The current Sunday Stealing is about being crafty. If it meant being clever and mysterious, then MAYBE I could pull it off. But I think they’re talking about origami and macrame.
1. What (if anything) are you doing to celebrate St Patrick’s Day?
I always play music by the Chieftains, Clannad, and the Corrs. Unfortunately, I’ve made no progress in identifying my mother’s father’s mother’s parents, so I brood over that. I know that Margaret Collins was born in 1866 and died in August 1931 in upstate New York. But her parents’ names are not listed on the death certificate. I suspect they are from County Cork, Ireland, but Collins is too common a surname.
2. What is your least favorite color (to wear, to craft with, or to decorate with)?
Yellow. Specifically, when people make signs with yellow on white or vice versa, the lettering is very difficult to read.
3. At a yellow light – do you speed up or slow down??
Stop because I’d be on a bicycle, and I’m likely to get myself killed otherwise.
4. How many pairs of scissors are in your craft room?
I can never find scissors. They’re never where I want them.
Gift ideas!
5. What are the first three items you have ‘saved for later’ on Amazon?
If you mean the oldest: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano by Derrick Bang (Paperback) from 2012, The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio by Mark Evanier, Jim Simon (Hardcover) from 2014, and Cahoots by The Band (Audio CD) from 2016. If you mean the ones on the top, i.e., the most recent: Exodus 40 by Bob Marley & The Wailers (Audio CD) from 2024, Moulin Rouge! The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording (Audio CD) from 2022, and Six: The Musical Studio Cast Recording (Audio CD) also from 2022, which I hope to get for my birthday since we’re going to see the touring show at Proctors in Schenectady in May.
6. Did you plant any springs bulbs in your garden and if so, have any of them come up yet?
The last time I helped plant anything was tulips over 15 years ago. Not my thing.
7. What book, if any, are you reading right now?
60 Songs That Explain the ’90s by Rob Harvilla. Actually, I organized my office, and I can’t presently locate it.
8. Do you prefer ball point pens, gel pens, or thin tip markers to write with?
Ballpoint. Preferably blue or black.
It is to laugh
9. What is your favorite crafting item – the craft item thing you use the most or can’t live without? (Exclude basic items like scissors and glue).
I don’t craft. I suck at crafts. In the 1990s, I was in a book group with about a dozen women at my church. One month, the book was about origami, and the person reporting on the book decided we should all partake in that activity. Did I mention that I suck at crafts. Very few things irritate me more than when people say, about something I am apparently constitutionally incapable of doing, “Oh, it’s EASY!”
10. What are the first three items on your grocery list, and what is your favorite grocery store?
Bananas, blueberries, low-fat cottage cheese. The Price Chopper/Market 32 is in walking distance so I go there. My wife tends to drive to the Hannaford on Central Avenue. Incidentally, in the past three months I’ve seen armed security guards at both venues, which does NOT make me feel more safe.
11. What unfinished craft projects are you working on (or not) at the moment?
[Doubles over laughing.]
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12. What was the last item you pinned on Pinterest? Or hearted on Instagram?
I have accounts for both of them but don’t use them. Recently, my daughter tried selling me on IG because it’s “fun.” It may be, but it’s not me.
13. What is the biggest tourist attraction where you live?
Here’s a list. I’ve been to the first 12, 15, 17, and 19. I practically live on Route 20. I do not consider Crossgates Mall a tourist attraction.
14. What color is your favorite sweater?
Green, like me.
15. How does your family react when you get a big pile of mail??
It must be time for me to pick new Medicare providers or keep the old ones, which happens between October 15 and December 7. This is why God invented the shredding bag.