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Then, miracle of all miracles, I got a job!! My wonderful friend Ashley put in a good word for me at her place of employment and I was interviewed my first Monday here and then hired on the spot! Thank you, Jesus! I am an office administrator/assistant for a property management company. We rent out homes of course, but also provide furnished apartments for more temporary needs. It is always busy, always changing and keeps me on my toes and I. love. it. Plus the owners are really laid back, military friendly and hilarious. Did I mention that I get to work with one of my best friends? A huge bonus!
So needless to say, getting the house all settled has been a slower process but I don't mind. So without further ado, here are some pictures of what we have done (so far).
Fall wreath made by yours truly
Front entry (still not set on what to do with the stair wall)
As you enter
Dining room (we have plans to install a chair rail)
Powder room - next up to be painted
Breakfast table
Opposing view of kitchen
Living room (note: couch will be moving to bonus room in near future and shelf needs to be lowered)
The fireplace is my favorite part of the house!
Master bath - His
Master bedroom complete with new furniture...we feel like such grown ups!
Upstairs hallway (I want to add a table and lamp to the wall on the left)
Guest bath
Guest room
Bonus room (in progress)
A t.v. and furniture are in the works!
Backyard - still a major work in progress but it's looking better!
One more place added to our list :)

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Hi friends!
I had neglected my blog for a while and came back and wanted to give it a fresh start and a little makeover! So first off, I re-titled my blog, it used to be BlissfulPaisley, it is now more reflective of things that interest me and not just a name!
I love peacocks, they are gorgeous! There colors are just jaw dropping!!! And they are funny too, have you ever heard the sound they make! ha ha ha!
And paper, people who know me, know that I am a paper snob, love me some good sturdy cardstock!
And finally ink pads, gotta have something to ink up that paper with!!
So this new blog name fits me, my style to a T!!
And kudos to my girl Vernetta for helping me out with the name, I gave a list of things that interest me and it really was a simple as listing them off, I made finding a blog name too complicated, lol!
Any who, a little bit more about me before my next blog post.
My name is Kristi, my user name a lot of times is: imkristi2
I am a Christian Thirty-Something, Stay At Home Mom.
I am married (for almost 15 years) to my awesome husby Dan, and we have 4 kids.
And we have a dog and cat!
My family!
My hobbies include: card making, stamping, just starting to get into Project Life, so maybe I will document that here if I get the nerve. We will see.
Also dabble in the occasionally home DIY projects.
Thanks so much so stopping by and taking the time to read my blog!
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My best friend had a baby...and oh what a cute baby she has made! Baby Owen has got to be one of the most adorable babies I've ever had the pleasure of snuggling with. I can't wait to go back and visit again!
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I got the opportunity to be interviewed by journalist Hannah Hyde for an article in the Belmont Vision about El Día de los Muertos.
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens always puts on a wonderful event for the Latin American holiday.
I always love being able to express my joy in seeing the event come together.
Read Day of the Dead festivities blend cultures!
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February 21, 1865
GOOD NEWS:THAT CREDIT ALLOWED.:Captain Hudson yesterday received a dispatch from Provost Marshal General Fry, stating that the credit of 337 men to which this State is entitled, had upon second consideration, been allowed. It will be recollected that we stated yesterday morning that the Provost Marshal General had decided not to allow the credit, which was understood to be true, and the information fell like a bombshell among those engaged in filling the quota of this county, as no preparation had been made for such a result. The able-bodied will be gratified to know that the credit has been allowed as it gives this county thirty-nine men.
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
My email to the FCC on conference accreditation
All those entering conference already have to pass through security checks which would reveal any weapons or other harmful devices, and all successful terrorist attacks against conferences in recent history have not been ones that would have been prevented by accreditation. The Brighton bombing involved a bomb that was planted at a hotel months before the conference so, unless the FCC proposes to vet everyone staying at the conference hotel for months beforehand, accreditation would not have prevented it. All major organised terrorist attacks have been carried out by people with the correct paperwork who would not have been caught out by accreditation and the shootings in Norway last summer were conducted by a man who impersonated a police officer and who therefore would not have been caught by accreditation.
Accreditation would do little or nothing to improve safety and goes against fundamental liberal values - especially in the requirement for people to specifically ask that their data be deleted following the accreditation procedure.
I am also extremely disappointed that the FCC seems to feel that the clear will of conference was not sufficiently clear. It is not the place of the FCC to overrule conference and this "consultation" held for just one week in the middle of the local election campaigns smacks of an attempt to undermine party policy. I hope that members of the FCC will be judged on this in the elections to the FCC later this year.
Yours sincerely,
George Potter
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For posterity (and to remind me that I need to cry into my beer next September), here is how the regular season ended.
I think we can all agree it's been an amazing year for the Miracles, and the rest of us just need to spend the entire first half of 2017 shouting his name from the rooftops.
That is, if the finals go well for him.. (Dum dum duuuuum).


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Interview: Adrian Tomine discusses his new collection of short stories, Killing and Dying, and the way his life and work have changed since the publication of Shortcomings.
Interview: David Tischman discusses his new superhero/fashion webcomic Heroine Chic, which just launched on LINE Webtoon
Interview: Gene Luen Yang talks about finding the tricky balance between educational and entertaining in his new series Secret Coders
Interview: Longtime colorist Barry Williams and his friend and fellow Austin Peay State University graduate Heather Walker have teamed up to create and self-publish My Name is Proxy.
Interview: Olivier Schrauwen discusses his graphic novel Arsène Schrauwen
Interview: PW talks with Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto, behind the scenes at New York Comic Con.
News: Avatar comics Series in development by Dark Horse Comics
News: Jeb Bush on Supergirl: "she's pretty hot." Super creepy.
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This post is a follow-up on the recent BBC Poet's Guide to Britain, which featured Sylvia Plath's poem "Wuthering Heights" (as well as "The Great Carbuncle" and "Hardcastle Crags" a.k.a. "Nocturne" and "Night Walk")...
Amazon.co.uk lists a book version of A Poet's Guide to Britain, Owen Sheer's recent BBC Four series highlight six poets and six poems about inspired by the beautiful British landscape. The cover, left, features nice notches, don't you think? Reminds me of Hilda's hats ("Bile green. They were promoting it for fall, only Hilda, as usual, was half a year ahead of time. Bile green with black, bile green with white, bile green with nile green, its kissing cousin.")!
The product description, pasted below, is rambling. Just read the last sentence to know what the book, a tie-in anthology, will include.
"Six films about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. Each film tells the story of a poem - where it comes from, how it works and the nature and reach of its influence and legacy. Each film will be structured as a journey through that particular landscape. Overall these are films that open up not just the ideas of individual poems but also the idea of poetry itself. Each poem will be explored and analyzed in detail with locals and leading figures in the contemporary arts. Presenter Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The tie-in anthology of the series will follow a similar format to the series itself while also offering additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain."
Look for this book, published by Penguin Classics, around October 29, 2009.
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A Poet's Guide to Britain - The Book
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Publications & Acknowledgements
- BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
- Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
- Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012: 11-56.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past." Plath Profiles 6. Summer 2013: 27-62.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Oxford: Fonthill, 2017.
- Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
- Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
- Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
- Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
- Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
- Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
- Holden, Constance. "Sad Poets' Society." Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. (Acknowledged in)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, 1940-1956. London: Faber, 2017. Forthcoming.
- Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
- Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'A Fetish: Somehow': A Sylvia Plath Bookmark." Court Green 13. 2017.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "The Persistence of Plath." Fine Books & Collections. Autumn 2017: 24-29
- Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Writing Life" [Introduction]. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Stroud, Eng.: Fonthill Media, 2014.
- Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
- "Banking on his passion for Plath" by Melissa Davis Haller. UMW Today. Spring 2005.
- "Sylvia Plath's Three Women to be staged in London" by Alison Flood. The Guardian. 3 December 2008.
- "FBI files on Sylvia Plath's father shed new light on poet" by Dalya Alberge. The Guardian. 17 August 2012.
- "There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath" by Ashley Fetters. The Atlantic. 11 February 2013.


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"If people would sooner or later get the idea of saving themselves rather than saving the world, of liberating themselves rather than liberating humanity, how much they would do towards saving the world and liberating humanity."—Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen was one of the great and original thinkers of the 19th Century. His memoir, My Past and Thoughts, is one of my most beloved books, not only for his thinking but for the humanity that is revealed in his character. I found the above quotations in a recent book by Lesley Chamberlain (author of the wonderful Nietzsche in Turin), entitled Motherland. I am only part way into it, but I can already recommend it highly for anyone interested in Russia, philosophy, or the history of ideas.
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The vehicle HAL interface defines the properties OEMs can implement and contains property metadata (for example, whether the property is an int and which change modes are allowed). The vehicle HAL interface is based on accessing (read, write, subscribe) a property, which is an abstraction for a specific function.
HAL interfaces
The vehicle HAL uses the following interfaces:
vehicle_prop_config_t const *(*list_properties)(..., int* num_properties)
List configuration of all properties supported by the vehicle HAL. Only supported properties are used by vehicle network service.
(*get)(..., vehicle_prop_value_t *data)
Read the current value of the property. For zoned property, each zone may have different value.
(*set)(..., const vehicle_prop_value_t *data)
Write a value to property. Result of write is defined per property.
(*subscribe)(..., int32_t prop, float sample_rate, int32_t zones)
- Start monitoring a property value change. For zoned property, subscription applies to requested zones. Zones = 0 is used to request all zones supported.
- Vehicle HAL should call separate callback when the property's value changes (=on change) or in const interval (=continuous type).
(*release_memory_from_get)(struct vehicle_hw_device* device, vehicle_prop_value_t *data)
Release memory allocated from get call.
The vehicle HAL uses the following callback interfaces:
(*vehicle_event_callback_fn)(const vehicle_prop_value_t *event_data)
Notifies vehicle property's value change. Should be done only for subscribed properties.
(*vehicle_error_callback_fn)(int32_t error_code, int32_t property, int32_t operation)
Return global vehicle HAL level error or error per property. Global error causes HAL restart, which can lead to restarting other components (including applications).
Vehicle properties
Properties can be read-only, write-only (used to pass information to vehicle
HAL level), or read and write (support of most properties is optional). Each
property is uniquely identified by an int32 key and has a predefined type
INT32(and array),
FLOAT(and array), string, bytes.
- Zoned type has zone in addition to value.
Zone types
The vehicle HAL defines three zone types:
Zone based on rows.
Zone based on seats.
Zone based on windows.
Each zoned property should use pre-defined zone type. If necessary, you can use a custom zone type for each property (for details, see Handling custom properties).
Configuring a property
vehicle_prop_config_t to provide configuration information
for each property. Information includes:
access(r, w, rw)
change_mode(represents how property is monitored: on change vs continuous)
min_value(int32, float, int64),
max_value(int32, float, int64)
prop(Property ID, int)
zone_flags(represents supported zones as bit flags)
In addition, some properties have specific configuration flags to represent capability.
Handling zone properties
A zoned property is equivalent to a collection of multiple properties where each sub property is accessible by specified zone value.
getcall for zoned property always includes zone in request, so only the current value for the requested zone should be returned.
setcall for zoned property always includes zone in request, so only the requested zone should be changed.
subscribecall includes flags of all zones subscribed. Events from un-subscribed zones should not be reported.
Get calls
During initialization, the value for the property may not be available yet as
the matching vehicle network message has not yet been received. In such cases,
get call should return
-EAGAIN. Some properties
(such as HVAC) have separate on/off power property. Calling
get for
such a property (when powered off) should return a special value
rather than returning an error.
In addition, some properties (such as HVAC temperature) can have a value to indicate it is in max power mode rather than in specific temperature value. In such cases, use special values to represent such state.
Example: get HVAC Temperature
Set calls
set call is an asynchronous operation involving event
notification after a requested change is made. In a typical operation, a
set call leads to making a change request across vehicle network.
When the change is performed by the electronic control unit (ECU) owning the
property, the updated value is returned through vehicle network and the vehicle
HAL sends an updated value as an event to vehicle network service (VNS).
set calls may require initial data to be ready but during
initialization, such data may not be available yet. In such cases, the
set call should return
-EAGAIN. Some properties with
separate power on /off should return
-ESHUTDOWN when the property
is powered off and set cannot be done.
set is made effective,
get does not
necessarily return the same value as what is set. The exception is a property
with change mode of
VEHICLE_PROP_CHANGE_MODE_ON_SET. This property
notifies change only when it is set by external component outside Android (for
example, clock properties such as
Example: set HVAC Temperature
Handling custom properties
To support partner-specific needs, the vehicle HAL allows custom properties that are restricted to system apps. Use the following guidelines when working with custom properties:
- Key should be in [
VEHICLE_PROPERTY_CUSTOM_START, VEHICLE_PROPERTY_CUSTOM_END] range. Other ranges are reserved for future extension; using such ranges can cause conflicts in future Android releases.
- Use only defined
value_type. BYTES type allows passing raw data, so this is enough in most cases. Sending big data frequently through custom properties can slow down the whole vehicle network access, so be careful when you add a big payload.
- Add access policy into
vendor_vns_policy.xml(otherwise, all access will be rejected).
- Access via
VendorExtensionManager(for Java components) or via Vehicle Network Service API (for native). Do not modify other car APIs as it can lead to compatibility issues in the future.
Handling HVAC properties
You can use the vehicle HAL to control HVAC by setting HVAC-related properties. Most HVAC properties are zoned properties, but a few are non-zoned (global) properties. Example properties defined include:
Set temperature per zone.
Control recirculation per zone).
For full list of HVAC properties, search for
VEHICLE_PROPERTY_HVAC_* in
Handling sensor properties
Vehicle HAL sensor properties represent real sensor data or policy information such as driving status. Some sensor information (such as driving status and day/night mode) is accessible by any app without restriction as the data is mandatory to build a safe vehicle application. Other sensor information (such as vehicle speed) is more sensitive and requires specific permissions that users can manage.
Supported sensor properties include:
Should support. Represents allowed operations in the current driving state. This information is used to block unsafe applications while driving.
Should support. Determines day/night mode of display.
Gear selected by driver vs. actual gear.
Vehicle speed. Protected with permission.
Current odometer reading. Protected with permission.
Current fuel level in %.
Fuel level is low or not (boolean).
Vehicle Mapping Service (VMS)
Android 8.1 introduces support for the Vehicle Mapping Service (VMS), a new vehicle property intended for use only in Android Automotive implementations. VMS can be used for in-vehicle mapping services that support common vehicle features such as advanced driver assistance (ADAS).
The VMS property is a complex data type that expresses map data exchanged between an Android Automotive implementation and the underlying vehicle hardware responsible for managing onboard mapping data.
AOSP does not contain a default implementation of VMS, which currently exists only as the property and related enumeration. Message types and data structures are described in Vehicle HAL 2.0 in the VmsMessageType enum, which lists the types of supported VMS messages. This enum is used as the first integer in the vehicle property integers array and determines how the rest of the message is decoded.


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I spent part of the fall and winter trying to figure out what we had missed in the old rock carvings. I tried to remove from my drawing everything that I knew was recent. John loves Mary, lots of dates like June 1955, names and anything else that did not seem as old as the 1800's. I left all the old code we had found and finally realized that it kind of ended with these symbols. I thought the middle one was a deer since there are several carved in the rock. That spring it occured to me that it might be some other animal and the answer struck me that it was a mule.
Then the three symbols made sense, box, mule, barn. The barn had the main beam through it strangely marked.
The next week, without anyone knowing, I took the wooden key and a flashlight and went into the old mulebarn to look. I had to fight wasps and be careful of snakes but I managed to study the rafters and main beams carefully.
The main beam across the structure was 6 inches by at least 10 inches hand hewn white oak and seemed in great condition after all these years. It was in two sections that met in the middle of the building and had a 3 foot gap between the two end pieces secured by two braces of equal size than ran down the 12 feet to the floor. I worked a ladder into this space, tried not to get bitten by a brown recluse and shined my light in the space. I ended up using a hammer to clear away the dirt dobber nest and finally found what I was looking for.
A small keyhole in the end of one of the beams. All of this took the whole day, plus I could not get the key to turn and ended up getting a can of oil to squirt in the hole. I tapped on the end, eased the key and it finally turned. More banging and the plug in the end of the beam came out. I shined the light in and saw something wrapped in canvas. I started pulling it out, got down to the floor and opened the long bundle. Inside was the rusted old rifle that Julian Christmas had used as a crutch all those years ago.
I rubbed the old rifle clean, rewrapped it and headed back to the camp. I knew what was hidden in the stock.


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Our Plush Raccoon
Our stuffed raccoon is lifelike and oh, so cuddly-soft! The nose and eyes are made of plastic, and there are no claws to scratch a young child. Our stuffed raccoon is soft and adorable, and has a curious look in its wise-looking eyes. Its whiskers are made of soft, floppy strings that can't scratch or poke. The size is big enough to be snuggled by an adult or child. It would make a good companion on trips as well as at home. See our other raccoon toys and gifts.
About Raccoons
Raccoons are related to the cacomistle or bassarisk, a small ring-tailed mammal found from Oregon to Mexico. Other relatives are the coati mundi, kinkajou, and red panda. Raccoons belong to the Family Procyonidae. The giant panda was once classified as a member of the raccoon family, but is now considered to be a true bear. According to Wikipedia, "Raccoons are unusual, for their thumbs (though not opposable) enable them to open many closed containers (such as garbage cans and doors). They are omnivores with a reputation for being clever and mischievous; their intelligence and dexterity equip them to survive in a wide range of environments and are one of the few medium-to-large-sized animals that have enlarged its range since human encroachment began (another is the coyote).


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OK, seriously people. WTF?
I'll give y'all the minor stuff first.
We went to Costco yesterday to do our weekly shopping. We'd had an exhaustive day, stopping at 4 places already and buying two bikes for the little guys. We decided to buy a delicious rotisserie chicken for dinner and Costco's are the best. It was almost closing time and there were only two left. Well... almost two. One was missing a chicken leg! Someone popped open the plastic container, helped themselves to a leg and closed it back up! Did no one see this happening?
So that opens up the question - if you saw it would you do something? I totally would. I wouldn't go tattle on the person but I would make sure they knew they were seen. I'd probably just say, "Nice, very nice." if I saw them eating it. If I saw them actually in the act of pulling the leg off, it'd be more like, "Seriously, what are you doing??"
Now on to the serious stuff...
Dave told me about this sad state of affairs. There's this woman with 5 kids and she offered up her 7 yr. old daughter for pornographic pic's and sex. Luckily for the girl, the woman was offering it to an undercover agent. Actually shows up at the hotel with the girl and a bag of sex toys and different outfits. The article, if you can stomach it, is here.
Of course, she's pleading not guilty. And she may only get 20 years for this. As an officer, I would have to take the woman into the street and put a bullet in her head for all to see. Same as you would to a rabid dog. I wouldn't make a very good cop.
My friend and I were talking a couple of years ago about the sheer amount of pedophiles these days. Was it always like that? Are we just talking about it more? Has this replaced, "If it bleeds, it leads" in the news? My theory is this: Statistically, a pedophile will get to 30 kids before they are caught the first time. Almost all pedophiles say they were messed with themselves at some point in there lives. So, out of those 30 kids, say 3 take the same wrong path. Alright, now, mathematically where you had only one, now you have 4. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am no mathematician but that's my theory.
Another statistic is that when these pathetic wastes of DNA do jail time and are let out, that's when they start killing. Leave no witness kind of thing. And there is no cure, people. They never stop. So my other theory is... never let them out. Even better, let's expand our death penalty. Swing that needle 'round. Rabid dogs I tell you.
Thanks for listening, friends. We will resume our lighter fare tomorrow.
I remain, Ruth!
Update: My SIL just sent me this website so you can check your area. It's here.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Of Chicken Legs and Rabid Dogs
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- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 1/2 cups cremini mushrooms, sliced
- 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 1 medium carrot, diced
- 1 medium zucchini, chopped
- 1 yellow squash, chopped
- 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tsp oregano or mixed Italian herbs
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 handfuls baby spinach salad leaves, roughly chopped
- 1 15-ounce tub fat-free or low fat ricotta
- 8-ounces no-cook lasagna noodles
- 3/4 cup reduced fat shredded mozzarella cheese
Preparation:Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and coat an 11 X 7-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Heat oil in a large saucepan. Sauté garlic for 1 minute, followed by onion, mushrooms, celery, carrots, zucchini and squash. Gently sauté for 10 minutes until vegetables are softened. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, herbs and some black pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in spinach.
Spread a cup of sauce on the bottom of the baking dish. Top with noodles, followed by half the ricotta cheese; add another layer of sauce, followed by noodles and remaining ricotta cheese. Continue with remaining noodles and sauce, ending with sauce. Top with mozzarella and bake for 30 minutes. Serves 8.


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This evening my fiance and I took our daughter out to a wonderful little play area near where we live. The cost of admission was reasonable - six dollars I think - and our child loved it. She got to run around playing with the other kids, jumping in the inflatable bouncer-thing, climbing and sliding. All the while you could hear the yells and shrieks of happy kids. I of course did little, opting to try and sit back and let my daughter pursue this new world on her own. It's not that I didn't care, but I felt it important for her to wander off on her own a bit, to build the confidence that she could indeed play by herself without the constant need to have the security of mom or dad at arms length.
She was understandably trepidatious at first, but after about half an hour of wandering timidly around our general proximity, you could see her begin to get adventurous. Soon she was running all over, and at times so far that I couldn't see her, which is turn frightened me a little bit. But she'd always come running back, ear-to-ear smile plastered across her outlandishly adorable face.
At some point my fiance asked me to make reservations at a restaurant we enjoy. Given how loud it was - what with a hundred or more shrieking children in full throat - I had to leave the area to make the call. It turns out the place had apparently closed. Without wanting to get into how disappointing that was to learn, we did eventually go out for dinner and met up with her sister and long-time boyfriend at the Mall of America. Once I got some food in me and got over some pretty severe grumpiness - the effect of having eaten a total of one small taco throughout the day - it was the sort of pleasant evening that parents my age with young children would have.
It was around 10:30 by the time we left, well after my daughters bed time, and my fiance was apparently exhausted too. So as they quickly passed out in their respective seats I was left to contemplate my thoughts from the drivers seat, a place where my mind is frequently at it's clearest. In almost no time, my mind wandered back to one persistent thought that's stuck me not only recently, but throughout my life.
Our lives are too loud.
Think about that. Then think about your day. If you're like most Americans it begins with the blaring sound of an alarm clock and the constant daily din doesn't end until you fall asleep. Even then, many of us live with the noise of the cars passing by, a fan or some other form of white noise. In between our lives are filled with the hubbub of the world around us and our daily lives.
That's true for the stay at home mom who listens to the shrieks of her children, the roar of the vacuum and the hum of the microwave. It's true of the construction worker as the shovel pierces the Earth, the hammer pounds the nail, or the jackhammer pulverizes the pavement. It's true for the office worked who listens the scratch of pen or pencil on paper - the click of the keyboard. It's true for baseball players too. The dull thump of the ball as it meets the glove or the sharp retort of the bat as its delivered to the ball.
The noise essentially never ends.
As humans we've become accustomed to that, and in many ways the familiar sounds can be soothing. They remind us both the good and bad things in our lives. They remind we're alive at all.
Perhaps it's odd then that I so thoroughly delight in their absence. I don't mean just on occasion either, the way I assume almost everyone sometimes enjoys their own quiet time. No, I love the quiet, I seek it out. Of course, I rarely actually find it during the day. But there are two times when I can count on being alone with myself.
One of those times is in my car. Most people like to drive with their music or favorite radio personalities. I like to drive with nothing more than the hum of the road. In fact, at least half of my ideas for what I'm going to write about come from my time in the car. To say nothing of the fact that those precious few minutes are a time to collect and compose myself for every other aspect of my life, like trying in vain to figure out how to outsmart my fiance for once. The other is at night when the children are asleep, the significant other is resting peacefully, and everything else is off. No television, no music. Just quiet.
It is during those times that I am able to connect with the angels of my silence. Then that my thoughts come to me at their clearest and most poignant. Then that I am most at peace with myself. I love the sounds of the silence. Because it is only then that the world is quiet enough for my to be able to truly hear myself.
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So this is my first attempt at a tiered cake, as well as my first attempt at homemade MM fondant, made in honor of my British friend here for her 40th birthday celebration.......
The cake consisted of a 8 inch round bottom layer made of chocolate cake filled with a layer of white chocolate ganache, fresh strawberries and raspberries, and topped with raspberry buttercream frosting. The second layer (6 inch)and top layer (4 inch) were a light orange chiffon cake filled with orange buttercream frosting.
All cakes were covered in buttercream frosting and MM fondant.
I researched all the different ways I could do a tiered cake and also had to take in to account I had to get it to the restaurant in one piece.
i used dowel rods in the bottom and second tier for support and used a long dowel rod going through all 3 tiers. And this is where the fun started. It was recommend to me that each layer should be on its own cardboard plate, so as I was pushing the dowel through the top tier the card buckled into the second tier, thus pushing it into the cake, when i noticed the middle tier was bulging, i immediately stopped. to my dismay the middle tier had a crater! Consequently I removed the plate on the 4 inch and discarded it!
Needless to say the cake still held, and arrived in one piece to the venue, and most importantly tasted and looked great! Not bad for a first attempt.
With regards to the MM fondant, it tasted really good, so i will definitely be using it again in the future! I just wish I got the knack of putting it on the cake without creases and tears! Practice makes perfect! And most of the time you can cover up the imperfections with the decorations! Shh! Don't tell anyone!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tiered cakes
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I used a 6"x12" piece of white cardstock, and folded it to make a 6" square card. I had some neat plastic like wrapping/tissue paper with blue and silver snowflakes on it, and cut that to 5 1/2 " square, and glued it onto the base. Then there is a 3 1/2" square of white vellum that frames a 3 1/2" circle that I printed a cute snowman and the Season's Greetings phrase on. The snowman just bursts out a hello I think! For the inside I actually cut a 5 7/8" square of paper, and stamped with a versa pad and used silver embossing powder for the sentiment... one of the rare times I actually put something inside a card! I've really got to get back to doing that more often!
I tried to show how the snowflake paper is almost iridescent... hard to show in photos sometimes!
Enjoy your holidays! This is my last card until the New Year, and the last card of the year for the Card a Day Blog, as we start our winter break there tomorrow! Take good care, and keep crafting!


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Many months ago, I decided to splurge on the Matte Eye palette by Too Faced (displayed above) and then last week I purchased the Smokey Eye palette (displayed on the right). While I absolutely love creating new makeups, there are days when I just like to apply makeup and not have to do a whole lot of thinking about it... obviously, it happens more on a weekday morning. ;) I tend to like palettes for that kind of situation and I have to say that these palettes by Too Faced fulfill that need very well.
The advantage with these palettes is that one look consists of a row. You generally apply the left-most color on your brow bone, the middle color on the eyelid, and the right-most color on the crease and voila! They provide little cards to explain to you how to apply the makeup but, quite frankly, the application nearly always is what I described so I'm not sure how useful they are.
If you feel like trying out something different, you can totally use the colors in a different scheme. There isn't going to be like a palette police that will show up and fine you for going off of the "prescribed" order. :p So have fun!
I am using the Matte Eye palette for work. I find that the colors are very pretty with a good payload and have a nice muted tone that is perfect for work.
I used the Smokey Eye palette for work 2 days last week and, well, it may have been a bit intense for work. People don't bat an eye too much at me as I'm very eccentric but they were noticing me more, for sure... and I wasn't sure if it was appreciative or not. So I'm not sure that I'll use for work again unless I'm in the mood to fully stand out. :p That being said, the contrast between the colors is big enough that these colors would actually be stage worthy!
Except for the big eyeshadow to be applied on the brow bone, the other ones are small size so you will need to use a smaller brush to apply. Again, payload for all those is real good so the colors pretty much will look exactly like they do in the palette. (I hate when the colors lie. :p)
Those palettes run at about 36$ each. They each give you 3 looks: "day", "classic", and "fashion". So that's like 12$ for each look. Not bad at all. They have a few additional different palettes: naked eye, natural eye, natural at night, and romantic eye.
Obviously, I liked the first palette so much that I bought a second one. I would definitely recommend these palettes to anyone who is interested in intense colors and giving your brain a break. ;)


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Saturday at dawn, the Watermelon Carnival started full blast and yes it was hot, hot, hot. Those Pullen boys were selling melons in front of my office and sold out by midafternoon.
At the hottest part of the day, the Mechanics Bank gave away free, ice cold, slices to everyone.
Spencer and I wanted an unusual shot of the park and festivities and we snuck over to the Regions Bank, climbed up on the roof and took a couple of pics.
It was a hot day and at least a hundred degrees but there was good music, lots of games, interesting crafts and a good time had by all. Reminds me of the song by Chicago.


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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
...just an update....
Kathleen and Emma: started sheep, qualified
Tony and Faye: started sheep, qualified and started cattle, qualified
Nancy and Jack and Blaze: started sheep, qualified
Courtney and Logan: started sheep, qualified
Not everyone one did all the runs for the weekend...some just did Sunday runs.
But looking on how Kathleen, Nancy, Courtney and Tony did.....they handled their dogs well, the stock was under control and it was very quiet and controlled. Yes, no run was perfect so everyone needs to fix what was broken and remember what good they did.
heck, I screwed up the worse this weekend by stepping over the handlers list which is a MAJOR BOO BOO...
A few months ago, Emma, Jack and Logan were puppies and at 17 months old, they were running at a trial and they did well....most of the problems were puppy type of stuff and lack of miles...nothing really bad.
I am very proud of my students as they did well and they should be proud of what they did. Some of the people they beat had been running for YEARS!!
Keep up the good work as it showed
Monday, April 28, 2008
April Showers ASCA Trial weekend
I ran Scott, Tess, Nan and Ray. I also ran Blaze for Nancy on Sunday PM. I was beat fter the trial...it seemed like I was running from one class to another!!
The High in Trial Other Breed awards were embroidered towels....very cool!!!
Tess got the highest score that Kaye Harris has even given. Tess was awesome on ducks....I am so proud of her. Tess won every class she entered in!!
This was Scott's last trial and he was having fun. He ran his own course on the ducks and forgot his come-bye but he had a blast anyways. I could not but laugh at him since he was enjoying himself so much. I ran Scott in all classes all weekend and Tess and Nan in a couple. Then I added Ray to help fill classes on Sunday.
I had a great time and Kathleen, Tony, Nancy and Courtney did great....you should be very proud of yourselves as you displayed good stock work and dog work. And I love it when my students beat me in trials!!! Tom is going to do some more homework then enter again. (Tomorrow I will post the students scores...I have to get them first)
Thanks to Janet for helping on Sunday....she is a great duck handler!!
Saturday AM
Adv duck
1st Tess 107
Scott 71 (he was super sticky)
Adv Sheep
1st Scott 108
Open Sheep
1st Nan 116
Adv Cattle
3rd Scott 97
High in Trial Other Breed: Nan
High Scoring Open: Nan
High Scoring Adv: Scott
Saturday PM
Adv duck
1st Tess 114
Scott 86 (he was super sticky)
Adv Sheep
1st Tess 111
2nd Scott 109
Adv Cattle
Scott HCT
High in Trial Other Breed: Tess
High Scoring Adv: Tess
Sunday AM
Adv Duck
1st Tess 123
2nd Scott 110
Adv Sheep
1st Tess 119
4th Scott 101
Open Sheep
1st Nan 115
Adv Cattle
Scott 50.6 (I stepped over handlers line!! we would have gotten 2nd - OOPS)
Started Cattle
1st Ray 79 (his first trial and I was proud of him)
High in Trial Other Breed: Tess
High Scoring Open: Nan
High Scoring Adv: Tess
Sunday PM
Adv Duck
1st Scott 113
Adv Sheep
2nd Scott 100
Started Sheep
3rd Blaze (I forgot the score)
Adv Cattle
2nd Scott 77
Started Cattle
3rd Ray 56
High in Trial Other Breed: Scott
Overall for weekend (Highest Scores for the weekend):
High Scoring Sheep: Tess
High Scoring Ducks: Tess
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Kudos to Kodi
- Coyote killer
- Lamb babysitter
- Handy white dog to pet in pasture
- Loud Announcer when people drive up
- Sandwich and coffee mug thief (oh, that probably shouldn't be in here?)
- Savior of sheep flock when barn burned down in 2006
- Awarded "Service dog Award" for OUTSTANDING LIVESTOCK GUARDIAN
- Will walk on leash for treats
- Loved by the family at DeltaBluez
Sunday, April 20, 2008
"Metchosin 2003"
Metchosin 2003
See the big tree and the people underneath it? That is where the sheep were...it's up a very steep hill. And as usual, Tess is doing the fast fetch....get those ewes moving.
We are turning the post. Notice how far she has to be off the sheep?
See the break in the white fence in the background?
The sheep are running to escape there. Needless to say, Tess caught up to them and did the drive well. The first drive panel are almost at the top of the hill. The draw is to the treeline and the sheep will run into the forest and if they did that, you were DQ.
Tess is a doll at the pen. You jsut stand there and she will put them in. Here she is telling me to shut the "dang gate". The ewes are facing her and she backed them in.
OK, I finally closed the gate. Now off to the shedding ring.
Putting the sheep into the shedding ring. I got them settled and she got the shed. Tess can read my mind and make me look good on the trial field
Then we went to the beach to play in the surf.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Tending sheep"
This last weekend the weather was great...it got into the 70s and was hot and just enjoyable. Having such a nice day, I turned the sheep loose on the farm. Then I set Tess to do the *tending duties*....she has been doing it for almsot 8 yrs and knows the program.
1. Sheep must be on front lawn near front porch and house pond
2. Sheep are not allowed in the driveway or barn.
3. If the sheep crosses the *invisible line* it will be put back
4. Diane sits on the porch and has her glass of wine and reads a book
5. Tess does the tending by herself.
The ewes know the program--well at least some of them do- not the new ewes and certainly not the lambs. So Tess is constantly in motion until they have it all figured out.
Some of the ewes like to try to sneak away.....there are 4 avenues of escape...one to the north of the house, one down the second driveway to the road, one to the barn and the last avenue is to the main driveway. A couple of ewes wait until Tess is preoccupied then will sneak away. She has 35 ewes and 45 lambs to watch.
I sit and read. I also drink my wine very slowly.
Tess will be tending and then her head will flip up and she will dart off to get the sneaky ewes and when she is doing that then a couple of more will sneak off. She returns with the first set and then she will flip her head up again and peer in the distance and then race off to get the second sneak away set.....soon, she has them all staying in the area and then her head will slowly droop and then droop more and then she is asleep.
Ah ha, says some ewes...we can sneak away and then they try but Tess will leap up and then rush back into the flock. Soon she will take a cat nap and the ewes will be finished grazing and then they all will lie down and sleep. Then the lambs follow suit and next thing you now, I have a huge slumber party in the front lawn.
Then I get sleepy so then it is time to put the sheep away and then Tess and I will go in for a nap.
Tess loves to tend and I love to sit on my front porch and relax....it's a fine way to spend a Saturday afternoon
Thursday, April 10, 2008
"Mother Hen"
Why compete with a bunch of chickens when all you have to do is fluff up your feathers, the ewes will back down and you can eat all the grain you want with no one bugging you?
The Old Mother Hen was very tame and was a pet at one point in her life.....she was quite old by the time she came to us and we let her do as she pleased. Her egg laying days were over so she just hung out with the sheep.
Spring came and the other hens were laying on eggs and so she took up the Lamb duty. She was very serious in her duties and would cluck to the lambs and pick up grain for them and soon the lambs would eat out of the grain bucket with her. The ewes were not allowed to share.
She soon began to think of each new lamb as her baby and at night would sleep next to them and cover them with her wing. As the lambs got older and all went outside to the pasture she would wander out with them.
Woe to any Border Collie that came near her lambs, they were driven off by an angry hen. She loved her lambs and the lambs would all sleep next to a tree with Old Mother Hen standing guard while the ewes went off to graze, She took great pride in raising the lambs and they still would run to her at 90 days of age when she clucked to them.
She would go into the stalls at might with the lambs and sleep with them and it was one morning when she did not leave the stall. She had died during the night surrounded by her lambs. We miss her as she was a chicken with a personality.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Old News on Tess was a hero.....
Tess was one tired and one very wet dog and got extra treats that night.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Clun Forest Sheep
Granny's daughter....what a typical head of a Clun should look like
just born.....
one week old...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Anson, Kael and Rainey update
Anson is the clown...he is the happy-go lucky puppy that wants to please. His nose still is quite long and with his white head it even looks longer. His cold blue eye rimmed with black is quite stunning on his broad white head. He still has a cast of gray to his coat.
Kael looks like Tess but in a masculine version. Thin, narrow white stripe, matching white legs and toes and eyes that melt your soul. His eyes are amberish and look down into your soul. He is far more serious than Anson and he is looking about to see what he can rummage up and steal. He loves to throw himself in your lap so be prepared and remove hot liquids from your hands when he does that. Can you tell that *maybe* I spilled my coffee when he threw himself on my lap?
Now the runt is Rainey. She is one of the two runts in the litter but is now catching up to her brothers. Her height maybe smaller but she is built like a linebacker now. Just three pounds lighter than her brothers, she makes up for it with her *Princess attitude*. She is Jeff's dog and sleeps in his lap, get his food and helps him critique American Idol as well as cheering for any LSU games.
Rainey has decided she is *mommy's little helper"....I turn the pups and dogs loose in the pond pasture and they play while I feed the sheep in the stalls. I use Tess to push the ewes off the feeders and sometimes I will grab a lamb to check it out, band it or hold it. Tess will lay in the stall or move the ewes as needed. Rainey has taken upon herself to help me in these chores. She will lay next to Tess and mimic each move that Tess does.....she will not rush the sheep but lie next to Tess. If I flank Tess to move an ewe, then Rainey is next to her. Rainey has learned to be calm and quiet in the stall. She will even walk with me as I go around the stall. She is not afraid and will listen to me as I recall her or tell her to sit. I see her brain clicking, figuring out what to do. She is very workman like in her attitude.
Each puppy in the same in some ways but wildly different in others....it will be very fun to start each one and see the progression. Having people handle them several times a week for the last five months has made them bold, outgoing and people friendly. They see people and it's all about "me, me, me...pick me up so I can kiss your face!!"
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Rest in Peace, Libbi
A few yrs later with one pup and another orphan lamb
Libbi working ducks in an arean trial...she usuaslly won!!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
"Happy Birthday Ray, Jackie and Dan"
Today is the birthday of Ray, Jackie and Dan. Ray and Jackie live here and Dan is a visitor with his mom, Audrey. They all turned 3 yrs old today and we can remember when they were just fat butterballs.
Tess and the pups on the front deck


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|The inspiration!
It started out as "You should run the Landsford Canal 50K with me in July." As you probably already know I am a sucker for running in different locations and with different people, so like last time I was in. The LC50K is a club run put on by Claude Sinclair in middle of nowhere South Carolina. When I last checked there were only 51 registered runners for this event. Holy crap! I honestly have a chance of finishing last in this one.
For those of you that don't know, I am a big time racer...however, I am only really racing against myself, meaning I do my own thing and only care about how I do against my own personal goals. I guess that is almost 100% true, except there is always that 1% of me that DOES NOT WANT TO FINISH LAST (or not finish at all).
Fortunately, though I fell short of my goal and finished in 6:14:50, I finished 31/48 people...not last. The skinny is that my ankle really started getting tired around mile 20 or so. I ended up walking a good bit and that's what really killed my time. I guess I could have managed my walk/run times a little better but I'm not sure how much that would have saved me. I will say that when my watch went off ant told me it was time to run, I ran every time. So, I think it was a good thing I brought it with me otherwise I might have ended up walking the last 11 miles.
So, here are my highlights from the trip:
The Ride Up:
Candy, Jenn, and I left The ATL around 2:30 on Friday for our six hour journey to Rock Hill. Along the way we stopped multiple times for bathrooms, boiled peanuts, and beer. We were like three 16 year olds in the car cutting up the whole way and just having a blast. The six hours flew by as I made random posts to FB documenting the journey. People were jealous and it was great!
We stopped at a local Italian joint where we feasted on wine, fried calamari, Greek salads, and stuffed shells. Following dinner we went to a local Bi-Lo where we got some ice, breakfast, and beer. What was I going to get? I had PBR for Joe in my cooler already, and then I saw it...Schlitz, "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous". Must have! Alex remarked to me as he laughed, "I don't think I've ever seen anyone voluntarily buy that..." sober : )
Throwdown at the Hampton:
OK, don't get all excited. Six of us just hung out in Joe and Andy's room for an hour or so. When Beth walked in she saw the Schlitz and tequila and then yelled at Joe who was already half way though his can. I felt the evil stare as she tried to make me feel bad...at least that's what I want to think anyway...but it didn't work. Next time I am going to listen to Beth and party after the race.
Sleepy Time:
I am beginning to figure this out. I can sleep well two nights before a race, but the night of...hell no. I wasn't stressed, I just didn't want to go to sleep. What gives? Was it because I finally had a TV with more than 6 channels? Was it the A/C in the room? Was it the ice in the cooler crunching as it melted? I don't know, but I slept like crap...much like right before Scenic City.
Race Morning:
There is nothing spectacular about this other than the herd of ultrarunners in the lobby of the Hampton Inn at 6:00am making the other guests really angry as we scrambled to get breakfast to go. One guy was really pissed at us, and all I could do is laugh as he grumbled when I grabbed an extra napkin from in front of him.
|Catawba River...you just want to jump right in don't you?
Landsford Canal State Park:
Hello fellow GUTS runners! There were a ton of us from the ATL and then some that I like to consider adjunct GUTSers. It was really nice seeing and being recognized by other runners, a lot of whom I have a great deal of respect for. Awesome..that really made my morning. :D
|Some of the GUTS peeps: Candy, Me, Andy, Jenn, and Jim (Photo: Jim's mom)
I was standing with Greg and Joel waiting for the race to begin. Claude is giving the last minute instructions while readying his musket / starting pistol. I looked over at Greg and made fun of him as he put his fingers in his ears.
"What the hell man?!" I said.
"I ran this thing last year and know how loud that thing is."
"Well I like to experience life to the max."
"Holy shit that is freakin awesome!" I yelled, and we were off.
|The starting pistol...Claude told me that he wish he had this when he coached track!
|I bet I win this battle!
31 Miles to Go:
I am not going to bore you with details. But, I did get the chance to run with a few cool people.
Bill Keane
I met Bill at the Black Mountain Monster where we spent the evening chatting, chilling, and cheering on the other runners until we couldn't keep our eyes open any longer. At about mile 2 of this race, Bill and I started running together and would for the next 12. He shared a lot of cool stories with me and gave me a ton of advice on ulrtarunning. This was his 251st ultra. After the race I asked him if this was his total for all of the races he's run, and he snapped back that he"didn't run those other chicken shit races, except for one marathon that I did with a friend." Hell yeah! How freakin' awesome is that?! The miles FLEW by.
Jenn Coker:
OK, the LC50K was her idea and I had intended to run some of it with her, but it didn't happen. I was running pretty strong for the first good bit and then she caught up with me. My ankle really started aching and this was about the time I was walking a good bit. I think we ran 2 miles together, but that was it. Fortunately for me, she planted the walk/run strategy in my mind...something I haven't religiously done in a long time. Thanks for that! It got me through the race :D
Joel Tapley:
Joel is my Red Top Mountain / Blair Witch homey. I think he may be the only other person around that knows that park as well as I do. Anyway, Joel and I ran a ton of miles together in this race, and I was glad to have someone I knew to run with. Because of his plantar fasciitis and me with my ankle we were running at about the same pace...excellent. Running alone this far in a race can be really tough and we helped keep each other going through the end.
Secretly (and I feel kind of crappy about this) it became my goal to beat Joel. For me it was a challenge to keep ahead of him. I kept looking back on the straightaways and could see him about a quarter of a mile away. At the speed I was moving it was tough to keep ahead. As I made my way onto the trail I developed a new running technique. I would run until I was around a curve and out of sight and then I would walk. Why was I doing this? Because, I didn't want him to see me walking. If for some reason he was reading my mind and decided to partake in my personal race with him I didn't want to give him any encouragement. Ha ha ha ha...how funny is this...that is what 29 miles of running will do to your mind! I did beat him, but only by a few minutes. Joel, you ran strong man!
Jim Bicklehaupt
I didn't run more than a few steps with him, since the only chance I had was when he lapped me...twice. You want to hate this guy, but you just can't. He's one of the friendliest people I know and, damnit, he said hi to me very time he passed, at the beginning of the race, at the aid station after he had finished and I still had like ten laps to go, and every freakin' time he was smiling and encouraging me and was genuinely genuine about it. Jim loves running...you can see that and is really good at it...and you can see that too. He finished this race in 3:36:41 at a blazing 6:59 pace...nearly three hours before me. How the F do you do that? There is one word for this and you know what it is: AWESOME!
Congratulations on killing this race dude! Well done!
|Me and my new bromance holding my finisher's award.
|Right after my Big Sur Marathon medal, this is my next favorite finisher's award.
Each award is hand made by Claude and this year features the above Indian in honor of
the gentleman that carved the wooden one who had recently passed away. AWESOME!
Ride Home:
We still had fun, though we were more tame because we were all pretty beat at this point. I did get the chance to employ one of my favorite road trip mean things by buying a bag of smelly-ass beef jerky and proceeding to eat it slowly, opening the bag only as the smell from the last dose had dissipated. Ha ha ha ha...I'm a dick. It made me laugh and really smile inside though.
Ice Bath & Car Accident:
Yep. The conclusion to a perfect couple of days was met with a car accident. I was on my way home from Publix with my 40 pounds (yes, I know this is a lot of ice Jenn, but I like my water COLD...especially if I am going to freeze my man bits off anyway) of ice when it happened. I was driving straight through an intersection then some guy coming from the opposite direction turned left into the side of my car. I'm alright, just sad. I found out today that the insurance company has elected to total my car. I will definitely miss the clam shell and all of the great memories I have with her. Now, it's time to find a new sweet ride. What do I have in mind? A Toyota Tacoma PreRunner Access Cab...yep...I've been looking at these for a while and know exactly what I want. NOW, to find the money :-(
P.S. I did get to take my ice bath, and no, the ice didn't all melt away before I got to use it.
|Gotta smile. The clam shell kept me safe...that's what matters :D


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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Thursday SOG Tag
Last week over on the Some Odd Girl Forum there was a challenge to make a tag using one of the SOG stamps. I decided to make a birthday tag. I colored my image using my Spectrum Noir markers and cut him out on my Silhouette. I then made my tag using some scraps from and Echo Park boy's collection. I think it is over 2 years old but I have saved every little bit of it. I then made a banner using my Silhouette. Finally I added some yummy twine from The Stringery! This was so fun and it came together rather quickly!
paper, stickers- echo park
stamp- SOG
twine- the stringery
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I will be back tomorrow with a new project. See you then! Have a wonderful and crafty day!
18 comments:
- gale said...
What a cute tag!! I love that image-so perfect for a little boy.
- March 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM
- Tanya Ham said...
So cute! You are SO good at coloring, all the shading looks awesome! :)
- March 7, 2013 at 6:53 AM
- Connie Mercer said...
super cute tag!!!
- March 7, 2013 at 7:23 AM
- Jennifer Grace said...
Great tag, I love the 'birthday boy' banner! x
- March 7, 2013 at 7:42 AM
- Becky said...
It turned out great!! I love all of the twine at the top and the banner is awesome!
- March 7, 2013 at 8:11 AM
- Jingle said...
This is SUCH an adorable tag! I love it!!!
- March 7, 2013 at 8:13 AM
- Christina Collins said...
So adorable!
- March 7, 2013 at 8:17 AM
- Janet Zeppa said...
I still have some of that collection too!! Love your adorable tag.
- March 7, 2013 at 8:24 AM
- Tammy said...
Adorable! Great job coloring the image. So fun you cut him out on the silhouette.
- March 7, 2013 at 8:33 AM
- Annette said...
what a fun fun tag... your coloring is amazing...Don't you just love that the silhouette and cut him out..
- March 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM
- Juliana said...
How cute! I love the banner you cut and added at the bottom!!!
- March 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM
- Norma Gomez said...
OMGosh he is so adorable, great tag too! Have a wonderful day, hugs :D
- March 7, 2013 at 11:25 AM
- Christina said...
Super cute tag-I love his guitar!
- March 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM
- LauraB whosthischick said...
He is so adorable.
- March 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM
- Pam W Merwin said...
Such great colors! Love the background and the Happy Birthday across the bottom :)
- March 7, 2013 at 7:04 PM
- emily said...
The coloring is excellent...and I like the blue and bright green combination!
- March 7, 2013 at 8:44 PM
- Izzy Anderson said...
I still have bits and pieces of that Little Boy collection too. I couldn't part with any of it! Super cute tag. Your color work is so beautiful.
- March 7, 2013 at 9:36 PM
- Catherine said...
Such a great tag for a birthday boy. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has saved every bit and piece of that collection...it's a good one!
- March 11, 2013 at 11:49 PM


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Saturday, 31 December 2016
Barmouth VS Newborough
Final post for the year. I've started to pick up the pace a little, so hopefully that trend will continue into 2017. Happy New Year to anyone who still pokes their head in here from time to time. I hope it proves to be a productive one. :)
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Rock Scratch (again)
My aged old scanner has finally had enough of me. Oh well, hopefully the gadget gods will take better care of him/her/it.
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A Sketchy (pun?) Restart
After a protracted hiatus, here I am trying to get back to making regular offerings for the graphite gods. Feeling somewhat rusty. My muscle memory seems to have atrophied a little. :( Oh well, onwards and outwards...
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Kind Words for Despicable Men (God and White Men–part 3)
Posted by Richard Conniff on May 2, 2012
For readers today, it is almost impossible to browse through the eugenics literature from before World War II without hearing intimations of Auschwitz in every line. It takes a continual effort to keep in mind that they did not know about the Holocaust then. When one early enthusiast declared that eugenics "is going to be a purifying conflagration some day," no one understood how horrifically prophetic those words would later sound.
Reading about Irving Fisher, Ellsworth Huntington, and the rest, I felt a predictable sense of loathing: these were despicable men. But in other parts of their lives, even the worst of them was at times admirable, and I felt a queasy sense of liking. This was illogical on a personal level. Their writing was laced with animosity toward the wave of immigrants into the United States after 1890—southern and eastern Europeans (mainly Italians and Jews, respectively), yellow-peril Asians, and the drunken, misbegotten Irish. It was an era when a Harvard anthropologist could lament "the flooding of this country with alien scum." Fisher spoke of "defectives, delinquents, and dependents."
Under the pretext of science, the eugenicists were proposing to preserve "Nordic" hegemony by breeding out my own Irish and Italian stock, among others. So why liking? Partly, it's because the idea of the white Anglo-Saxon gentry prattling about their own superiority has become a stock joke ("Too damned funny, old bean"). Ellsworth Huntington sounds about as dangerous as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady when he declares: "An Englishman likes to work things out for himself, and is glad when an emergency throws him on his own resources. The Mediterranean and Alpine people, on the contrary, are much more docile, more willing to be led."
And partly it's because, having grown up Irish and Italian, I am aware that my people also entertain notions of our magnificence. Other ethnic groups do the same, though they are generally not so foolish, or so accustomed to power, as to issue scientific pronouncements on the topic to the less fortunate. The truth is that all humans favor in-groups, starting with the family, and we disparage those we perceive as outsiders. Treating this as only the outlaw impulse of eugenicists and Nazis is a convenient way of overlooking a hateful tendency in us all.
These eugenicists also felt disturbingly familiar in other ways. They weren't sinister characters out of some darkly lighted noir film about Nazi sympathizers, but environmentalists, peace activists, fitness buffs, healthy-living enthusiasts, inventors, and family men. If Madison Grant had not been such an ardent racist and so closely tied to Nazi genocide, he might be remembered today as one of America's greatest conservationists. "Among his many accomplishments," writes Jonathan P. Spiro in his recent biography, Defending the Master Race, "Grant preserved the California redwoods, saved the American bison from extinction, founded the Bronx Zoo, fought for strict gun-control laws, built the Bronx River Parkway," and helped create Glacier, Denali, and Everglades National Parks. (To be continued.)
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If we don't know the meaning of something, we'll google it. Doubts, news, weather, reviews, new courses, colleges, jobs, companies, shopping, and the list goes on and on.
Even while you are reading this you might have a tab in your browser opened with a google page. Shall we stop doing it for a while and think what we forgot to think? Have you ever thought of doing something really innovative? Something that can make others to think in another way?
Of course, we usually dream about it. When we dream something like that we usually opens the google and searches for something related to our dreams to make it possible. It may be for reading about a course, available technologies, or something that makes us almost reach our dreams.
But nothing will get you your dreams. Everything will help you to 'almost' reach it. Your dream is a product of your thoughts. That is a unique thing evolved from the situations you faced, the emotions you have, and the uniqueness you own.
You can't google your dreams. Chase it, my friend.
You will have to do something by your own for achieving the dreams. You can't expect others to make you doing something. There are no shortcuts to success. But everyone has their own separate ways. May be yours is a bit lengthy one perhaps a shorter one.
All that determines the distance to success is the effort you takes for it, the analysis you makes, and the conclusions you arrives from the experimental experiences.
So put some energy, take some effort, give a push, and keep the momentum. That's all you need- just think for a while.


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There is no mistery to this. This is folkish alternative rock with a violin and a cello – not for musical detail, but continually: they provide the actual music, even though the rhythm guitar is still there. So yeah, this is some pretty stuff and not only because of the strings section. Every instrument is competently played and the same goes for the lyrics and singing, which are well-polished and dramatic. In itself it is not only good, but perfect. It seems to have been recorded in a studio and they actually ask for a price for the album, so these guys are clearly in another level compared to most stuff reviewed here. Let me finish this paragraph by saying this is absolutely worth your 7 bucks, you can give it to your mother or girlfriend, I am sure they will like it. It's just that likable.
But I'm not really writing this for mothers and girlfriends, so let the harsher review begin, ye people interested in music. First, for you also there will be something in this album. We are always in this ungrateful battle for original music and something that we can't possibly forget by next month. The overall sound of this is certainly special and will give you a couple of pleasurable listens. Isn't this all we ask? But the truth is this is pretty as a bird, but unfortunately I don't really think this is great music. I just have to compare it to Fleet Foxes, the kind of prettiness this guys are pointing at I think is very much of the type the Fleet Foxes have achieved and delivered to millions of mothers and girlfriends around the world. So, I don't see anything as great as "White Winter Hymnal", "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", "Blue Ridge Mountains". Most of the time I see myself not really caring for the lyrics or for the exaggerated, a bit forced, emotions of the singer. This might be just me, since I'm not much of an emotional person, but I got quite shook-up the first time I listened to the songs above and I feel nothing with these.
I kind of got bored of the strings also. Yeah, I never said "I got bored of Mastodon's guitars, why don't they play a banjo every now and then?", but for one reason or another I got bored of the violin here. Again I don't know if that's just me, since I have listened to a lot of Classical music and might therefore be unimpressed by simply listening to violins and cellos. Trying to break free from my subjectivity here, I must add that the violins are played in a varied manner, it's not the same wankery all the time like a Hollywood movie soundtrack or something. They carry nice melodies, provide dramatic build-ups and stops, deliver pretty musical detail and don't feel like a gimmick at any point.
Man, I'm really an asshole. I think "The Adder" might be my favorite exactly because there are no strings. Reflecting on this track I little bit more, maybe the strings in the others provide an overdose of emotion and drama, making it all sound melodramatic and forced. It's like they are rubbing the prettiness in your face. This track also features a really nice piano, I wish I saw more of that in the album. The last song is actually one of the best in the album as well, don't miss that.
So is this a classic? Best album of the year? Shit, unfortunately not. But it's well worth a couple listens and after you grow tired of it, give it to your girlfriend, I'm sure it will be her album of the year, with all the shit she listens to.
I hope these guys get their lucky break, some of this would fit in a romantic movie soundtrack like an old shoe.


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The second account is progressing steadily, and a couple of days ago she finally finished Caldari Cruiser level II. Which means it was time to buy and fit a new ship! New shinies are always fun.
So it was shopping time in Jita. The Caracal cruiser hull itself was selling for the usual price of 3 million. I actually had one sitting in Jita that was unused, but what the hell she might as well get one for herself. This time, however, I spared almost no expense in fitting out her ship and splurged on meta 4s on most of the modules. When you have so few skillpoints, every little bit of survivability and dps helps. This was the fit I eventually settled on:
[Caracal, Heavy missiles]
Photonic CPU Enhancer I
Multiphasic Bolt Array I
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners
Medium C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
V-M15 Braced Multispectral Shield Matrix x 2
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
XR-3200 Heavy Missile Bay x 5 with Scourge Heavy missiles
She couldn't actually use heavy missiles yet, so I bought her 5 'Arbalest' Assault Missile launchers to tide her over until her skill training completed. The XR-3200's and the Multiphasic Bolt Array were meta 3s, because the meta 4s were insanely priced. At 13.5 million ISK for one 'Arbalest' Heavy Missile Launcher and 19 million ISK for the 'Pandemonium' Ballistic Enhancement, that would have cost more than my entire Dominix plus fittings and rigs and drones. And it proved fortunate that I didn't…
The fit is not cap stable, and may not actually be that great but it was enough for her to easily do level 1s. However, yesterday she encountered the most deadly foe that you can meet in New Eden…
Yes, those are his pants on his head. Why? I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I wasn't at home at the time, but she was summoned midway through a mission by our son's cries of anger at being woken up from his nap. As you can expect, active tank + non-stable cap + afk = "hi, welcome to EVE again, nice pod you have there."
Understandably she was a bit upset about it, especially since she had set up a "panic" tab in her overview with only stations so that she could warp off quickly in an emergency, but it takes a bit of getting used to in order to remember to do it. At first she was a bit concerned about how to get back to her wreck since it was approaching downtime, but we realised she could just log on to Noork and bring his Dominix there while she hung around in her pod. I'm sure the Dominix just cruised past those level 1 frigates like a killer whale amidst a school of minnows and picked up her stuff while obliterating all enemies with tech 2 drones.
Fortunately, she was still using the assault missile launchers so at least the heavy launchers worth 25 million ISK were safe in her hangar. In fact, she completely lucked out because after examining the salvaged drops it turned out that she only lost the CPU upgrade, one 'Arbalest' assault launcher, and one V-M15 invulnerability field. All in all, module loss of only slightly more than 1 million ISK, and to top it off she managed to get a new Caracal hull for 2.5 million in Amarr (some guy selling it in a different station in the system for some reason… gotta love em), which means after the insurance payout her new ship only cost 1 million ISK.
The Dark Lord of Destruction almost claimed another ship later in the night, this time my little Punisher. My wife had a couple of storyline missions that only allowed frigates in, so she bought and fit another Kestrel (her original was in Jita) and I decided to tag along in the Punisher which I had fit to try out those little complexes I kept seeing all over the place. Man, missiles really rule in PvE. I would burn towards the enemy at 700 m/s with my afterburner, only to see a flight of 5 Bloodclaw missiles race past me at 3000 m/s and blow my target into scrap before I could even get in range of my pulse lasers. Eventually it became clear that my largest contribution would be burning towards them to get initial aggro and then making myself useful picking up the lousy loot drops from the wrecks.
Midway through the first storyline mission however, her baby detector went off again and she was off like a shot. This time, however, she remembered to quickly warp off to some random station first. I busied myself at her computer trying to warp back and navigate to the acceleration gate since we were a couple of rooms in. Suddenly I looked over to my Punisher and realised that my shields and armor were gone and I was at 70% structure since I wasn't running my armor repairer and all the enemies were happily shooting me. I eventually survived after frantically turning on the armor repairer and scooting out to a 20 km orbit, but for the rest of the mission my Punisher had a long stream of fire coming out of its ass that looked like a really fancy afterburner.


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Hello all you loc-lovers! I'm feelig a little better after having to wash my hair in freezing cold water the other day. Yeah, I survived, but I REALLY wasn't happy about it--I HATE WASHING IN COLD WATER! Anyway, (I hope) that the water heater for this building has either been repaired/replaced and now I'm going to rewash my hair using HOT water. I don't know about anyone else, but especially for my hair, it just doesn't feel like it's clean unless I've used warm/hot water. Maybe it's just me being crazy...(it's not like I haven't been crazy before! LOL)
All of this brings me to the dreaded issue of LOC BUILD-UP--why does this seem to be such a problem? It seems to me that if you are washing your head thoroughly and rinsing VERY thoroughly, you wouldn't have that much of a build-up problem. Now, I know that product choice has some bearing on the matter, but still... Very oily products would seem to be of some concern, but then again, if you use these types of product in your hair/locs, it would seem reasonable to me that you would wash your hair a little more often to make sure that the product doesn't become embedded in the loc and it would seem reasonable that you would really scrub the hair and scalp and then pay particular attention to rinsing out the product. Am I making this just a little too simplistic? All the stuff I read on the loc lists about using apple cider vinegar rinses (AVC) and baking soda rinses and such goings on...is this really necessary? I would think that we all would know by now how to wash our hair--if you're loc'd, you'll just have to take a little more time to work the shampoo into the scalp and through the locs, since the shampoo/water mix can't flow through as freely as it does when one is a loose nap. Then, after careful scrubbing, be sure to rinse very, very thoroughly with lots of running water to flush out all the debris. Repeat the process if you wish. Just that simple, in my opinion. This can even be accomplished with cold water, though of course this is not my preference! People, this is not rocket science, nor is it an exceedingly complicated task. To avoid most build-up issues, just wash and rinse your hair thoroughly as often as it needs it! Be blessed, hugs, and peace...janel
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Loc Washing Madness!
Hey people! I'm taking a few minutes to post since I haven't done so in a while and since I'm sitting here boiling water to take a bath instead of taking a shower! That's right, the water heater for my apartment building is out and guess who woke up to no hot water?!? ARRRRGGHHH! I HATE COLD SHOWERS, epspecially when I have to wash my hair. I am too damn cold natured to appreciate pretty much cold anything--except for ice cream, of course! Even on the hottest day of the year I can't do a cold shower unless really forced at gunpoint, let alone wash my hair. But alas, I really must wash the dreads today before I go into work; I close the store tonight and will probably not have the energy to do it when I get home. I'm still trying to figure out how to do this, since I really like to rinse well with running water...I even had plans to do a full twist and clip thing and sit under the dryer for a while--guess that's out the window now. I'll be lucky to get to work on time at this rate! Why is it that a watched pot never boils? Just because you want it to!!! Don't know how "squeaky clean" the hair will be this time since I'll have to really grit my teeth and rinse under cold running water. Never mind that it's September here in the Ohio Valley and the high for today will be in the mid-90's; that water that SOME people call tepid is COLD!! Catch you all later, have to keep talking myself into this dreaded ritual...be blessed, hugs and peace. janel
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How about this handsome man... Black Jack. One of our studs - he really is a gorgeous donkey, in his older age he has a few "war" wounds from doing his "job". You can see a few of the scuffs on his face. He has more on his chest - I am going to try and get in there this weekend and do some brushing on him to remove some of his sun faded matted winter fur, he likes getting brushed unless one of the other donkeys come up and then it just isn't cool... I guess it isn't manly...
Cheyenne was enjoying some of the new grass coming up from the rain we had last week. It is so wonderful to see things growing and green! It has been so long! You can see she is starting to get pretty wide herself... but she has at least two or three months yet. She carries her babies better than Macie or Vicki... but she is a little bit larger donkey with longer legs.
Lacey is looking so good, and is really a good Momma this time. She does allow Cali to have lots of room and run the pen on her own... guess she feels safe with everyone in the pen. But when she is ready for Cali to settle down... she snorts and stomps her foot, then a unhappy Cali returns to her Mom.
And you knew I had to show another photo of Cali... she loves to have her photo taken... she really likes close ups... well she moves towards the camera anyway.... she is so pretty. Even the neighbor commented this week how funny she looks running the pen and how independent she is, and really a stunning donkey out there. I didn't show the full body photo of her... Mom needs to clean her up first - she was a "mess".... babies just lay down wherever they feel like it, even if it isn't where you are suppose to lay down.


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Teaching the Individual
Something I have learned about teaching over the years is that, every time you get pretty comfortable teaching and feel like you have a pretty good grasp on the art, you all of a sudden get a new student who completely throws you for a loop.
What worked for your students in the past just does not work for this one! They learn at a different pace. They see things differently. They need things explained a completely different way. They have totally different goals.
And when you get the hang of teaching them, you get someone new who is completely unique and different from the last student!
And so it goes.
Anyone else notice this pattern? I actually enjoy it, because it keeps me on my toes. When I come up with new and exciting ways to teach different personality types and different ages, I get really excited. My confidence grows, my attitude changes and I really feel like I can influence my students for the better.
So how do we do this? How can we be flexible and adaptable in our teaching, yet still adhere to high standards in our studios? How can we help each student, no matter their background, personality type, and musical goals, have a positive experience with music lessons?
Jenny Boster
Teaching the Individual


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The weeks are flying by, it is hard to believe that it is almost Thanksgiving ! Time to link with Doodle bugs!
My new glasses really do darken more! I am getting more comfortable with the progressive lenses, and like the frames.
Happy Veterans Day to my awesome husband!
Semper Fi!
I am revamping some of my task folders, this one is sequencing numbers, each paint bucket has 2 numerals with a missing one. The brushes have the missing numeral. I took this photo to be an answer key, I plan on keeping the answer keys seperate so they aren't tempted to peek and they can self check without too much fuss. I'll let you know if that works!
The brushes are kept in a snack Baggie and it is labeled with the folder name and how many pieces should be in the bag when they put them back. I plan on being very annoying about that.
The Velcro piece on the back will ensure that the bag can be attached to the folder and less likely to become seperated from it.
Beginning to organize math centers. This is the front of the teacher desk.
Beautiful sunrise this morning!!
I am missing my laptop! I hope to replace it, but Christmas is coming, children need to go to the dentist and my husband says we need a generator!
Tell me about your tips and tricks when you create and organize folder and box tasks.