Favorite Books-
Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente. This gorgeous story about people finding a place they belong was hands down my favorite fiction out of the 400 or so books I've read in the last year. It stands out strongly. I really envy anyone who hasn't read it because they will get the chance to read it for the first time and I never will again ( Read more... )

I love the Vine program, especially lately since the newsletters have been much much better targeted to my interests ( Read more... )

I read some more of H.E. Bravery's wonderful Home Wine Making Without Failures last night before bed. A lot of the recipes look amazing and the introduction says you can make wine for a bob* a bottle. Doing the math, you can't really do it for that little now. If you buy the fruits, it winds up being anywhere from 2.00 a bottle to 5.00 a bottle not ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we did plan on going out to one of my son's and my favorite places for lunch. I completely forgot I promised E an afternoon out for tea and cakes, just the two of us. So we discussed it, and decided on something less formal for the whole family. We went to Bear Tooth for lunch, then to Middle Way Cafe for cake and coffee. At the Bear ( Read more... )

Long story short.. E sneaked up behind Mike and bounced a bunny hand on his shoulder saying "SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK" in a deep scary voice, and Mike said "That's one angry rabbit." at which point she put the bunny ears on the duck hand and said "Squack ( Read more... )

This time I did them in pretty close to exactly 1/12 scale.
( want to see a couple? )

Well, I redid the coding on a big part of my page yesterday. It's set up for a bit higher resolution now with a whole new layout. And ads. I didn't want to, but I finally had to admit to that while some people were willing to donate a couple dollars here and there for what I had up, it wasn't going to be enough people to pay for the site. My graph ( Read more... )

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I wound up going out to meet Miss Teri for coffee last night as planned, and as usual, seeing her was very calming and nice. She's just that way. We discussed a lot of things. The lack of good inexpensive earring collection books and if I should do one. Since you know.. I've got lots of earring patterns, I showed her my kindle 2 and all the ( Read more... )