“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
What can I say? it’s been a good month, although personally nerve-wracking because sales have been down until this week. Not gone, just down.
And, silly me — I can never remember who reads which blog, but I see that I failed to mention here that all my Merino/nylon sock yarns are at 15% [...]
This morning’s email brought a piece of news I was quite unprepared for: announcement of my high school graduating class’s 35th Reunion!
I guess everyone else already got theirs a while back, but the email said my invitation had been returned from my previous address. Knowing how slowly things work, I have no idea when the [...]
This afternoon I heard (yet again) a thumpety-thump on my eastward side wall. I look out the window and saw one of the little neighbor boys standing atop the fence. It’s a six foot fence (at least). I tapped the window and waved him down. THEN his mother, yakking on the phone on the porch [...]
Some of you might shake your head in disgust and walk away, but I had this for breakfast:
That is genuine, plain old fashioned brown rice boiled up with 1/2 cup frozen peas. 20 minutes at medium-high heat is pretty good. Strain it through a seive, and return it to the pan with a pat (or [...]
Today is the day to remember those who have died in military service.
Thankfully it is NOT about debating the rightness or wrongness of a particular war, because I don’t want to go there at all. It is about remembering those who followed orders, did what they were told, and gave their lives on command.
I [...]
I’m sitting here, practically in the dark as storms roll overhead.
I have practically emptied out the front studio space, with the intention of giving it a good once-over vacuum and dusting, then replacing back in there ONLY what I want to keep in there, rather that letting it become a repository of more projects than [...]
While searching for something else, I happened to see this posted on a forum for American Indians and thought it was totally appropriate:
Mother Teresa’s Poem
This poem was written by Mother Teresa and is engraved on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta.
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered, Forgive them anyway
If you are [...]
This is interesting; I found it here: http://www.foodreference.com/html/gm-ch-bnc-12907.html
not only is the concept fascinating, but the language of 1913 old south recipes is telling. Who, these days, has an empty whiskey barrel just sitting around? Or enough demijohns into which to ladle the finished product? Anyway, here is something for y’all to enjoy making over [...]
You know the one I mean…. the “waanh-waanh-waaanh” voice of the Principal in all the Snoopy cartoon features. Whenever Charlie Brown or one of the other kids got in trouble, he’d be sent to the principal’s office, and that’s the sound used for getting chewed out by the principal.
That’s pretty much the sound of what [...]
Last night most of the family gathered at one of my granddaughter’s school for her Kindergarten graduation ceremony.
She was born just days before my siblings and I had a family reunion here in December 2000, so it should be easy to remember how old the girl is. But I still forget!
Between hoping to catch a [...]
IS there intelligent life somewhere out in the Universe?
I can answer unequivocally and without reservation with an absolute and resounding YES!
Yes, there is Intelligent Life in the Universe!
How can I tell? Easy…. none of them are in any big hurry to let us know they are out there. They’ve seen this place and they [...]
but I saw something this morning that just struck me as supremely hilarious.
But first, I have to say that I am not normaly one to make light of someone else’s physical or mental illness, or disease, or debilitating condition, or any other aspect of another person’s daily reality.
I do have very strong opinions about diseases [...]
I’m not sure why or how…. I got a fairly good night’s sleep, woke rested and mostly refreshed, got some laundry done, lay down for morning meditation/rest/nap/whatever and discovered myself in a position where if I didn’t breathe, didn’t move, didn’t scratch an itch, didn’t flinch, twitch, or ANYthing, I would have been in absolute [...]
I was blessed today to have surprise company: a couple whom I got to know after Katrina, who suffered a LOT more than I did during and after the storm, and who moved away from New Orleans just about a month before I did. They’d been on a trip to N.O. to collect yet some [...]
“Baby ‘Bubba’ gets a gun permit” is what the headline says.
The kid is only 10 months old! What the hell kind of father would actually plunk down spendable cash and get his son a real official GUN PERMIT???
Ohhh …. I see. The kind of father who would buy his infant son a gun permit [...]
Today Jerry Falwell died of a heart attack. My sympathies to the family for their loss. I mean, in spite of his reputation and public persona, he was still someone’s husband, father, and grandfather. They will certainly feel the loss deeply.
When I was a minister, back in the 70’s I thought he was right-on. I [...]
Barbara asks (in the comments to the previous post):
Ray how do you do the blurry face thing? I do post pics of the children in my life on my blog and wonder what the hazard is in that?
The blurred sections are done in Paint Shop Pro (the program I use), but any good graphics [...]
(Gawd, that sounds like the title of a really bad Disney movie, huh?)
Silly me, I forgot to take my camera on Saturday, but one of my daughters had her and sent me a bunch of pics this morning of our Pomander Activity from Saturday.
Gang Leader, aka “Grampa”
Some of the Pomander Gang: Shown here at [...]
I don’t know what it was, but there was a BUNCH of us somehow weather-stranded in some weird little resort town, or lay-over station. I don’t know.
But it was c-c-c-cold there. And it was a foreign weird currency. Everyone had been trying to travel somewhere else, but we all managed to get stuck in [...]
Is this not a beautiful image?
I like viewing various Pictures of the Day, especially the awesome colors created by the photographic filters used at Astronomy Picture of the Day. And I was just introduced to the NASA Image of the Day, although apparently they only do theirs on week days. I think I will go [...]
