“If you steal from one person, it’s plaguerism. If you steal from many people, it’s research.” I would like to add to this English class adage: “and if you steal the same thing from many people, it’s probably a meme.”
Thus I give you the recent journey of Rebecca’s traveling sock.
First stop: Opal was chosen to be entertaining to knit up in a very plain pattern, so it could be taken everywhere and done in just about any circumstances. It proved its success in this area when we took it hiking with friends Brandon and CC and company in the Patapsco State Park on Sunday.
Across the swinging bridge,
Watching middle-aged, half-naked men bathe under the East Coast’s excuse for a waterfall (thus dubbed by co-hikers from the West Coast)
And looking down the steep hill that we would hike down after Rebecca’s lead, even though it was very much Not The Trail.
Second stop: Tuesday I sister-sat, and Opal got to watch Bethany make her first dive:
She had a little help.
Third stop: Thursday, my co-secretary Becky brought her dog Trixie to work, whose interest in Opal lasted about .5 seconds before she wandered off and was very difficult to get into a picture.
Stop the fourth: Observing the mixed experience of getting gas – pained as the price has gone up significantly since my last fill-up; slightly elated as my last fill-up in was the beginning of June.
And last night: The second sock was briefly worked on while I worried and watched Jared & Curtis install a very heavy projector under a ceiling rafter in the Old Parish Hall of the church. I checked, and it’s still hanging there this morning. Good job boys!
As Curtis put it the other day, “What you do doesn’t have to be original, as long as you do it well.”
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