What are you stitching next?

Cash has a mean, mean Momma who doesn't allow barking in the house. She doesn't even really allow it in the yard, except as a means of expressing a desire to be let into the house.

Cash says the best way to deal with thunder is to put as much of your

Elizabeth

Reminds me of when the kids were little. Sometimes, when there was a storm at night, DH and I were awakened by finding our two selves,two kids, one dog and one cat (plus whatever other pets we might have had at the time) all esconced in one standard double bed.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Yes, Cash agrees that crawling in to bed with Momma is a good solution if Momma happens to be in bed when the thunder starts. Even mean Daddy won't kick a freaked out doggie out of bed during a thunder storm.

Elizabeth

No basements here in Texas either. Just the now and then "if you live in the path of this rotation, TAKE COVER NOW! IF you are in your car, stop NOW and lie in a ditch or under an overpass. YAY.

Similar here, but actually it's because of a combination of water table and the fact that a basement would crush in on itself with the weight of the heavy clay and caliche soils. Not to mention most places in South Central TX have rocks a foot down. Not me, I have loamy good farm soil, but this is not the norm.

They do sell tornado rooms which are very heavy concrete bulkheads and are safe up to 150 mph straight line or rotating winds. They are expensive.

It could have been Cheri Fulmer of Fulmer Craft. I did her Half Dome for my sister many years ago and have Grand Canyon (south rim) and Big Trees in my stash to do. I really LOVE the big trees one and would like to do it just for me. She has also done one of Grand Teton, Great Smokey Mountains, Yellowstone and the Viet Nam War Memorial. I saw a weaving piece done of the giant redwoods last October that a local woman created for a library fund raiser and would have bought it in a minute if we had had an extra $200 or so. Liz from Humbug

"lucretia borgia" wrote

It might have to be Monsterbubbles Lizzie Borden!

Dawne

Lol, when I decided to take on Lucretia I also considered Lizzie Borden, another highly misjudged woman. Prolly best if you are not handling axes though !

That idea only make sense for houses that were built in the 60s or later when people started using their basements that way. For older houses, there must be a different reason.

All the houses in my area have basements, and I don't think any of them are used as living space. They're much too dark and dank for that. This neighborhood went up in the 1880s to 1920s and most basements are used as storage and for oil tanks, boilers, water heaters, etc. It's clear that coal was stored in mine at some point. So perhaps older houses around you don't have basements because they weren't needed to generate heat for the winter?

Elizabeth

Telling Puff not to bark at thunder is about as useless a project as I can think of. When I do get annoyed and tell him to shut up, he will do one of two things. Either he'll go into whichever room is as far away as he can go so it doesn't annoy me, or he will sit at the window quietly woofing. I guess it's impossible for him to be completely quiet.

He always amazes me because he definitely is a very wimpy dog about most things, but thunder and lightening doesn't seem to bother him much.

Poor puppy - more "weatherah" blowing through.

Tell David to take a picture of that next time. I want to see that.

Cheryl

Root cellars, smoked meat closets.......

That's it, Cheri Fulmer. In the stash as well. I'm going to do it as needlepoint on canvas using floss..eventually.

"lucretia borgia" wrote

Dunno--could be theraputic. Actually was digging around in my stash trunk, following Vic's inspiration, and came across a lovely piece of apricot linen (not my usual thing at all) which I think is asking to be stitched with the Ob La Dee Ob La Dah pattern. The original is stitched on blue hand-dyed with yellowy green lettering-I have a nice Anchor multicoloured in peaches, pinks and purples which will do nicely for the flowers, and could pull something out of it, maybe pink, for the lettering. Except--I am missing one page of the chart!

DAwne

I've thought about that piece more than once. Maybe I should haul out something I promised myself to do ages ago - The Bug Sampler - I have fabric, I have all the floss for both colorways.

Cheryl

Could someone point me to the Ob La Dee Ob La Dah pattern. The name makes It sound intriguiing.

Oh! I wasn't suggesting that you tell Puff not to bark at thunder, only that I'd be very displeased if Cash learned to do the same thing. Some people don't mind if their dogs bark a lot. I hate it. Diff'rent strokes and all that.

Dog behavior is an amazing thing. I'm endlessly fascinated by what they'll do.

Elizabeth