Earmole
Enjoy the view of the mima mounds, they say… (Picture 3 especially. It’s kind of bizarre, particularly at upper right.) What the heck was a mima mound? So I looked them up. Nobody quite knows. One guy...
View ArticleThe gift of the Magis
My folks had an original Eames chair when I was growing up, and out of curiosity I looked them up. Turns out you can still buy them from Herman Miller, although at least right now not our rocker...
View ArticleWeather vane
I’ve gotten away from looking at houses pretty much by now; where we are is a good place to retire to. You want a medical specialist who’s seen unusual cases? Can’t do much better than Stanford. But my...
View ArticleNot my area of expertise, but I’m curious
So I have a question about quilting, after seeing this gorgeous work of art (a brighter picture of it is here.)How much can you trust the colorfastness of the fabrics over time? Does it depend on the...
View ArticleLockdown day four
Passing on something that made me laugh in surprise. Rarely am I up to date on movies but this one I’ve actually seen. (Okay, released in 2011. Close enough.) Rapunzel was forced to shelter in place...
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Kudos to Kooba
Back in January, I needed a black purse for my father-in-law’s funeral. I found one at Costco that, well, I wasn’t sure it would hold up well past a year but it was certainly not expensive given that...
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Even if it doesn’t have Christmas lights in palm trees
Ugly Christmas Sweater season is coming (but is still far enough away that prices haven’t risen yet) and my 20+ year old one was handed down several years ago to a teen who wanted to wear it in a play...
View ArticleTrying to get through
Apparently the blog still has some broken parts to it after the latest update. If this looks normal to anyone–assuming you can even see it–I’d love to know. Thanks.
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Boots me
Okay, this is silly. Wait–back up a bit. When I was home from college over Christmas break when I was 19 or 20, my dad surprised me by telling me he was going to take me shopping for a pair of boots...
View ArticleYou pay for what you get?
Someone explain to me….? A 45-mph expressway, divided, two lanes each way. A large and expensive SUV pulled over to the side where there was a bike lane but no real shoulder and driver and passenger...
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Old stuff to tinker with. Complete with original case.
It’s surprising sometimes what someone else really really wants when you really really don’t. And then another person. And another. And another, who said it looked cute. But then the first two...
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How a major corporation kills its business by trying to avoid costs
So there it is . Thank you Davies Appliance. We made lemon sponge cake to try it out: even and perfect. But they have to come back tomorrow to rewire the circuit breaker so that cleaning both ovens at...
View ArticleEnmeshed
1. Something serious: an article on how the whole Bundy standoff thing has been affecting the fish populations at Malheur Refuge. 2. Something not serious, except that it is in that it’s trying to...
View ArticleHow to get rid of zucchinis
Tuesday was, as usual, watering day, as we hope hard for an end to the drought soon. Wednesday, with the plants nice and plump and me away at my lupus group meeting, turned into steal-the-zucchinis...
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Second generation
There were about a half dozen years in my life when my children were babies when I wasn’t into knitting. I was into smocking. This involves creating tiny pleats in cotton fabric and then embroidering...
View ArticleSlip sliding away
A knock at the door. The old dishwasher was wheeled away with our dolly while the other worker stood there with the new one up on his shoulder (!!!) waiting to get by to bring it inside for us. That...
View ArticleSoclose
Trying to place the name, he asked me, Who’s Chris Hadfield? I started singing Ground Control to Major Tom (I LOVE this video! It’s someone’s repost of the one that was seen 22 million times but only...
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So much for easy
Yeah, that talk about getting the taxes done so fast? Turbotax e-files the federal form for free but charges $24.95 to e-file the state one, after all they charge for the software. For twenty-five...
View ArticleIt’s a new day
Testing testing 1 2 3 My blog broke last night. The resident geek took a look. Turned out that when I’d been hitting Delete Spam of late, it was simply squirrelling it away like a six-year-old hoarding...
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Traypsing through the woods
If you get to Kings Mountain Art Fair a half hour before they close, there’s not much sun getting past those redwoods to worry about and you can park close in. (And you’d better, because you won’t have...
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