“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I woke this morning after a really good nights sleep (yippeeee), with my legs mostly obeying my command … uhhh… mostly.
After the older girls left, and my DD1 was working on her paper, her daughter, my youngest GD exploring around my living room/kitchen. There is an open counter between the two. I had my dye [...]
Three of my granddaughters came over today. For some weird reason my Bond knitting machine just simply refused to cooperate, and we finally agreed I’d finish that project on my own later. Really hard to be trying to teach something AND fight with a machine that isn’t working right. And then we got busy making [...]
The world is FULL of questions, about almost any subject. One of the most frequently questioned topics is the notion of God. And one can only imagine the length and breadth and depth of such questions.
And nearly every topic in the world has an available registry of Frequently Asked Questions — this not only saves [...]
I got up this morning and got into the morning tasks (rinsing yesterday’s dyes), and trying to get things in order for my walk to Sam’s Club. Uhhhh…. maybe not today. High chance of rain, plus high temperatures. Not a good combination for a long walk. I would do better doing that on Saturday.
The funny [...]
James Dobson, the head of the infamous Focus on the Family, is a fundagelical fucktardian of the worst sort. “Dr.” James Dobson, that is. But he’s NOT A FUCKING DOCTOR. He’s a sociologist. He’s not a medical doctor, and he’s definitely not a minister, but he runs one [...]
Zoiks!!!
I’m all a-fluffle with ailments, apparently.
Did some dyeing this morning. and the back of my head was beginning to hurt again, so I went to lie down at 2:00. That almost made me want to throw up, but I let it pass and finally fell into a deep sleep [...]
I just watched America’s Got Talent, as is my habit. And I am disappointed. I was under the impression that this was a competition for hitherto-unseen or undiscovered talent. Certainly I expect most of the acts to have been working the road for a long time, perfecting their craft, and so [...]
aaarrrrgggghhhhhh!!!! I really really REALLY dislike it when my head feels like this. blahh… like someone thumped me up against the back of my head, sending shock waves reverberating around, side to side, front to back. Very difficult to accomplish much of anything, but I am definitely grateful I went to market early early this [...]
All afternoon I have been craving cheese soup.
No, not that canned artificial imitation make-believe pretend kind that comes in a can. I mean the REAL Cheese Soup:
Take 1 cup Trinity (onion, celery, bell pepper, plus 2-3 gloves garlic) all finely chopped
Sautee that in half a stick of real butter, until the onions are clear or [...]
Okay, so after yesterday’s weird groggy little nap, I went back and slept another two hours!!! And then I was getting sleepy again around my regular bed-time (I was afraid I’d be up all night after sleeping so much in the day), but except for one trip to the bathroom around 3:30, I slept fully [...]
Okay, so I got my sheets and mattress pad washed, hanging up on the line, spent an hour, maybe hour and a half knitting out on the yard outside until the sun started eating into my shade (did I mention was was already a heat index of 95 by mid-morning?), and then came inside and [...]
Okay, so yesterday I had an amazingly large order come in, which enables me to catch up on some bills, and get some extra yarn and so forth. One of my bills I was able to pay directly from PayPal because it was a personal loan. The other bills have to wait until the money [...]
At 7:59EDT (6:59CDT), summer will officially begin.
Gosh, the weather has been “summer” for several weeks now.
It is not quite 7:00a.m., I’ve already taken my morning walk, and the doors are open for a while to blow some fresh air through here before it gets too unbearably hot. We’re supposed to be having more hard rains [...]
Actually hundreds of gay and lesbian couples have been legally joined in matrimony in California, but this video is of a couple that has been together 21 years already. One of the men is a brother of a fellow knitter on Ravelry who shared links to pictures, but this one is a tape of [...]
Managed to get to sleep finally, then I heard my neighbor’s car start up around 6:45, and the next time I looked at the clock it was just after 8:00. So I guess I slept. Had a bunch of interesting dreams.
Today is all about knitting and finishing the pattern so it [...]
dang this is sooo weird!
I woke just after 6:00 a.m., got up, did what needed doing, slogged my way over to Kroger to get some more groceries (got a small but nice commission check for sales at CafePress), came back and did some more things that needed doing. I didn’t get any sort of nap [...]
Okay, I posted on the other blog already, but all in all, I had a good time with the grandkids. Together they worked on the Bond machine to create a simple washcloth. There were a few minor mishaps, but nothing was beyond easy fixing. They each took turns moving the carriage back and forth, and [...]
Well, whattayaknow? I didn’t sleep well last night… Crawled into bed around 11:30-ish — too wired to go to bed any earlier. Tossed and turned until around 1:30, got up moved around a bit and tried again…. finally slept a bit until just after 6:00 (the alarm was set for 6:30).
Showered myself, and washed, rinsed, [...]
then I dunno what the problem is.
I started early this morning, finished scrubbing the floor (little hallway/laundry area and bathroom), did a load of rugs in the washer, rinsed yesterday’s dyeings, put another load of 12 skeins in to pre-soak before dyeing, spent a couple hours at DD2’s house, watching the grands play in the [...]
