Saturday morning silliness

[treeskin]

First, a giggle-inducing take on animal guides: Crow's special Gift is Pretending to Know Much More than you Actually Do And Telling Everyone All About It.

Second, lessons learned while preparing to knit:
* A large boom box makes a decent swift for winding a hank of yarn
* One plastic chopstick is too fiddly to be a good spindle for winding a center-pull ball of yarn. Two chopsticks, though, work very well.

Comments

[cammie018.livejournal.com]

you are not helping us get work done :) But the animals are very funny

[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Fine point sharpies, or the smaller size white board markers work well, too, and I've taken to keeping one in my "travel" knitting bag. In a pinch I've also used a wooden kitchen spoon. On all three I prefer wind a small hair elastic/rubber band down the shaft a ways to anchor the center-pull end of yarn. I'll have to remember the chopstick trick!

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

One chopstick was too small, two was better, and two gave me a place to anchor that end of yarn. Not sure it'd work as well with the cheap wooden ones. I used the plastic ones that Donna keeps in the office for makign holes for seeds.

I suppose one of these days I ought to get ones of those things with a handle, for the purpose. (Can't remember the name right now. Seen lots of pretty turned wooden ones on the net...you know what I'm talking about. This is my brain on decaf this morning.)

[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Nostepinne? Yeah, I've seen some pretty ones. I think that if I ever get one, it will jump off the shelf and demand to come home with me. Until that day, I'm content with whatever I have to hand.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I am, clearly, Crane.

Crane teaches the virtue of Patience.

Cranes can stand completely still in a pond for hours waiting for prey to pass by. This is commonly believed to be attributed to Crane's amazing capacity for Patience. The reality, though, is that Crane has a terrible short-term memory and the mental capacity of a goldfish.
It stands in streams and ponds for hours at a time because it is constantly forgetting what it is looking for. Cranes became endangered of extinction not because of hunting, as commonly believed, but rather from starvation. They forget what is edible and what isn't. If you can't remember what you had for dinner last night, or how to spell your own last name, chances are you could be a child of Crane.

* Crane's special Gift is ...erm...what were we talking about again?