Happy Mother's Day

 

This if for the Nurturers. May this be a day of gentle and loving moments. Have a great day!

Beauty, Kitchen remodel, and save PBS

 

I'm taking a mental health day (week?) but these caught my eye in passing this morning. The blossoms on the African violet just keep getting bigger, if it can be believed. See what a little tea can do? This plant has been everywhere with us. It's well traveled. ;-)

We are getting ready to remodel the most important part of the house, the kitchen. At last, after 35 years of living with someone else's prior battery of our most intensively used room, it's getting a remodel. I'll report the tear out, the dust and the finish. The cabinet maker comes next week.

Oh, Last but not LEAST in importance on this fine day is that we must try to save the funding for PBS. They are after it again! What do they mean to leave us? The 14th Amendment rights have already been slashed to bits! And we don't have to be reminded that NOT protecting the constitution is a violation of the Oath of Office taken by a new president.

My youngest two learned to read very early, in part because of the PBS shows. Let's all try to save it! Go to Parade.com and read and vote, please.

The coolest EcoPhoto on the web

 

You can find it here:

Organic Consumer Association

I subscribe to their newsletter which I find to be informative. There is a lot of interesting material on this site that would be interesting to the average bear, like me. Or, even enraged bears, or pacifist bears, fully awake Spring bears..... Anyway, I hope they will like this PLUG and will forgive the shameless use of one of their nifty icons to possibly reel in some " eco-salmon".

Apologies

The email in the Profile is right, I just haven't learned to go log in and LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING THERE!

I'm very, very embarrassed, and sorry for missing the comments sent there. It will NEVER happen again.

DH went off to grind rocks with a friend. I'm hoping that he has so much fun that he'll want to go forward with setting up a shop here, too. We've always had a club shop to use until just a few years ago. If you've never considered collecting rocks as a hobby, I can tell you that there is a lot of pretty stuff out there, and it all can look like trash until you cut into it. Agate is more beautiful than diamonds when it's cut right. Diamonds make me think.. Meh!

Off to see what is blooming outside. It's cooler! I'll knit hedgerows today.

To Sam, also Known as Harry..

Hey Sam,

I'm answering your question here, so nothing happens to it! grrrr.. google grrrrr..

I'm sorry if I missed commenting but I did get one comment from you recently and did post a comment/reply. It was about the teenager who has received a lot of attention with her findings about Global warming. And no, absolutely not. There haven't been any inappropriate comments from you or anyone. Sometimes, before moderated comments, I used to get some real zingers!

I usually answer comments right in under the ones that come from others. Sometimes I may forget by accident (due to brain atrophy in the aged). For instance, I'll click to approve a comment, not write it down, and then it takes me awhile, anxious searching, to find it again and post an answer. So, I'm sorry that you were unduly worried by either my brain or google's administering their new products.

This web site, below is one that you might be interested in. It fits with the post you recently made on your blog about what is happening to cause food shortages. My daughter sent it to me today.

What is going on?

I thought that just about covered how vulture capitalists (hedge funds who got bailed out of their last two debacles) are following anything and everything that could return handsome profits. Watch them go after health care! Yes, yet another go around...

I will go look for any of your comments I might have missed commenting on after clicking them through as "approved". Perhaps the best thing is to remove that extra layer of hurdles, since another person told me recently that some of her comments didn't make it to the click line for me either. Google was in the process of switching over a few things they'd acquired, and trying to fold them seamlessly into Blogspot, so this might be the reason it happened. I'm sorry that you were left to wonder.

Now for the local weather. Today it was not as hot, by a few degrees as yesterday. Yesterday the outdoor temperature was slightly over 100* in the shade patio, that green thing out the big slider, and 82* in the house. Not bad for no AC. Maybe everything will work better as it cools down again, even my little old doggie's back legs. He's getting up there for a challenged ancient one. This summer we have to keep him cool and stress free.

There is no sock or knitting report, as the weather is a BEAST this week. It's not even May! Knitting is not possible in plus 100 heat. Underwater knitting is best in this weather. I"m sure it's been done by bored scuba divers waiting for someone else to get back up the drop off. just kidding.

Caturday

More Cats! This is a great day. Spread the love!

The Orange Menace

This is just too good not to share again. I love the music! So fitting for our times..

Go ahead, Raise a little hell!

Sky Watcher, Early morning Moon

 

The clouds are whisps of Ice crystal. Very high clouds. It was so lovely and cool this early morning that I repotted a couple of plants. 100 degrees yesterday in our shade patio. It's supposed to be cooler today.

The sock, the skein, success!

 

The boot sock came out lovely muted colors with a black base from the marled (?) Lana Grossa yarn. The skein still has 56.5 grams left, plenty for the other sock.

Other things of interest in the photo are the African Violet which has bloomed for the first time since it was born at the ends of a stem, underwater, in a brown bottle several years ago. The secret is that I am now watering it with brewed Tetley tea. No other fertilizer would make this baby bloom! I learned this in a little LYS called The Knitting Basket. The agate at the foot of the angel is Mexican lace. If it isn't I can blame DH, well and myself because I was too lazy to go look it up! But we both THINK it is Mexican Lace agate.

The hedgerow sock is back on track but needs a little surgery on the side. I have to tink back and straighten out one stitch at the edge of the new gusset. Then I'll be on my way again on it.

We are getting an entire new kitchen. DH decided that it was a lot better to start from the walls out, and to have someone else do it. I think he's right and was totally surprised and stunned when he made the announcement in an off hand way while the contractor was here. I had thought we were getting a face lift and maybe a tuck or two around the stove and fridge. I'm sort of happily shell shocked here. I will keep my five readers abreast of all developments. This is a 50 year old kitchen that has never had a make over. Should be fun.

Have a great Sunday tomorrow and know that love comes to you from all over the place. You just can't shut it out. Hate, well, hate is heavier, and sort of sinks before it gets too far. That's the weather report! Byeeeee!

Kitchen guy coming today. And here's a Cat Video.

If this doesn't work, I'll take it out as soon as possible. I think it's very cute. I followed another link about cats to this one. These guys did a great job on a tutorial on living with a cat. Well, it's a little BIG!! Yahoo and Google are not co-operating, and this video came from Yahoo.

I'll take it out or try ( Please God! Not THAT!) to fix it. Code Tweaking is not my strongest talent.



There I fixed it. Voila! "Engineers Guide to Living With Cats". And she SCORES!!