Woo Hoo A Finish!

I finally finished Son in law's quilt yesterday. All I have to do is make the label & it is all done. I have backed it will flannellette, so it will be nice & warm, & my daughter assures me she is going to use it on the top of their bed, when he is not using it in the lounge. They love their quilts.

SG will be very glad it is going to their house- he wanted it to be his, & when I told him it was not for him, he said well, it needed to be in their house!

I am going to call it "Something to Crow About".

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I saw the meme about Horrifying Sounds, over at Bec's & decided to do it myself.
I am not limiting myself to recent events here.

1. GOM, calling plaintively from the bowels or our Pantry, "Do we need to keep this?"

That can be horrifying on so many levels. Why is he delving in the pantry again? What hideous find has he discovered this time? What forgotten food has been quietly rotting while I was unaware it was even there?

2. A bloodcurdling scream from a bedroom.

We witnessed several of these. Perhaps the worst one, was from a child with a cut foot which is literally spurting blood all over the carpet. She had done hand stands on her bed, fell on a drinking glass -forbidden in the bedroom- & badly cut her foot when it landed on the glass. It took years to have all the glass removed finally from her foot. We had friends who kept pigs, & our son had been reading the various pig books they had. He had been reading all about black pudding. He said we needed to keep the spurting blood in a bowl for black pudding.

3. A bloodcurdling scream from the front door when it was shut - at my request.

Daughter shut door, not realising son had finger in the door edge. Result, one severed finger. Luckily it was reattached.

4. Now any child's bloodcurdling screams send me into paroxysms of horror.

5.Retching sounds from the dog, who happens to be lying on your bed, in the middle of the night.

You know you are not going to make it out of bed, & grab the dog before it actually vomits on your nice new quilt.

6.Retching sounds coming from the guest bedroom, where a very drunk guest has gone to spend the night.

What else can you do, but clean it all up. The guest is beyond doing anything for themselves, even stand. Resist urge to kick them while they are down.

7. Another horrifying sound is the sound of your thoughts, in your head, as you plot revenge, for said guest letting themself get in that state. Why dont these men learn!

8. Tinkles coming from a package that you just know should not be tinkling.

And no one will accept liability. Suck it up & wear it.

9. For a final horrifying sound, our recent sewage tainted flood, out into our carpets.

Now neccessitating replacement of the whole house full of carpet.

Which will be nice,... but a hell of a way to get new carpet, I can tell you.

Don McLean, Winterwood