The Gypsy on Adventure

Support and love go out....

You have undoubtedly heard that the city of Lakewood , Washington lost four of its 102 police officers:

Sergeant Mark Renninger, Age 39;
Officer Ronald Owens, Age 37;
Officer Tina Griswold, Age 40; and,
Officer Greg Richards, Age 42. 

You can also show your support by making a contribution to the Lakewood Police Independent Guild.

Here is their website: Never forgotten

My heart is so heavy I can't even express it...

Hurumph

The last few months I really haven't been keeping up my blogging...and I have been loosing a lot of my thoughts and not documenting my projects...so I am back...new year resolution...I am in such a funk during this time of year it will be good to get back to the roots of writing things out. I haven't been doing much journaling either...so I am really pent up.

So the last holiday is past that has no expectation...now the big beast...I dread Christmas...I haven't even wanted to decorate in the last few years! Last Wednesday before I left work one of my guys said, "are you going to decorate when you come in next week for Christmas?" I wasn't planning on it...but with his sad little face looking at me..."But "I" like your decorations"...I melted...

So today...I decorated my cubbie for Christmas! And I forgot to take photos! LOL So tomorrow...photos...Maybe I will be in a more merry mood with the happy little decorations around me? What do you think? No...they most likely won't help...but I will make the effort to look at it differently...I will try to embrace this time of year and choose happy...but I am still dreading it...I will look to the ocean and heal my soul.

SO I hope I will have valued things to say rather than just whining! LOL And try to figure out just what it is I can't stand about this time of year and why I allow it to bug me so much.

Over the 4 days off I completed making 4 ornaments and chose a watercolor and put it in a frame for the Company Auction for United Way...I HATE the way the ornaments turned out...but they are what they are! I forgot photos of them too! LOL I am pathetic lately! LOL

Oh this makes me happy -juice juke box

juice juke box
Originally uploaded by jek in the box.

Some times I get so inspired by this woman! Jek can take the simplest of things and make things so fun! If you have a small kid or teen...check this fun project out!

Picking up the needles again...

I have had a hard time thinking of picking up the needles again...I had been playing with that one noro scarf since Lucy died...and I finally picked out some home spun and Jane Thornley's new pattern scarf/vest... Small Investments...and her knit along on Ravelry...I am inspired to knit again...and this time maybe not cry every time I make a stitch...

Planning...

How fun would this be????

Maybe if they are still in business when I turn ehem, 50 I will hire them for my party! I am going to plan a Halloween Party in July when I turn 50! I thought that would be a lot of fun! AND I love this concept!

This is Grandma Carmen I think in the 50s showing photobooth glam!

 

History ~ Wonder if it is true????

I never knew this before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.  Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?  Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers.   Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew!   Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labio dentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute!   It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing

If its not true its a great story! Ha!

Members Only Bible Burning.

Members Only Bible Burning.
Originally uploaded by Jacob...K.

All I can say...is you can't make this shit up! this is just so ironic with my confliction! LOL Burn them all I say! Here take mine! The last few weeks have been filled with such ironic issues I have to laugh. This helped.