My mother called. The brace is off the leg she broke and she is returning to her FL home tonight. During the conversation, we started talking about pets. Something I never knew was that the family had a cat when I was born which would sleep under my basinette while I was in it - and in the basinette when I wasn't ( Read more... )

Just found out that another of my very conservative, very "christian" relatives has unfriended me on Facebook. I feel hurt and saddened by this additional evidence of why our country is self-destructing. Half of it has no interest in understanding the views of the other and condemns them for what they think that half must be saying ( Read more... )

http://themindunleashed.org/2015/01/social-science-says-lasting-relationships-come-2-basic-traits.htmlRead more... )

My mother's partner is in ICU. He got dangerously dehydrated which affected his kidney function. They are working now, but he's having trouble breathing, even on oxygen.

I was wandering through youtube today and found some really ... strange commercial vids - pg-13 or R rated.

( NOT child-safe )

Halloween is almost upon us ( Read more... )

My beloved oldest brother asked me if I could make a Jayne Cobb hat for him (he says that he has so many pairs of socks that they lie in wait to ambush him out of dresser drawers.

This is Jayne Cobb wearing the hat his mother made for him.

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My younger brothers are reminding me why I made the conscious decision so very long ago to live somewhere AWAY from my family ( Read more... )

11/30/2011
3:20pm
Cerenitey Ambrielle Lucas 4 Lbs 15 Oz

She's my sister's great-grand-daughter.

(of course, imho, the baby's mother is just a baby her ownself)

Ooooooo....

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My great-nephew is starting solid foods. From the looks of things, he's none too impressed.


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