It’s June and and time for the Common Threads give away.  Yours truly is the artist du’month, and this month I am giving away actual threads – a Pocket T-shirt with the coat of arms and Chivalric Code of the Order of the Eternal missing sock.  The Coat of Arms is on the Front and the code is on the Back.  The shirt comes with a certificate conferring the winner as a Knight or Knight-ette of the Order.

Modeling the shirt (printed by Zazzle) is Sir Big-Dad himself, slayer of bills, doer of deeds of daring and kid driving.

You can choose any size, XS-2XL (ladies sizes too, if you fancy yourself a Knight-ette of the Order and have observed the code once or twice in your life). The winner can pick any color as long as it’s white.

The code, for the curious, is as follows:

A Knight of the order shall
Show Courage when Battling Bills or Backed-up Toilets
(even if the knight can’t tell the difference),
Show Honesty always except when Wisdom is wiser
(as when asked if This Outfit Looks Fat),
Show Mercy for those using the bathroom next
(by turning on the fan, Man!),
and
Have Faith that there will be enough
mismatches to make at least one
complete pair of socks.

To enter to win, leave a comment on the post my Facebook page and then check out our other members’ pages:

Jon Katz, Maria Wulf, Jane McMillan, and Kim Gifford!

The last mountain of snow has melted down to a molehill and we’re seeing signs of spring. Some signs, like the mud that turns our dirt road into an extended series of speed bumps, are more obvious than others.

Everyone deals with mud season in their own way.  Someone was reveling in it, deciding a drive through the muddy corn field at the end of the town road was better than waiting at the stop sign a few feet away, apparently prompting the field’s owner to plant this sign of spring a few days later.  I don’t know why, but I get a kick out of it every time I’m sitting at the stop sign.