I just wore a bathing suit in public! I have been thinking about swimming at the YMCA for a while. I can swim. By that I mean that if I fell out of a boat I wouldn’t drown as long as they threw me the lifepreserver immediately and I caught it on my first try. [...]
After I wrote the last post I went off to have a good sulk and personal pity party. First though I decided to rinse my breakfast dish. There wasn’t much water pressure. I checked both bathrooms. Not much pressure there either. Then I went to the barn. Not much there. So I called the husband [...]
My internet access was cut off this weekend. Seems we use too much time. I didn’t even know we had a time limit and was just leaving it connected. Now I have 5 hours of time until Feb. 1. That is more than enough but just having the time limit is making me feel like [...]
It is a dank and rainy morning here. Great for laying in bed and reading a book. Powder was having a good time playing though. She was in and out of the bedroom and had settled in the living room when I heard the husband call, “Is that a real mouse that Powder is playing [...]
My mother came down here to go shopping for a dress for my brother’s wedding yesterday. This was her second city to go shopping in. She was finding it difficult to find a dress. Here were her requirements: 1. Not beige 2. Not black 3. Should be a rich, deep color 4. Not strapless 5. [...]
Now that I got the meditation space all cleared out I need to put something in it. So I went shopping today with the sole purpose of getting altar stuff. My only qualifications for getting something was that it had to call out to me. I wasn’t going to buy stuff just to have it. [...]
Ask and ye shall receive! TurtleHeart said she wanted to see details of the sparkly quilting on the Star Quilt. Here it is. It is only quilted this heavily with this thread on the center block. After I did this I got mad because the @#$$%^ sparkly thread kept breaking so most of the rest [...]
The husband discovered EBay. (Go ahead, take a moment to let the full horror of that sink in.) He is the world’s biggest impulse shopper. Drives me nuts. Now he discovered the joys of EBay. Even worse he is using it to buy tacky stuff for the new downstairs. He has always said that he [...]
The husband has been out of town for a few days and the dog is all out of sorts. She has a firm belief that it is unnatural and probably immoral for either of us to be away from home after dark. When we are she lays at the junction of the living room and [...]
Here’s the second round robin quilt I did. I made the star in the upper left corner. You can’t see it very well but each star point is made up of several rows of very small triangles. I used paper-piecing to make it. It is a method you use to make very precise quilt blocks [...]
I was reading my local paper yesterday and was struck the sheer amount of stupidity in the world. The following articles were actually side by side. “A firefighter took a promotion exam only 12 hours after she gave birth because of a state law requiring all promotion candidates to be tested at once…… Civil-service regulations [...]
FREE TO BAD HOME 31 year old Morgan/QuarterHorse gelding. Needs to go to home where he is ridden several times a day by inexperienced riders who don’t know how to post. After riding he needs to be beaten soundly. Do not provide grain. Needs to stay at this home for about one week so he [...]
I started watching HGTV when it started in Knoxville. In 1996 I was watching Simply Quilts as an antidote to my clinical rotations in school. I started to want to learn to quilt. I didn’t even know that a quilt was three layers sewn together. I bought a quilt book and it kept talking about [...]
I looked up the American Veterinary Medical Association’s position on National Animal Identification. National Animal Identification System (Approved by the Executive Board November 2005) The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) supports an effective National Animal Identification System (NAIS) that contains the following key elements: 1. The database(s) are accessible 24 hours a day and 7 [...]
Before posting this recipe I feel the need for a disclaimer. I usually cook healthy. I usually shop healthy. In fact I feel a strange pride in having only healthy stuff in my grocery cart. Complete strangers have complemented me on my healthy eating habits as I load the contents of my cart onto the [...]
In my last post I said that I don’t like buying whole CDs if I don’t know if I am going to like the songs. While I was thinking about that I went to look at Calabash Music. It is a world music site that has some free downloads. While there I followed a few [...]
I’ve been trying to teach good sportsmanship here. Here’s a test. When you are playing a video game with your beloved wife, who you have pledged to love until death do you part and she beats you, the correct reponse is: A: You got SO lucky. B: Die, bitch, die! C: Silently place your hands [...]
I’m continuing my love affair with soup. I found this on VegWeb. My changes follow the recipe. Indian-Inspired Potato Soup Ingredients (use vegan versions): * 5 to 6 cups potatoes, peeled and cubed * 3 to 4 celery stalks, diced * 2 to 3 medium carrots, diced * 1 large onion, chopped finely * 1 [...]
I finally got around to uploading the pictures from the conclusion of quilt camp. Here is one finished quilt. Notice that she cheated and worked on hers to make it bigger between sessions of quilt camp. Here is the other one. They are half-log cabin quilts that are tied. Actually, they are sutured. I tried [...]
I feel totally blah today. I haven’t done a thing. I don’t feel like doing anything but I’m bored with doing nothing. I hate these kinds of moods. It is gloomy and rainy (again) so that’s probably not helping. There are all kinds of things I should be doing. The main thing on the list [...]