There was a brief gleam of sunlight this morning, enough to catch my attention, but gone before I thought of going outside.
I'd been out for a bit already, just to look around. Of course it wasn't long before I'd pulled a few weeds, tidied some pots, cleared a garden chair and brought it over to my veg patch.
Spring next year MUST be better than this year, surely? Instead of trying to follow the 'Veg in One Bed' plan in 2025, I'm just going to grow what I want to, or what I want to grow. I'm feeling a bit more positive about the veg patch after half an hour in the fresh air.
At lunchtime Ang's Cover Story stitching dropped through the letterbox. She's found some fabric with vintage advertising printed on it, and cleverly embellished the pictures with a variety of stitches using variegated threads in Autumn colours,
I love the way she decorated the face! I have no idea what lime water is but it sound horrible... for indigestion, maybe?
She included a Lent book which I'm definitely going to use. I have an idea of playing the Carol for each day through December. I noticed on the back cover the blurb said the author is the pastor of a church in a town called Kalamazoo, in Michigan, USA. What an amazing name for a town!
This is the dedication page, clearly designed by a non-musician.
It's the first line of the famous Carol 'Joy to the world'. If you sing the first line while following the notes, you will see what I mean 😁
Advent, not Lent!
ReplyDeleteI know two things about Kalamazoo: The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded a piece "I gotta a girl in kalamazoo" and the "kalamazoo system" was a form of data management involving punch cards first developed a century ago (and my mum and auntie Peggy were both adept in operating it)
I did not recognise all the carols in the book
A voyage of discovery awaits! Have you used, or will you be using this book?
DeleteKalamazoo is 50 miles south of where my late husband grew up ( in Grand Rapids Michigan). His best friend's daughter went to Kalamazoo College which they always called Kal College! We are pretty used to Indian names in the U.S. JanF
DeleteI was delighted to discover there is a real place called Kalamazoo! We have some pretty unexpected place names here in the UK but I find USA place names are also often surprising.
DeleteVery clever stitching.
ReplyDeleteYes, and I like the different thicknesses of the lines of stitches too.
DeleteBack in the mists of time when I worked in a bakery - Homepride - as a computer operator I used to help the general office staff when the computer (singular) was down. They used a Kalamazoo bar : a metal bar with upward pointing prongs/teeth onto which were placed - side by side -delivery notes punched with holes at the top. A second metal bar was fixed on top to keep them in place. Then, by reading across you could calculate how much of each item had been sold that week.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea - I need something like that at home for when the admin gets out of hand - when you get halfway through some task and then your phone call is cut off or you need to collect more paperwork or something before you can complete the thing you thought you could clear up before lunch!
DeleteIs it missing a final note?
ReplyDeleteYou got it! It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop.....
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