The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for December 09, 2011

Frick and Frack

Good Morning Crustwoodians

Boy is that dunce cap in the right place!!

Dunce cap is in a perfect spot. Joy and Verla are just SO busy! I don’t know how they have time to dine out and collect all those free toothpicks and mints, nor stuff their purses with dinner rolls and butter pats.

Good morning LS, and all the other Crustwoodians!

Morning all!

Joy is the only one with no job, but I’m sure she’d say she’s the busiest.

You guys don’t seem to realise that taking care of Baby Burl is a lot of work.

She has to be mother, nurse, cook, housekeeper, co-conspirator, adoring fan and maybe even sometimes… um…. wife… though not quite so much since they turned 50 (cough).

The Find-It says “Dunce”, not “Dunce Cap”, so a case could be made for there being four in the picture today.

Glad to see you here Marg — keep the foot up, though — and Leaky too.

Sounded like Mikie had good news yesterday too.

Crustwood is on the mend!

I’ll still keep the superglue handy.

BTW Dave was right — I fell asleep in my chair last night before I got to Crustwood.

Getting older isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — then again, as they say, it beats the alternative!

Leaky — um…. cos my sentence structure crumbled?

Or maybe just…. in sympathy with Marg we should all put our feet up.

Sounds like a plan I could live with.

And you’re right — but just in case the alternative doesn’t turn out to be better, I’ll stick around here for a while. Why rush, anyway?

I wonder what sort of craft is needed to make “Pot Purrie?” Probably a different aroma from the ones that assail you at every craft store now. More likely to put me more into a “Ho Ho Ho’s” mood. Here’s a scary thought for the holidays, either Joy or Verl—or Burl!—in crafty stretch denims! Oh the horror! (With apologies to Herbert Morrison, any one of them would look like the Hindenberg in stretch pants.)

Good morning everyone. It’s good to be here. Marg, you keep your foot elevated (and exercised and iced) to lessen edema and permanent damage to both the venous and lymphatic systems in your leg. Both can cause ongoing pain and produce clots. It’s a loaded gun pointed right at you.

still got the old analog/knob-operated tv and is that a VHS tape player topped by a Sony BetaMax? yipe! pot purree: cat hairball crafts?

When you’re in jail, you have lots of time to think about stuff.

Seems to me like the Penny’s sit around thinking of ways to avoid work rather than actually doing any.

I remember a grandson calling it poo-poo-ree…. She is wearing THAT blouse !!

Good to see Marge back. Long time crafters and scouters have a reason to resent Martha Stewart (who has a large staff thinking up all “her” ideas). However, like the Pennys, I admit to feeling ever more busy now that I no longer work. My TiVo constantly finding me more to watch on TV helps make me “busy”, but when I had full time work I could always find time for those projects, but would never “copy” any – had to find an improvement!

Only Holiday decor I see there is a bow on the photos. They should hang a wreth on the clown painting. At home I’m pretty lazy too, but I have 4 lighted displays scattered around the house and may pick some pine branches for the smell and decorate them with some oranges and pirocanthia for color.

Let’s hope this bunch doesn’t do the craft stretch denims. The spangles, rivets and metal studs would act like shrapnel if they had to bend over in public for some reason (like gowing to the lower shelves at the Dollar Dump).

With magnification it looks more like a vase of flowers and I see the “pot purrie” topiarry in a pot, and Joy shops at a sewing store – REALLY??Oh, that’s like Burls shirts from Gold’s Gym;-P

This one should have my name on it! Our neighbors were stringing up Christmas lights and decorations yesterday. I told my wife, “I wish that is all I had to do”, (while sitting on my porch sipping a cold beer.)

Tried to take your advice, Sunshine. I put both my feet up in sympathy for Marg.

My boss came and told me to get off my a$$ and get back to work. Guess he don’t care about Marg. Just terrible. I care Marg. When I get home I will put my feet up in sympahty. Make sure you back me up when I tell my wife why I can’t help around the house.

Hmmm, maybe I’ll sympahtize all weekend

Thanks to all who are ‘putting their feet up in sympathy’. Dave I’ll write an excuse for you to give to your wife.

@LS, I also worked hard all my life, but had a husband who wanted me to stay home and manage the house and 4 kids on his meager salary. He was also abusive and objected to my volunteer work in scouting and PTA. I only started “working” after I divorced him and went from being a drafter to a self taught engineer/designer and programming AutoCAD.