I Like Thursday # 350 celebrity crush

 

Welcome to this week's list of likes.... starting with painting and drawing. I'll show the whole picture on Saturday's creativity round up post, but Iris mean spring to me, still, even though there are NO spring flowers in our 'hood in Colorado.

We have had rain, which should help our new grass plugs to root... I'm rooting for them! 

I loved doing a quilt pattern with my friend Cindy this week, as well as the Zen Stitch workshop (online hand stitching fibers)  I also loved that Joy is back, and we zoomed this week! 

I Loved that another leeeeetle horse was born to the Freesian Horses (in the Netherlands) and felt like a proud grandma since I've been watching their videos for years, and saw the Mama as a young filly growing up, now give birth this week to her first foal. the video link

I made a wonderful lentil soup this week

I think the magic ingredient is leeks and fresh ginger root. Of course I used ours up and Whole Foods didn't "have" any for delivery in our order. I mean, come on y'all... why is there no food at whole foods in Denver so often? What's the deal? 

Anyway the soup was perfect, savory and filling, and a perfect lunch accompaniment for the week. 

I love the book I got free from Amazon,  and can take all the time I need to savor it unlike library books

 from the library, I'm listening to a fascinating account of a boy's growing up in Albany NY during WW2... want to know what life was like? listen to the wonderful reader of this

 

 Our Prompt this week is to tell us about a close encounter with a celebrity... 

Lets start with one I have no memory of, but the mother said she took me to a Frankie Avalon concert when I was about 5, and he leaned down to blow me a kiss... 

I have a hazy memory of attending a local taping of Romper Room when about 6, although Miss Whatever never saw me in her magic Mirror when saying kids names... LeeAnna wasn't a common name I guess. 

When I stayed in Salt Lake City for a summer, I visited  Sundance for an evening concert, and oy vey!

Robert Redford... yummm  handsome as he aged , I was a few people back up on the hill, but I saw him with my own two eyes! 

Speaking of 8 degrees of separation... I sat about 10 feet away from Kevin Bacon when he and his brother performed a concert in a small venue in Annapolis Md. I think he looked right at me as he sang... 

Living near Washington DC we used to attend the Library of Congress Nat'l Book Festival, where I saw and sometimes met famous authors like Diana Gabaldon, Nicholas Sparks, Gregory Maguire, so many really, so close, but the one who shook my hand, and signed my poster, was Lake Woebegone's own Garrison Keilor... he is tall y'all. I told him I danced to his show on our 1st wedding anniversary trip. 

He was not impressed.

When I was growing up, and so very romantic as a preteen, we used to go to Ghost Town in Maggie Valley NC each summer. I got to be up close to kid stars I had mini crushes on, like Hank Ketchum from Denise the Menace, and Johnny Crawford from the Rifleman, and I seem to remember Troy Donahue doing "shoot out shows" too... the stars used to come down to our lodge to relax in the evenings. 

I got to go to a movie premiere in LA once, a Michael J Fox movie but he wasn't there... sad... 

as a quilter, I got to know a lot of the "big name" teachers/authors, often hanging out with them, and once sharing a room at the Houston show with Robbie Joy E. They rip out their mis stitches like the rest of us, one at a tine

DH and I stayed on Rodeo Drive at the Beverly Hills Hilton when he had a business trip... we were shopping, as one does, and in came Catherine Heigle. She's a lot more petite than I thought she'd be.

Finally, I dated a musician for about 5 years, as a young working woman, and although he was well known locally, not a celebrity but he had friends who were more well known so they became my friends. I got to sit at the "girlfriend's table and that felt kinda special. He sang to me even writing me a song once. 

It is fun to think back to these. What about you?

watching on youtube

Milo's Moments

Heh heh, here's a hint on how to get a new toy... first chew to smithereens your old ones, and look pathetic pulling the old scrap out of your toy box and taking it to the mama to play with...

Then the mama will go in that magic room that she goes in to find new toys, and come out with an...
 

OCTOPUS! With all his legs!
And all his legs have squeakers! Man o man did my Daddy want that toy, he chased me all over the family room to catch it but I'm quick! 

When I was ready, I laid down on the floor, called him over so I could put my feet and new toy on daddy's legs, and had a really fun time chewing off a leg right away! 

Mama: I know! I couldn't believe you were gonna tear it up within an hour of getting it

Milo: I know, you almost messed up my good time, by interrupting me! I mean, it's my toy, I like to chew their legs off, just watch that talky-talk and let me play Mama!

 

Mama: Okay oh wise one... have fun

now please visit these people to see what they liked this week...

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

https://joyfullytracie.com/unlocking-my-full-power-commitment/ 

http://littlepenguinquilts

 

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/  

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 

 

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com  

pieceful thoughts 

 

https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

 craftscaviescontras    

princess bubbles creates   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

 the knitty quilter

https://www.texasquiltgal.com/

 

 

                                                                  LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

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