Sapphire Joust pre-registration is now available on ACCEPS. Also, to make it easier on folks who use ACCEPS, we now have an online camping/tent reservation form that will send me a formated email with your reservation information. We also will take reservations by old fashioned snail mail. Remember, the only reservation is a paid reservation ( Read more... )

I have continued to read the comments about the FLDS show on Oprah on her blog. If you are interested, look here ( Read more... )

This weekend was busy and fun, but tiring. Saturday I drove to KASF, then had dinner with Dafydd and Ebeth and crashed there, then home again and dinner with the adult kids. Tomorrow, I'm going to DC for the Fleetwood Mac concert and will be visiting the Sackler/Freer and maybe my uncle ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of those days when everything I touched turned to crap. Let me just say that I spent the weekend doing a seasonal cleaning on my kitchen. I cleaned the stove, removed the panel at the bottom of the stove and cleaned that, steamed and bleached counters, cabinet faces, door knobs. Maybe 12 hours of hard physical labor ( Read more... )

And it's a Christmas story, too ( Read more... )

Picture heavy. I scanned some of my high school albums and some old stuff. Pretty fun.

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As I told you, I have been doing a lot of reading based on the Metaphysical discussion group I have joined. This has been very good for me overall, and is focusing a desire to sort all this out in my head. What I really want now is a change of personal habits at a really basic integral level. Long, philosophical...( Read more... )

I did a double set of hot pepper jelly in red and another in green. Neither are as hot as I would like. The red pepper is hot enough to offer to my Nawlin's kin, but they will think it is mild and interesting, but not hot. Most midwesterners would not be interested in the second bite and will think it's too hot. That was made with cayenne and ( Read more... )

Long. Food porn, canning style. ( Read more... )

OK, it's the end of the world as we know it. The much promised financial apocalypse is now. Reasonable financial analysts on the news are telling us not to panic and then throwing around mental images of formerly wealthy retirees living in the parks like Katrina refugees or Calcutta beggars. And catch phrases like 'double digit unemployment' ( Read more... )