Molly's Rebuttal: Insubordination

 As you might expect from any quilting blog, my staff's post yesterday was a complete fabrication. At no point in time was I mimicking staff reading the news or whatever else staff does. I have dignity.

Here I am back at the window at 9:00 pm and staff is again refusing to open the window for me. In the morning she opened the window and blasted me with a mist of frigid water. She has opened the window many times for me and there is a world of gluttonous birds and whirling hummingbirds set off with a warm breeze and interesting smells. 

The first time I asked her to open the window, I was first alarmed by the cold wet assault. Then I was alarmed by staff's incompetence and sudden inability to open the window to my  preferred setting. I had her open the window again because I wanted to rule out insubordination. Obviously, by my fourth request, I confirmed staff's insubordination and will proceed with retribution.

Today, for some reason, staff is complaining about "not getting enough sleep."

And here I am after successfully stalking a freeloading squirrel. I was able to stalk across the room to the window and watch the squirrel feed until this moment when it finally notices me. Unfortunately the squirrel ran away soon after because my brother Buddy walked up to the window like a clueless dog without stealth prowess.

Nine Patch Quilt Top

As part of my plastic bin liberation effort, I sewed the nine patch blocks into a top. As part of her study of chaos theory, Molly toppled my stack of three empty bins while zooming.

This morning we are having a bit more rain and wind than usual, and Molly jumped to the front window ledge as her request for me to open the window. I opened it and within a minute she was blasted with a cold wet mist. With a look of horror, she jumped down and ran away. I closed the window. Two minutes later, Molly was back on the window ledge expecting me to open the window. I complied. She suffered another blast, was horrified and ran away, but returned two minutes later. After the fifth time, I concluded that Molly may be a very stupid cat, until I realized that she was simply reenacting me reading the news.

Dear Jane Variant: Puffin

Here's another block for the Dear Jane Alternative.  A puffin. When I started making these blocks way back when, the concept was that the original Dear Jane block was reversible and there were another set of blocks on the back (the alternative blocks). However, now due to marvelous advances in science, we know all about the multiverse and variant timelines. While most of the recent research focuses on "sentient being" timelines, as quilters, the concept of quilt variations is nothing new. So instead of calling this quilt a Dear Jane Alternative, I'm just going to give it its own timeline and call it a Dear Jane Variant. You're welcome.