Is goofiness a word? Probably not but if you’re a normal wife (me!) and you’re married to an engineer (Vince), there are almost irreconcilable differences!
First, you know I will never ever in a million years ask him to build a chicken coop or a fence or a garden. Heaven help me but last weekend he bought paint to re-do some of the door facings on this house. Anyone want to bet when we sell this house, we’ll have buckets of paint that were bought way back in 2009 to re-do these door facings?
But worst of all, I asked him to help me with the name of a quilt. It needed a label NOW! I had to pack it and get it labeled to be picked up by UPS the next day. I said . . Vince, look at this quilt and think of a name for it while I run to the bathroom. OK . . I did put some clothes on to wash but I was only gone about 3-1/2 minutes. I came back and he handed me his list of names . . all neatly written, in engineer handwriting.
- Windy Morning
- Channeled Energy
- Sustainability
- Spinning Energy
- Boxed Energy
- Sustained Energy
- Windy Windows
- Spinning Windows
- Sustained Geometry
- Symmetrical Sustainability
Does that sound like the syllabus for a class on some kind of energy or a name for a beautiful, bright, energetic quilt? Add to that list of things I’ll never again ask him to do . . think of a name for a quilt!
