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Tom was an avid, if limited reader... he LOVED our collection of Terry Pratchetts. Often a twist in the plot or a particularly colourful piece of dialogue would move him to song. We tended to leave him to it, and go down the pub.
In case you're wondering, yes, the numpty was capable of putting his GAP top on inside out.
Starlight
(The Boy Who Wouldn’t Sleep)
A long time ago, a little boy didn’t want to go to sleep. His mother, his father and his grandmother told him “nepa” (go to sleep). He wouldn’t listen, one by one they fell asleep, first his grandmother, then his mother and then finally his father.
The boy arose, played by the fire for a little while. Bored, he pushed back the wigwam entrance blanket and looked outside. Slowly, as his eyes adjusted to the dark, the boy saw something that amazed him; the sky was filled with stars, so many he could not count them all. So beautiful – he began to cry – louder and louder until his crying woke his father. Waking up and seeing his son missing, he rushed outside. When he saw his son looking up and crying – “what’s wrong? Did something hurt you ?”
“No” said the boy, “I want them!”
“what?” said his father, pointing to the sky, “those?, You can’t have those. They are the stars, and they are the spirits of our ancestors…”
The boy began to cry again. His mother, awakened by the sound of talking and crying, came outside “ Dadagen kwis?” (What’s the matter son?).
The boy sulked and protested, pointing to the sky “I want them! But Dad says I can’t have them!”
Wiping the tears from his eyes, his mother said, “Your Dad’s right, you can’t have them”.
Again the boy wept, louder and louder, stamping his feet, shouting “I want them! I want them! I want them!”
This time the noise and commotion took Grandma away from her beautiful dream world. Slowly she rose. Her old bones creaking, she carried her blanket outside the wigwam and went where the boy, his mother and father were and put her arms and the blanket around the boy. She said “Na na dadagen kwis?”(There, there, what’s the matter grandson?).
Wiping his tears, he told her how he had come to see this marvelous sight, so beautiful, so magical. He wanted them and when he asked her if he could have some of the stars, to his parent’s bewilderment, Grandmother said “e’e”(yes).
The parents asked “how?” The grandmother told her son-in-law “climb up the hill, when you get to the top, climb the tallest tree as high as you can climb. When you get to the top, close your eyes and reach up as far as you can, close your hand and you will have captured a star. Apologize and thank the sky for the gift, open your eyes, climb down the tree, come down the hill, back to the wigwam, holding the star tightly in your hand”.
The son-in-law, knowing of the old woman’s powers and being a good boy himself, obeyed her and did as she said. In his excitement coming back, feeling the warmth and seeing the glow in his hand, he began to run. But… just before he got back to the wigwam he tripped over a tree root, let go of the star, smashing it to bits on a hard rock.
Some of the bits floated into the air and became the fireflies we see today (or should I say tonight); the other bits became the crystals we see in the rocks by day. Today every little child can play with the stars of long ago each summer.
And it was also how the boy Starlight got his name.
by Charles Doucette , Chapel Island, Nova Scotia
Him of Powerpuff Girls cosplayer at the 2016 Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
...for Him to come
Wow, I FINALLY got this shot! I've been daydreaming of it for a long time now. I had a dream about it actually.
Day 55
Life has been crazy, trying my best to take what the world gives me. I wore these fishnets for Halloween..promised myself I'd try to make a photo with them, trying not to look trashy as possible.
Anne said what was proper, and enquired after her husband. "Oh! Charles is out shooting. I have not seen him since seven o'clock. He would go, though I told him how ill I was. He said he should not stay out long; but he has never come back, and now it is almost one."
My Dad had ladies writing to him from about every place he stopped. I didn't think he had enough time to meet anyone while crossing the Panama Canal but he must have because he received a nice letter from a girl there. Dad had travel through a couple months earlier. What caught my eye with this envelope is that it was stamped in Ancon. I all ready knew that name well from researching it for the photo of my Dad on the USS Ancon, the second ship named after the location.
Wikipedia:
SS Ancon was an American steamship that became the first ship to officially transit the Panama Canal in 1914. The steamer began life as the SS Shawmut, built for the Boston Steamship Line in 1902. About 1910 she was purchased by the Panama Railroad Company to provide shipping required for the construction of the Panama Canal. The name was changed to Ancon after Ancon Hill and Ancon township in Panama, home to the head of the Canal Commission.
Ancon and her sister ship Cristobal played a crucial role in building the canal, bringing workers and supplies, notably massive amounts of cement, from New York to Panama for the construction project.
On August 15, 1914 Ancon made the first official transit of the canal as part the canal's opening ceremonies. (Her sister ship Cristobal had made the first unofficial transit on August 3, delivering a load of cement, while an old French crane boat Alexandre La Valley had crossed the canal from the Atlantic in stages during construction, finally reaching the Pacific on January 7.)
Ancon was acquired by the United States Navy from the US Army just after the end of World War I and fitted out as USS Ancon (ID-1467), a troop transport to return Americans home.
The Panama Railroad Company replaced SS Ancon in 1938 with a second SS Ancon, a larger steam turbine cargo liner which later saw considerable action as US Navy Transport USS Ancon in World War II.
Here is Punk! I love him already!!
I will make another post a little later with more info. The last two days have been very long and I am very tired. Stay tuned!!
VILLE VALO from HIM
Custom Taeyang by Sheryl Designs
MODIFICATIONS:
Remake Lips
Replaced acrylic eyes
©2007-2010 Sheryl Designs Eyemech Modification
Ah, it's finally here! From Heather, to my cousin Matt in Connecticut, to me. I would have asked him to send me photos, but I couldn't bear not being the one to open it. Now, I'm kind of sad that the wait and anticipation is (finally) over!
$75. This is exactly what I posted in my comments to her:
"What I'd love to receive:
- absolutely any fabric that wasn't released! (Crickets, anyone?)
- any of your illustrations. In particular, that wonderful Halloween raisin
illustration, or the Celebrate Summer party drawing
- any Munki Munki fabric. In particular, bikes (I'm so original, eh?),
penguins (not sure if this is even your design?), chickens, mushrooms,
kittens (of any variety)
- Spoonflower fabrics, samples or scraps
- Keds (size 7.5 for my mom, 8.5 or 9)
- A surfboard;)
What I don't really need:
- West Hill, Mendocino, FFA and FFA2"
Overall, I'm really pleased with what I got. I'd like to swap out the majority of it, but I think she did a fantastic job at keeping it all colour-coordinated.
I'm slowly putting together a sawtooth star quilt with Heather Ross prints in the centre. I was counting on this sale to boost up the number of prints I have available, so I think I did okay!
Some general comments:
- I think I checked the box requesting art supplies, but actually, I'm kind of glad I didn't get a bag of buttons:)
- a little disappointed that I didn't get the signed bike drawing, but I did get the woodland critters, and those have taken up an inordinate amount of my thoughts ever since I first saw them in other people's packages!
- now that I've received some Spoonflower samples and have felt the basecloth (ah, I know other people didn't like their quilting-weight cotton), I wish I didn't request these:)
- I'm very keen to swap out those dots and stripes, so please feel free to mail me!
- like everybody else, I wish I had some FMF in my package. I got a phonecall from her pretty early on, so I wonder if FMF was sort of given out when there was less Heather Ross fabric...
- In my phone call from Heather, she had asked me if I was interested in kids' clothing. I was a little taken aback by the fact that I was on the phone with her, so I said, "sure!" when she offered me this 3T velveteen jumper with an embroidered penguin on it. She said it was one-of-a-kind, and apparently when I saw it, I would understand why the embroidery was too complicated to mass-produce. I think this will be too small for my niece, and while it's adorable, I won't be having kids for at least a few more years (I imagine...)! But I guess I'll offer it to my niece next time I see her, and see how it all actually plays out. After that, maybe it will be up for swap!
I originally bought one like this back in 1997 and kept it in the package mint condition but that was until my first son was born in 1998 and when he starting to see toys around him, when he was about 3 years old he played with it hard and in no time it ended up in the toy junk spare parts bin. I also bought C-3PO and R2-D2 Talking Bank at the same time and it also followed the same path…
So I decided to get another one after all those years and got this in real good price but when it arrived it came with upper body broken and dangling helplessly with broken gear and so on. It was a disaster indeed... I had no choice but to take it out of the package – therefore good bye my “still sealed min in box” specimen – and repaired it. It took me about half an hour doing so and although at first I was not so familiar with the mechanism of it – and it has surprisingly complex gut inside – but I have managed to fix it.
The only thing not so perfect is that the green light on his left side belt has a funny connection so occasionally it does not light up but with a bit of tapping on the Vader’s left side of the shoulder it works fine. Perhaps later I will open it up again and fix that problem. It is good to know that another one’s on its way though. Also a C-3PO set is on its way too : ) this one’s 12 inches tall including the base.
(: i gave him a carrot!
&i only boguht one carrot cause i didnt think there ws gonna be like two other horses.
so i felt baad.
cause they were all sniffing for some othersss, aahah. :)
1. I need to buy some lottery tickets, 2. Juno!, 3. Look how nice the brown trainers look with my new sweater, 4. My little boy <3, 5. Isaac, 6. Gabriel with new clothes too !
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
if you want me to remove your photo PLEASE let me know.. these are just some of the momo's that make me want Momo :)
Never got his name but I did get the chance for him to play me a song. On a chilly April afternoon while walking with a few friends in downtown Madison, I could heard a guitar being played somewhere near my location. To my surprise it was much closer then expected, I knew I wanted to know more of this mysterious busker; and I asked if I could snap a few pictures. He was singing in addition to strumming his guitar, and he accepted my offer with a simple head nod and continued to play. Once he was done with the song he asked "What would you like to hear?" I had not a song in mind as I was just enjoying the moment, when I told him "I don't know" he was a little more pushy trying to get a song from me. Noticing my shirt, he then decided upon his next tune: "Rocket Man" as I was wearing a shirt that depicted a "man on the moon." It was fitting, and his rendition was spot on and we parted ways with a smile.
I was content with the photos I'd take for my (608)strangers project, but a little disheartened with myself that I didn't get more of a story. Sometimes we meet people that impact our lives at the moment and don't realize it til later in life, the man on the pedestal was just that. A no name stranger, but fitting for the 100 strangers project none the less, unless the group mods decide he's not worthy. With that being said, I hope strangers much like the mystery guitar man and many others can find my stories and help me write more about them!
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