Blogging makes the world a whole lot smaller --
Vicki
I love bird watching too. There's always lots of birds in our garden although I only feed them in the winter when there's snow on the ground. BUt we have so many bushes and trees that they always can find berries and things to eat. It's also very lovely to see the different birds during summer and winter.
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