Quilter, first, politics, second - this time!

In spite of my recent rants over the state of the world under the current administration, I am maintaining my sanity with my quilting projects. My theory with quilting (and it should be also with governing the United States!) is that if you take the time to do it right, it will work!

I'm back into the scrap quilt mode the last few weeks. My scrap box is overflowing and making me feel guilty if I so much a look at a beautiful, uncut length of new fabric. I'm still working on the quilt I promised my husband - a quilt with a calm pattern that will not cause his eyes to roll uncontrollably. It was going well until my inner being couldn't take it any longer and I added some abstract touches to the pattern. So far, it isn't too wild . . . but the quilt isn't done yet.

I'm down to the final inches of sewing on two large quilts right now. My quilts are rather lethal when they are stuck with straight pins all around prior to final sewing. I don't seem to realize this while I'm working on them but later discover scratches on my legs and arms where the quilt in progress has dragged across my lap and arms. Hey, maybe I should get a quilter's purple heart for blood shed in the line of domestic duty!

Musing over the quality of words . . .

I used to work with a woman who always came to work beautifully dressed and made up. She was rather pretty and was even Miss Something or Other in a nearby city. She was efficient and cursed like a sailor. Sometimes, I thought she could even put a sailor to blush. Her good vocabulary faded in all the rotten words she accumulated and used with unladylike proficiency. This was back in the 1970's when people still felt some shock hearing these words come from a woman's mouth.

Today, you can't walk through the mall without hearing a word or more that you'd rather not hear. It doesn't seem to matter the age or gender. Disgusting words of the four-letter variety have become part of the common conversation. Often makes you wonder what words they will spew forth if they really get angry!

Each of us has only a certain amount of time on this earth. Only God knows and our free will can add or detract to the number. We, also, have only so many things we can say before we meet our Maker. It seems such a waste of so little time to use any words that won't enhance our lives, make another person happy, or further our goal of Heaven. Ugly words take up the room that should be reserved for wonderful words. I remember a mother of a toddler being shocked when he came out with some four letter expletives, saying, "I don't know where he learned this. He is always at home with me and his dad."

A friend just mentioned that he was sharing a meal with a priest and mentioned a topic the priest didn't agree with and the priest used some 'choice' language. What could have been an interchange of ideas was cut short with the profanity. The priest lost a teaching moment and the respect of his young friend. It is said that we might be the only Bible a person reads. Why do people want to sully the pages of their example?

Howl the Cat's busy Afternoon . . .

 My husband noticed Howl sleeping on the front lawn and   decided to take a picture. One picture turned into several as Howl didn't like his nap being disturbed and tried to go about his afternoon.

We are still trying to befriend the cat with thoughts of making him our beloved pet. Howl still prefers viewing us as the owners of the cat food and only shows up for a hand out . . . or a nap on the front lawn.

The truth is always amusing . . .

"Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it."
-- Franklin P. Jones

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."
-- Charles Caleb Colton

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
-- Robert Frost