Earrings

My dear mother-in-law came to visit on the weekend. While she was visiting, she made me a hat - the kind of hat that I wear indoors. (Some people claim that such things are not really hats, they’re skull caps. I call them ‘indoor hats’ because I don’t know the word ‘cap’ and I wear them on my head and I wear them indoors).

At some point prior to making my hat, she’d also made a pair of grabbers for grabbing things out of an oven. One might call them oven mitts. I have done so but it isn’t quite accurate. They aren’t mittens. Perhaps they could be called hot pads.

Anyway, she made both the hat and the oven mitts from the same yarn. They’re the same colour. They’re the same texture. They match. As a fashion maven, I decided that the matching meant they could go together. Also, the mitts (which aren’t really mitts as I’ve mentioned already) have little loops of string on them so that they can hang from a little post in our kitchen. Being a resourceful stick figure, I immediately realized that the loops could be used to suspend the pair of oven mitts from my ears.

My sweetie laughed and laughed. Then she took a picture. I transferred it to the computer but I have something against posting pictures of myself so I’m not posting it. I’m looking at it though and it is darned funny. Since laughter is contagious, I’m sure you’re laughing now too.