A. A. Milne and his own Christopher Robin (1882-1956)
To honor him here are some favorite quotations from the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh.
"Eeyore," he said solemly, "I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for you."
"Thank you, Pooh," answered Eeyore. "You're a real friend," said he. "Not Like Some," he said.
"Piglet," said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, and licking the end of it, "you haven't any pluck."
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
“Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.”
"It all comes I suppose,"he decided, as he said good-bye to the last branch, spun round three times, and flew gracefully into a gorse bush, "it all comes of liking honey so much. Oh, help!"
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."”
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
He coughed in an important way, and began again:
"What-nots and Etceteras, before I begin, or perhaps I should say, before I end, I have a piece of Poetry to read to you. Hitherto -hitherto - a long word meaning - well, you'll see what it means directly - hitherto, as I was saying, all the Poetry in the Forest has been written by Pooh, a Bear with a Pleasing Manner but a Positively Startling Lack of Brain. The Poem with I am now about to read to you was written by Eeyore, or Myself, in a Quiet Moment. If somebody will take Roo's bull's eye away from him, and wake up Owl, we shall all be able to enjoy it. I call it - POEM."
Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."
It's so much more friendly with two.
-- Winnie the Pooh
One of my knitting goals is to use circular needles and I found a pattern for a cute little infant hat. This is my stuffed bear modeling it since I've no wee baby to use as a model.
Here's me with the itty bitty circular needles and some stitch markers too. I feel like I'm really getting in to the knitting world.
For me it took a little of figuring out but I will say it was fun to knit stockinette this way since I didn't have to do any purling... I guess that must be why some folks love knitting with circular needles. The bit where I had to use the double pointed ones, though, was a bit frightening and I actually did screw it up a tad. However it still worked out. I am either immediately going to try to make another one just like this to see how long it takes now that I know what I am doing or I'm going to try a pattern for adults and actually see if I can make a hat for me. I've already got my eye on a few of those.
On a whim I bought tickets to see 
And last night I brought an open liter bottle full of rum to church. Well, not to an actual church service but I did have it sitting out in the open in the fellowship hall. Part of our weekly trivia team, the Mixed Nuts, decided to take part in a trivia fundraiser for the local city-wide children's choir. It had a Caribbean theme. I couldn't resist. The trivia element featured ten rounds of trivia... we did not do well. However between a few rounds we could identify title and artist of a few songs... we managed to snag three of the those prizes between us... Pam won me this groovy Superman placemat. And for correctly knowing that The Lemon Pipers sang "Green Tambourine" I won a set of three Hello Kitty plastic figures that exemplify the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil postures. I think I would have rather won the grand triva prize of $350 or whatever it was.
