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Category: Everyday Stories

  • I keep telling myself that at some point I will derive benefit from (fill in the blank)

    First Order of Business ISP. We are in the process of switching. Earthlink has either already shut down our DSL or it’s just down. I’m on dial-up and just letting you know, FRIENZ AND RELATIVEZ, that ANY OF OUR OLD MINDSPRING EMAIL ACCOUNTS ARE DEFUNCT. Between the devil and the deep blue sea, we have…

  • The Results

    This post is just between me and the few people who visit here so don’t be surprised if I move it over to “private” and thus take it down after it’s been up a couple of days. Got H.o.p.’s standardized scores back. He did basically what I expected him to do.

  • It’s Raining! Party time!

    It’s Raining! Party time!

    Rain! 2007 Aug 26 Lightbox enlargement

  • AND I THOUGHT I KNEW HOW TO STAND

    Trying to start writing this post and I fall offline several times first. One of these days we’ll get switched over to ATT…I guess…our reluctance being that we probably expect things to be just as bad or, gasp, what if they get worse. But, the topic. I had one Qigong DVD which seemed quite fine…

  • Courtesy of Qigong

    So Marty and I have been doing Qigong. Last night it began to be annoying to me that the big velvet painting of Elvis crying was squarely overwhelming my field of vision. This morning, Marty is doing his Qigong and he suddenly stops and says, “I can’t do this.” I thought he meant he couldn’t…

  • TALKING FISH

    Cobalt Skink went to Tybee Island. She has a wonderful, lyrical, comic, meditation-inducing drawing of a Talking Fish she did while there. Plus some musings on the trip, Sand Idles, with their vivid centerpiece a woman in a sari building a Hindu temple sand castle on the beach. Eventually, she walks into the waves, the…

  • A Dome Full of Stars

    Fernbank Planetarium, 2007 Aug 16 Light box enlargement It was a nearly empty house at the Fernbank planetarium last night. Us plus 3 other individuals made 6. Marty reminded me of a story once told by a friend of ours. When they moved to Atlanta, many years ago, before the Braves became hot, they called…

  • Glamour

    An example of what you can do when you’re homeschooling and talking about crystals. Having done the crystal experiment, we watched a short video on minerals. The subject of diamonds was brought up. Beautiful diamonds. Which have a troubled history. I thought it unbalanced just to see nice pictures of African diamond mines where no…

  • DIRE WARNINGS! HORRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU ATTEMPT TO MAKE CRYSTALS OUT OF THIS LITTLE FLOWERS OF THE MINERAL WORLD CRYSTAL KIT!

    H.o.p.’s Crystal Growing Experiment, View 1 H.o.p. likes crystals. Inspired by a nice amethyst crystal his grandmother sent him, he got a little “amethyst purple” crystal growing kit from the shop at the natural history museum here. The outside of the box had a picture promising fantastic crystal formations, a fabulous huge amethyst blossom with…

  • We Can't Be Masters of Everything or Even Take Beginner's Classes Because It Costs Lotsa Money

    Today school starts again in our area. We don’t follow a strict school schedule and are very eclectic in our homeschooling but…it’s time to think of something new to do around here. Like Tai Chi and Qigong! Won’t this be like the blind leading the blind. Not having funds for classes, around twelve years ago…

  • THE VANITY H.O.P. ART TOTE BAGS CAME OUT GREAT

    THE VANITY H.O.P. ART TOTE BAGS CAME OUT GREAT

    The Child Experiments – H.o.p. as Salesman Not a promo shot. And no it’s not an apron, it’s a tote bag. The recent haul of vanity H.o.p. loot from Cafepress arrived a several days ago and it looks great. We got a couple of the tote bags, which seem more than a fair price in…

  • Bill’s Old Chair

    Bill’s Old Chair

    Bill’s Old Chair 2004 Lightbox enlargement Bill was a homeless person with epilepsy who used to hang out around the building doing odd jobs occasionally. Each morning he would sit out back in the yellow chair and have his coffee.