So that "three random things that I may or may not have any opinions about" meme, via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shadaras:
1. Owls: I always think of barred owls first, as (due to a sequence of logic I do not remember) the barred owl was by some definition our "school mascot". (I was homeschooled, hence the scare quotes.) I used to be able to draw a fair approximation of a barred owl sitting on a tree limb, but I have almost no memory of how that went anymore. I know barred owls are native to Indiana and the surrounding area, and they are the only dark-eyed "true owl" in the eastern US - other owls, like the great horned owl, tend to have yellow eyes. I don't know if I found them less threatening for that reason, or if I appreciated the fact that they were local, or what, but I'm still rather fond of barred owls.
2. The Oort cloud: So because my astronomy knowledge, while extensive, was about fifty years out of date through my childhood and teen years, and because of the general atmosphere of suspicion toward new scientific discoveries in which I was raised, it took me a long time to come around to the existence of the Oort cloud. I forget exactly why it would have seemed a bit heretical, but there was definitely a feeling that "believing in" the Oort cloud was something We did not Do. (This probably sounds absolutely lunatic to people not raised in that sort of atmosphere. It was the kind of suspicious attitude where you're not sure exactly how the Oort cloud is going to start you down a slippery slope toward climate change or reproductive rights or saving the Texas prairie chicken, but you feel there is a high probability that it has been made up by Those Sort Of People to nudge you somehow in that direction, and a general skepticism is the only safe option.)
3. Weaving: One of the fiber arts I have less practice at, due to the fact that it's large and not particularly portable. I never have figured out any of the portable methods, backstrap or card weaving, or whatnot. I did have a rigid-heddle Fisher-Price plastic weaving loom as a teen, approximately the size to make placemats with, but I could not for the life of me develop any kind of steady tension, so my placemats tended to pull in dramatically toward the middle, and then I became dissatisfied and did not finish them. And of course I've done the little potholders on the little plastic potholder looms with the teeth, but I never could figure out how to bind them off, although I remember having an awareness that a crochet hook was involved. I may have somehow gotten it into my head that one made a long string of chain crochet and then somehow applied it to the edges of the potholder? Now that I am more familiar with more sorts of fiber arts, I think I could probably figure out the process should a potholder loom present itself to me, but I don't feel any particular urge to seek one out.
...I don't know, is it just that I have opinions on everything? ^_^ Feel free to either ask me more sets of three things or ask for your own set of three things, or both! :D
shadaras:1. Owls: I always think of barred owls first, as (due to a sequence of logic I do not remember) the barred owl was by some definition our "school mascot". (I was homeschooled, hence the scare quotes.) I used to be able to draw a fair approximation of a barred owl sitting on a tree limb, but I have almost no memory of how that went anymore. I know barred owls are native to Indiana and the surrounding area, and they are the only dark-eyed "true owl" in the eastern US - other owls, like the great horned owl, tend to have yellow eyes. I don't know if I found them less threatening for that reason, or if I appreciated the fact that they were local, or what, but I'm still rather fond of barred owls.
2. The Oort cloud: So because my astronomy knowledge, while extensive, was about fifty years out of date through my childhood and teen years, and because of the general atmosphere of suspicion toward new scientific discoveries in which I was raised, it took me a long time to come around to the existence of the Oort cloud. I forget exactly why it would have seemed a bit heretical, but there was definitely a feeling that "believing in" the Oort cloud was something We did not Do. (This probably sounds absolutely lunatic to people not raised in that sort of atmosphere. It was the kind of suspicious attitude where you're not sure exactly how the Oort cloud is going to start you down a slippery slope toward climate change or reproductive rights or saving the Texas prairie chicken, but you feel there is a high probability that it has been made up by Those Sort Of People to nudge you somehow in that direction, and a general skepticism is the only safe option.)
3. Weaving: One of the fiber arts I have less practice at, due to the fact that it's large and not particularly portable. I never have figured out any of the portable methods, backstrap or card weaving, or whatnot. I did have a rigid-heddle Fisher-Price plastic weaving loom as a teen, approximately the size to make placemats with, but I could not for the life of me develop any kind of steady tension, so my placemats tended to pull in dramatically toward the middle, and then I became dissatisfied and did not finish them. And of course I've done the little potholders on the little plastic potholder looms with the teeth, but I never could figure out how to bind them off, although I remember having an awareness that a crochet hook was involved. I may have somehow gotten it into my head that one made a long string of chain crochet and then somehow applied it to the edges of the potholder? Now that I am more familiar with more sorts of fiber arts, I think I could probably figure out the process should a potholder loom present itself to me, but I don't feel any particular urge to seek one out.
...I don't know, is it just that I have opinions on everything? ^_^ Feel free to either ask me more sets of three things or ask for your own set of three things, or both! :D
