Ptarmigan / Grouse

I can't believe I didn't post this earlier. I completely forgot. But I forget many interesting things.

Here's a video I shot of my mother while she was preparing the birds for our Christmas dinner. I find it quite fascinating. My mother is a real game-skinning, bone-breaking woman.

My cat is also in the video. She is a real cat.



For those of you who don't speak Icelandic: mama and I are just sort of chit-chatting, although she does say how her mother taught her to skin the birds via telephone.

cushion

My mama embroidered me this cushion and gave me it for christmas. It's 9 squares by 9 squares and she made it up as she went rather than using a pattern.



It's a prized possession.

Maybe my mother and Ellsworth Kelly are related in another dimension. She wasn't consciously aware of his existence when I asked.