Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Have been keeping my promise about working on something every night before I even try to go to sleep. I had thought one one main thing but have bounced around between 2 projects. The large lab has taken to sleeping on the floor next to my bed and once I get ready for that, I have to decide to just how much I should bother him. I have some handwork close so I have been doing  that in bed when he is in the way of my exiting that area. Either way I am progressing and today found a yard of green/brown fabric I just may use for the binding of the tree/bear quilt. I have found that raising my ironing board a bit is a good heighth to lay the big one on and baste and pin, etc. The other plus is that I don't have to iron for a while longer!

Sad Tale

A White Fable
Once upon a time, there was a young English lord named Prince. He was a bit of a wastrel, and was in serious danger of losing the family fortune. While traveling in America, he noticed a White sewing machine. "This machine," he said to himself, "is magnificently designed and made, and very attractive. I believe that if I were to import these to England in large numbers, I could market them at a tidy profit."
He decided that he wanted to be in complete control of his operation, which he viewed on a very large scale. He contracted with the White company for a tremendous number of machines, and purchased his own fleet of ships to transport them to England. He even purchased land and built seven new docks in a port on the English Channel.
It is quite possible that Lord Prince's plans might have worked. Unfortunately, the ships with the first load of machines ran into a terrible storm just as they were making port, and were thrown up on the steep shores at a spot ever after known as "the White Cliffs of Dover". All were lost. All of the unfortunate entrepreneur's money had been invested in the scheme, and he lost almost everything... even the family estate. All that was left was the land and docks, and thereafter, he was known as the Prince with no Whites and the seven Wharves.