Green Goddess salad dressing.

Practically all the recipes from the 30’s and 40’s call for Green Goddess Dressing. So what happened? Why can’t doesn’t anyone make Green Goddess anymore?

I finished the part of the Gibson girl quilt that I graphed out. So now I have to decide, do I want a 74 by 74 inch quilt or do I want to add sections that would make it 74 x 90 which is between a twin and a full. I’m in class right now but DH is running it up the rack that normally has photo backgrounds so I can look at it and decide if I like it as it is or if it needs more. I have to admit, I’m not really into square quilts so this could be interesting. It wouldn’t be do bad though, I just need to add 18 inches on the head and the foot.

Some entrepreneur just bought a Hooters franchise with the intention of opening in Tel Aviv. I know some people who object to Hooters. The food isn’t that great which means that the main attraction is the staff. I happen to know a man who owns a Hooters franchise. His minister was complaining about the way the waitresses dress at the restaurant. This businessman brought in the employee handbook including the dress code. Did you know that the Hooters dress code requires the waitresses to wear nylons while at work and that they are prohibited from having bare midriffs? The franchise owner told the minister when the teenage girls in the congregation covered up as much skin as the Hooters employees then the minister could lambaste his business from the pulpit again.
But back to Israel. A popular rabbi (with his own TV show) feels that much of Jerusalem is becoming less religious and more secular. I think this Hooter’s is going to be proving his point. Hooter’s Tel Aviv has asked for one exception to the franchise dress code though; they want their employees to wear mini-skirts instead of the tight shorts. Is this really going to be any better? True the girls still have to wear nylons under the mini-skirts but depending on how tight or lose the skirts are there may be a flip up issue.
The franchise owner has said that he will not locate the franchise near any religious sites and will attempt to be sensitive to the religious environment of the country (hence the skirts instead of shorts). Still, I’m working on wrapping my mind around a Hooters being located in Israel.

My daughter and I have 2nd row tickets to the True Colors tour!!

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. – – Just think about how motorcycles would be redesigned…
What is a “free” gift? Aren’t all gifts free?
Is there another word for synonym?
What’s another word for thesaurus?
Is Marx’s tomb a communist plot?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Every now and then it’s good to get back to the basics. I found 8 quilt blocks that my Grandmother made in the 1930’s, she would have been a teenager at that time and it could easily have been a project from M.I.A (Mutual Improvement Association). I didn’t want to mess things up so I went to Piper’s Quilts for advice, since Jeanette is a quilt appraiser. It was suggested that I sign up for the beginners class where Jeanette could help me one on one. It’s a buddy class so I went through trying to find a friend to take it with me and found someone who hasn’t quilted since their mother passed away. She’s making a 9 patch quilt from fat quarters. It was gong together really quick, she had 2 blocks done before we left class.
Anyway, I was planning on doing a simple 2 columns of 4 blocks but in looking around the shop, I found a star pattern that it hit me could be adapted to fit my Gibson Girls so as of today, I’m thinking about doing a pattern with 4 blocks in the center with almost a window pane type look, and then 4 girls in the corners with a hand quilted solid blue on the sides. Jeanette had me sit down and graph it out with all the measurements. I’m not thrilled with the thought of a 74 x 74 square quilt though so I’m thinking about adding another fabric so that I can make it 78 x 96 which is a nice size for a twin bed. It was good to have someone sit me down and make me slow down and think through the project. More planning up front, less fixing at the back end. Now if I could just fall in love with the fabric I picked for the borders. I loved it in the shop but now, I’m not sure I like it anymore.