Spring is officially here. We had a glorious, sunny day today. No jacket required. Just sunshine, croci and a wood pecker.
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Over the last couple of weeks, I have somehow amassed a bunch of awesome items. A few weeks ago, my sister and cousin went to San Fransisco for a good time. The visited Alcatraz and sent us the postcard you see above. Alcatraz seemed very gloomy – nothing like the movies, Escape from Alcatraz or The Birdman of Alcatraz at all. It looks more the like The Green Mile to me. Yesterday, we got a package in the mail from my mom and sister, and inside? A fridge magnet from the prison island stating a very important rule.
LOUD talking, shouting, whistling, singing or other UNNECESSARY NOISES are NOT PERMITTED.
Wow. Jail sucks.
I won’t tell you why this magnet reminded C@thy of Mike and I. Apparently, she thinks we make lots of UNNECESSARY NOISES in her presence. Look, I can’t help what happens after partaking in the magical fruit. I wish she was a little more understanding of things. Sheesh.
POOT!
Speaking of unnecessary noises, those kitties of ours have been really noisy at night lately. When Donner’s not making sounds like a baby crying, both are running around the house only stopping long enough to hiss at each other. This is a regular, nightly occurrence now. They would not do well at Alcatraz at all. Off to solitary for sure.
In other news, I have received a few other cool things lately. Things like…
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Let me count the ways!
1) It was Quilting Bee night tonight.
2) It was de-stash night – it’s like a garage sale, but without the cash. If you brought stuff from your quilting stash and put it into the pile, you get to take some home! SO…I brought two bags of stuff and took 1 bag of stuff home. Heh. I have so much cat fabric now, it’s insane! Can you believe anyone would part with it? Also, I have plenty of brown egg fabric. Now, you can’t have too much of that.
3) The sun shone today and while I was out and about, I found this clown face in the Army and Navy store window.
4) I quit my job yesterday because…
5) I was offered a new job! I signed all the paperwork today. Once the criminal record check clears, I’m good to go. I’ll tell you all about it once I get there. It’s going to be a fun one! I’ll be working with creative people all day long. My start date is April 23rd.
I’m exhausted from all the excitement from these last few days – a new job, fabric with cats on it, the Calgary Zoo last weekend…
And to celebrate, I’ll be posting photos of the all the beautiful people I took photos of in Banff last weekend in tomorrow’s post.
Banff is full of beautiful people. Seriously.
But now, I’m going to bed. I’m spent!
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My buddy, Denise, gave me this linen tea towel. She told me the kitty reminded her of our kitties. I agree. Plus I love that owl, the peeg and the birds in the tree. Written at the bottom is “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” and “100% Linen made in Ireland”. Nice! I thought, “Is this a story?”, googled it, and found a poem by Edward Lear – an English poet best known for his literary nonsense – literary nonsense? I love this guy! I think I need to research more about literary nonsense.
Here’s part of the first stanza…
What’s nonsensical about that? Anyway, the story goes on about the pig with the ring in his nose. It’s an excellent story. Click here for the whole story.
Tonight I had a idea for the teatowel! What if I tried using that trick where you use starch as temporary “glue” for attaching fabric to the wall? I heard about it on the Nate Berkus show a few months ago. Aha! I actually researched starch in Canada and it turns out we don’t sell it in buckets like they do in the States. Apparently it’s flammable (?) I’m not sure that’s correct, so don’t quote me on that. But I did find it in spray can form (see why I think I got that flammable thing wrong? Why put a flammable liquid in a pressurized can?) ANYWAY, I found spray starch in a can and tried that.
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