Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning, Ten on Tuesday, garden, politics on Aug 31st, 2010
Ten ways to Lighten My Mood. Are you insinuating I’m cranky???!!!!?
Plant sunflowers in your garden.
Go out to lunch with a friend.
Change the routine. We all need a little variety. So that would be peanut butter on the English muffin instead of jam.
Spend time puttering in the garden. As long as there are no aphids. Bastids.
Read [...]
That’s how many of the registered voters in our precinct showed up to vote yesterday. It was a primary for both major parties with some contested races, but none where the outcome was really in question.
And then we had Proposition C which would invalidate the federal requirement that most people purchase health insurance or [...]
Ow, ow, ow.
I hurt in places I didn’t know I had.
Yesterday was the day of service project that I’ve been working on for several months. I overslept and didn’t get up until 5:30 and from then it was non-stop on my feet until 9 pm. That’s tough duty for somebody who’s been sitting on her [...]
We spent last evening and today watching the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s funeral. There has been a Kennedy at the center of American politics all my life. It’s hard to imagine how different Washington will be now. I have to wonder how his political acumen would have impacted the health care debate had he been [...]
“Are these for me?”
Here you go folks; the first time ever that I’ve completed a sock in one day. I cast on for the second sock of the pair at 6 am yesterday while I was serving as an election judge for our municipal offices and school board. I reached the top about mid-afternoon in [...]
…Addi Turbos all a-tangle in a bowl.
I decided to play along with the ABC-Along this year and see what I can come up a picture for a letter of the alphabet every two weeks.
My two needle bags have about reached capacity and I’ve been threatening for some time to pull all the needles out and [...]
Last night our local neighborhood team leaders got together one last time. I think one team wanted to meet and someone mentioned it to someone else who e-mailed someone else and pretty soon there were 20 people coming together. It turned into a minor victory party with munchies, wine, and beer. I’m proud of our [...]
It has taken me 36 hours to come to grips with winning the election. Isn’t this something? I can’t get over how excited people are to see Barack Obama elected. When have you ever seen thousands of people dancing in the streets to celebrate the election of a politician? People feel like they have a [...]
“…And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright: tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals — democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.”
President-elect [...]
