13 Thursday Weaving
1. New word learned at a recent weekend at a party: Booyah! It’s right up there with Boomshakalaka!
2. Sheryl Crow on military action in Syria: like throwing a rock in a beehive.
3. Line seen on Facebook: It’s always good to keep an open mind, but not so much that your brains fall out.
4. Recent search that landed someone on my blog: “gucciardo tomato sauce.” Sorry folks, I don’t have Mickey G’s secret recipe.
5. The apples were early this year and so are the spiders, both usually come in or closer to October. We are being webbed in at our house. We had a banner year for yellow swallowtail butterflies and now it’s spiders. I’ve been trying to figure out why there are so many this year. Some say it’s because the cooler and wetter summer created more bugs, a food supply for spiders.
6. We have a lot of spider webs but not THIS many.
7. I met my husband Joe at the Laundromat, causing the Shangri-Las song Leader of the Pack to play in my head over the years. Imagine my surprise when I finally listened to the lyrics and discovered that she didn’t meet him at the Laundromat but at the candy store, and that THIS song by The Detergents must have been what I was thinking about.
8. Looking at an old picture of myself as a teenager, I confused myself by thinking about how the picture is old but I am young in it.
9. Interviewer to Yoko Ono: You’re 80 and still rocking. What’s your secret to staying forever young, and/or your philosophy on aging gracefully? Yoko: I don’t particularly think I’m gracefully anything. Maybe that’s the secret. I like to work, and I do. Each time I produce some artwork or music work, I feel energized.
10. Eric Clapton doing laundry at the Laundromat HERE.
11. To scare off predators, some spiders make decoys of themselves out of their webs, like THIS.
12. I’m trying to figure out more ways to use swoon in a sentence.
13. What a couple of flirts! HERE.
_______________Thirteen Thursday
September 18th, 2013 11:29 pm
Didn’t Anita’s weather-lore post from a few weeks ago say bigger and denser spider webs were an indication of a cold winter ahead? My T13: Olbrich Botanical Gardens
September 18th, 2013 11:36 pm
This 13 of yours seems especially ‘wicked’.
September 19th, 2013 5:12 am
Spiders have wrapped up my house almost everywhere!
September 19th, 2013 5:16 am
All this spidery stuff makes me itchy-icky. (I know, I know; they’re good, beneficial members of the great circle, but….ICK.)
September 19th, 2013 6:46 am
More spiders = bad winters, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. We have a lot of them, too, more than usual. Your wonderful post nearly made me swoon with envy.
September 19th, 2013 9:57 am
love Sheryl
September 19th, 2013 10:47 am
You only just learned booyah? I thought that one was already going out of style.
September 19th, 2013 1:16 pm
good Yoko Ono quote!
September 19th, 2013 1:33 pm
I love those “flirts”….And that is a WONDERFUL Quote from Yoko Ono…..
You’ve got Spider City there…..!
September 19th, 2013 8:19 pm
Wow, Yoko Ono is 80?
We always have lots of spiders on our glasses in front porch.
September 20th, 2013 6:49 am
2. That’s a great quote from Sheryl Crow.
6. OMG
8. Those oxymoron thoughts !!!
9. Go Yoko
11. Amazing nature. Wow.
Maybe you’d enjoy this board. I just spent over an hour here reading and viewing so many amazing nature facts:
http://www.pinterest.com/natskep/love-of-science-nature
September 20th, 2013 9:49 am
Awesome site, Kath!
September 21st, 2013 10:15 am
Some people have a phobia of spiders. It is called “Arachnophobia!” I bet no one will be coming over to your site if they have this phobia, especially seeing #6! That creeps me out. I wonder how big they are???
October 3rd, 2013 5:22 am
ugh, spiders! I love to photograph and look at their webs, but the spiders themselves scare me. I know they’re good at controlling bugs…but it’s not a rational thing, this fear.