Mundane Mumblings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll start this off with a fun little memory from my past. Growing up, we ate a LOT of Campbell’s soups. Especially chicken noodle. My brother and I liked to take the individual noodles and lay them on the edge of the table and pretend we were birds slurping up worms. We usually did this when no one else was around us. Such innocent fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I HATE wallpaper! I prefer walls that are empty until you hang a picture. I’d see these home makeovers (especially Colin and Justin) and the first thing they would do is hang some terrible wallpaper. No thanks! Sarah is brilliant at doing montages with framed family pictures. And I’ve seen several very nice ones with random art pics. I’d love to have a montage of B&W pics, or monochrome pics, or totally random abstracts. Each room would have its own montage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember lollipops on a string instead of a stick? Like the ones that Sidney Poitier gave the nuns in “Lilies of the Field”? Those were neat because if you saved the strings, you could tie them together. Kids like that kind of thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone knows I love cats and I love Jimmy Stewart. One of my favorite movies is Bell, Book and Candle. It features Jimmy and a cat named Pyewacket. When I was at Girl Scout camp MANY years ago, we slept outside on the ground. There was a tent for if someone was sick and needed to be somewhat ‘indoors’. At one point I had a sore throat and was put in the tent. There was another girl named Chloe in there as well. She had a cat named Pyewacket! I thought that was the coolest thing in the world! The only reason I never gave any of my cats that name is because Pye was a Siamese. The first year we were married we took in a stray that had a lot of Siamese in her, but by that time I’d forgotten about Pyewacket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And speaking of cats…the Brontë sisters (Emily, Charlotte and Anne) were cat lovers. Here is part of Emily’s essay in praise of cats: “I can say with sincerity that I like cats; also I can give very good reasons why those who despise them are wrong. A cat is an animal who has more human feelings than almost any other being.”

 

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