Word of the Day "meme"

Here are your 10 questions. I've left them unanswered for the moment to allow you to easily copy them to your own blogs as I am tagging any and all readers. You may answer here or in your own space if you leave a link.

I think these are going to require thought on my part...

1. Hardcover or paperback, and why?
2. If I were to own a book shop, I would call it...
3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title)
4. The author (alive or deceased) I would love to have lunch with would be
5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except for the SAS survival guide, it would be…
6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…
7. The smell of an old book reminds me of...
8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
9. The most overestimated book of all times is….
10. I hate it when a book…

1. I can't pick. Paperback for travel and b/c most fit my cute little leather holder with the bookmark. Hardback for reading while knitting since it will usually stay open with minimal help.

2. Either Yen for Yarns or Knit 1, Read 2 since I'd have to sell yarn and books (and chocolate) in the same store.

3. Maybe the one about the answer to life's question being "42" from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Nothing profound comes to mind.

4. I would like to eat with Agatha Christie. I think she'd be good company and fun.

5. Have to go with the cliche answer of the Bible because it really does have EVERYTHING, including scary Halloween type stories like the bones coming to life. Ick.

6. The perfect gizmo would hold my book at eye level for me, you know the right eye level for bifocals, and would turn the page when I nodded my head. It would also respond for the need for chocolate so I would not have to put down my knitting.

7. Old book smells take me back to vacuuming and dusting the rare book room in the Harding library.

8. I'd like to be Nancy Drew. She was perfect, had adventures, had boyfriends, had cool clothes and a car!

9. I'd have to say ANY book on the Oprah list. Except for the Secret Life of Bees. Wasn't that one of hers? It was wonderful.

10. I hate any book which trickles off with a boring ending after a thoroughly good read up to the last chapter. I hate it when the denouement and the climax are in the same sentence.

Tulip Baby Cardigan, Revised

None of you readers care that this is a Tulip Baby Cardigan from Dream in Color yarns. None of you care that I knit it in Lion Brand Cotton Ease for my niece's first baby. But, I will care when I can't remember what the pattern was and what I knit it in next week when I want to knit another one! I do think this is a cute baby sweater, though.

OK April - here it is

This is fun

The Trip that Wasn't

We left on our annual motorcycle trip about six hours ago. Stopping already? And with WiFi? Nope. We left the house just before 8:00 and luckily, had trouble with the bike before 9:00. Why luckily you ask? Well, it is somewhat like the three legged dog, not so good that we have to cancel our trip, but it is great that a) no screeching of tires was involved b) rescue was available from friend Jonathan c) it doesn't sound like it is a terminal problem - just one to put the trip out of time reach this time and d) that it happened one hour into a 900 mile trip instead of us being in Bristol, TN which was tomorrow's planned map marker. We also know that we like our new bike luggage, despite it being a bit contrary to initially strap on the luggage rack, and we know that the newly recovered old seat is better than the new seat- which with adjustments could be even closer to perfect. The trip is already being recast to spring break either before or after Lyn and Aaron come home. We still intend to take the same bike to Niagara for its and our 30th anniversaries in the next 18 months to 2 years.
Scott is off to nap - and I'm going to watch a movie and knit. Big surprise there, right? I'll post pics of this one. This baby sweater is just too cute for words.