And he’s walking around the living room in his wellies with a dust pan full of broken glass.
From his point of view, it’s a triumph that the glass was empty.
Heather
December gift giving folly is a long way off I suppose. But is it really so far away that I can’t hint that this might be a nice addition to the oddly growing pile of crow-related reading material?
(via Bookslut)
I’m still on the look-out for this one, but I don’t need this one or this one.
Why crows? Probably my father’s fault since he liked to claim he was going off to shoot crows when he and his buddies were headed into the woods to drink beer. And if it wasn’t crow shooting, it was porcupine shooting. And when porcupines or crows weren’t to hand, there was beer can shooting or floating bleach bottle shooting. The advantage of beer cans and bleach containers, I suppose, was that people wouldn’t complain that the kids where murdering animals. (Um, yes, lots of target practice. Um, yes, lots of different types of guns. Um, yes, we were all pretty good shots by the time we were 10. And, um, yes, it’s not that hard to make your own ammunition.)
Canada Day weekend we idly wandered around a craft show and flea market. Due to work-weirdness-that-shall-not-be-named, I was pretty much a zombie and forgot to bring money. I kept bumming cash from Douglas to pick up a couple thing that fell within the Mosow Rules for shopping.
I picked up a bit of needlework that’s in bad shape–water-stained, spotted, and faded–and the condition was reflected in the price. This was cheap and I’m unlikely to see another one.
Although this was probably intended for a pillow cover, the wear suggest that it hung in a sunny spot for a while and then later lay flat and maybe folded when it was water damaged. It’s stitched in two types of thread–silk for the flags and cotton for the centre piece–and probably by two hands.
The flags give away the dates–it would have been stitched in Canada between 1914 and early 1917.
Patriotic Pillow - Front
And since I’m always about to get into trouble in museums by trying to look at the underside of things, here’s the back view.
Patriotic Pillow - Back
Heather
