I Don't Watch Action/Thriller/Suspense Movies and I Hate Roosters

No, this is not a catchy phrase.  It's the plain truth.

I don't watch action movies, or thriller movies, or suspense movies.  My life is full of excitement, really I have enough as it is and don't want someone's fake excitement making me stay awake at night.  Which is where the rooster comes in.

I hate roosters.  I really do.  They keep me awake at night just like one of those movies.  They crow at all hours of the night.  My neighbor, for reasons known only to himself, and understood by nobody, decided to get a rooster.   We live in the suburbs, not the country, for Pete's sake!  Sometimes That Stupid Rooster will crow at 1 a.m., at 2 a.m., at 4 a.m. for over half an hour.  Which is where the action, thriller, suspense movies come in.  I've decided to name that rooster.

His name is Bill.

And, in case you don't get it, there's an equally stupid movie called "Kill Bill".  That's why I named the rooster "Bill". 

River

P.S.  Every time I send someone to the grocery store, I make sure to include in the list One Rooster Shooter, but they haven't brought one back.

Once Upon a Shawl...

Once upon a time, a crochetster saw a picture...
and thought it would make A Lovely Shawl for her Fearless Boss's dear Mother. So she went to a store and bought 3 of these...
with her hard-earned money. She immediately started to crochet the shawl, putting lots of love and prayers and good wishes into every stitch. This is what it started to look like:
Lots of other crochetsters saw it and encouraged her to finish it, in spite of the difficulties of the instructions of the pattern, so she continued, all the time imagining a sweet old lady with a beautiful shawl around her shoulders, keeping her warm during the cold harsh New York winter. Fearless Boss liked it too, saying it was beautiful. But...

One day, she realized that the beautiful shawl, although indeed beautiful, was not practical at all... It was too narrow around the neckline and would probably fall off the sweet old lady's shoulders all the time. Which meant that, instead of being A Lovely Shawl, it would become a Nuisance. So Faithful Assistant decided to unravel the pretty-yet-impractical shawl and so it became this:

So, now, her search for A Lovely Shawl is taking her to Lion Brand, where the half-moon shawl is said to be lovely and looks practical. This time she hopes she can finish it...

My Next WIM

This is my next WIM. A WIM is a Work-in-Mind, and my WIM, or whim, take your pick, haha! is this.

It looks fairly easy, doesn't it? Except for the border, and even that is not difficult. This looksl ike something dd might like. I'll ask her.

I wonder what yarn I should use...

River

P.S. Elsie, thank you so much! I'll in touch!

What Kind of Government Do We Have?

"When a strict interpretation of the Constitution... is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we no longer have a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean."

Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtiss

March 6, 1857,

dissenting from the Dred Scott ruling that slaves were property