A good day

Today was a good demo day at Stone Mtn.  There were lots of interesting people and the weather was great -- cool and dry, though the day started out drizzly.  It was one of those days I was really delighted to be able to sit outside and work.

And one lady told me a funny.  People often come up and just bluntly ask "What are you doing?"  I normally answer patiently, just saying "I'm spinning yarn out of wool on a spinning wheel,"  because honey, you wouldn't BELIEVE what people come up with on their own:

"Look, she's sewing!"

"Look, she's weaving yarn!"

"Look, she's weaving cotton on her sewing machine!"

Seriously.

But this lady today told me that her grandmother had a phrase that she'd use when someone asked her what she was doing when she was doing something that should be fairly obvious.

"I'm sewing buttons on ice cream."

I laughed for 5 minutes.  I swear.  The lady walked away while I was still laughing.  Hell, I'm STILL laughing.

I told her her grandmother was a genius.

New pictures of Snowflakes on Cedars tomorrow.  I'm up to the trees now, after recovering from an "oh shit" moment when I realized I'd hosed up one of the corners.  But laddering down (NOT frogging, yay!) let me fix it, after I thought overnight on how I'd tackle the fix.

No, I didn't take pictures.  I didn't want to jinx myself.  :) 

Comments

[Mouse]

Dude.. that's excellent. My usual response to things like that is "I'm performing brain surgery" but I like "sewing buttons on ice cream" even better because its almost whimsical in a very "why is a raven like a writing desk?" sort of way.

[jodi]

I'm totally stealing that line.

[Restless Knitter]

Sewing?! One would think even those raised in the city would know that isn't sewing.

[danielle]

I'm going to forget it, but that line is priceless.

[danielle]

I was just catching up on my podcasts at lunch; one of the ones I enjoy is "A Way with Words," in which the hosts take on all manner of linguistic related questions. It just so happened that one caller was asking about the origin of a phrase her mother used to say when the daughter got too inquisitive, which led to the hosts talking about other phrases, including "sew a button on ice cream." How is it that I just read your entry this morning (late) and listen to my podcast (late) and hear the same cool phrase I've never heard before????

[Joy]

How about "weaving string" - sheesh!

[Carmen]

I have alpacas and I take them to spinning events. The alpacas hum when they communicate. A lady the other day asked her husband what instrument was there in my trailer and she also asked me when I learned to sew ( I was spinning on wheel ) . Very funny I thought, I just did not know how to answer the question about the instrument .