Thirteen Thursday Was Here
1. A year or so ago I would never have guessed that I’d be interviewing and writing about an opera singer, a cheesemaker, a toymaker, and a pool player. It sounds like a jump rope song.
2. One thing I’ve learned about going on interviews for stories is that wearing my reading glasses in a holder around my neck while my camera is hanging there too is only asking for trouble.
3. My husband Joe has thick curly hair. When my kids were little and he needed a haircut, they would tease him by calling him “Ofra” Winfrey.
4. Now when he needs a haircut we just call him Rob Blagojevich.
5. I woke up yesterday morning and discovered three pens and three stalks of asparagus in my bathrobe pocket, which tells you a lot about who I am and what I do.
6. I recently learned that for several hundred years pool balls were made of ivory. The billiard industry realized that their supply of ivory was not sustainable because elephants that were being slaughtered just for their tusks were becoming endangered, so they challenged inventors with the incentive of a $10,000 prize to come up with an alternative material. The result was the invention of plastic.
7. Funny how we call a prolific weed invasive but if its a flower we call it naturalized.
8. My comment to Angoralady after reading a post about her garden: My next post will definitely be about my garden. I’ve got the bug, but I hope not the kind that eats veggies.
9. Then I read a post at Beautiful Layers about the author’s shop idea for her vintage and handmade clothes and said: You are definitely on the cutting edge (sewing pun intended).
10. I was listening to an NPR review of Bob Dylan’s latest album and was intrigued by one song titled “Hell’s my wife’s hometown.” It made me realize that my husband could say “Hull’s my wife’s hometown.”
11. Always a lover of the short rhyme, my favorite jump rope song as a kid was: Mickey Mouse bought a house. He didn’t pay the rent so he got kicked out.
12. I have a hula hoop, a couple of kaleidoscopes, and a pair of pink kazoo lips. Now I’m starting to want a jump rope and some chalk.
13. And THIS makes me want to be a daycare teacher again.
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May 6th, 2009 10:32 pm
You are still a child at heart and you can do the song in #13 with Byrce. xo
May 6th, 2009 10:49 pm
i love 56&7 and are reverting back to childhood
May 6th, 2009 10:55 pm
Good thing age is just a state of mind.
Enjoy your childhood *wink
Happy T13!
May 6th, 2009 10:55 pm
Great list! Happy TT
May 6th, 2009 11:29 pm
Chalk for hop scotch? My girls just discovered this, and love it.
May 7th, 2009 5:02 am
Nice happy post in these days of rain, rain, and more rain!
May 7th, 2009 9:09 am
Sidewalk chalk is not what we grew up with anymore… multiple gorgeous colors… and the things you can make with it… amazing… GO GET SOME!
May 7th, 2009 9:38 am
Now I’m trying to remember the songs i used to sing while jumping rope. I liked double dutch, because there was a faster rhythm. 🙂
May 7th, 2009 10:19 am
Ha! I love the bathrobe story. My asparagus is coming up too. So far I don’t have enough to plan a meal around it, but I haven’t checked the garden today yet.
May 7th, 2009 10:44 am
Wow cool list. Good luck with your garden.
Thanks for sharing. Happy TT!
May 7th, 2009 11:15 am
Your list made me smile. I like the way it rambled all over the place. That’s the way my life is, too.
May 7th, 2009 11:28 am
There’s a difference between Hull and Hell 😉 Hull’s not as warm!
May 7th, 2009 1:30 pm
Lol at Janet, how well I know it!
Great stories in your thirteen today. Sidewalk chalk is something my younger kids love and srp is right, the colors & texture of the chalk is much more wonderful than even 25 years ago.
May 7th, 2009 8:31 pm
LOL on glasses and camera both hanging around your neck. Yes, it’s asking for trouble.
May 7th, 2009 9:13 pm
#1 sounds more like the sound of a bad joke to me ;0)
And you don’t need sidewalk chalk for hopscotch – a good ole rock can write well enough on the pavement.
May 8th, 2009 2:27 am
I love #5, too funny! Great list.
May 8th, 2009 10:21 am
Thanks for the link to me, and to new people to explore! Frustrated gardener here, though. It’s been SO wet!
May 8th, 2009 2:52 pm
5 and 6 are utter coolnesses!
May 9th, 2009 10:56 am
Your remark about the Hula Hoop brought to my mind something I saw that was online (somewhere!)…a very young boy twisting his little body while his Hula Hoop lay motionless on the ground around him. He was SO happy, being much too young to realize the HH was supposed to be spinning around his tiny hips!
May 10th, 2009 1:48 am
I LOVE all your Posts Colleen, but I particulatly LOVE yout Thursday Thirteens….Thry are always filled with “goodies” one can savor….! My favorite had to do with what was in your pocket…lol!
May 10th, 2009 11:20 pm
Love the daycare video! I taught daycare before having children of my own. My classes weren’t nearly as well-behaved. though. Possibly because they had many more rough and tumble boys in them. 🙂
May 12th, 2009 10:13 am
I have a hulahoop too. It helps flatten the stomach, they say. But I grew tired of it. Haha. Not that patient.
Love the video too. I never thought you were a daycare teacher. You’ve been there. But I’m still going to that direction. 🙂