Here's one of them, willing to take a stand against the madness and greed that has dumped us into a chuck hole economy where many of those who served the call of their country are still trying to survive in some mean streets. I know because most of the people I saw, when I volunteered at a specialist aid group to the homeless for two years, were Veterans of the war against Vietnam..
SoCal's Harbinger of Spring! I'm no longer sure this tree is a Carolina Cherry.
And there is a boat load - well a dingy load - of new green ware on my table
This doesn't bode well for advancing too far in the knitting, but I did get down a Nancy Bush book called, Knitting on the Road and picked out three patterns for the 10 sock kit thing. Or was that 13? *Throws up hands!*
So, back to ceramics. I always loved playing in the mud. My brother's Tonka trucks were always partly mine, to the chagrin of my mother and my poor brother. We built Cities in the sides of the riverbanks with those trucks. We had cities with Ponds and water systems. Believe me it's only a very short, winding path to ceramics from mud pies and mud cities. Of course we made mud pies for our mother decorated with willow leaves. Today I went back for three more greenware pieces- a giant Snail, Halloween tower, and a Fall Welcome sign to make during summer. I'll show those tomorrow or Friday.
Bro and Sis and I feel we should have been born Zuni, or even Hopi. That would have been more fun. After all, Life, with a capital "L" has to be fun, and making fun for others, including animals, should be a life goal for more people. Making HUMUNGOUS stacks of dollar bills is a stupid waste of energy and tends to make a person mean.
My knee feels like it's been dancing the flamenco but really, it needs the workouts. But now it needs the rest, so Good night and sweet dreams!
And if you also like "poof" here's a spoof of Downton Abbey. What a scream! Hahahaha!!!
I've gone to Silver sneakers, jumped around a lot and come home tired enough to sit and knit. I'm hoping to cast on the SF gloves and starting the sleeves for the Noro, but I'll be digging in the Wall of Yarn for a few things, basically where in the Hobbs I've put the extra needles!
And if someone had told me that I'd need an entirely new skeleton at this age I would have taken better care of the one I'm using now.
Oh goodness, you have to take this quiz. Who are you in Downton Abby? I'm Lady Sybil. Whooot! Thanks Be to Nancy and the other fun loving wenches at Knitter's Review.
And, of course the part two HERE With bits of commentary Lol!
I'm sorry, I'm not knitting at all again. And, I'm not tossing stuff. It might be the weather - rainy, over cast and wet! - or it might be that fitting three more partial days of disruption in daily routine do not allow for a leisurely retired life - a life that formerly permitted time at home to be pleasantly employed. It's like having a part time job again. I'm old and cranky, as well as creaky. Dammm!
So, lacking energy, both physical and mental, I poke around the blogishere for interesting things.
This is a partial quote of a post at a blog I follow called Crisco,etc.
"Dear Mr. Shannon, Thank you for contacting Crisco®. We are always pleased to hear from consumers who enjoy our products.
" In
response to your inquiry, Crisco Shortening was reformulated to contain
zero grams trans fat per serving. The reformulation includes many of
the same ingredients as the previous formula; we have reduced the level
of the partially hydrogenated soybean oil and added several ingredients,
including TBHQ, required to maintain the superior taste and high
performance requirements consumers expect from Crisco. TBHQ is an
antioxidant approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is
used commonly used in food products. It was added in 2006. . . .
Sincerely,Susan Consumer Relations Representative
So
Crisco and Smucker's, who owns them, have decided that adding a butane
derivative is better for them because they can use less soybeans and it
will last longer. They have done this without considering the future of
our children, and for that reason, Crisco becomes a thing of the past
and one of the many examples of companies that make changes in their
products for financial reasons and not for our long-term health."
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The food and Drug administration approved this for use inside of our children? Do we even know what this stuff is?
Then I Found the Molecule of the Day site. I found the discussion, for the most part, very enlightening, especially the questions about life loads of this thing. Anyway, know what you are eating and read those darn labels!
Flowers. These are from free gardening clipart. I'm on the netbook,which has a very tiny brain.
Let your mind go where your body cannot. This beautiful project bounced to me from DH who received it from DD1; they share a love of numbers, scattered on pages and pages of lower case letters interspersed with strangely shaped symbols like >< or ( or ), even ^!! I just like to dream about the very Astrophysical Vedas coming to life! At last!
Ceramics tomorrow. It's been raining buckets and, apparently intends to keep on doing so. I hope we can keep the green ware dry on the way from the parking lot to the club room! Brrr!
Yes, I know the 49ers lost. But now the whole west coast doesn't have to watch the super bowl! Yay! Is that when you all knit? Not me, I'll be watching Downton Abbey and eating biscuits with tea! Go Bates!
On this page, not ripped down by RonPaul's incessant demands directed at YouTube about copyright infringement, there is the video below, which tells the tale of how JP Morgan is profiting off the hungry in America.
This bit of "Too Big To Fail" drama reminds me that Bank of America is doing all the direct deposit for disability payments made from the US Government Social Security Disability, unless that has changed in the last two months. Bank of America, who then issued debit cards to recipients? Was there a bid put out for this?
Or more to the point,who had their hands in the cookie jar at SSD? And, are the two reward events part of the "rescue package" promised for these two delinquents if one of them bought the flailing Bear Sterns (only to let them fail), and the other one bought Merrill Lynch.
Oh my it's such a tiny planet, and the brainy bunch has still not got the point of that asteroid belt out there in the missing planet's place, have they?
Knitting, well I added all the new items in the progress bars with 1% so that they will show. The Ceramic pics will come on Tuesday because I don't have the energy to think about the future too far in advance. Y' know?
