I guess I'll have to pay it back tomorrow (go in and do at least a couple samples, but if the weather is amenable first thing in the morning I should mow the lawn)
But today started off rainy and I wasn't sure about going (there were predicting multiple inches of rain, which we did not get, but driving on the interstate is pretty miserable in heavy rain.
So I did a few things first.
I had put my Rapunzel doll up on the little wall bracket for a while but decided to change it out, and I realized that my "Star Spangled Dolls" ("Americana" dolls, made about the time of the bicentennial) would work, so I put them up:
"Smiling Eyes," and Alison, and Sarah Jane (I don't remember the two Anglo girls' last names). These were made on the mold, more or less, of the Sunshine Family. I had the old OG Sunshine family (with the original clothes, and just a baby as their child - later incarnations had a little girl as well as a baby). I played with them a lot when I was like 4 and 5. I had largely lost interest in dolls by the time the Star Spangled Dolls came out, I bought these three back in the 1990s at a doll show I went to (I collected dolls pretty actively for a few years in the 1990s). Last year (Or maybe the year before?) I found these at my mom's house and brought them back with me.
I know some people describe them as "creepy" (the inset "crystal" eyes). I don't, but then again some people find all dolls "creepy."
At any rate - I may not do much for the hemiquincentennial because I have no stomach for the politicized and aggrandizing stuff, but maybe I do a couple quiet things, just for myself.
Today was primaries in my state but there was also a "nonpartisan" state question I particularly wanted to vote for (modernizing our minimum-wage structure) so I did that
For once, the sticker wasn't just the plain-vanilla "I VOTED" plus flag. I actually peeled it off and have it stuck on my laptop lid with other stickers now.
I also did the workout I decided I didn't want to do when I first got up, which was probably wise - when I got home I really didn't want to.
I grabbed a quick lunch on the way and went to Michael's (I had a $20 voucher, and those expire, and I got a Peter Rabbit crochet kit that I had looked at before and not bought) and then I decided I wanted to go to the BooksAMillion. Wound up buying one of those romantasies ("Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous") and a really nice hardbound reissue of "Far from the Madding Crowd" (YES darnit I am going to take back up reading more complicated books)
And then I saw this
I don't know what it is with me and mothmans (Mothmen? Mothsman?) but this guy was very cute and I made the mistake of picking him up (often if I pick up a stuffie and it is SOFT I wind up wanting it, and this guy is very soft)
His name, according to his tag, is "Motthew." Heh.
There was also a lot of the sort of weird detritus that antique/vintage shops have, they had "Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow" which I remember seeing adverts for when I was a kid (I think you fed the cow a little chalk tablet and then water, and that's how the "milk" was produced).
There was also a (newly made, and it was expensive or I'd probably have bought it) tea towel with a lady on it saying "What essential oil can I use to stop people from talking to me?"
And I saw a child's biography (Little Golden Book, or as a Bluesky friend joked, "Little Purple Book?") of Prince which.....well, given the content of some of his songs, is just interesting. (The cover was not a particularly great likeness of him:)
I didn't look more closely at it; it was labeled "mint" which sometimes means "you touch it, I expect you to buy it" for paper goods.
And then groceries, and then home, and now I'm working on the endless blue garter section of the shawl...
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