one point six

*worth noting:  at this writing the majority did NOT vote for Thing One 

he received 49.9% of the popular vote

whilst Harris received 48.3% of the popular vote

a majority would be 50% + one vote

he did win the plurality

a 1.6 point advantage is a win ... it is not a landslide

just sayin'

Stop electing stupid people.

Jesse Dollemore

the future's ocracy

 in other words, Thing One's cabinet picks

Stop electing stupid people.

Jesse Dollemore

Stop electing criminals.

me

gobble gobble

happy thanksgiving!!!

Tommy Turkey is a free chart from Brooke's Books

stitched on mystery Lugana with DMC floss

Save the turkeys - eat pizza.

Tommy Turkey

undocumented immigrants

four years ago a lotta stitchers were working on a sampler by With Thy Needle and Thread called Coming to America - the Women of the Mayflower 

the stitch-a-long started september 6 and ended november 9 of 2020

commemorating the 66 days that the women of the Mayflower were at sea

as far as i know, none of the women of the Mayflower are even remote leaves on the branches of my family tree

i am a grandchild of  immigrants on my father's side

my mother's ancestors are a mystery to me 

 knowing what we now know

 there were a lotta things that were just plain wrong with the Pilgrims' immigration to America

still, they took such a leap of faith when they boarded that ship

and i'm all in with honoring women

anywho ... i SPLURGED on the kit and had every intention of stitching along with the cool kids so that it would be finished by Thanksgiving 2020

 when the kit arrived i was so stinkin' excited 

 i'd spent a year's worth of cross stitch money and here was this sweet box with a sweet little needle minder and 32ct country mocha fabric and overdyed floss and everything i needed to start on september 6

except 

except it wasn't everything - the fabric was 28ct and the kit didn't include 11 skeins of the called for DMC floss - i didn't have the means to buy 11 skeins of floss (that weren't available because of the pandemic) and i couldn't replace the fabric, either

sigh

so i didn't start on september 6

and i sure didn't finish by Thanksgiving 2020

anywho

i stitched off and on for a long time

changing the seagulls a bit

and changing the last bit a lot because the original chart didn't have Native Americans/First Nations represented at all

and Thanksgiving would have never happened without them

the letters represent my grandmothers, Bessie and Rosina

and i changed the words from

we are living in the tomorrow from which they wrought

to

strong women rock ... yesterday today and tomorrow

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Madeleine Albright

didja know...

...why cows have hooves instead of feet?

 because they lactose

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

Marilyn Monroe

hey, Ms. Mace!!!

are you listening?!? shouldn't you be concerned about this guy?!?

and Mr. Mike Moses Little Johnson!!! 

how do you propose to enforce your new rule?!? 

who is going to be the restroom monitor? 

what will be the penalty for noncompliance?

and why are you wasting time and taxpayers' money on this tripe?!? 

don't you have government funding bills to pass? 

and a border bill that could stop the non-existent invasion? 

do you really believe that John and/or Jane Public give a good gawddamn about who uses which public bathroom in the Capitol building?!? 

your "mandate" from your voters is inflation - what does who uses which bathroom have to do with the price of eggs?!?

Mind your own damn business.

Tim Walz

Stop electing stupid people.

Jesse Dollemore

And stop electing amoral hypocrites. Gross.

me

idic

(infinite diversity in infinite combinations)

i outgrew my sweatshirt and i was gonna donate it 

but i just wasn't ready to part with it

so it sat in the Great Pile of Stuff for a few many lotta years 

and it came to pass that the legislature made plastic bags unattainable 

and now my sweatshirt is a tote bag

and a conversation starter

here come the Spock quotes...

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose.

If I were human, I believe my response would be "Go to hell" ... if I were human.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Spock

Star Trek

justice denied

again...

 today was gonna be the day 

but it isn't gonna happen today

and he'll keep on lying and grifting and stealing and abusing and cheating and assaulting and defrauding and destroying till...

Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your  whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the Universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.

Jessica Brody

axing for it

he is not one of us

they are not us

don't allow him/them to gaslight you

Stop electing stupid people. 

Jesse Dollemore 

are you ready...

...for some football?!?

adapted from the free chart  for Tommy Turkey

at Brooke's Books

(swapped his stocking hat for a football helmet in Bronco colors and added a goal post and some yardage lines)

stitched on grass green mystery linen with DMC floss

Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

 

11/22/2024 06:42MST

the sunrise was rose

 and covered the sky with light

 to conquer the night

dianne 

 (my one and only published haiku ... circa 1970)

that'll do

as we don't have a quilt holder upper in residence anymore

masking tape and the tv cabinet will have to suffice...

 finally - pictures that shows the pale poison green in all its glory

so...

this will go in the needs to be quilted pile

along with the pieced backing

the binding is sewn, pressed and labelled in the binding bin

and if enough pennies are ever saved 

this will go to the World's Best Longarmer for quilting

That'll do, pig. That'll do.

Farmer Hoggett

border dispute

 and it sat in the Great Pile of Stuff

waiting for a border

or two

 paper pieced potion bottles all around?

 paper pieced library books all around? 

walls with shelves of paper pieced books and potion bottles all around? 

weeks went by...

 

and then i saw this fabric at eQuilter.com 

books and potion bottles on shelves - no paper piecing involved

sign me up for 2 yards

the fabric arrived and i fell in absolute dislike with it - ugh

it is dark and has reptiles and mushrooms and all manor of disagreeable things

weeks went by... 

and then i saw this fabric at eQuilter.com 

books and potion bottles on shelves with no paper piecing

and no stinking reptiles

sign me up for 2 yards

the fabric arrived and i fell in absolute like with it - especially the vines

and the ugly fabric with the stinking reptiles can live on the back

cuz i won't be looking at the back

win - win

I have enough fabric.

said no quilter, ever

rule of thumbs

and opposable thumbs, of course

Stop electing stupid people. 

Jesse Dollemore

in flight

flying keys

here and there and everywhere

 that is how i thought they should be

 but the math was too much for me

so i settled for a flight plan that didn't hurt my brain

symmetry is a good thing

there, Aiden!

better?!?

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Tom Robbins

whaddya got?

Aiden said...

i'm looking up at ... nothing

why am i looking up at nothing?!?

 and Melissa said, "Give him something to chase. Birds. Or a patronus. Or how 'bout flying keys?" 

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.

J.R.R. Tolkein

tick tock

so many books ... so little time

books ... books ... books

 

i love books

i despise book bans

don't tell me what i may or may not read

just sayin'

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Isaac Asimov

If all printers were determined to not print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Benjamin Franklin

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.

Eugene O'Neill

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to their assumptions and ban the book.

Ursula LeGuinn

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

 

quantum superposition

say what now?

 Stop electing stupid people.

Jesse Dollemore

trouble brewing

that big open space under the ravens?

problem solved

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

top shelf

do you even want to know what possible use hobgoblin ear wax would serve?

no tangles 

do you think it works? cuz if it does, i want some

love potion number 9 

 i always liked the song 

 till the Access Hollywood tape that changed how i think about things

floating bloodshot eyeballs ... ick

lazy daisy elixer 

whaddaya think it smells like? 

cuz daisies kinda stink, don't they?

 every hat needs a hat stand 

and every stitcher needs a strawberry pin cushion

there's a story behind the white raven ... maybe Melissa will share it

i could definitely use the french knot powder

 the pattern calls for piecing blocks and stitching over them

 after stitching Snow Pact, i knew that was not gonna happen EVER again

so i traced this out on one big piece of the pale poison green fabric 

and that left that big open space under the birdies

that was gonna be a problem...

just sayin' 

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Brendan Francis

stinky feet

 a 5 gallon jar emptied of toad warts

and a tin of waterproof foot powder

i dunno about this one...

it was a fun stitch, though

just sayin'  

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

 

salmagundi

here's a thought (but not an original one)...

after watching his picks

i'm starting to understand how he bankrupted those casinos

he may be using some kind of twisted logic...

sure, Jan.

just sayin' 

Stop electing stupid people.

Jesse Dollemore

vroom broom

my Nimbus 1952

changed the creepy spider to a golden snitch

not a fun stitch 

but sweeping isn't much fun

not everything has to be fun

just sayin'

a new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners

proverb

ginger kitty

 i think this was the last time i posted about 

Calendula Patterdrip's Cottage

and i've just realized (after searching the last six years of blog posts) that i didn't post about it again

sooooo ... now i'm gonna play catch up

this ginger kitty is Aiden

 he's named after the best ginger kitty that i never met

he isn't part of the original Crab-Apple Hill pattern 

he was traced from a Harry Potter coloring book

the original Aiden was a girl kitty, but this kitty is a boy

and he has a special place in my heart 

 i dunno why Meg Hawkey didn't include a cat in her design - what's a witch's cottage without a cat?!? 

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

Rick Riordan

exhibit 1

with respect, honor and gratitude

 

too late