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Reimagining yourself is hard work
H.o.p.: “I want to be a turtle…I guess it’s a bad idea…Ow!” Circumstance? Well, one of those small round trampolines isn’t always a trampoline. Who knew it could be a turtle shell? The transformation wasn’t as smooth as H.o.p. thought it would be, but he was determined and now I’m the mother of Turtle Boy.
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Some Georgia Aquarium pics
Went to the Georgia Aquarium today. It is quite an outing. A brother’s wife was with their daughter and picked us up. Then a sister of mine joined us down there with her children. So we were three adults and 8 children. One has to first make reservations. And if you are planning an outing…
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Guess the song
Boingboing has a link to a video of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre performing “Ballet Mori”…conducted by the earth. It’s a “musical composition modulated line in real time by the fluctuations of the Earth’s movement as measured by a networked seismometer at the Hayward Fault”. The 3 minute dance was in commemoration of…
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And we talked about Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan with gun Digital painting based on photo by artiist 20 by 13 inches approx Copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Detail. [clear] The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with…
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I threw away my paper prayer rug and today I regretted it
Yesterday I threw away the paper prayer rug “Saint Matthews Churches” and Rev. Ewing sent me in the mail. And today I regretted it, realizing the prayer rug would have fit the space above the toilet in the bathroom perfectly. Saint Matthews Churches please send me another paper prayer rug! But make me the second…
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The prayer rug
We used to get this kind of thing in the mail all the time but haven’t since we moved into this building several years ago. So much to our delight the other day we opened the mailbox to find, packed away in a neat little business size envelope, our personal prayer rug. Which comes with…
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The recalcitrant vacuum
There are worse things than a Eureka Altima. The name of one is Bissel. This is a vacuum to hate. I know. Because I now one one and I hate the thing. It’s a vacuum that wants nothing to do with vacuuming. All it wants is to sit in its box. But its box was…
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And so we discuss Hitchcock (a little)
Most of the animations at the Super Shorts Festival are for adults but there are a few appropriate for children, such as The Stalking, directed by Andrew Johnson, which H.o.p. is crazy about because it is reminiscent of Wallace and Grommit. I tell him that it is a take-off on Alfred Hitchcock’s horror films. He…
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Because I have a blog I can complain about the Eureka Altima
The Eureka Altima 2971 BVZ sucks as a vacuum and doesn’t make for good home ec sculpture either. It began giving us trouble from the beginning. And tonight it literally burned itself out. We’ve had it I think around two months and the belt first had to be replaced and then tonight we’ve no idea…
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Look up at the solar system's backbone
The Zodiacal Lights are said to be viewable now in the northern hemisphere. When you see Zodiacal Lights, you’ve seen the backbone of our solar system. Zodical Lights are sunlight reflected from interplanetary dust. The pale glow, therefore, traces the dusty plane through which all planets orbit, known to astronomers as the ecliptic plane. Early…
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Columbia River 1991, at Richland
This is a view of the Columbia River from the riverside park at Richland, March 1991. And that’s me. It was bright blue skies and sun shining only a few minutes beforehand. A dust storm was riding in. Weather can change very quickly there. This is an “I’m standing in front of the Columbia River…
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Old postcard of Columbia River
Old postcard of the Columbia River. Reads, Columbia river separating Oregon and Washington. Scene shows vista house at Crown Point with express highway and Mighty Columbia River. No date. Extremely faded. Didn’t toy with it much, just bringing out a few colors. Didn’t see any point laboring over major color adjustments. For comparison, here are…