I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (2006)

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1) Bette Midler sings about the storm that's raging outside. How's the weather where you are today?
sunny and too warm.  We've had a messed up fall and winter and many of the Carolina Cherries never lost their leaves.  Well, the orchid trees are blooming their heads off.

2) She mentions her gloves. Tell us about your favorite pair of gloves or mittens.
Of all the ones I made, I think I liked the short fingered ones that I gave to my daughters.
Those that didn't show were for Bee.  I will make the ones for the Dominican using the pattern for her gloves, and from  this pattern pictured below.

I hope this now shows.  This is another pattern I made for someone.

These are the fingerless mitts I made for my Elle. 
I might just make these, as she asked me to
make the patients ones like hers. 

I made a lot more of these than I remember.
That's major surgery for you!
It takes away your brain!

I just figured out how flickr works.  Whew!

3) Does your home have a fireplace to keep you warm?
As does most of California, a fireplace is decorative.  I like ours but it needs an insert that we've never gotten around to purchasing.  It could help keep us warm if we'd ever do that... 

4) Bette's father, Fred, supported his family as a house painter. Have you ever held a job that kept you outdoors a great deal of the time?
Yes, I worked as a carpenter, holidays, weekends and summers, for many years of my youth.  From the time I was 11 until the time I was 19.  

5) Her mother, Ruth, was a talented seamstress. How about you? Can you sew on a button? Raise a hem? Darn a hole?
I sew very well and actually did custom sewing for a few years, plus alterations. I never did re-weaving.  I would have liked to learn but life moved on....

6) 2017 was a big year for Bette. At the age of 72, she opened on Broadway in the revival of Hello, Dolly! and won a Tony. As we kick off 2018, what would you like to accomplish this year?
I want to knit about a dozen pair, one a month, of short fingered gloves.  Anything else that happens is just going to be a side dish of whatever.

7) Bette and her husband Martin have been married for nearly 34 years. Their wedding was officiated by an Elvis impersonator. Are you looking forward to any weddings in 2018?
Nope

8) Bette and Martin are very proud of their daughter, Sophie, now 30, who graduated from Yale in 2008. Do you expect to attend any graduation ceremonies in 2018?
No.  My darling grandnieces won't be graduating that soon.  I think our grandnephew already graduated the Coast Guard.  Sometimes I lose track of things... old timers. 

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9) Random question: Yesterday, who did you spend the most time with?
Instagram   I thought the question said what and not who.  I spent the morning with my dog, and then wolfie and Mr. Z.

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THIS IS THE FIRST SATURDAY 9 OF 2018!
Let's hope it's a great year.