Or Maybe Submarine Week

 We got seven inches of rain in one hour and forty-five minutes this weekend, and about an inch and a half of that, made its way to our finished basement. Note to self: there will be no more keeping yarn in decorative baskets on the floor.  EDITED TO ADD:  Don't expect much from me this week.  

It's National Marine Week

 

Oh, you meant the other kind...

Hiatus

 I've been assigned to the Highland Park response and will be not be posting for the next five days or so. EDITED TO ADD: So, I'm being released from the response so I can attend a 3 day FEMA class, and going back on until next Sunday.  This one is lasting longer than I anticipated - but then, I've not covered a mass shooting response before. It's...different.

Grrrsday

 

Knitting - A Wedge Washlcoth from 1940

 

From the February, 1940 issue of Workbasket.  The entire issue is available as a free download from the Antique Pattern Library (don't click if you aren't prepared for a stereotypical "cullud chile" lawn ornament pattern).

"War at the best, is terrible..."

 

Them as never heerd dead men callin' for the colors don't guess what they be. ~ Percy MacKaye

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

photo image from Newsweek

Some years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things.  And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn't qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.

On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name.  And then he pointed to the hall of people and said words to the effect of, "I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here?  They've made amazing things.  I just went where I was sent."

And I said, "Yes.  But you were the first man on the moon.  I think that counts for something."  ~ Neil Gaiman