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Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and started emptying the storage closet in the sewing room. I have gotten very tired of not being able to find anything, especially since I know that I have a lot of...
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I've started unfriending the LJ accounts of people I follow here on Dreamwidth. So, if you're still on LiveJournal and have found yourself unfriended, that's what's happening. I'm reading both sites...
View ArticleHappy Beltane
Happy Beltane to those who celebrate it, happy May Day to the rest of you.
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I'm hanging on. I am very depressed, so much so that even getting out of the house seems like too much bother. I also need to stop reading Facebook so much. I'm attempting to cut that down to just...
View ArticleLots of walking
I'm visiting my daughter in Portland, OR. She bought a house earlier this year. Ok, it's a condo, but the house is a four-plex that was built in 1910, complete with high ceilings, moldings to die for...
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It's been hot most of the last week, so it's been easy not to over-eat. I didn't do as well with exercising, but I did get 2 days of an hour of yard work each, and walks on 2 days. Friday was the...
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7/3 Mission: Meet friends with van and truck (thank you Anthony Cain and Kathryn ) at Lowe's to buy and transport 1100 bricks (on sale 4 for $1). Get to Lowe's, spouse drops me off at the garden center...
View ArticleGenerational introspection
Nothing like going through old family pictures with your mother and your daughter to make one introspective. In no particular order: My mother is old. I have known and internalised this fact for many...
View Articleunsatisfying weekend.
Went to SCA Sept. Crown. Traffic going up wasn't bad, although we were late enough that the grocery shopping we'd planned to do after we crossed the border didn't happen. We did manage to find enough...
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Exercise has slowed down until my leg is better. I had a follow up visit with the Dr. and there's no complications, but it's still swollen and hurts, so I'm not walking long distances and doing the...
View ArticleStill here
I'm still here. So is my dad, although he stopped all treatment 2 weeks ago and has been steadily going downhill ever since. I thought it was the end Sunday, but he rallied and had a couple of good...
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And, after all the angst, Dad checked himself out of the nursing home this morning. This is after assuring me yesterday afternoon that it was where he wanted to be and that everything was fine. I think...
View ArticleAmtrak derailment
By now, most of you will have read about the train derailment yesterday. It's about 15 miles south of here, on a route I take sometimes when I go to visit my daughter in Portland. It's also closed the...
View ArticleIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
Spent the Holiday weekend at the Youngest Daughter's house in Portland. We drove down Saturday, with a stop at the Pendleton mill in Washougal to buy fabric (6 yards of worsted wool for $35, score!)...
View ArticleThe Bad.
We got home about 4 yesterday. We started unpacking the car, and were not greeted by the cat. Ok, the dog is at a friend's until later today, and the cat has been spending a lot of time sleeping, so I...
View ArticleJust a quick update
My father died Jan. 12, 2018, after an 18 month battle with lung cancer. He was ready to go, had told me that he had accomplished everything that he wanted to in life, and thanks to an experimental...
View ArticleA more cheerful post
I had a perfectly lovely time at the SCA Arts and Sciences/Rapier Championships event this weekend. I started out more than a bit down, but that soon changed. The event was in a hotel right on the...
View ArticleHelps if I sign in....
I've been moping for days that it seems as dead here as LJ's become, when it occurred to me to check and see if I was logged into my account. Sure enough, I wasn't, and upon signing in, there you all...
View ArticleDecisions, decisions
I either need one more week or no customer sewing this week. I have a perfectly good outfit to wear to the Vampire Masquerade Ball, but I want to make something new. I have 5 yards of a lightweight red...
View ArticleBooks as building blocks of the psyche
Blame Cupcake_goth for this post. Her post on books as the building blocks of one’s taste in genre fiction percolated in my little brain and morphed into books as the building blocks of one’s psyche....
View ArticleEaster
Being a good Wiccan girl, I don’t usually celebrate Easter, but this year the themes of death and resurrection are very fitting. And so to all of us, let us celebrate the hope that the Darkness will...
View ArticleFirst day of Holiday Lockdown
Today is the first day of our 14 day Holiday Lockdown. Both of us, both daughters, son-in-law, and extra adult child-for-the-holidays, are going into deep quarentine until Dec. 23, with the idea that...
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We performed an act of magic last night. We started with a dead tree on a stand, to which we had previously added lights. It took us several days to get the mental energy to perform the final parts of...
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I carry a postcard around with me. No, not a real, touch-it-with-your-fingers-look-with-your-eyes postcard, but a visual memory, from a Christmas long ago. It was so long ago, I have trouble...
View ArticleThis is Clothesprog's fault.
1. What are your favorite materials to work with?Wool, because of how it can be steam molded and shaped, Silk taffeta because it's just so yummy.2. What is your dream event or photoshoot...
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