[SEL] Green Tractor People are Nuts

[bill at antique-engines.com]

My wife quit collecting "owls" for this very reason. Like she said, her
tastes in owl things sure didn't match others's tastes. So she likes cat
stuff, after getting things from a few folks, she quit saying anything to
anyone about what she likes or would decorate with - she'd rather buy her
how.
I liked the owl things too - however, there are things that look like
owls, then hideous renditions of the poor feathered creature.

Barbara is making a "tractor quilt" for her aunt to give as a gift to
someone. The pattern included applique tractors (green and yellow, so I
supposed JD). She was not impressed, so she got a great embroidery pattern
for her new embroidery machine and did some blocks for the quilt with
that. She sent a few samples of each to her aunt. It was no contest!
The original embroidery pattern also had some sort of weird colors chosen
for certain parts. she knew of my love of tractors, so we changed a few
colors and now it's a decent looking tractor design. Some lucky kid will
have a green, yellow and white quilt with 30 4" x 6" green/yellow tractors
machine embroidered on it. See how tastes can vary..........  ;-)
I did explain that even though it was the WRONG color tractor, I would
help her with it. Red would have been much better.


Bill
Runnells, Iowa
Chapman/OWE&PCo. Registry and History
http://antique-engines.com
1970 Javelin
1982 Eagle SX/4 coming soon
http://theamcpages.com

> You are right Gary. Many years ago, my mother got it into her head that
> I collected shot glasses and people were always picking them up for me.
> My five year old daughter is always pointing things out to me that she
> thinks I should have as well. :-)
>
> Duncan
>
> Gary Epps wrote:
>
>>I agree with you Duncan, but the scare may not be totally their fault.  I
>>have three, no, now only two old unstyled two cylinders.  I have green
>>things in the house that I would not have bought, but my extended family
>>has.  Clocks, water glasses, knick knack holders etc.  When they come
>> from a
>>four year old grandson who finds something in the Dollar store with a
>> green
>>tractor logo and says "Granddad needs this." it is a  precious gift and
>> must
>>be displayed/used.
>>
>>I presume more green things are in my future.
>>Gary
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Duncan Denman" <canuckiron at wightman.ca>
>>To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>>Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:11 AM
>>Subject: Re: [SEL] Green Tractor People are Nuts
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