Obviously, you do not have to be an expert to write an article about anything! I feel fairly confident writing a quilting/cooking/gardening blog. I don’t give advice much. OK . . if you’re laughing . . please stop and keep reading! Vince says I never stop giving advice (although those may not be the exact words he uses). I mostly talk about what I do and how I do it. I learned a long time ago that there are many ways to do most things and my favorite way may not be your favorite way and my favorite way may not be my favorite way tomorrow so I really try not to give the impression that I am an expert, because quite frankly . . I muddle along through almost everything I do whether it’s cooking or gardening or quilting, and hope for the best.
The article I wrote for Capper’s Farmer had to do with old sewing machines — the 301 and Featherweight variety. It wasn’t an “I know so much about these machines” article but it was more of a “I love these machines so much” article. Even though it’s a “farmer” type magazine, or so the title says, my article isn’t about farming. But, they haven’t seen my crop of carrots! This is truly a magazine that most everyone who reads my blog would love. Farmers’ wives would probably like it more than the farmer himself.
Capper’s Farmer
But here’s the real kicker . . I’ve been asked to submit an article to a hunting magazine! I don’t think they want me to write about sewing or sewing machines. They’re wanting something more along the lines of funny — city folks moving to the country and well . . doing what we do out here and enjoying every minute of it.
Vince and I have giggled and laughed and we’ve planned and schemed and written and deleted and like everything else we do, we’re having a lot of fun with it.
We were talking about it last night and I told Vince . . when I tell my blog readers that I’ve written an article and it’s in a certain issue of a certain hunting magazine, some are going to want to get it and read it and can you see the husband when he comes home and the wife is reading a hunting magazine!
There’s no guarantee my article will get published so don’t anyone start hanging out at the hunting section of Books-A-Million. I’ll let you know when I hear if and when my article will be included in the publication.
But . . don’t you think that’s the funniest thing? Vince thinks my next article should be “How NOT to Buy Yarn From The Loopy Ewe!” We’re not laughing or giggling or even discussing that subject! 🙁
Swooze says
You can write the LE article right after he writes one about how to not buy that latest bargain! Lol
JudyL says
Now you’re talking about the expert! When it comes to bargain shopping, he should write a book . . not just an article.
Karen Sutton says
OK, so this from the man who has mutiples of everything – especially if he finds a bargain! Gotta love it. Bob has 12 pairs of hunting boots – he’ll give me chapter and verse on what each pair is for and why he ‘needs’ them.
Marilyn Smith says
I hope you write about the method that Vince uses for hunting deer from your front porch. Hilarious!
Helen M Poole says
I was going to say the same thing.. I laughed so hard and showed it to my husband. He said he couldn’t do that as our front porch looks at the county road too close…
JudyL says
Helen, you might ask the highway department if they could move the road . . tell them it’s interfering with his ability to hunt! 🙂
JudyL says
That might be included in the article! 🙂
Erin says
This is too funny! Thank you for making me laugh! By the way the article was fabulous!
Peggy says
Oh Judy, I hope this isn’t leading to a new career for you and you give up blogging! I think you are the perfect person to write a story for a hunting magazine. Your funny, articulate and best of all an adventurist. Plus you can include information about how to cook the “game” that is brought into you kitchen.
I do like the idea of city folks going country, maybe with his permission, being the mother of a son and some of his mishaps and yes a bit about the “great white hunter” on the porch.
Denise ~ Justquiltin says
Surely Vince realizes by now there is NOT a way to NOT order from the Loopy Ewe (he’s just in denial about it) 🙂 — I think you have successfully proved that fact and I can back you up 100% as a witness – swearing on a stack of bibles and everything that it simply cannot not be done.. LOL
JudyL says
Denise, I read him your comment and I don’t think he was in agreement but . . he’s greatly outnumbered and he knows when to say no more. Well, I’m not sure he knows that yet but we’re working on it! 🙂
Jen says
I remember my grandparents have the Capper’s magazine laying around. I bet that it has been 20 years since I have opened up one. Thaks for the walk down memory lane and I may just have to subscribe to this magazine. I would probably enjoy it now more than I did 20 years ago!
SarahB says
My husband was so jealous of Vince hunting off the front porch… not only do we NOT have a porch yet but all our deer are in the woods at the back of the property. Although he got a new camera this Christmas and found some of the deer do actually come by the front of the house… at midnight!!! :o) If it wasn’t illegal (and dangerous) I am sure he would try to take the shot from his bedroom window at midnight!
SarahB says
Duh, I ment “our” bedroom window… :o) He doesn’t actually have a separate room, yet.
sao in Midlothian, VA says
This whole thing is hysterical….a hunting magazine!!!! I can’t wait…..
sao in Midlothian, VA
Norma V says
with the sense of humor you both have, the article should be a hoot!
dear vince,
if judy received no more “boxes of fun” , she would have to look elsewhere…..
Merry Gay says
You should teach Vince to knit! Then he can be a Loopy Groupie too!
Carolyn says
It is hysterical, but then I think of your DH shooting that deer off the front porch. LOL I don’t think you can make a whole article out of it…. but throw some cooking and sewing in too!
Dora, the quilter says
I’m thinking you could do an article entitled “How Not to Buy Yarn from the Loopy Ewe” with a line drawn through the “not”!
I had no idea Capper’s Farmer magazine was still being published. I thought it had been absorbed into another magazine back in the 1950’s or 60’s.
Linda in NE says
I think the story of how Vince shot his deer from the front porch, complete with pictures of his blind would be perfect for a hunting magazine. It would show the less technological hunters they don’t have to have a ton of expensive equipment to get the job done. Or maybe the magazine’s advertisers wouldn’t like that so much???
Joan in NE says
Vince isn’t the only one who gets his deer from the porch, DS#2 regularly does this as he is 1/2 mile from the river and the deer graze the pasture right outside his back porch, never has to walk or sit in a blind, just point and shoot then haul it in. Let us know if it gets in, will look it up and am sure will get a laugh or two if you tell about the chickens etc.
Linda says
Porch front hunting would be a good article. Remember the old saying, “That dog can’t hunt – y he don’t even leave the porch.” And be sure to drag the Y out when you repeat it. And be sure and use the word don’t… Oh, and be sure and include the hot lips story in there somewhere. A picture of Vince in his shorts, boots and hunting gear on the porch would be a hoot! Just use your imagination and “juice” it up a little. Those hunters will laugh so hard they will be falling out of the deer blind.
Bonnie Litts says
“Vince thinks my next article should be “How NOT to Buy Yarn From The Loopy Ewe!”
Judy, I hate to say it but you can’t write that article cuz you have no knowledge of the subject. LOL
After the hunting magazine article, will the next one be in a NASCAR magazine?
Bon