What beautiful flowers! I love word “games.” Thanks for broadening my horizons this morning.

Thank you for the morning giggle :-}
I think I’ll call my stash a ‘tangle’ of yarn.
My amaryllis decided not to bloom this year. That’s ok, she’s worth watering until she does next winter.
I DO love my new windowsill, even now the flowers are coming up outside.

speaking of”not speaking of yardages of yarn”…I have more on the way, good thing Brian is such an enabler 🙂 I still need to find the perfect yarn for a couple of your shawls. Love your book!! The shawls and storys go together perfectly!

Oh so beautiful!! Amaryillies galore!!
I see your resident expert has struck again. 😉

A veritable dictionary you are. 🙂

It did give me a ladle of laughs.

How about a henckel of surgeons?

Oooooh. Gorgeous amaryllises! And great pun. I *heart* puns. 🙂

When you started your list, I immediately thought of “an embarrassment of yarn.” What to do think?

When you started your list, I immediately thought of “an embarrassment of yarn.” What to do you think?

My favorite is, A crash of rhinoceroses.

Gives a certain image, doesn’t it? 😉

Liz

This is why people drive on parkways and park on driveways, isn’t it? :)!

And we will indeed not speak of the yardages of yarns. I’ll second that!

In the Christmas song, “Oh Come, all ye faithful” there is a verse that instructs, “Sing, choirs of angels.” I has occured to me that a Choir of angels is a very suitable collective noun.

The top of that mirror, by the way, is 41.5″ above the top of the counter.

Another random word fact: bosom is not a body part, but a unit of measure, related to a fathom. A fathom is the distance from finger-tip to finger-tip. A bosom is the area that can be encircled by your two arms. It was used for measuring sheaves of wheat and barley. Now, a bosom is useful for measuring the number of relatives at a family reunion (Gosh, I must have been hugging people for half an hour–twenty bosoms of relatives) or perhaps for measuring Alison’s yard stash. (Forty bosoms of yard in that closet!)

Honey, I ain’t touchin’ that one with a ten-foot Pole. Or, in my case, Swede or Brit or Scot.

a stunk of skunk?

ok I am tired and I am redoing the project that was 10 inches along – so you have to give me points for coming up with anything 😉

After having to identify the two rodents the cat brought in last night, I can add a labor of moles to your list. You’d think they’d at least have called it a “labor union” or something. 🙂

That’s only if the CIA has them starting to pay their dues.

Excellent – love the word play – my ears are happy. Wish I was clever enough to play along. I’ll enjoy watching from around the tree as always – smiling. Jan