Anyone else have Gremlins...
09-14-2010, 09:45 PM
#101
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Yes, I have live-in Gremlins myself. I have a live-in ghost,
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget
about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles,
rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here.
Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from
where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures.
I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he
will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight.
That's my story and I'm keeping it!!
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget
about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles,
rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here.
Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from
where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures.
I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he
will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight.
That's my story and I'm keeping it!!
I'm like this , I can't really call mine a Gremlin for mine is a full pledged Ghost, wall banging and all and has been with me in every house I have lived in since my twenty's , so yes when something goes missing I know why . It is just my husband and I here so I can't blame it on a cat for we have on indoor cats are no children still living at home either.. :-)
09-14-2010, 10:49 PM
#102
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Yup! The weirdest one for me was the bobbin cover on my sewing maching. Husband had called me out of the room in the middle of my replacing the bobbin. When I returned it was nowhere to be found, even after Swiffering the room 3 times, even in nooks and crannies not routinely hit. Went out and ordered a replacement (with a spare at the insistance of husband). (Of course I got the last one in the store..the man actually took it off their machine....and ordered more). Low and behold, two days later the original cover "sat" on the floor near one leg of my cutting table and I'd swear it was grinning and laughing in it's own way. So, now I have two spares!
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09-14-2010, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Yes, I have live-in Gremlins myself. I have a live-in ghost,
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget
about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles,
rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here.
Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from
where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures.
I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he
will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight.
That's my story and I'm keeping it!!
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget
about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles,
rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here.
Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from
where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures.
I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he
will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight.
That's my story and I'm keeping it!!
:wink: :wink:
09-15-2010, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by MaryStoaks
Originally Posted by akgranny
sigh ....... i thought i was just having senior moments but they're too frequent -- am i passing from older to elderly?
Huh, maybe MY gremlins are ... ants!
Jan in VA (living in the country among the pastures)
09-15-2010, 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
I have a ghost named Emily who loves bright things. (and it is only a 20 year old house and we built it).
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer.
Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet.
She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her.
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer.
Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet.
She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her.
I live in the kitchen out-building of a 200 year old Virginia plantation, 14" thick plantation-made brick walls, huge thick yellow Southern pine floors and ceiling joists, non-working fireplace....not a ghost in sight or otherwise. Sometimes in the winter, though, I swear I can smell the odor of cooking fires, sort of like barbeque smoke, pleasant.
Jan in VA
09-15-2010, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Originally Posted by ptquilts
I have a ghost named Emily who loves bright things. (and it is only a 20 year old house and we built it).
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer.
Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet.
She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her.
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer.
Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet.
She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her.
I live in the kitchen out-building of a 200 year old Virginia plantation, 14" thick plantation-made brick walls, huge thick yellow Southern pine floors and ceiling joists, non-working fireplace....not a ghost in sight or otherwise. Sometimes in the winter, though, I swear I can smell the odor of cooking fires, sort of like barbeque smoke, pleasant.
Jan in VA
09-15-2010, 06:48 AM
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Just yesterday I wanted to replace the blade in my rotary cutter and could not find the open package of blades. I know I have two packages and one was already opened. I could only find the unopened package.
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