Some Knitting blah blah and a little yarn porn

Both of these Lana Grossa yarn gloves are done and I'm doing up the ends this afternoon on all the short fingered gloves.  An eye appointment looms.  I'm not thrilled because silver now looks white to me. 

Always remember:  The first Hundred years are the hardest. 😉

I never get second sock fever so I'm glad to say that immunity has stretched into the glove sets, too.  Happily!  The next ones will be of #3, which is a beautiful pinks, corals, and white variegation. 

Diane Feinstein's Report on the investigations so far, on collusion of the Trump campaign and Russia..plus

....the efforts so far to stack the judiciary.  That is something that goes on all the time, but they have added other, let's say, levels of politics bordering on treachery.....

https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=10120716&c=SenFeinstein

So Very Worth Reading: Just as you expected; it IS even Worse than It Looks.

Read it and weep?
Keep on Knittin, Mama, knittin' those blues away......

Evert LaRock 1892

Sunday Stealing: Love the one you're with...

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing.

This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

Stars Ablaze

READERS:  If you want to play along, or see other entries, go HERE

Also, I'm glad to be back with my MEME friends.  I have missed you!  I will do these two, maybe three,  meme's until I Kick...

1 - Do you ever wish you were someone else?
I used to, before I met Mr. Z.  I wanted to be just about anywhere else but where I was.  
Later in life, around the campfire and in a discussion, I realized that if I'd gotten my wish, I would never have met him.  I was glad I had not got my wish.  Though there are a lot of things that I would have wished to have done better, and with more wisdom in our life together,  I'm very glad I was me.

2 - How old are you?
I'm seventy-five and a half... boy did I miss up that answer. 🙀

3 - Age you get mistaken for:
I've been told I look no more than 65.  IDK, Maybe it's my Mediterranean and Native American genes.  I FEEL like I'm a Hundred!  I try to remember what my Bro and friend, Jerry, used to say, "The first hundred years are the hardest."  Good Gad, they sure the h*ll are!

4 - Your zodiac/horoscope and if you think it fits your personality:
I do think it does, somewhat....I'm nestled right in the three hour cusp between two signs and so yes, there is a lot of me that shows up in those two- Capricorn and Sagittarius.  Do I think they fit me?  I was born in the Year of the Horse.  That actually fits my personality better.  Horses like me, .....usually. lol  Lord, I certainly LOVE them to PIECES!

5 - What did you do on your last birthday?
I didn't do a blog entry so I really had no idea.  Mr. Z reminded me.  We went to the local  Sammy's Wood-fired pizza sports' bar, and shared a couple of pizzas.  It was cool.  There was a college basketball game on the big screen.  I had a great time. 


6 - What is one thing you would like to accomplish before your next birthday?
I want to make at least two dozen pair of short fingered gloves for the patients at Dominican.  If they don't want them, I'll just go hand them out to the homeless shelter in Santa Cruz.

7 - What is your hair color?
I was born with black hair and my head still sprouts about 35% black and the rest is now silver.  

8 - Have you ever dyed your hair?
Once.  I was in my mid sixties.  I dyed it black.  It looked great, got a lot of compliments, but what a messy ordeal.  I've never done it again.

9 - What is your eye color?
Light Brownish...

10 - If you could change your eye color, would you?
I'd like dark brown eyes, black even.

11 - Do you wear contacts/glasses?
I have reading glasses and bi-focals for driving and distance.

12 - Your opinion about your body and how comfortable you are with it:
It's old and broken, and I'm tired of it.  I'd like to be a jellyfish for awhile.  Something without any BONES! hehe

13 - Have you ever considered plastic surgery? What would you alter about your body?
No, I always looked pretty much ok, and never had an accident or deformity for which this surgery can work miracles.  I'm  person who would rather wade through the mud gathering clams or something than a Pretty Lady.  And, I never have wanted to go through any surgery that wasn't mandatory.

14 - Do you have any tattoos?
No.  I think they look pretty on other people sometimes but usually they are far too big.  I'd have gotten a petite butterfly on the ankle and that would have been enough for me.

15 - Do you have any piercings?
I can, and have, worn three pairs of stud earrings at the same time.

16 - Left or right handed?
I'm both.  But I draw and paint better with my left.  I'm a switch hitter in sports.  I can write with my right hand and my left.  My daughter was this way until she was about five.  You can bet I have a little dyslexia. lol   It comes with the territory.

17 - Do you drink?
I do have a drink now and again.  Birthdays, New Years' Eve... usually I don't drink at all.  

18 - Do you smoke?
No.

19 - Do you have any pets?
Yes, we have the lovely little Wolf, and also the five California Desert Tortoises.

20 - Do you have any “rules” about food?
I can't stand the smell of black eyed peas.  I just don't care WHAT they do to them, I can't eat them.  And, I don't like to have a raw banana with an egg dish together in a meal.  
Of course Banana Cream Pie and banana ice cream are not the same and I like those.  
The two things smell OK together then.  The egg custard that you have in those makes them nice.

Did I pass the sanity part of this test? 😳 I think I passed the Physical..... 👍  😉

Saturday 9: "GI Blues" by Elvis..

If you want to play along in the MEME, just go HERE

Want to listen?  Go HERE

Personal Note:  To all the Service men and women out there...  No matter what I think of the Politicos, I think the world of you.  Thank you for your service.

1) Are you a veteran? Are there veterans in your family? Do you know anyone who is active military? (We are grateful and want to hear about it.)
I am not a veteran.  There were, and are, veterans in my family, and at least one in my husband's family.  He's in the Coast Guard and he's just a great kid!  Love him to bits!

2) In this song, Elvis sings about marching, and complains that the Army doesn't give Purple Hearts for fallen arches. Do you have any aches or pains to report this morning?  
I feel about the same as I always feel.  Like I have "One foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel."  I wish I'd thought that up but I heard it first from my honorary Big Brother, who was a veteran, and whom I will never, EVER, forget.  

3) This song is from the 1960 film of the same name. In the movie, Elvis is in The 32nd Armor Regiment of the United States Army. That's the same regiment he served with in real life. He had the 32nd written into the script as a shout-out to the soldiers he came to know, but realized he'd likely never see again. Is there an old friend you're missing this weekend? 
My honorary big brother... *Hugs sent to Heaven for you, Jerry K*

4) Memorial Day kicks off the summer season. What's your favorite picnic food? 
I absolutely LOVE my grandma's potato salad.  I make it every summer a couple of times at least.  My kids know how to make it, too.

5) Let's celebrate the Memorial Day holiday with ice cream. What's your favorite flavor? Cone or cup?  I'll have some Jamoca Almond Fudge in a cone.. one of the crispy folded around a hot iron sort of cone... And that's Butter Pecan on the bottom and  though you can't have two favorites of course, I do!  

This is a photo from some really grabby website that I really didn't want to mess with.. I wish I had my own picture but alas..... This cone is from Big Olaf's on Catalina Island.  Now I'm hungry.  Darn it, see what you did?  ;o)

SOURCE

5) This marks the weekend when Americans step up their outdoor activity and do things they may not have been able to do during the winter months. For example, when is the last time you applied mosquito repellent? 
Sometime in the Year 1985....  I think all the mosquitoes perished in the drought, or at least most of them did.

7) Or swam?
Sometime in the late 90's in a water aerobics class with some friends. I quit going into the ocean about that time, too.  My knee was really a mess.  In fact the last time I was in the ocean was when we rescued the teenage twins from a rip tide along the rocks at Torrey Pines.  Mr. Z and I really had our hands full for about twenty minutes.  Very Hard swimming!  Scary as hell!  No life guard and .... well, you know how kids are if you have them.  

8) As you answer these questions, is there an air conditioner or fan on?  
No, and that's a little unusual.  It's been a cool (and very welcome it is) late spring early summer so far.

9) Random question: How do you define success?
Living out the entirety of your life span without committing Sepuko.  Life isn't easy but you have to do it.
I never forget that, "This, too, shall pass."  It's the only way to roll.... 
Whatever it takes to get out of here, ONCE AND FOR ALL, and see my kid, Mom, and my little Bro again, I'm doing it. 

Why this? Because it's of vital importance.

A long excerpt from Dylan Stableford's article for the Yahoo News Page

"There is a time-honored tradition at the Department of Justice, at least since Watergate, that is nonpartisan," Yates said. "There is a wall between the Department of Justice and the White House when it comes to criminal investigations and prosecutions."
Trump has been hammering away at that wall so often and with such ferocity, she said, "nobody's rolling their eyes anymore."
"It used to be a big news story that would say, ‘In an unprecedented step, Trump said this,'" Yates explained. "Now it doesn't even make it through the full 24-hour news cycle because it happens so frequently."

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates. (Photo: Steven Senne/AP)

Trump's caustic tweets aimed at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller are collectively "tearing down the legitimacy" of the Justice Department, Yates said.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., agreed:

"We see this constant onslaught on the rule of law," Klobuchar said.
Yet just as troubling, Klobuchar said, are Trump's attacks on a free press.
"You literally have a president in office that can tweet anything he wants every single morning but he doesn't respect the amendment that allows him to do it," Klobuchar said.*
But looking ahead to the 2018 midterm elections and beyond, Klobuchar said progressive candidates should not put their focus entirely on Trump.
"Progressives can do two things at once," she said. "We can, one, focus on the optimistic economic agenda and what needs to be done there and, secondly, protect our democracy."
Voters in Minnesota, Klobuchar said, "don't want to hear about Donald Trump every single minute."

* italics and underlining are mine.

One of the things that gave me hope, after The OWB was shoe horned into the oval office, was that the Justice Department still had enough of a separation from the Executive Branch to save us from Tyranny and Despotism.  Let's hope it will still be able to carry the day, when all is said and done.  

Wordless Wednesday....

Tuesday Tails: Anti Wind turbine fake news... Or so we are told, and yet another mug cake site. Love it!

this sounds legitimate, but unless I can find out more I'm reserving judgement.  Wind turbines have many more enemies than just the Oil industry. 



It's incredible to think that anyone would be this despicable,  and if it's true, the people who would do this are sadistic.   If I were God, I'd start to wonder about human beings.

Keep an Eye out for more volcanic eruptions.  I think there is some sort of connection between volcanism and  and climate change.  Just thinking like a geologist here..... There are a lot of triggers that haven't been activated in our brief history on the planet.  We should have been a lot more careful.

Here is a link to an excellent article, from Sierra Magazine, about the effects of fossil fuels on the environment, and how long ago the Oil Barons knew how bad it was.   I get the magazine but am happy that the Sierra Club linked it on their website....

The article is long but I hope that you will patiently read it. 

And, As promised, I finally found the mug cake recipe I put up a few years ago.  A Viola!

Project Dirt... London.. but anyone anywhere can start this.....

Santa Cruz County California school systems have something like this in place that's been going on for years.. One of my daughters helped in the gardens.  I can think of several other inner city programs over the years, too.  I like the concept of Project Earth as it is in the UK, too.

They could teach big cities a lot about changing the world with their strategy of beginning at the roots and with the little kids.....We need this Earth and Child connection just.... EVERYwhere!

Project Earth is in London.  If your own city doesn't have this connection between the little humans and their inheritance, i.e. Planet Earth, maybe this is something you can start, support, or promote in your city?

The future is out there, and it's waiting for us to save our Planet, one little acre at a time, if that's all we can do.  There are 8 billion of us.  That's a lot of Acres!
Get the little kids started early.  Let them get their tiny hands dirty.  

Sunday Komeekz... OMG OMG OMG!!

This is a Scream!

I wanted my kids to see this one.  A million thanks to Dan Piraro!