startitis again

[incandescens]

Certainly not a bad day. A nice quiet one.

And I started knitting a new shawl.

(Please don't look at me like that . . .)

---

Wine and Water

Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,
He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail,
And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,
But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail,
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink
As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink,
The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink,
And Noah he cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think,
The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine,
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

But Noah he sinned, and we have sinned; on tipsy feet we trod,
Till a great big black teetotaller was sent to us for a rod,
And you can't get wine at a P.S.A., or chapel, or Eisteddfod,
For the Curse of Water has come again because of the wrath of God,
And water is on the Bishop's board and the Higher Thinker's shrine,
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.

-- Chesterton

Comments

[archangelbeth]

I need to start piecing together the spread I want to put on the guest bed to keep the cats from shedding on the comforter when the door gets wonky and won't close. *sigh*

[incandescens]

(hugs)

I look forward to seeing it. But don't feel rushed!

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

But of course I look at you like that! What PATTERN are you using? :P

[incandescens]

(grins)

Two strands of Lion Brand Homespun together on 12mm flexi needles: cast on 60 stitches, knit garter stitch until long enough, then stop. Change one or the other of the yarns for a different colour one every 6-12 inches or so for a gradual colour change effect. ;)

Very basic rectangle. I may add a fringe when it's done.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's scarcely complicated enough to count as a PROJECT. That's just relaxation, that is. No one has any justification for looking at you funny at all!

[incandescens]

How well you put it! Thank you. :)

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

The wors chool and shawl look exactly the same to me, until my brain cathes up.

[incandescens]

Poor brain. :)

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

And aparantly space ing and d's go walkabout. words school and shawl

[incandescens]

Ah. I was wondering. ;)