Posts Tagged With: latch hook

What I Did Today

Posted on February 9, 2024 by pauldelancey

The Sun looks like me when I have just showered.

1) Woke up.

2) Showered. I became amazingly clean and shiny to the point I rivaled the Sun.

3) Then I went super nova–sorry about the heat wave.

4) Then I got better and things went back to normal.

5) Went to the grocery store to get ingredients for a special meal. We’ll have it tomorrow.

6) Worked on finances.

7) Spent a while on the Great Latch Hook Project. I did 192 squares, a new daily record! Go me.

8) Gathered records for taxes, always a fun time.

9) Did two Thursday New York(tm) Times crossword puzzles while taking a bath.

10) Watched three episodes of Medieval Legacy. It’s good to learn things in case I find myself going back in time.

11) Wanted to find the Source of the Nile, but found out it had been done multiples times.

12) So, I organized an expedition to find the source of Poway’s Rattlesnake Creek. Wish me luck.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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The Great Latch Hook Project – Part 3

Posted on February 6, 2024 by pauldelancey

I started this latch hook project mostly for eye therapy–to help them work together better–and to aid my manual dexterity. I also hoped to have fun with it. I am happy to say that I’m getting better and am having more fun as a I go along. I do some work at home and once a week at a  library with a sewing-and-knitting group.

There’s around 8,600 squares to fill in, so I will take some months. And here’s what it looks life so far:

2/6/2024

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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What I Did This Very Day

Posted on February 1, 2024 by pauldelancey

I drank one ounce of this bad boy.

1)  Got up.

2) Got out of bed.

3) Dragged a comb across my head.

4) Became inspired to write a really great song.

5) Realized the Beatles had beaten me to publishing the song. Missed it by that much.

6) Showered.

7) Dressed. It’s cold out there.

8)  Tried to double my savings by thinking it about really hard.

9) My mental telepathy failed me there.

10) Thought really, really hard about stopping the meteor, Bacon123ka, from hitting the Earth.

11) My mental force field obliterated the comet. Woo hoo, I saved the world!

12) But no one knows I did it. Ah well, such is life.

13) Went to eye therapy.

14) Came back.

15) Ordered something to help me with the Great Latch Hook Project.

16) I walked 500 miles.

17) And I walked 500 more just to be the guy who’d walk 1,000 to get to your front door.

18) But you weren’t home. Bummer. And I walked 500 miles and I walked 500 more just to get back to my front door.

19) My feet are sore.

16) Made beer-sourdough bread.

17) I had one-ounce of near left over after the bread recipe, so I chugged it down just to drown my sorrows.

18) Dinner is next.

Behave yourselves.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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What I Did Today

Posted on January 31, 2024 by pauldelancey

My time on Mars was necessarily brief

1) Woke up. The streak continues. Go me!

2) Showered, Cleanliness is next to godliness.

3) Renewed CD.

4) Briefly contemplated the infinite.

5) Went to monthly massage therapy. She spent much more time on my head and neck than usual because I walked into a window at last week’s craft class.

5b) If you’re wondering does walking into a window hurt, the answer is yes.

6) Ate lunch.

7) Went to the library for this week’s crafts session. Made progress on my latch-hook project.

8) Did not walk into a window at any time.

9) Help with friend’s CD question.

10) Used extra-springy trampoline to bounce my way to Mars.

11) Had to return to Earth right away as I can only hold my breath so long.

12) Fortunately, NASA had left a trampoline on Mars during its last mission there.

13) Bounced my way back to Earth. Boy, did I take a big gulp of air!

14) Ordered some place markers for the Great Latch Hook Project.

15) Made quesadillas for the natives.

Behave yourselves.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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The Great Latch Hook Project

Posted on January 21, 2024 by pauldelancey

January 21, 2024

I have a latch hook kit. This is supposed to be therapy for my eyes which at times don’t work well together. Latch hooking is supposed to help with my manual dexterity.
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I started doing this at an arts-and-crafts session at a public library. It took me 30 minutes before I got thread in one of those little squares. A fellow crafter help me a lot in getting the hang of it.
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However, there was some sadness in Mudville. The kit comes with a chart that tells what color yarn and its number. But there was silence on what the colors look like. Do you know the difference between Blue Jewel and Periwinkle? I didn’t.
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I’ve just spent maybe three hours to sort out the colors.  Eventually, I discovered that Dark Green is 654 and Forest Green is 689. That left: Forest Green 689, Dark Green 654, Blue Jewel 818, and Periwinkle 831 to be pinned down.
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I looked up the company on the internet. However, it altered its name some after I got the kit about 25 years ago. They also apparently changed their codes over the years. I got some of the codes through exhaustive and exhausting research. I now know that forest green is darker than dark green,. Egad, I feel like watching a murder mystery tonight.
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I’m getting better. I can do 90 squares a hour. With a latch-hook mat comprising  8,000 squares, the whole project shall take about 90 hours. The world shall sigh in relief as this will keep off the streets where I would only foment revolution and no one wants that.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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My Latch Hook

Posted on January 4, 2024 by pauldelancey

In my continual quest to find something that will me keep off the streets–where I’d only foment revolution–I’ve taken up latch hooking. This project will also help my manual dexterity and my eye coordination by building neural pathways. So my latch hook project is a win for every one.

I have decided to do Charlie Brown as I like his character very much and I also had a 26-year old kit for him.

Doing my bit to tame inflation, you betcha.

And here’s my progress after two days.

01/04/2024, Second day

I played Snoopy in 5th grade Santa Anita grammar’s school production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Iggy piggy poo. (I ran out of things to say.)

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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My Day

Posted on January 3, 2024 by pauldelancey

My local library is smaller than this

Sometimes time gets away from me. I almost forgot to post!

Yesterday, I found out how difficult it was to find, buy, and take home a latch hook.

This morning, I discovered how hard it was to find where I put my latch hook.

I looked for hours for it, but to no avail.

I looked on line on Amazon, etc. and found nothing that could get to me in time.

While doing this, I dealt with a hacking or virus attack. This is why I wasn’t on the streets fighting crime.

Okay, I stopped a bank robbery, but that was only for a few minutes.

Hoorah! I found the latch hook. It was in the back of the car, in a flexible cooler with two ice packs.

Had lunch.

Went to a library arts-and-crafst get together. I learned to use my latch hook. I did! I did! I’m going to make a latch-hook rug of Charlie Brown.(tm)

I drove home in a horrible rain storm. Whew.

Made meatloaf for dinner.

Watched Seinfeld and two mysteries.

Checked to see if the Earth is still rotating in the right direction. It is.

Writing this blog and will go to sleep soon.

Good night.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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