Have you seen these guys?
The Dog
They were around last Christmas in a couple of styles and a bunch of sizes and “breeds”. This one has a battery pack. When you press a button, he barks and his ears move and his tail wags. It’s pretty cute - especially the wagging tail thing. I was able to pick him up, post-season, on clearance and I enjoy him. I don’t have to feed him or clean up after him - I just get to play with him. The cat ignores him :)
The other coaster color
Worked on this last night while watching “Mercury Rising”. I hadn’t seen it before but it wasn’t too bad - well, not too bad for something with such a slender plot. But that kind of film can be acceptable - even enjoyable under the right circumstances. Bruce Willis is a great action hero, Alec Baldwin was a convincingly oily and evil bad guy and sometimes that’s all you need for a good time. It was the presentation that kind of did things in.
According to the IMDB, the running time for this film is 108 minutes (you have to give the producers credit for knowing they didn’t have a lot of story to tell and for keeping it brief). It aired, last night, on TBS from 9 PM to 12 AM. Three hours! That’s 180 minutes. Now, let’s subtract the 108 minutes of actual film (we’ll assume nothing was cut…cough) and that gives us 72 minutes - of advertising! GACK! I should have known when the first commercial break was long enough for me to go into the kitchen, make dinner, and be back in my chair before the movie resumed.
Short Row Scarf
I reached the end of the half-ball of Waterspun last night and will have to wind the other two hanks now to go on with the scarf. I’m liking the look a lot. I’m trying something different with the patterning and am slipping the first stitch (on the return leg of the short row) rather than knitting it. It produces less bulk along the seam and also creates a rather decorative chained line along the join. We’ll see how it works out.
I was supposed to go to lunch with Dad today but after a night filled with stomach cramps and not much sleep, I figured I’d be better off staying home. Well, I’ll probably go out long enough to get some ginger ale. My mother always gave that to me as a kid when I had tummy woe’s - she used to let it get flat, though. It always helped - but I don’t let it get flat any more :)
Happy weekend everyone :)
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my mom’s remedy for ‘sick tummy’ was ginger ale and green jello (it *had* to be green)- worked wonders every time! hope the ginger ale treatment makes you feel better soon-
the coasters are looking so nice- i think i will be a lemming and make some for a kitchen shower one of my daughters will be attending- i’ve got some of the fiestaware colors that should make a very cheerful set-
i remember ‘once upon a time’ when the concept of cable/satellite tv was to give us a degree of ‘commercial free’ viewing- now it gives us ‘commercial viewing’-
stay happy-
Love those coasters. What are you using for yarn? The colors seems so vivid. Your scarf is coming along nicely. I have used that pattern before too. Nice!
barb - Green jello, hunh? I wonder what that’s all about. I’m not prepared to say it hasn’t any curative facilities - just wasn’t part of my mother’s repertoire. Grape juice was though. I loved grape juice and the only time I ever got it was when I was sick.
Maureen - The yarn is Takhi Cotton Classic - the colors really are pretty splendid, aren’t they? I love them :)
i think the artificial coloring and flavors in the green jello were the ‘magic potion’-
oh, i’d forgotten all about the grape juice treatment- i loved it too and my mom reserved that for ‘actual ilnesses’ instead of the usual childhood moanings and groanings- when i saw a glass of the lovely purple welch’s stuff i knew i was really ill-
after i left home and could have ginger ale, green jello, and grape juice whenever i wanted it, they all lost their remarkable curative powers-
have a good weekend and stay happy-
Hope you’re feelin’ bettah, dear! I love looking at your knit shots. Your work is always so crisp.
Thanks Marcy - The crampies are done gone - finished up yesterday afternoon at about the same time the little girl across the hall stopped screeching - she’d been at it all day like she was practicing for a shot at the gold :)
