This is Just What We Need

Maybe we could get Judy to come and give a workshop for all of us that suffer with NDS
-Joan

This was posted on the Orlando
Sentinel Blog on Jan 17, 2007 6:25:02 PM

Hire that chimp

Wouldn't you just love to have a chimp like Judy to help with the
household chores - why she even likes doing toilets. According to The AP,
Judy escaped at the Little Rock Zoo raided a kitchen cupboard and did a
little cleaning with a toilet brush before sedatives knocked her out on top
of a refrigerator. The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped Tuesday into a
service area when a zookeeper opened a door to her sleeping quarters,
unaware the animal was still inside. As keepers tried to woo Judy back into
her cage, she rummaged through a refrigerator where chimp snacks are stored.
She opened kitchen cupboards, pulled out juice and soft drinks and took a
swig from bottles she managed to open. Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, so she may have been familiar with housekeeping chores. Judy wrung out a sponge and scrubbed down the fridge. It took a couple of tries, but the zoo sedated the chimp, who fell asleep on top of the refrigerator with half a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread she had pulled out of the freezer.

The zoo veterinarian gave Judy a drug to bring her around. Rademacher says
Judy was groggy but fine after the episode. The zoo says there was no danger
Judy would get out of the primate keepers service area and onto zoo grounds.

I'd Rather Power Drill...

by angelica

today I was in a sewing / fabric store. yes, you read that right, and yes, of course it happened accidently. I was walking along a strip mall and there were really cute easter things in front of one of the stores, so I went inside to look for more and found myself in a totally different universe!

I just wandered around in awe and saw things I never knew existed, let alone what they existed for: scrap fabric, dressmaker’s ham. seam roll. sounded like kitchen stuff to me.

then I discovered a “beginner’s sewing kit”. guess I’m a long way away from being a beginner – thimbles, gauges, bent trimmers, rippers, tracing wheels – are those english words???

then there were things in bulk that I once again had no idea what they were but it all reminded me of a hardware store and I immediately left for one to regain my equilibrium:

hex heads, bugle heads, screw eyes, eye bolts, hacksaws, wrenches, pliers – now we are talking!

yep. give me a power drill anytime, just not a sewing needle…