This HAS to be a spoof...

I left off the names of the Editorial Review Board Doctors just in case it isn't.
Teehee..so FUN! Thank you L.!

Oh what the Hell, In for a penny, in for a pound! Here they are...

Editorial Review Board:

Ralph K. Campbell, M.D. (USA)
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (Canada)
Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D. (Puerto Rico)
Steve Hickey, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
James A. Jackson, PhD (USA)
Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D (Sweden)
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA)
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico)
Erik Paterson, M.D. (Canada)
Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D. (Netherlands) <--- that one looks a little suspicious.. Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. (USA), Editor and contact person. Email: omns@orthomolecular.org ----------------------------------- THE ARTICLE:

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are included.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, April 29, 2010

Multivitamins Dangerous?
Latest News from the World Headquarters Of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators and Reporters

(OMNS, Apr 29, 2010) The following purports to be a transcript of a recent meeting at the World Headquarters Of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators and Reporters [WHOPPER]:

"All right, all right! Please come to order, ladies and gentlemen. We know how excited you all are over the recent flood of anti-vitamin news coverage. But please have a seat! Thank you.

"First of all, congratulations on a job well done. We now have the public totally flummoxed about vitamins. We have persuaded the media that high doses of supplements are dangerous, and that low doses are also dangerous. We have scared the people away from taking any nutrients at all. Why, we have even sold the idea to the press that a once-daily multivitamin is dangerous. Nice work, everyone!

"Funny thing about multivitamin supplements: if you look at each individual nutrient in a multivitamin, it is of course good for you. Thousands upon thousands of research studies confirm the body's absolute need for each and every vitamin. So, we urge people to eat a "balanced diet" to get all their various vitamins from food . . . while simultaneously convincing them that a balanced multivitamin supplement is bad! Essential vitamins from foods are good; essential vitamins from pills are not. Then, truly a stroke of marketing genius, we push processed foods devoid of vitamins, advertising day and night.

"We hardly have to spell it out, now do we? The fewer nutrients people consume, the more sick they will become. The more illness, the more drugs the public will have to take. After all, if vitamin therapy is "dangerous," what's left? Us, that's who. Our pharmaceutical plants running 24/7 can produce millions of pills a day, for pennies apiece, to retail at ten dollars per tablet. Ching-ching!

"Even better, the government will pay for it all. "National health care," as you already know is really "national pharmaceutical insurance." The Feds will pay all right. After all, we sold them on the flu vaccine, didn't we? Even when it was shown that the vaccine was worthless at best? (1)

"You can see other ways that the Feds listen to us. We have set it up so that Food Stamps cannot be used to buy vitamins. (2) A bag of cookies or a box of donuts, yes. But not vitamins. The ban includes supplemental vitamin D, which is widely known to prevent bone diseases in children and the elderly, and to prevent lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and a dozen other cancers. (3)

"Is it just me, or have you noticed how hot it is in here? Well, at any rate, you have all done one Hell of a nice job. Our Boss is proud of you."

References:

(1) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n17.shtml


(2) http://www.fns.usda.gov/SNAP/faqs.htm#10

, section 10.

(3) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n11.shtml

and http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n10.shtml


Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

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The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Editorial Review Board:

Bee Keeping info

When I was a kid, honey bees, and even native bees, were still very plentiful and benign. So, I grew to love them. They were all over my mother's big gardens and the fruit orchards. What I hated were wasps, but that's another story!

Honey bee keeping and growing big, big gardens were two things I looked forward to being able to do as soon as my own family acquired more space. Alas, Southern California real estate got terrifically expensive. Then, too, the introduction of the African bees in Utopia occurred, as everyone knows.

There's now a big liability in keeping bees as a hobby. The nice little Italian bee had been a good idea. The African bee was not. The purpose of it's introduction to South America, though an accidental release ruined big plans, was that it would yield more honey. Big Business must have demanded a bee that could be herded and milked for all it was worth but the African bees would have none of it! They knew their rights to their own honey, and exercised them vigorously! No one in their right mind keeps them as a business, let alone a hobby, within the city limits in California. Africanized bees can and regularly do, chase people up to a half mile in defense of their hives..

This month, Sun Magazine has a good article by a hobby bee keeper but he resides in the state of Washington. Unlike the nice little "H" bee, the nasty little "A" bee can't live in colder climates...yet.

Here's a great site on the history of bee keeping.

Tea Partiers Mock And Scorn Apparent Parkinson's Victim

As is said at the end of the video, " If they win, we all lose."



Unless this was staged, we have some pretty awful people who think they are Good People. At least criminals know they are crossing a line; these folks apparently do not know they crossed a line here.

Jane E. Brody on Caregiving for family.. new York Times

In November of 2008, The New York Times published two columns by Jane Brody on Care Giving for Families.  They are:

When Families Take Care of Their Own

and

Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself

I found her second article at University of San Francisco web page as a PDF file.

If  you are a care giver for a relative or friend, these two articles are a great starting point to read about this vital and essential job that usually can not be done by anyone other than  close friends or family members.

Our American Communities are not at all  like a village, so care givers really struggle to find out what they need to know.  We have no wise elder sitting on a porch surrounded by herbal remedies and dispensing comforting folk wisdom.  We have Jane Brody, and others who work at educating the people at large, bringing things together for us.

My DH and I have been taking care of my sister, now recovered a little but still needing some help, and he and his sisters have been caring for their mother who has recovered and is doing very well. 

I hope you will find the articles,  and related materials in links within them, as helpful as I have.  Jane Brody has many articles and books about the elder care system and long term care.

WPI Tool for measuring yarns types

In a topic at  Knitter's Review, one of the members asked about converting to WW yarns from DK yarns, so of course Wraps Per Inch came up (WPI). This is a handy and easy tool to make for doing just that. Keep in mind that all yarns being measured need to be on the same tool.

The first wrap

The Finished tool

Spiffioso, No?

Honey bees

There is a honey bee hive in the base of the neighbor's wall, and they are active but normal honey bees, fortunately.

However, that's the wall that our little black dog likes to jump up on to "discuss the state of the world" with dogs on the other side. A couple of weeks ago, he got stung, we now believe, because he ran to us screaming, as only a dog warning his pack will do, and kept screaming in pain for what seemed like half an hour but was really only 2 minutes,tops. We thought he had torn a dew claw, or maybe had injured a bone or torn something else, when he fell onto his back in the corner after one particularly heroic leap. He was so loud that neighbors came out to investigate. A bee keeper later told us that bees hate anything black, and Wolfie is black, and he was there on their patch!

After a week, DH noticed that bees were hovering around that corner of the wall near the base. Having recently read about an attack of Africanized bees in our city, he called a bee keeper. The keeper came out, determined that the bees were pretty mellow little dears, and DH and he discussed options.

The trouble with saving the hive was that the wall isn't ours, and one can't just have someone tear into someone else's stucco wall to extract the bees. This wall is also leaning drunkenly across the whole back area and could come down, which then would really be a problem. We don't need any liability problems along with this bee problem; though, technically, the bees aren't our problem.

What was done was that the bee keeper sealed the bees both in and out, as it was mid-day. Bees, being as determined as they are in life, have found another way in! So, the bee keeper is coming back this morning to try again!

I am not able to work in the weedy garden, the poor, bored little doggie can not go out and accost his rivals, so here we sit, inside, and console each other until this threat to our safety is over.

Meanwhile, my inner peace and harmony with the world of creatures is in a state of sucky remorse. I don't want to have them killed but not a lot can be done. They are good bees, been helpful to the world and to my garden, and I've always worked around them happily. They just cannot set up a new hive in that wall, period. To me this is a little tragedy because I love honey bees. They do so much work for us, make flowers and fruiting plants produce and stay healthy, and give us delicious honey.

Bill Maher BECOMES a Teabagger - 4/23/10

Part of what he says is this:


"Maher: What defense spending really is, is a giant welfare program - a jobs program for defense workers to build crap we don't need. So... scream about handouts. This is what they should be protesting.

We spend more on weapons than the next top 15 military powers combined. Let's cut it in half so we only spend as much as the next 8 countries behind us and see if anyone invades us.

Teabaggers, If you'll look into that, I will believe you really are 'we the people,' 'what about our grandchildren' patriots. But if you're unwilling to cut defense and give up the empire, you don't really care about the debt. And you have to admit: you're just a racist sore loser."


Now you can watch him say it. I'm going to go knit for sanity, or eat popcorn. Which will it be.. hmmmm? eat popcorn... knit... eat popcorn... knit? Thank you L. And thank you Bill Maher.

Food Deserts? Mental meltdowns and a Full blown wacko RANT!

I hadn't actually thought about this much before the Ted Talk earlier, but here is a site dedicated to studying - at least in part - the causes of our problems by examining the food delivery systems and how they've become degraded.

WhyHunger.com

A very interesting place, I think.  Full of resources for urban garden building, probably in the manner of the gardens of Santa Cruz.   WhyHunger was founded in 1975!  

The rain has gone for now, so watch out Utah and Colorado!  There is the possibility of more rain by mid week, here.  You have to understand, this is a desert for lack of water, and we celebrate the rains!  Rain is a good thing so far south and this far into April.  The garden is blooming away with roses, bearded Iris, pelargoniums, and epiphyllums.  Nearly every cactus is blooming or has set buds.  Even the little society garlic is full of pretty little lavender blossoms.  Me?  I feel like a dried up little crab apple, clinging to the tree for dear life.

I'm not knitting.  I've done all that is humanly possible to jump start my knitting outside of going out and actually spending more money on yarn to stuff into the closets.

I've fingered all the various supplies, I've filled my eyes with projects others are doing on Ravelry.  I've threatened myself with a move to Bolivia or France with only a backpack full of energy drinks if I'm not grateful enough to just get those needles clicking away.  France,  I should be happy to go to France! Would the kids come and settle in with me at the little vineyard I can buy with my surplus yarns on ebay?  

Should I knit colorful little hats for all the door knobs?  Or perhaps I should invent or possibly only re-invent knee warmers and write a book about it?  I don't know what's happened to me but this is not right.  I must be depressed or else just very tired.  Maybe it's time to go into the middle of the clutter in the sewing room and start screaming into a dusty unfinished pillow form?  Should I be-head the mannequin?  Perhaps I could hyperventilate in a closet full of dusty half finished UFO's?  Should I threaten to kill my sister and brother for taking the best pictures of our mother and losing one of them?  They love/hated her for so many years, blaming the victim, and then they had the cheek to swoop in and take the best pictures under the guise of "looking" at them, after years of mater-vilification.  Does this happen in all families?  If I did actually kill them, is it covered under legally insane pleadings?  Any lawyers out there with an opinion?

Does it help at all, those of you who have tried any of these things?   I mean besides the actual fratricide.  No, those of you who did that must have had better reasons than I have.  I'll put a happy face on this and some FUN in dysfunctional by saying that I've decided that it is a good thing that they love her now and are not trying to buy the affection of Psycho dad, in hopes of inheriting what's left of his "estate", "it is to laugh, 'haha' ", as the French are fond of saying.

No, I do not drink, because if I did this would never have been written.  It's sort of reversely intuitive that a drinker tells all.  No, it's the sober ones you have to watch out for.

Because our bodies are built from the same stuff....

We are little biological/electrical machines, and we need to have that in mind as we allow other organisms to be messed with.  We are on a life raft, if you will, called Earth.  We all have physical forms, in order to be here, that conform to it's laws.

We have a very personal interest in what goes on in the altering of even plant gene pools because we eat plants, and they become "us", our bodies.

Some heedless, and some believe, Godless things are going on, and it's my belief that we will all be affected, and rather sooner than some of those working on gene alterations is willing to admit.  

From Reuters via Grist.

To whatever extent you are able, eat organic foods, vegetables, grains and meats.  It's more important than it ever was.

Earth Day 2010, a 40 year old good idea..

A rather late Alaskan storm is working it's way inland but still hasn't let go of the California Coast, and baby it's cold outside!  People who went camping and hiking this week to celebrate Earth Day, I hope you are OK.  There's a traveler's advisory for the SoCal region announced on NOAA radio networks, and this is one you need to pay attention to.

We definitely can use this rain, and we are getting it, but these big storms usually come from off Hawai'i at this time of year, and not so cold.  Brrr!.  But, anyway, surf's up!  Just be darned careful, and the water is a chilly 58 degrees. 

That's the weather report for Earth Day, from San Diego.  The Balboa Park festivities are most likely postponed but here are some nice things to do for Mother, anyway.....  Nature Conservancy Page

Something tells me......

Something tells me that if our leaders aren't listening, then We the People should be.  It's a long time past where we can ignore the voices of the educated and knowledgeable around the world EVEN if our own leaders have their heads in a barrel of oil.  First it was the Constitution at stake but now it's the Planet.

Your dollar, your choice.  You're more powerful than you would ever believe.  Spend wisely.

The Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations speaks with Amy Goodman...

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions

My DD sent this to me, and warned me that it was pretty awful what that county had done.

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions

Sonoma County? United States of America?

Oh, and this doesn't just happen to Gay couples it happens to straight people, too, if they don't have bulldogs of legal teams. What happened here is criminal in my mind. This should be classified as elder abuse under state statutes.

Anyway, so, no matter what, beware the headless and heartless Bureaucracy if it ever gets a hold of you.

Mrs Q

A  while back, I had a side bar link to  a school lunch project but,alas, in one of my house cleaning frenzies, ended up deleting it. 

THIS link goes to a blog that a school teacher has created in order to reveal what kids are eating  every day at her school.  For today's date, there is a question and answer post with an actual "Lunch Lady" answering questions sent to Mrs. Q via email.  Very interesting blog!

Mrs. Q  is  working under cover so that she does not lose her job.  That's what this high stakes food fight has come down to.  You would think a food mafia has their thumbs in a lot of pies sometimes wouldn't you, as suppliers to innocuous programs that are now so huge as to be worth a  lot of money to someone?

Edit:  I will try to find the original blog and link both of them in the side bar.

Adding this for Plate Tectonic Buffs

Another page but from the University of Reno Seismic lab.  The most interesting part to most locals is quite a way down the page,  a topo of Nevada and the Bay area that is very interesting.   Pogonip, this will be very, VERY interesting to you, me thinks.

Many thanks go to the DH for fishing up this beauty.

For the past two days I've been trying to help DH eat up a cheese cake from Costco.  We finally took it to my sister's house and had some help!  Those things are way, way too big for anything less than a 6 couple dinner party.

Still no knitting, but late last night I watched a french movie called, "I've Loved You So Long", and can't help thinking, "Why don't we make movies like this one?!"   The only studio with the guts to produce this sort of movie is Sundance, that I know of.

My brother is on his way home and we had a great visit, laughing a lot and going to see a few things.  I think it cheered my sister up a little.  There's a lily show at the botanical garden that's on display until the 22nd of this month.  If you are a local or even not so local, be sure to hop on down there to have a look in.   Check out the info HERE.   That site has a lot of other interesting Balboa park attractions as well.  Feel free to have a peek.

Also the report on blooming trees has been extended to include the Ornamental plums and Tulip trees.  They are blooming all over the county and you don't have to stand in any lines to see them, either.

EDIT, Here's a HOT LINK to the page that Pogonip sent in a comment:

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/feature/2008/mogul.html

Poking around the blogisphere

I  am a committed blog reader, even in this era of Face book and Twitter, and go out looking for  new blogs every day.   Finding such interesting blogs all the time made my own lists grow so long that they were moved to  a separate blog.  That is the cactus flower button in the side bar.

 Today THIS blog rolled up in the hunt, and it's called Lost Arts Studio.  She has a tutorial on making tarn ( a yarn like product) from old T shirts..great stuff!

Hope you like it, too

Iris... Something really REALLY neat!

This is Iris, and it's wonderful if you like knowing a lot about what is going on in earth plate tectonics movement..

Here you goooo..... The world Seismic Monitor at USGS:

IRIS



That's the semi-super size.. IF you want to see the REALLY big picture, you just click on your F11 button.

 It's way, way cool...

Knitting, what's that?

I'm not doing any knitting at all, but I did make two little necklaces of that leather cording and two slip knots, using a polished cobble of natural strawberry agate, and also one with a little star made of rose quartz that was the one remaining earring in a set.  Next is a tortoise bead when I find the thing again. 

The Jilleroos in McCleod's Daughters wore these necklaces.  They are very simple to make, and very nice looking for an aging Hippie like me.  I also whacked off my hair into a slightly curlier cut for summer.  It's not in tight curls, like my DDs, but it's curly, so you can do a fairly ragged job of it from time to time and the hair is forgiving.  It's too thin to wear very long anymore, but looking like either an old feminist firebrand OR an aging Hippie is a mellow way to slip into senility.

I stayed up all night last night making sure that I knew the exact moment that a house in a game I play was going to crash down.  It was a Guild Hall, and our tiny guild wanted to save everything from it for a friend who had the account for more years than we could remember.  We did a pretty good job against big odds.

Unfortunately this particular game has become a business, or rather a money maker for a lot of people, and that never bodes well for games.  Once that line is stepped over, things can get nasty, and they did toward the end of this event.   It's odd how the pixels in a game can be fought over when they have a dollar value to one person, and a sentimental value to another one.  

If this cyber dollar value (based on theDeutsche Mark perhaps?)  is ever to be explained, we have to think of "real life" as something along the same lines, I suppose.   Real life is a game in which to make money, and the bad and good parts of human nature will determine not only how individuals react but also how nations, as a unit like a Guild, can turn into benevolent or vicious entities.  You see it in gaming, especially where money starts being made in the game for avatars.  Weird weird weird, I tell ya!

Food Fight Continued

" Frankenfood Hater said...

    Good job writing that one up! Good luck to all you readers out there. Not even staying away from the fast food "restaurants" and standard grocery stores is enough. You have to read every label and investigate every meat product to find out what's in it and where it came from. There is high fructose corn syrup in things you wouldn't even imagine. Meat can be 100% vegetarian fed and still be bad, it could have been fed corn in a feed lot under horrific conditions. To be called free range they only need to have access to outdoors for 15 mins before they are slaughtered. You need to make sure that free range means never confined to be fed and that vegetarian diet means grass fed. Find out what CSA means and whether there are any near you. Find smaller grocery stores that sell at least some organic foods and are small enough that you can talk to the people who work there about what they sell. It is more costly, I can sympathize with families who can't afford to eat healthy food. Shame on the people who are responsible for them not being able to afford it and shame on the people who are responsible for the only things they can afford being so horrible. "

    April 8, 2010 5:51:00 AM PDT

Hey there ...thanks for taking the time to comment.  You make some very good points about what has happened to the farm delivery system and the way big corporations have stealthed in and taken over, leaving everyone  vulerable to their very bad decisions, from farmers to workers to consumers, not to mention the cruelty to other sentient beings in this ugly system.  It does not have to be this way! 

What you say is sadly true.  We have let the needy down by subsidizing corn and soy beans so that all the additives made from it, and not fit to feed to any growing child, are so cheap that they are ubiquitous throughout the diet..hidden in it, ready to cause this epidemic of early onset diabetes.  One of the farmers was left allergic to all anti biotics that had been tried for her.  What sort of system of raising animals for food is that??

To get back to the kids and the poor, after their only affordable diet renders them ill, then the so called "elites" look down their noses and snear, saying something to the effect that it's all poor families' faults because food is a "choice".

So, this is about "choice" is it?   Why did corporate giants in the industry "choose" to load the airwaves with ads aimed at kids, many of whom are getting so little to eat in the first place, and then make these bad (can't bring myself to call them foods) foods cheaper than any of the good food?  Such evil things don't spring up overnight.  It was probably a carefully planned and executed plan in the first place.  They didn't leave anything to chance, skipping around the hallways of the Congress and pummeling the Halls of Justice, and the farmers, with their highly paid "three piece suits".

What we shouldn't be eating.... a quickie review of a blockbuster of a film.

Yes, a little black cloud drifted over paradise tonight. The happy channel (my little box) just showed a rather interesting film, and part of the audience, me, had to leave the "theater" while the graphic parts were shown.

We knew we shouldn't eat raw sewerage, but there's a lot of other stuff we shouldn't be eating either.

Take something called Pink Slime. It's the food industry's answer to e.coli in their ground beef. Guess where they were using it? School lunches were found to have it, and fast food burgers. Now, in this film, I finally got to see it actually being made! It's made from some entrails, fatty globs, and Ammonia, for one thing. Talk about icky additives.

Food.Inc, not a documentary about your grandmother's eating problems growing up, but baby it sure is about yours.

Also, this movie points to the fact that we, as consumers, need to help the farmers as they are being eaten alive, pardon the pun, by the food producing conglomerates. There are some farmers in this film that you just want to bike over and buy from, right out of the fields, to save them from Monsanto. Our farmers should not be being treated this way. It's One Hundred and TEN percent WRONG! I can see why they are so damn pissed off.

Ya, I hate you Monsanto, but you already knew that. Kiss my Grits, but keep your hands off my food. I don't trust you.

Ever hear of Kevin's Law? This needs some good old fashioned ground roots hollering and help, too. Listen closely to Kevin's Mother and her seven year battle, by now more, to close up the loopholes used by unnamed corporations (heck I don't want to be sued anymore than the next guy) in FDA control over the industry.

Go Oprah! Hooray for you too! You're in the film and you won! That took a million bucks but you won!

Your food dollars have POWER my friends. Make them work for the corny, another pun, Greater Good. I just remembered we didn't vet that new brand of tortillas we bought last week. *slaps forehead* You do NOT want any GMOs running around your blood stream. Not good for you.

Things you can do about all this

We, the consumers, have some power in this and we can change it. Everyone can have a part in the successful change.

OK, I've worked the fire from gross feed lot films out of my belly. I'm going to bed and read a nice, little Gray Panther,  Grannie magazine about how to set my new short hairdo in curlers and how to apply pink lipstick- organic lipsticks, not tested on an Animal!

A little beauty

Good night World! Let's not keep our backs turned while they do these horrid things anymore. Just spend your dollars where it helps the ones making the changes, and help make sure that farmer's markets, where the healthiest foods are, are equipped to take food stamps so the poorer folk can eat better to.

What dogs really love to eat......

Our little dog thinks Pepperidge Farm Goldfish are just heavenly. I do, too. Outside of pretzels, they are my favorite little crackers. HERE is a little web page, from the creators of Goldfish, just for KIDS.. that means you and me, you know. hehe

Thank you, Harry Bliss!

Two new project bags ...

I liked the orange, pinks, purples and aquas bag- in the middle- so much that it was time to pass the Joi(e) d'vivre around a bit. So I got two more from the same Etsy shop for two of my DDs.

The shop owner and I are pen friends but I would think her stuff is gorgeous anyway. She sent me a little angel quilt to "watch over me", too. The web is an amazing place full of good things, like friendships.

The New Bags, next to an Old Bag.. hehe

It's still shaking around out here

I just felt another little aftershock a little while ago.  The geologists are saying that there was a lot of earth movement out in the desert East of here, a new rift.  I can believe that, with the set of four EQ's yesterday so close that they made it shake so long that we thought, at the time, if it kept getting worse,  this might be "it". 

The little dog was up all night worrying about the aftershocks.  So, poor little fellow, he kept me awake almost all night, too.  He still gets up and whines when another little aftershock runs through here.  The house moves a little and makes creaking sounds.  Also, anything dangling on the wall, like the necklaces, moves in small arcs, and the potted plants outside sway. 

I've always thought that Wolfie went through something traumatic, a car crash or something collapsing on him and maybe breaking that little sticky-outy rib.  With his reaction to the long shaking yesterday, his reaction was to become seriously frightened.  I'm thinking back to the last big one , the February of 2008 earthquake in Mexico.  We are so close to the border, he could have been in Mexico when that one struck, since he was never licensed, neutered, or micro chipped.  That's pretty unusual for San Diego.  He's terrified of crashing sounds, like of metal or breaking glass, hates fireworks, and he's definitely frightened of earthquakes that make the house shake and make lots of noises.

Our daughter called when she got off work to check on us.  She remembered the earthquake that sounded like a freight train rolling toward the house.  That was the last biggish one on Rose Canyon fault, 17 miles deep and off shore.  You learn to live with, and hope for, the littler ones.  They could take stress off the system. 

I've been reading the blog for the Geology department at San Diego State but they haven't updated it.  But it's very interesting for the archives of articles about local quakes.  Check it out. 



 

Earthquake!

We are still moving!

Update..  It was just a little scary but the epicenter being in Mexico I'd bet they are in trouble.

Actually there were about three of them.. one very large.  That's why it lasted so long.. ebbing and starting up again.

Wolfie Meets Poppa Tort, actually

The adult tortoises came out of hibernation a couple of days ago, and Wolfie did not know what to make of them.  He had to have been trained to not chase cats because he ignores them but he will chase other dogs.  He's a work in progress and a wonderful little dog.

The Dog and the Tortoise

Wolfie just doesn't know what this thing is!

Torts are out!

Churchy out of hibernation last week.

Poko Ono slides through the tall grass...

some retail therapy, that sort of stuff...

First, A little bit of fun in case you missed this April Fool:

Does it Blend?

My Dsis, DH, and I spent the afternoon yesterday going through World Market.  That DS of mine needed a little "Retail Therapy".  

At one point, I had to sit and rest on a very comfo couch for a few minutes, and a kindly "Employee of the Month" - yes, designated by moi, and she gets my vote! - came over and offered me a basket with wheels to put my basket of Easter gifts into.   Sweet gal!

Today is another marathon of grocery shopping with Dsis; I take her.  She is going to Michaels with me to offer her excellent advice on a how-to.   I'm trying to avoid having to buy two dozen magnetic findings off the web.  I need about three.

 A little sentence game for blogs:

The knitting called to me.  I held my knitting.  There is bonding.   I rejoice!  Why?

That last is a blog game.. five word sentence... etc... I don't think there is a true one word sentence.

Retail Therapy

Who needs an Easter Bunny?

Peeps! Believe me, if you are a Peeps lover, check out this book as soon as you can.

The last of my Goodies purchasing.. DH's actually but he shares. He's a good guy..

fun stuff .... cool looking BUGS!

TL, my DD1, who loves bug pictures, found these for you.  This link goes to a Daily Mail article full of very cool bugs.   Enjoy them!

Truckers who quilt and knit in their spare time....

Who woulda thunk it?

Trucker Knits!

And while we are on this, Look at the newest yarn blends, courtesy of Clara Parks at Knitter's review.

muhahahahaha!