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YIN AND YANG 421
Super high January surf. Do-mess-ticities and dentists today. The laundry goes around, and I go grocery shopping. I found a poem going around in my head, and I managed to write it down befo...
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT
Reality is a little blurred these days. The eye doctor says my cataracts are to stage three…an elective surgery stage. It’s the year they renew my driver’s license, and my vision is borderlin...
RACING
Datsun 1600, SPL 311 Racing to finish the latest Louise Penny, so we can race downtown to the clinic to have my blood drawn so we can race home to get G to work on time. I can’t schedule t...
SUCCESS AT LAST
Photo: Dairy Goodness. I’ve been trying to make a decent baked apple for eons. Once long ago, I could cook anything with great verve and produce a pretty good dish at the end. I prided ...
GETTING READY
Comic Con, 2017, Friday. All sorts of things are coming up….rapidly. If you follow G’s blog you will note that Comic Con is coming up in July. Spring Round up is in April. But this week...
TIME
Baltimore Album Quilt: 1850’s, Mingei Museum. Time seems to float on by me these days. Sometimes it pauses. I can feel that. I read a chapter, look up, and only moments have passed. I can sew...
SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS LAUGH
So the dentist said, “We will watch them,” and I continued on with my day. I took a couple of hours to haul two boxes of books to work and price them. By the time I got home, the Doctor had ca...
CAPTAIN POOLIE NEWS
Captain Poolie, January 2018 I work with a wonderful nurse named Barbara. She’s a very up to date woman with information I didn’t take in the first time she told me. “Lymphoma always come...
RAINY ERRANDS
Desert outside Vegas It’s a week of necessary errands. Today we meet with our new accountant. He’s a car guy too. Wednesday I see my doc after work. I’ve had a pain in my stomach that n...
TWELFTH NIGHT
The Christmas cat. The night of the 5th or 6th was Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany. Tradition tells us that’s the day the three wise men visited the baby Jesus. Here, many of o...
MEDIUMS
• In the collectable business, “smalls” are things like salt and pepper shakers or other tiny things. Doll house furniture is another good example. We have received another seven or so boxe...
AN OLD TRAIN WRECK
My two helpers plus the stall owner, Barbara, met right on time yesterday morning. Yes, she had sold some books, but there were still over a thousand books to be packed and transported home. N...
APPALLED
Zoe, paint roller, and books. 2017. I was running around yesterday getting ready for the 1000 book donation. Were the shelves emptier? I drove down and counted shelves and books. There ...
LIKE NINE PINS
Sunburst Quilt, Unknown maker, 1850’s, cotton, at the Mingei museum. George gave me a full body massage for Christmas. Dear Man. I went to the pool for a bit first then got a wonderful ru...
A GREAT START
George’s cold/flu is better. At Last. He made an appearance at our Sunday meeting last night. For two years he has sat at the head table. This was his last time up there. Last time as chai...
BANNERS
I like to keep my blogs fresh, and one way I can on Blogger and Facebook, but not here, is to refresh the banner. It’s like washing the dishes or making the bed…a fresh banner makes me think i...
ALWAYS CHANGES
Photo: Charlie Davis, 1969. Photo: Margot Hawkins, 2017. Although everything changes, somethings stay the same. Charlie Davis, a neighbor from LA, photographed that young and i...
WHAT MORE COULD I WANT
Japan, probably Nara, 1800. This is a cleansing water fountain. This urn came from the Todai Temple near Kyoto. It’s a quiet, cold and sunny morning. Dear Sick George is at work and s...
A QUIET HOLIDAY
Bobbie up in a 1909 International Harvester truck. It’s really the little things that really matter. Friday night, we changed seats at our regular meeting, and I could hear what folks sa...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Off to sort at the Discovery Shop. There are still signs of the holidays there, but I am resolutely ignoring them. Instead I wish you a happy, peaceful day with friends, family, or alone if t...
THANK YOU'S
Front door in 2004. I’m playing housewife today. Washing the sheets, buying a few groceries, and most important, saying thank you often as I move about my day. The house is tidy. You c...
THANK YOU'S
Front door in 2004. I’m playing housewife today. Washing the sheets, buying a few groceries, and most important, saying thank you often as I move about my day. The house is tidy. You c...
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA
Click on this link: Wreaths Across America. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Himself: Working hard. Herself: Putting the house together. Reading: ”The Blue Sword.” And it’...
SOLUTIONS
• A musician neighbor of ours stopped by yesterday. He gave us two low cost solutions for gifts to Bobbies companion Geoff. Simply delightful. • I bit into a chunk of fudge in a tiny scoop...
MORE WRAPPINGS
Slowly things come together for the holiday. I’ve sent out a couple of real cards. Everybody else can just put up with Images on Facebook. We had fun at the Car Guy Museum Party, and we had f...
