Thick as Fall’n Leaves in Vallombrosa

It will be Halloween in just a couple of days, which means that it will be Tuxedo Boy’s birthday in just a couple of days.  Which means that on Saturday morning, after he marches in the Homecoming Parade with his band, and plays at the pre-game festivities, he’ll be rushing home (thanks, Rachel!) to join [...]

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Goodwill, I Love You!

Two Heath Armorlite plates, three Genuine Taylor Mugs (two blue, one pink), a Heath Ceramics sugar bowl–admittedly without a lid, and a super-excellently patterned vegetable dish.  Total outlay for this dazzling array of tableware.
$4.90.
Ha ha.
It would have been $5.40, but I was too cheap to buy the other pink mug–$5 fun money has to mean something.  And [...]

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Project Project Gutenberg: The Devil’s Paw

Mr. Stilton, relaxing in the hammock, is one reason I’ve gotten behind in my reading schedule.  I’ve committed to some sock monkeys for CraftHope, and Mr. Stilton (named by Little Sunshine) is my trial run.  I’ve never made a sock monkey, and although it’s not difficult to do, I’m bemused by how Mr. Stilton turned out.  [...]

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Project Project Gutenberg: B is for The Bars of Iron

It’s so, so hot here that I can hardly bear to breathe.  The amorous slugs you see above had the energy to contemplate the making of baby slugs late last night, which gives me some questions about the word sluggish.  I barely had the energy to contemplate the slugs.  But I wasn’t going to let [...]

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Project Project Gutenberg: A is for Average Jones

Welcome to the first installment of this summer’s reading project!  We’re reading our way from A to Z through Project Gutenberg.  You’ll find the rules here.  Today we start with Average Jones (1911) by Samuel Hopkins Adams (it was going to be Marion Harland’s At Last but I didn’t like it very much, so I [...]

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Spring (Late and Tentative, But Still!)

I got my first flower of the season from Tuxedo Boy on Sunday.  Isn’t it amazing?  I love dandelions, and this one was especially remarkable–possibly because it was a sun-soaked afternoon, we were sitting out in the side yard under the big fir tree, and I had all the time in the world to look at [...]

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Sixteen Things About Me

This meme inspired by Brene Brown over at Ordinary Courage–hey, Brene!  
1.  I love Victorian hair jewelry and hair wreaths.  I don’t own any, though, because the mere idea of such a thing makes my whole family gag.
2.  I have been admitted to 2 nursing programs (Case Western Reserve and Lewis Clark State College)  since I got [...]

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Pink of Perfection, belatedly

So I missed this great Pink of Perfection project way back in July:  a happiness list.   (You can check out the  round-up for more information).  I’m not a cheerful person by nature, and although I love cutie-pie stuff, I am myself as far from cute as it is possible for one person who is not, say, Judith Anderson, to [...]

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Little Sunshine’s Election Night Artwork

Red hots, blueberry Jell-o, and the cutting board. What’s left to say?

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Big Score at the Goodwill

So there’s no money left in the world–not that any of it was mine to begin with, right?–and we’re opting for the cheap thrills at our place.
Which means the Goodwill.  Ours is small, drab, and smelly, like pretty much every Goodwill on earth.  But look what I got last time we visited. 
It was a close call [...]

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