Saturday 9, Ongoing progress in Getting Organized, Knitting report, and The Wolfie toenail thinga.

I will be reporting the Snail's Adventures in Organizing it's Home, and this will occur every single day, with pictures, it's a monumental undertaking for a snail.

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Blues in the Night

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!
Saturday 9: Blues in the Night (1952)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

This is actually one of my favorite songs, and I will sing along with it when it's on the radio mix.

1) Was last night a good night for you? Or were you singing the blues?  Last night we both were a little tired and blue.  We needed to cheer up so we got Greek take out, got into jammies, so to speak, and watched a period piece called "Mission Impossible", now made campy and a bit silly,  plus the first episode or two of Miami Vice on Netflix. 

2) In this song, Rosemary Clooney sings about hearing "big talk" she didn't quite believe. What's the last fib, tall tale or out and out lie you heard?  It was probably something out of a politician's mouth, or maybe the CEO of a bank?

3) Rosemary Clooney has a well-known nephew -- George, the Oscar winner and frequent People magazine cover story. Do you have any nieces or nephews?  I have a lot of nieces and nephews. 

4) Ms. Clooney married the same man twice. They married, had five children and divorced. Then three years later, they tried again ... and divorced again. Have you ever been tempted to give it another try with one of your former loves?  Luckily for me, I have no former loves.  I can see why people do try this though.  Once you've loved someone, and they grow up a little, it's tempting to try again for that sweet feeling of love and companionship.

5) Singers as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler and Amy Winehouse have said they admired and were influenced by Rosemary Clooney. If you could meet any artist (singer, writer, actor, director, painter, musician ...), who would it be?  I would want to meet Vincent Van Gogh.


6) 1952, the year this record was a hit, is also the year the "Big Bang Theory" was introduced by physicists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow. That is too lofty a topic for this humble meme, so instead we'll just ask: Do you watch the TV show of the same name?  Yes, we watch it, but wait for it on Netflix.  My sister, who also watches it, has to be careful not to tell me anything about the current state of "affairs" going on between all the various dating characters.

7) Sam Winters just broke her right thumbnail. While she won't go so far as saying it has her singing the blues, she must admit it bugs her. What little annoyances are you dealing with today? Sorry you broke a thumbnail.  They are the best tools!  I'm still recovering from Surgery and what with what others are going through on a daily basis, it's really a minor annoyance.  I am still "Organizing Things", a biggy on the list of must-get-dones, but I rest a lot, too.

8) The house next door to Sam's has a FOR SALE on the lawn. Are you contemplating a move? I am always contemplating a move.  I will move away in a heartbeat if the chance ever arises.

9) What's your search engine of choice: Google, Bing, Yahoo or Ask?  Actually I have two.  For research, it's Yahoo.  For everything else, it's Google.  But Yahoo seems to be changing.  *Sigh*

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!

Getting Organized.

All of the white binders are now in the Storage side of the Sewing Studio now.  What is on the table is mostly for jewelry production, and some things that are for ceramics, and those are hidden under some stuff that has to go elsewhere.  The unfinished butterfly house is one of two that I want to get painted and put up this summer.  I work and then rest so progress is slow, but progress nonetheless.

Make it big, IF Google let's you

Now the binders are in their new place and await labels.  The poor dusty bears will get a good cleaning, and so will the pig, raccoon, fish, rabbit and off camera Hedge Hog.  He'd fallen and couldn't get back up. Some of these were gifts, and some I rescued from Thrift stores.  Since I can't have fifteen mixed and pure poodles for a traveling dog show, I rescued bears and other foundlings.  There just aren't enough hours in the day... you know?  See, it is as you suspected; I am just a kid at heart.

Wolfie Report:  Wolfie got his sharp toenail (dew claw) trimmed this AM by Moi, the Inept.  I was using the wrong tool, of course, because all the rabbit clippers have been stashed somewhere unknown.  So, we had a little bleeding, in fact it was more than a little.  I was beside myself with angst, and regret, holding up his injured arm, and watching the facial tissue fill with red dots.  ( I refuse to use the K word.)  We called the groomer and she advised to put white flour on it.

So, if you don't have a styptic stick made for dogs, you can use white flour.  HERE is a very complete page for the process of trimming back a dog's nail.  Wolfie, because of his ancestry, can grow nails that curl right back onto themselves in a perfect circle. They almost look like jump rings for jewelry, the Boogers! Sometimes there are sharp little daggers on one edge that dig into his pad.  I was attempting to cut off just that point, like you do with your own toenails from time to time.  Mon Dieu!  Quelle Horreur! Plus Jamais ça!  Brrrr!  (for the amusement of Kara *wink*)

Knitting report:  Got past the gussets.  Whew.  Now I'll just match the little M*rde to it's mate.  Then comes the pink stardust sweater, and the other two sweaters.  As to the pink, I'll never buy 90 yard skeins again unless it is all wool.

Have a great Saturday night and Sunday!