I got back from the grocery store shortly past dusk last night. Brett and I were in the kitchen, unpacking grocery bags and putting food away when this exchange occurred:
Brett: Mushlette, I think we really need to buy a peahen for the peacock.
Mush: Why? What happened?
Brett: I saw the peacock fucking his own feathers today.
Mush: YOU SAW NO SUCH THING!
Brett: Yes, yes I did.
Mush: His own feathers? How did this work?
Brett: He had his tail out and was humping it and biting it. I think he even came.
Mush: Oh my God, I can’t believe it.
Brett: We seriously need to get him a girlfriend. This has gone way too far.
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That’s sensible… even peas need sex.
Wonders never cease. I guess you need to get a move on or perhaps the peacock has been watching you two do it too often. (snort!)
Not that a peacock masturbating isn’t interesting enough make a comment on, but I have a question totally off the subject.
Where do I find a place in Fairfield that teaches a person how to knit? My daughter loves those scarves made from the eyelash yarn and it would mean so much to her if I made one myself rather than buy it. I’ve never knitted anything before so it needs to be introductory. However, with the neuropathy damage from the chemo in my fingers I doubt I’ll be able to do much more than a scarf or something that doesn’t require a lot of dexterity.
Anyway, I thought you could point me in the right direction for classes or who to call to get some info.
Go to Wal-mart or the At Home Store and buy some needles and a cool ball of yarn (NOT eyelash to begin with, though); that’s all you need to start.
To learn to knit, you can go to the At Home Store on the square and take lessons there – they have lots of classes.
Or you can learn from a book (I bought a little pamphlet at Wal-mart and taught myself to knit with it, and I’m certain there are learn-to-knit books at the library).
Also, if you have cable/satellite, you can watch the show ‘Knitty Gritty’ on DIY; it has a lot of helpful beginner-level stuff on it, although I think the hostess might be a bona fide alien. FROM OUTER SPACE.
And finally, if none of that works out for you, we can meet somewhere and I can teach you. Seriously. Revelations or something. (I don’t work Mondays or Fridays.)
As for dexterity, knitting requires some, but if you’re like me you’ll actually prefer knitting big yarn on big needles (because it makes the projects ever so much faster and therefore more satisfying). You can knit tons of really cool shit with fat yarn on big needles. I have this KILLER hat pattern… and you can whip scarves out while you’re not even looking if you just do a simple pattern. (My favorite scarf was knit in the round, so you don’t even have to purl, you just knit-knit-knit until it’s long enough, then bind off and add some fringe. Since it’s double layered – it was knit in a tube – it’s warm as hell too.)
I don’t learn well from seeing something in a book. I’m more of a visual learner…seeing something done in front of me is much more helpful for me. What size/kind of needles should I buy to begin with? I’ve got some other qusetions I was going to ask…..but I’m falling asleep at my computer as I’m typing this, so I guess that means I should go to bed!!
Oh, to be a peacock. I would never leave the farm.
Oh sure you would. You’d waddle up to the neighbor’s barn and do the sexy dance for their turkeys! (Our peacock is a friendly fellow. He does the sexy dance for our cat, too.)