Alrighty then...
It has been a day.
My prepaid credit card for online shopping is broken. The company assures me that they are "expiditing" my account to fix the problem. Which after some 3 days of complaints by me, they figured out is a bit more widespread than just little old moi.
I inventoried the kitchen and pantry prior to the massive holiday cooking frenzy and discovered that most of my fruit for assorted nummies has been devoured by what I have been assured by my family are "giant mutant fruit bats" that apparently are capable of opening ziplocks, tupperware, and mason jars. After drying pounds and pounds of fruit all summer and fall it will be a bit galling to have to buy it for the big bake. I think I shall have to get me some "giant mutant fruit guarding bats" and build them a bat box in the pantry.
I went to sew on the last gift quilt. A broken star done with strips long ways in the big diamonds, rather than a lot of little diamonds. This one is gradient reds and there is a matching one done in blues. I could not find a needle threader for love nor money. Since I have gone a bit farsighted I need a needle threader. I've tried a magnifier, but don't seem to have any depth perception with it. Now I have one good threader, and generally keep several of the cheap packs of them about. You see DH steals them when he is manipulating finer wires in electronic projects. It appears that it is easier to clamp one of the cameo needle threaders into a third hand to hold a finer wire in place while he solders it. I have never quite sorted out where they go after that, and just assumed he lost them, or ruined them by dripping solder on them. So I went on the hunt. Surely he wouldn't have stolen my good threader for that. Yeah, he would. I found him in the driveway with one of our friends, under the hood of friend's mini-van. The first thing he said was "I told him to keep the loop away from the solder." Upon inquiry I discovered that some bit of wireing in the windshield washer motor needed fixed. They had it fixed up right as rain, but my needle threader was now a part of the van. What they were doing at the moment was trying to get it out without bringing the whole motor into the house to the big soldering station. I told them just to cut it out and buy me a new one. The things are cheap after all, You just get one to a pack instead of three. After being soldered it would probably be quite useless anyway. Besides, after it was de- soldered, how would they get it out in one piece? The wire was running through the loop! Oy! Men!
So instead of sewing this afternoon I have been spinning flax and contemplating knitting them both either jester's caps or some sort of hat with goofy ears. Then being all tearfully proud of myself so they would feel obliged to wear them.
Right now they are both in the kitchen where DH is showing off how to boil water in a paper container. If he sets the kitchen alight again I swear I am quite literally going to spank both of them!
NightMist