GYPSY WOMAN

This morning, I pulled my ice trays out of the freezer; and got a good laugh:

Is my ice trying to tell me they had a rough night in the freezer? LOL!

Still chuckling after storing the triggered ice, I poured a cup of coffee, and cruised a few Blog Hops – posting MOD Knit Receiving Baby Blanket … and was pleasantly surprised to notice that MOD knit Baby Jacket had been featured on one of the crafting Blogs 😊

Blog Hopping today ... my MOD Baby Jacket was featured! 

MOD BULKY BABY JACKET & EARFLAP HAT; NB-3 MO. BOY. Knit, bulky weight yarn.

(https://jeastofeden.blogspot.com/2022/08/mod-knit-bulky-baby-jacket-earflap-hat.html)

After making all the Blog Hop rounds, I started watching a vintage black-n-white movie, while starting work on another knitted receiving blanket:

MOD KNIT Receiving Blanket; Boy.

(https://jeastofeden.blogspot.com/2022/10/mod-knit-vareigated-receiving-baby.html)

All this month I’ll be watching movies, and listening to songs with an October theme – not necessarily with the word ‘October’ in them … but rather, themes that kinda go hand-in-glove with the month of October.

This afternoon, I was watching a movie with a dancing gypsy in it – and that got me to thinking about the Gypsy Woman song; and the time Bob and I were driving country roads, and saw what I dubbed a ‘gypsy wagon’ sitting off in a field, by itself; there was also a camel in the field 😉

A camel in a PNW field! Vader-WA

Gypsy Wagon; Vader.

Brian Hyland – ‘Gypsy Woman’ song:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBWFjPWQ6U)

Santana – ‘Black Magic Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EfAsOBjkp8)

Cher – ‘Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q)

Don Williams – “I Remember a Gypsy Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfeshvlZ6k)

Planxty – ‘Raggle Taggle Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWw)

Uriah Heap – ‘Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1QzZmyNEM)

Van Morrison – ‘Gypsy’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkkW4ynas08)

Van Morrison – ‘Gypsy in My Soul’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8ZZWrPHj0)

Deep Purple – ‘Gypsy’s Kiss’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuBw63xj00)

Bonnie Raitt – ‘Gypsy in Me’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T79QmeSEcs)

Ricky Nelson – ‘Gypsy Woman’ song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GUV6Kru1s)

Checking out other picture files of my life with Bob, in the same timeframe as the gypsy wagon and camel … I ran across pictures of the time we went target shooting up Spruce Creek – I hadn’t shot a gun in quite awhile (and then it was a pistol, not a rifle); but I really liked the old W22 bolt action rifle Bob inherited from his Grandpa Smalley, so I was excited to get to shoot it 😊

The rifle didn’t shoot {true}, so Bob had to show me how to line the shot up correctly: that took a few rounds before I got the hang of it. But I have a competitive streak in me, so I kept at it until I made a bullseye … and two more, for good measure. Bob knew how to line his shots up accurately with that rifle, so he shot bullseye all the time; but he praised me every time I made a score, and I came home feeling pretty proud of myself.

Bob setting the target – 75-foot distance Spruce Creek, 2010. My wolf ‘Precious’, is beside him.

W22 Bolt action rifle.

‘Sighting’ the W22 was a bit tricky because the sidewalls of the 4x bed was practically at my collarbone!

My ten shots got better with every voiced competitive, ‘I can do it’; and eventually became ‘BULLSEYE!’ 3 times, echoing off the forest walls 😉

Upping the stakes … my shots at ‘something a little smaller’; they got better too, as my {sightings} honed in on the bullseye zone 😊

Bob’s son, Alex, inherited that rifle after Bob’s spirit passed from this life to the next, nearly 4 years ago.

L wants to take me shooting at the shooting range on his family ranch, but I’m not sure I want to do that. Even though there would be other people there, too, I’d feel weird without Bob beside me: I guess maybe my gypsy woman vibe left when Bob did ☹

But I did like the memory of that little competitive moment with Bob, in 2010.

Bob always loved a good challenge – that's how I came into his life 😊

And my challenge was Bob – in those white cut-off shorts that showed off his dripping, tanned manly body, as he sailed through the air doing triple somersaults behind his cousin's speed boat; looked like a nordic god to me.

We both loved challenges 😉

Tonight, this gypsy woman misses her viking man.