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.
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.
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:
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.
