Eventually ...

Now Darlings, this is the thing.  Well, perhaps not THE thing, but A thing with the Fab.  Footle and Fuss, move this here and there, wait until it is perfect and generally use that as an excuse for not doing something.

The Fab is trying to get past that.  For those that are interested, the Fab has been working on her website rather than writing here.  Because she told sister J that she would, and, mostly, because she wants to.

The problem is that while the Fab has been nudging things along, nothing is perfect (or even close) a lot of things are barely started. The Fab is going with it anyway. So, Darlings, if you want to know what the Fab is up to,  take a peek from time to time at Fantastic Fabiola's home on the Web as she decorates.  Don't get all attached to anything, the Fab likes to footle tootle with stuff until it is perfect which it never will be.

Aside:

Yesterday the liquid song of the Red Winged Blackbird were heard.  Fab spotted a few of the boys in the grass on the edge of the field.  The girls will arrive soon.

Edit: Yes, Darlings an edit 15 years later. in 2024! The Fab is true to her word and is Still footley tootling around with websites.  Different site same gal, this time Mary wants to make pop-up cards and the Fab has agreed to help her because a friend (even an imaginary one) helps when the goal is good.

Thank you for dropping in darlings!  You are wonderful!  Remember that!

Well!

Zipping through Darlings!  Fabiola has been busy the last few.  Yes, she knows that is no excuse.

The killdeer arrived the other day, just behind the robins and the mourning doves.  Spring is on the way, but not here yet.  Fabiola will let you know when she sees her first bluebird for the season!

Fat Tuesday Happy Thought

Paczki

Throw Me A Lance and Call Me Quixote ...

It is a know fact that Fabiola always quotes Cervantes, (unless she quotes someone else, of course).  Wondering why, Fabiola supposes here, Dear Anony asked the Fab in a comment ...

well, let's just cut and paste -- shall we?

"How'd you come to know about Cervantes?" - Anony

The soundbite answer is:  Bookplates. 

Way back when, Mary bought a box of bookplates with a gesture drawing of Dom Quixote and the quote

"The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive"  ~ Cervantes

printed on it.  That quote struck Mary as being Truth.  So she and the bookplates traveled through life together and that could have been the end of the Fab's knowing about Cervantes.  But, fortunately, it wasn't because both Mary and the Fab would have missed out on one of the greatest writers and, perhaps, the greatest work of fiction ever written.

Oh, please.  Learning doesn't happen that way. The segue wasn't bookplate to reading the novel. It was more like a twenty year process from bookplate, to song "The Impossible Dream" (from a musical kinda-sorta-based on the novel), to having someone accuse Mary of being "Quixotic" (funny how that phrase is never used as a compliment, but Mary took it that way), to an argument and a challenge on a message board wherein Mary (knowing that she was about to tilt at a windmill) titled the thread, "Throw me a lance and call me Quixote", which lead her to actually read the book because she had to use the book as a basis for the argument. 

Oh, the Fab knows that it is all sorts of fun to just write whatever horrible things pop into your mind to people on message boards, but it is more of a challenge to use ideas, written images and quotes from a great work of fiction as your weapons.  The Fab favors "Alice In Wonderland", but Mary, that time, chose Don Quixote and learned some amazing things in the process. Funny how everyone seems to win when learning, civility and chivalry are the rules for the discussion.

Everything after "bookplates" is the long answer Dear Anony, most of it anyway.  Thanks for asking!