Ten on Tuesday

Ten Things You'd Bring To A Deserted Island.  Keep in mind, my vision of a deserted island is less Cast Away and more Gilligan's Island.  Just so you know.

1. Tea.  Lots of tea.  A boatload of tea.
2. My iPod and laptop, with a card thing so I can download books and music and other audio from the satellite internet.  (Remember.  Gilligan's Island)
3. The professor (see #2).
4. That crate with my spinning wheel, drop spindles and lots of fiber.
5. Maybe a sheep or two, in case I run out of the fiber.
6. Another crate with yarn, needles, stitch dictionaries, some patterns.
7. Sewing machine with lots of fabric to make quilts and clothes and stuff. (See, the professor will really come in handy on my deserted island.  They should have brought him along on Oceanic Air.  Or at least when they returned to the island.  Didn't anybody watch Gilligan?)
8. Books.  Fiction, history, lace knitting, other knitting.
9. The crate containing olive oils, flax seed oils, oatmeal, cooking utensils, fishing equipment (I love my seafood) and some seeds and stuff for veggies.
10. Pete, for obvious reasons.  I need somebody to carry and fish and plant all that stuff, don't I? (wink, wink)

Seventy-five.  I was going to bring the girls, because you know I would miss them terribly, but then I realized they would bring their ten things and I heard myself, "Would you people pick up your stuff!  What is somebody dropped by unannounced to rescue us!?  All they would see is what slobs we are!  This beach is NOT YOUR PERSONAL CLOSET!" or "Didn't I just pick up this lagoon?  For once I would love it if five minutes later I could walk into a nice clean lagoon!"  Or the arguing, or demands at dinner time.  Forget that!

Comments

[Kate]

ha ha ha!!!

i think a lot of moms would be leaving their kids at home too... i know my mom would!

[Nora]

Exactly why my kids are staying on the mainland.

;)

[Vicki]

OMG, I love everyone's idea of "deserted island" with internet and satellite, etc. And your crates... they're all washin' up ashore with you, eh?
; )

I'm with you, though, right there on Gilligan's Island with the indispensable Professor!!

[Cookie]

What about a water filter thingy for that crate of tea? ;^)

[Carole]

YES! That's why I didn't bring Hannah.

[jill]

Fun list. Yes, the Oceanic 6 really should have thought about bringing the Professor. And maybe have left Ben in L.A.

[claudia]

Mmmm. The Professor.