04/05/06 pick up sticks?
Posted By Kathleen David on April 5, 2006
No snow but a bit of rain. I’ll have to check my rain gauge to see how much we got. We really did need it too. Today is colder and breezy.
Peter is delivering one of our Broadway Bears back to Broadway Cares for a function this Friday. It is our Queen of Hearts Bear based on the costumes used in the Richard Burton/Kate Burton “Alice in Wonderland” production which was aired as a show on “Great Performances” back in 1972. We’ll then get the bear back and she’ll join the others rather than go back to my studio.
I am thinking that the cold was a combination of cold and allergies. I took an antihistamine yesterday morning rather than the Sudafed I had been taking and the pressure went away from behind the eyeball. I think I am going to try that again today.
My goal today is to finish a pair of pajama pants that I have the material and pattern for which has been sitting in my to-do pile for a while. I need to go through my fabric stash for Saturday and the doll making class. I think I will have enough fabric left to make another pair of pants for Caroline. The first ones are for Ariel.
I am thinking of redoing my Doctor Who Puppets and adding 2 more to the set. I currently have 1,2,3,4,6,8 so I would have to remake 5 and 7 and added 9 and 10. I think it would be a good display at some convention. Maybe DragonCon if I get juried in. The hardest thing is going to be finding the hats for 5 and 7 and remaking 4th hat. I know a lot more about building these puppets than I did when I started. I would have to clean up the other boys since they have been through the wringer and a couple of them have thrown rods. Then there is the hand puppet set of Puppets for Hush (From Buffy) with a stage. And the manga character doll/puppet idea I have. I really need to get cracking on some of this.
I am grateful for a fertile imagination.
Did you guys wind up getting snow later in the day? We had a freak snowstorm here around 10:00 — it lasted maybe half an hour, but we had enough to cover the school’s athletic field.
By the time I left at 4:30, it was back to bright and sunny, all the snow was gone, and I didn’t need a jacket (which is good, since I hadn’t brought one).
A real Genesis Planet kind of day.
TWL
I Love Autumn! Yesterday, it reached a maximun here of 32degrees C. Today, we have a very strong, cold south westerly blowing. Both days clear and sunny, but big temperature difference. They’re predicting around 22 degrees C max today, it’s about 18 now. If the wind drops, it will warm up.
Cheerio
I’m guessing from the entry’s title you learned the rhyme a bit differently from the way I did. 😉
Now that I think about it, there WAS something I learned way back in Sunday School days that used the 1/2/3, 4/5/6 format, but I don’t recall “pick up sticks” after the 4/5/6. (In fact, I can’t recall the “rhyme” parts after “1/2/3, the Devil’s after me”, so we see how well THAT little rhyme stuck.)
The rhyme that my Grandmother taught to my children was “1, 2, buckle my shoe, 3,4, knock on the door, 5, 6, pick up sticks, 7,8, lay them straight, 9, 10, a big brown hen…”. Nanna’s version went up to 20.
Megan
Up to twenty? What the heck did she rhyme with things like “sixteen” and “eighteen”? (Do I even want to know? 🙂
TWL
“11, 12, men dig and delve, 13, 14 maids are courting, 15, 16, cooks in the kitchen”, “17, 18, ladies waiting, 19, 20, my plates empty”.
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