This guy looks nice enough, doesn’t he? Would you suspect him of being a stalker?
The other day after work, I went screaming into the Target parking lot, exited my car, and this very nice looking man said, “I was following you.” My first reaction was to flip my hair back and say, “But of course you were.”
Actually, my first reaction was one of stunned silence. But it seems he was only interested in my license plate — his wife owns Blue Sky Alpacas Yarn! He was surprised to spot a yarnee so blatantly adverstising her passion! He took a picture of my plate and it ended up on Twist Your Stitches. I love Blue Sky Alpacas yarn, have used it frequently and recently, and also just made a sweater from their pattern. And, yes, I know my car is filthy!!
I took HIS picture because I fortuitously had my camera in the car. I had been stalking my own prey! There is a posse of turkeys that inhabits the nature area near my home. Almost every morning I see them gathered in a particular spot along the roadside. So, I brought my camera along to capture them. This particular morning, however, they were not in their usual spot, but in a yard right by my house. Screech!!!! I slammed on the brakes and jumped out to get my shot.
They are so huge and so um, unattractive (?) in a beautiful sort of way.
I also have been doing a little knitting. I stumbled upon the Log Cabin Dishcloth pattern and made one up — nice pattern, quick knit, but mine looks a bit wonky:
Hope you are having a great Labor Day celebrating the end of summer.
That dishcloth looks like fun — must make some. Thanks!
Comment by kmkat — September 7, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
I love Blue Sky Alpacas yarns. But how come I never get any cute stalkers?
Comment by surly — September 7, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
How fun to have a stalker who’s not sinister! The dishcloth looks charming — great colors! Only slightly wonky — after a bit of use, you won’t notice (or care) I bet.
Comment by Pam — September 7, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
wonderful. you put me in a fowl mood. thanks. LOLLLLLLL
So cool that serendipity allowed a wonderful bit of reciprocity for you!!!
yup, dish cloth is pretty cute. high fivers!
Comment by Susan — September 7, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
And you didn’t get his phone number or offer to trade him Target purchases for yarn? LOL!
Regards,
Cousin Andrea (I’m sure we’re distantly related somehow)
Comment by Andrea Rainey — September 7, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
I have this decal on my car and the car salesman who washed my car at Morrie’s Nissan was drying it when I came into the service area. He said, “Do you mind if I take a photo of this decal to show my sister-in-law?” – I said, “Of course not!” So there! There are more knitters around than we think! Here’s a link to a photo of the decal: hope it works: http://www.theloopyewe.com/dynamic/productimages/8277/16970/show/
Comment by Christine — September 7, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
I get lots of comments on my iknit sticker on my car, but never any paparazzi! Pretty funny.
Did you grab a turkey? Thanksgiving is coming, you know!
Comment by twinsetellen — September 7, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
Well of COURSE your car is dirty! Who would waste knitting/reading time washing a car? It looks like mine. Literally. I have a dirty blue station wagon until (a) husband washes it or (b) neighbors submit a petition. I’ve seen a clever tag like yours before, but can’t remember in what state. Heck, it could have been yours–I used to live in MN.
Comment by Mary Lee — September 7, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
you should look at mrs. lear’s blog, therunciblebin.blogspot.com. she’s got a fun leaf pattern for dishcloth cotton — it’s quite quick and entertaining and inspiring.
Comment by Elise / knitinsage — September 8, 2009 @ 2:48 am
We have lots of wild turkeys in town, often seen across the road from my kids’ school in a cornfield (we’re in the suburban Hartford, CT, area). We haven’t seen them all summer, since the cornfield is currently full of corn! I love seeing the tom turkeys wih their tails spread wide. My boys still talk about the first time we saw them after we moved here – we had a fire going in the fireplace, were watching “Star Wars” on TV and a flock of turkeys walked through the back yard, right off the screen proch where we could see them from the family room!
I’m still waiting to see the bobcat my neighbor has told me he’s seen hanging around my house, and no bears have walked the turkeys’ path yet, as far as I know!
(Love your license plate, too!)
Comment by Nancy — September 8, 2009 @ 10:28 am
OOPS! here’s the correct link for the leaf dishcloth: http://runciblebin.blogspot.com/2009/09/cotton-leaf-rag.html
enjoy!
Comment by Elise / knitinsage — September 8, 2009 @ 10:55 am
Cool! I love Blue Sky Alpacas yarns. Love the turkeys too.
Comment by Nicole — September 8, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
My husband and I were biking the Canon Falls Trail in the spring with our college aged daughter. We pulled ahead and then decided to stop and wait for her. And wait for her. Turns out there was a flock of turkeys on the trail and they wouldn’t let her get through! Dumb yet vicious.
Comment by Ellen — September 8, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
The creepy thing about the tom turkeys is that they can come up right behind you very quietly and you won’t even know they are there, until you turn and look them in the eye… (can you tell I’ve had this experience personally!?) But really, isn’t it fun to see something SO BIG just wandering through residential yards??
Love the plate too…and bummed I missed you on opening day at the fair. Maybe next year.
Comment by Renay — September 8, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
LOVE the turkeys! We have a group of turkeys (gaggle? no. . . that’s geese, isn’t it?) that wander our neighborhood, too. They are not attractive, but, somehow, their feathers are pretty dang cool.
Comment by Kym — September 9, 2009 @ 11:18 am
The turkeys are beautiful in a comical and awkward way, ha. A group of turkeys is a ‘rafter’. 🙂
Comment by Tamara — September 9, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
What a fun story. I love Blue Sky Alpacas yarn too!
But as a turkey hunter, I loved your turkeys more! I hunt them in the spring with bow & arrow and the only legal birds to shoot then are the toms with big beards (like those in your photos). They are so smart — they know when it’s safe to parade openly across the backyard! I’ve never been fortunate enough to get one with a bow, but I always have my knitting along in the hunting blind for those times when the turkeys aren’t cooperating!
Comment by RuthieJ — September 11, 2009 @ 8:49 am
Ha! what a great story! I’d chase you down too. so funny you got his picture…and those dinosaurs, I mean turkeys, in the yard! We’ve got them too but we live in the country.
Comment by mary jane — September 23, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
Chad and turkeys in one post?!
LOVE IT!
I’m still watching plates to see if I spot you running around town. The lady honking at you in the big ‘Burb holding up her knitting needles will be me! Just hope I don’t hit MY gaggle of turkeys while doing it. We have ’em flocking up around my place too. Quite amazing to see them up close! Of course, if I do hit them while waving at you–we have turkey dinner taken care of.
Now what a fantastic story I’ve made up in my comment to you. Are you hungry yet????? I suddenly smell stuffing, which is my cue to conclude this silly comment…
:WAVES BYE:
Comment by Rachel — October 1, 2009 @ 7:42 am