sun bags

So last time we met

I was on the search for an answer to the

mystery package

 how it got here

who sent it
why were there two names
does the queen really think Kate's dress is horrid?!!

I have it on good authority

that it was sent

undercover

it was a conspiracy

an attempt to pull the wool

to surprise

to confound

to pull one over

it was sent as an award

for the nothingness of this blog

from one without a blog

but who should have a blog

!!

one who likes the nothingness

and decided to reward me for it

who am I to deny her

:)

if she had asked for my address

 I would have

 cottoned

known

surmised

figured out

been aware

that she was sending me something

so she asked the one who has all

the one who holds all the addresses on the planet

our Queen of the Blankets

Sue

of SIBOL fame

:)x

well

you get the drift

thank you both

!!!

:)

somehow the package was sent from

the South to the North and then

from there

it flew West

I have no idea if it went East anywhere

but it is a very well travelled package

worldly

one could say

!!!!

We ate the penguin cookies after dinner

with a cuppa

and enjoyed them very much

I liked them better than the

Tim Tams

not as sweet

I will have to see if I can find them here

please sir

may I have another

the husband read the cover from front to back

they have little jokes on them!!

and then when he had licked the last of the chocolate off

he pronounced them tasty

:)    :(

 so now to the

sun bags

 the Mister had to go and get a piece to fix the fan in our room

it quit

stopped working

give up

stopped spinning

can't rotate anymore

and as I am one who likes to feel the breezes at night

he went to get what is needed to make that possible again

he came back with the part and a sunflower plant

for moi

lots of flowers and plants this month

for moi

lucky moi

non?!!

it has a few buds to come so hopefully it will survive the heat

and I'll keep it

hydrated

and we'll have something

purrdy to look at

coz all the other plants are

kaput

the  heat and the lack of rain have taken their toll

it's bad out there

sad and bad

and

dry

and once again I'm so glad I didn't give into the wants

and buy all those plants I wanted in the Spring

it would have been

painful

so there's the sun

here's the bag

I knitted some domino squares

and made a little bag

that I then took close ups of and teased you

 

then I made this one

I saw something like it on a blog somewhere out there

and just made it up as I went along

it's quite little

only ten blocks but it's so cute!!!

and they are both waiting to have their linings sewn in

I'll show them closer up when they're done

and I have always wanted a blue and white

pillow

so I made one of those too

I have a few Scandinavian blogs I visit and always always

swoon over all the blue and white

next house I have

it's all blue and white I tell ya

all blue and white

 with a touch of

yellow

the back and front waiting to be sewn together

and then it will sit on the bed in the

rotl

and I will have a blue and white pillow

or two or twelve

!

so now I had better go and give the

sun flower a drink of water

and just enjoy it's big yellow happy face

but just for minute

it's hot out there

and there are

big disgusting jumping ticks out there

they're falling from the trees and landing on me and the hubby

have to check each time we go out

I already had one the other week on the back of my leg

ick yuck and get me outta here

I had tick typhus as a child and always remember the day they found out

we were on the way to a party and I kept fussing with the dress I had on

the neck

and my mother thought I was just being a pain

and when she checked to see if something was wrong she found the tick

I think tick typhus might be something like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

I had a little white spot on my neck for years

shudder

another reason for me not to go out

anyway

I have sun bags to finish

and then the pillow and then I get to look for something else

and what did you think of those pot holders

from the

way back machine

I posted a link to yesterday

:) :) :)

what a hoot some of them are

so kitch and vintage

just like your granny had!!!!

groovy man

:)

for those of you who care!!!

don't have enough potholder patterns

don't have enough wips

don't have a clue as to what to do

check this out ladies...

:)

mail call... a mystery...and just call me Agatha

while trying to do the part that is supposed to be easy

the putting it together bit

and its taking more time than it may be worth

the mail came

inside the mail box I found

HRH

in red and green

it flew here!!

to me

that is indeed moi

it took one second flat to rip open the package and take a look

rrrriiiipppppp

and inside I found  good old English tea and

dancing penguins!!!

and

 a lovely tea towel

 which will not be used as such

so hands off anyone who thinks otherwise....

I love tea towels

I really do

especially nice ones!!!

blue and white ones

 ones that come in the mail unannounced and unexpectedly

and bring with them dancing 'quins and

TEA!!!

and surprises

the White Cliffs of Dover

the symbol for

England

the song that got them through the

bad times

sung by

vera lynn

a place I saw once and never forgot

when the sister and I went camping in a van that belonged to the lady who owned the house we rented

weird memories.....weird lady .... and her housekeeper.....

now the name on the package was one name I know

but inside was another name I know

hmmmm what is going on here

and a photo of my second favourite little girl bunnie

that's Sophie

Mia's little creation

(JOE"S auntie)

what was she doing in a package from the sender

I scratched my head

hm mmmmm

more proof of bunnie antics

a carrot from

JOE

to

little bunnie fu fu

with love

the heart shape says

it all

!!!

fu fu was very surprised

and

 extremely

very very

lots and lots

happy

 to have such a treasure from her bun

and she noticed a resemblance to Sophie

could they be long lost cousins

twice or thrice removed

too

as well

also

I will have to delve into this mystery of who sent what to whom

 and how it got here

unannounced and unexpectedly

and if indeed it is meant for me at all

!!!!!!!

maybe the dancing penguins can tell me when they take a break from all that dancing

and explain how it came

from one person

and another

now where's my Sherlock hat???

♥  ♥   ♥

those so called experts

( no need to leave any comments

just wrote this coz I felt like it)

who showed up in great numbers on Friday

were all wrong

when I heard of the explosion in Oslo

my first question to the Mister was how do they know it isn't a gas leak

I don't listen to what they say and believe anymore

they are usually so wrong it's embarrassing

I tried to remember what has happened recently and couldn't think of anything that had to do with

Norway

I know they are in Afghanistan and they have planes in the Nato action in Libya

but so do many others

one doesn't think of scary dark dangerous things and Norway

then the terrorist angle started playing

a cell that must have been formed in Norway

but which one

there are so many to choose from according to the experts

Al- kay-duh...as they pronounce it

wasn't so organised anymore but they do have splinter groups everywhere

female anchors on CNN drooling over the expert

telling him

whenever there is an attack I always come to you for the facts

you know so much

watched CNN MSNBC

Aljazeerah RT France24 CBS

BBC on line

all of them said it was Muslims

actually they said Islamists

all of them

then a report came in that a man had been seen

and shock of shocks

he was tall white and blond

white and blond

that stopped them for a

nanosecond

well, if he's white he must be one of those who have left their native places to go to a desert somewhere hot and dangerous to be trained in camps in all manner of nasty things and then come back home to spread terror amongst his own

that's it

he's one of those

he's homegrown but trained overseas

and then they remind us of all those names we've heard so many times

and when it was said that the man was

Norwegian

well goodness us isn't that a kick in the pants

not a desert trained rat at all

well then

he must belong to this side

or that side

or the other

and you always know

the other are the worst ones

this was an act of sheer evil

perpetrated by a man who is wicked

in my opinion

a racist to the inth degree

one of many world wide

nothing new these days just a plain ordinary

racist

with a twist

as I read what they are printing of his 1,500 page ramble

 he has planned this for years

I have tried to read it but my blood runs cold and I get sick

he killed children in cold blood

he knew that wearing a uniform would give them a sense of security

he knew that

he knew what he was doing

he isn't insane

incapable of making a descision

he thought out each and every step and then acted on them

one by one by one

he knew what he was doing

and he did it

and he is white

he has blue eyes

he is blond

he is one of us

if we are white

he is white

if we aren't

he didn't go anywhere to learn to do this

he did it on his own ground

he did it to his own blood

he did it to the children

he is a killer

a murderer

he is a terrorist

he is as evil as a human being can get

and he is white

and he has blue eyes

and he has blonde hair

and he is a

Christian

so now do we say

"well not all Christians are terrorists

but all terrorists seem to be Christians"

it is an awful shock when the bad guy turns out to be one of your own

when he looks just like you

when he grew up breathing the same air you did

he knows the same things you do

and he does this

 to you

to people you know

to the children

the more global we become

the more

tribal we become

humans have always lived in tribes

that's how we started out

and it's how we're ending up

as we mix and move around this globe

the more some think we should all just stay home

wonder if we did that

how long it would take

 to

end up

 with a tribe of

one

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(no need to leave any comments)

 

it's hot

it is 99 degrees F outside

it feels like

133 degrees F
they say it will go to 103 F
what will it feel like then
all I did was walk to the mail box
I will not be going back there for a while
I do not like the heat
 don't know how the people who have to be out there do it
it's too darn hot

when I was quite a small girl
we went on a trip somewhere
and we stopped off in
Wadi Halfa
which is in the Sudan

here

(from Bing)

my sister says this might be the hotel we stayed in!!!

I think we were on our way to catch a boat for a trip somewhere else

I remember like it was yesterday
(the heat, not the trip
we were quite the travellers then and I don't remember them all!!!)
driving through the sand
 seeing the ships in the canal
looking like they were floating in the desert

and it being hot

so hot I remember it!!!
the hotel we spent the night in had a fan
in the foyer that turned very very slowly
and I remember wondering why it turned so slowly
what good did it do
my mother insisted we take a bath
a cold bath to wash the dust and the trip off us before we went to bed
the cold water
was hot
very hot
and the sheets
were too
needless to say
no one got much sleep that night
and me being me
I probably cried the whole time
my sister also remembers going to Mombasa
which is on the coast of East Africa
and we went there on vacations
and it also being hot
and she would tease me at night by telling me that the lizards
that crawl all over the walls
and ceilings

were known to have heart attacks

and fall
onto little girls who were asleep
with their mouths open
nice
HUH!!
she always scared the holy crap out of me just before sleep
always
aren't big sisters just the best

:p



the birds are panting and the squirrels are lying spread eagle on the grass in the shade
husband just came in from changing the water dishes
and told me this
it's too darn hot

I''ll go now
it's time for a cup of tea






mad men can live anywhere
in any country
they do the most horrendous things
and no one is immune from the madness
sad but true
and it isn't always who we think it is
it isn't always the scary dark man in the shadows
sometimes it's one of our own
and that is what shocks us most
my heart breaks for the families of the lost
and I hope the survivours find peace
.............................




♥

ridiculousness

too hot baby

I keep reading about all the rain and cool weather on the other side of the

big pond

I hear griping and complaining

I read poetic visions of what one can do in the rain

I see fireplaces have been lit

mind boggling

mind blowing

not computing

how can it be so different

while those here broil in the sun

die in the heat

watch as their lives are burnt up

there is sweet sweet rain and coolness

somewhere

and people are complaining!!!

tut tut

peoples

be thankful

even though I know you would like a little sun

there were no circus events today

I saw the PM early this morning

and thought it very school playground like

why do men act like school boys all their lives

yeah Rupert came in the back door

but what about when Tony and Gordon where there

nanny nanny poo poo

then I read that the two had left the UK

that means they are coming back here

eeewwwww

why do innocent people step down while the guilty ones get to stay put

hearing that cop #1 left because he didn't want the security for the

Olympic Games to be put into question

made me remember I had some

home work to do

the blanket Queen had requested squares for a blanket

so I made a few and will send them off soon

what's

black

yellow

green

red

and blue!!

and look what fell off the hook without my even thinking about it

an African Flower

remember when everyone and their sister were making

African Flowers

I wonder how many millions there are on the planet now

and each and every day there are more made

just go to Flickr and see them all

not ridiculousness

but

unbelieveableness

maybe I'll take a steak out to the car for dinner!!!!

:)

collective abkneesia...

that is what the members of

Noozz Corps

have

the inability to remember

anything of any significance

as the members of the panel said

in my humble opinion

how can these people sit there

and swear to tell the truth

and then lie in the next breath

feign shock and disgust at what has gone on

when they are the ones who

OK'd

sent out

let loose

the army of scum

they paid for it they got it and now we are supposed to believe they are

humbled and sorry

 they don't remember nuttin'

that they didn't do it

someone else did

HUH!!!

 yes, I sat and watched the circus

as it made its way across town

clowns to the left of me

clowns to the right

not knowing all the intricacies of the case

because it has only just hit here and I've tried to read up on it but it's too much to stomach

while I watched and talked back to the

idiot box

(I know who's the idiot!!??)

I worked some more on my little piles of things

I'm trying

very

very very

hard to finish and not start another thing

every time I go to Flickr or Ravelry

I see something else

or someone on a blog somewhere has done something wonderful

it's so hard to be good

!!!

:)

and hopefully soon I'll show you what I did

 it isn't  anything marvellous or awesome

believe me!!!

I just like taking real tight shots of it

so

what did you do today??

the heat is building and it's going to be horrible

for the rest of the week and into next weekend

I spoke to my friend in the mid west and she said it's been surreal

and they have had the flooding to cope with too

the Missouri River is still very high and there are snakes coming down in the wash

snakes that don't belong and no one knows what's going to happen

where the river was once a few feet deep

it 's now up to 60ft deep

and we saw on the news, last night, the drought in Texas

they don't have rivers or lakes anymore

just cracked earth and there was another

ha boob in Arizona

peoples swimming pools turned to mud pools

boy what a downer I am today

it's Rupert's fault

.................................

:)

I just hope the power hangs on

coz not having a/c will kill us all

how did they survive in the

old days

phew!!

:P

flying in from everywhere....

 I have had many many visitors over this weekend who have come to get the

"pattern"

for

what I call

Susanne's pillow

as lousy as the pattern  apparently is

!!!!!!!

it's very popular right now

funny how things go round in circles

its almost exactly a year since Sue put it up on Flickr

 and we all fell in love with it

Tammy tried it

but she seems to have frogged it

I'm having trouble leaving comments so I will talk here!!!

Tammy do you want me to do a step by step for you

I will  absolutely be happy to if you want me to

and then I will have another pillow of my own

I can hook and snap as I go

let me know and I'll do it quick

so you can do it while you are in pajama mode!!!!

:)

speaking of snapping and hooking

I nearly had a heart attack this pm

I thought there was something wrong with

blue

my camera

(deep breath...lotus position...breath out....slowly...don't panic)

the "screen" kept flickering and showing me what mode it was set to

 and then it wouldn't focus

so I took all these

just to test it

it's late afternoon so the light in the

rotl

is lousy

but

blue

seems to be

OK

I hope

please blue

don't leave me

ever

I'd miss you too much

and who would show what I see

:(

all the nothing wouldn't have an eye

!!!

I'm working on my little piles of things

slowly slowly things are appearing

still have a ways to go

as they say

who ever

they are

been reading the "papers" too

watching as the lot at the top fall one by one

top cops

top executives

wonder if it will hit over here

it should coz we all know it's going on

the faux nooz hasn't said word one about the big stink

they must be wetting their pants hoping no one comes to check

and the others aren't any better for heavens sake

it's gone on for ever and will continue to go on forever

it isn't right or just or fair

it just is

it's how the world works unfortuneatly

the focus is never where it should be

they saturate the air with nonsense and smut

and wonder why the population is dumb

in more ways than one

but

I'm going back to things of the hooky kind

it's almost time to decide what to feed the mouths

and one of the mouths is talking at me

she says it's time to get off the machine that knows all

and feed the machine that is never satisfied

ok ok I'm coming

jeeeesh

see ya all tomorrow

:)

OH and someone had to win the

womens soccer match

who better than the Japanese women

they deserved it

and they needed it

I was so happy!!!

:)x