Runner-up for Queen of the UFO's

Hope all my fellow Canadians had a good long weekend.

 

We’re postponing the family celebration until later this month when the middle sibling will be up from L.A.

 

That said, we did get a pumpkin pie in our food box and a few other treats, so Thing Two and I will have a nicer meal today. Salmon not turkey, but that’s okay. So, I wrote this in the am, before it was decided that neither of us was actually up to doing/eating a more involved meal, but hey, we have tomorrow’s diner set!

 

Last post I was listing my projects for the summer, but I’ve since realized I rather shortchanged myself on that. I forgot the 1/2 dozen mock-ups, including the one for a new trouser pattern that I turned into a pair of wearable shorts. Unfortunately there were several hard nos in the batch, but at least now I know.

 

I also forgot a 3^rd pair of socks and the five UFO’s that worked on. I did finish two of those and got the other three much closer to finishing. In fact I’ve since finished one more of them (seriously, it only needed buttons!?!??!) and I’ve add three more to the list of projects I’m poking away at. Yes, yes I do have a lot of UFO’s and WIP’s.

 

 

Question Of The Day:

 

October, 14 - It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada today - reflecting on your childhood, what were you thankful for?

Opportunities! The chance to try different activities & hobbies, to travel, to experience wonders ~ both man-made and natural and to eat a whole lot of really good food. And books. Can’t forget books. From teaching me to read, to weekly trips to the library and many, many purchases my parents indulged my obsession with reading completely.

 

Zed

P.S. Weather continues to be unseasonably warm. High today was 26 C (78.8 F) and still no snow at all! The rest of the week should be a bit cooler, but still warm. And dry. So weird.

 

150 years, eh?  Not all that long in the grand scheme of things, but still a respectable number of years for  a country, so Happy Birthday Canada.  We celebrated by avoiding any of the official stuff {crowds of people aren't our thing} and spent time taking pictures of yarn.  What, I like yarn and what's more, I have a lot of it.  A good amount of which I'd like to sell. Like a storage unit worth. Well, 1/2 a storage unit.  The other 1/2 is fabric, which I'd also like to sell, but the yarn was the focus today. 

In other news, I'm a tad annoyed with myself.  When I set this up, I intended to post at least a couple of times a week and here we are almost 2 months in and it's been over a month since I posted.  It's not that I don't have anything to say {I have lots to say, just ask any one who knows me ;D}, but actually sitting down and writing, yeah, not so good with that.

I have, of course, been reading.  I've continued my forays into the Harry Potter fandom {carefully, very carefully} and have found some absolutely fantastic stuff.  I've also found stuff that's had me hitting the back button so quickly I may have damaged something, but we won't talk about that ;D  As is so often the case, I find myself drawn to crossovers. Other magic/supernatural fandoms would be the obvious choices for crossovers with HP, but contrary soul that I am, I like the less obvious choices.  Some of my favourite crossovers with HP are Stargate (both Atlantis and SG-1) and Sherlock Holmes.  

I'm still avoiding huge chunks of the fandom and I don't expect that to change.  My resistance/avoidance of fan fiction and related works in this fandom has to do with how I came to read the HP books originally.  BTW I saw that the 20th Anniversary of the original publication date was earlier this week and I had a bit of a freak out.  20 years, no!!! Now I feel really, really old.  

See in September of 1997 Thing Two {my youngest aside from the cats} was in Grade 6 {so 11 years old} and the teacher decided to read to the class this book he had picked up while on vacation in the UK that summer.  Said book was a great hit with the class in general and Thing Two in particular. So, as soon as a version was available to us {through the Scholastic book club~remember those?} we bought a copy for our household.  And we all read it.  Even Thing One who was Grade Ten that year. Now HP is firmly associated in my mind with Thing Two and her friends. Which makes reading certain types of fan fiction awkward, to say the least.  Certain circumstances can alleviate the awkwardness, but it's not always obvious by tags which fics will fit into my rather narrow definition of acceptable.  All on me of course, I'm sure there are fantastic fics out there that I miss because of my, well, hang up, but I'm okay with that.

I've been reading other things as well, but I understand there's a beer calling my name so I'll leave you with a pic of the final furry member of the family, Kaleb.