Startled

...to find an odd post in my Blog List (i.e., the list of blogs I read/follow) this morning.

It was a post from a friend who's pretty much given up blogging.  Well, er...that was where the link originated... BUT in reality, though she'd given up posting several months ago...some Poor Soul in Indonesia had co-opted her blog address and sent me a cropped photo of the nether regions of a naked female...sigh...

Because I'm acquainted with Said Blogger (the real one, not the porno-blogger!), I e-mailed her to let her know that her former address was being compromised/trashed/disrespected...and to advise her to check wherever she'd put this address forward as a link.

From C.S. Lewis: The Official Blog

I haven't heard from her since, but am hoping all is well in her corner of the blog-i-verse...and I did an extra scan of my computer, and double-checked my security selections...just in case.

Isn't this a pity?
Isn't this just a damned shame?
That Screwtape and his cronies think
That artists are fair game?!

Not on your life, buddy boy!  Not here! Nowhere; nohow; no-when!

Hit the road, Jack!!

Bless him - it's Ray Charles - on Sat Night Light Live, 1996

Ending on a Sunny Note

Ending the month, that is.  I've been thinking; isn't it odd that we can -- at the very same time -- wonder if winter will ever end and where December, January and February went?!   (C'mon now; you know that's true -- that's exactly what we do!)

To end the month on an appropriately sunny note (whether it's sunny where you are or not), here is the last of my "Quilty Vitamins":

"Sunflower Sunrise"!  This is a pattern  from Letitia Hutchings via Mount Redoubt Designs, for a lovely hanging -- a bit three-dimensional -- that finishes at 18" x 42".  (I tried to find direct links to both Ms. Hutchings and www.mrdquilt.com, but cannot.  Mount Redoubt's website is apparently undergoing a make-over so if you want to view it, try it and see...)

And the winner of this bit of sunshine is... L.E. of Elly Knits!  I will be in touch with her...and hope that she enjoys quilting as well as knitting.  If not, perhaps she has a friend or family member who quilts...

I'm off to a slow start today, as I was home late from the wonderful "Evening with C.S. Lewis" at Deer Park Alliance Church in Red Deer.  This was part of a fund-raising tour for World Vision, for which David Payne, the actor playing Lewis, is a spokesperson.  In addition to Lewis, Mr. Payne has portrayed the apostle Paul (as he was while under house arrest in Rome) and Aslan the Lion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.   If you get a chance to see one of his productions, I highly recommend you do so! (See the link above for tour dates.)

So now...I must get back to the studio.  More later!