Life's a Stitch

And more recently life’s a creative adventure with some travel thrown in.

Was My Face Red – it was a column about readers' embarrassing moments. The magazine, from way back when, I'm afraid to admit, was called "Calling All Girls." It transitioned into Young Miss and then to YM. So, have you ever done something so stupid that even you yourself had to sit back and laugh?

Carole recently posted about a monument at Gettysburg. There was a bird, a red headed woodpecker, sitting on the head of a statue. I commented that we, too, have a new statue in town that seems to attract birds. The last two times I drove by it, the naked figure of a young woman, there was a crow sitting on her head. This past week I drove by with a co-worker and asked her if she noticed the phenomenon. "That is the statue," she informed me. The bird is part of it. Was my face red 🙂

And as this is a knitting blog, I will show you cousin Lena's recent FO, Helena from Knitty:
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9 responses to “Was my face red”

  1. Carole Avatar

    I think this is a great story. I’m glad you posted it!

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  2. Ellen Avatar
    Ellen

    Lene’s sweater is loved and appreciated. (I delivered it yesterday.)

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  3. Lynn Avatar

    LOL I had to follow the link to see the actual statue! Now all that you need is a bird on top of the bird!!!

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  4. Dorothy Avatar

    Funny story – but I think I would have thought the same thing. Who would think to create a statue of a woman with a bird on her head??

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  5. maureen Avatar

    It is so funny that you’d write about that statue. I was driving past it just a couple of weeks ago and was thinking as I glanced at it, ‘that the bird was so still….amazing!’ Then I drove by a few days later and thought, ‘what a coincidence there’s another very still bird on the top.’
    It wasn’t until I mentioned it to Kris, that she laughed and told me it was part of the statue.
    I’ve driven past it for a few years now and yet never noticed it before. 🙂

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  6. maureen Avatar

    Well, obviously not a few years being that it was only erected in April. Somehow though, it seems like it’s been there longer.

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  7. Jane Toumpas Avatar

    I did something simular when I lived in Florida. I was looking out the kitchen window and I inform my friends who were there that an owl was sitting on the dock and to go get my camera quickly before he flew away. We all go out as quiet as can be on tippy toes to get a close up shot when someone says” Wait a Minute, it’s one of thoses plastic owls to keep the seagulls away” Boy was my face red!

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  8. Rebekah Avatar

    Well its the sculptors fault for making it look so real. 🙂

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  9. Michele Avatar

    LOL I used to have a subscription to CAG!!! Great story!

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