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Article 20
According to the internet this is a Columbian Lithograph. I could not find a date for it, but it is like the one that hung in my Mamaw's front room just above Uncle Charlo's chair. As Uncle Charlo...
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Stitching and Digressions
More mending to do today. It's still snowy out, with a promise of rain this afternoon which will lead to seventeen acres of winter mud, so being in the loft with my hand sewing where I can see the...
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Precious Tender Angelic Belligerent Ballsy Pixie-Child with Fangs
Today is the Birthday of Smallest Child. She is the last of the litter, and she hit the ground running. I believe she was born believing she could catch up with her older siblings no matter how much...
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Embracing the Freegan Ethic
Awhile back The Manimal's friend started a little restaurant on the town square. You would think one more restaurant is the last thing this town would need, but this one is doing well. It is a soup...
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An Orderly Life. ( Ha! )
Like Jules Verne's Passepartout I adore ze tranquil life. I adore it the way I adore Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin...in a far off, timeless, we-never-met and it-ain't-gonna-happen sort of way....
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Random Pleasures
Having been gently reprimanded by half my children for completely neglecting my bloggery I have come here to repent. My lame excuses are three: Firstly, I am very slowly adjusting to having an...
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Here Lately
The nice thing about Facebook is it allows us to keep up with some of the doings of our friends and family. This can, of course cause us occasional jealousy and consternation, but I suppose overcoming...
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Lofty Thoughts or What I Did This Summer (and am still doing) A jumbledy bit...
Years ago when I moved in with The Manimal I sorted through my little rented house like a mad woman and got rid of nearly everything I own. Hahahahaha! Ok, I got rid of a whole lot of stuff....
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Whilst the Owl is away the Pussycat shall play
The Mighty Manimal is away for a week, and we have been busy,busy, busy here in the forest valley. By busy I mean sorting through the loft and packing up boxes and boxes to be taken to...
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Work on Monday, Wash on Tuesday, Iron on Never.
School started Monday here in Indiana, and for those of us who are humble blue collar dormitory custodians that means the summer work schedule ended and the winter work schedule has begun. I'm...
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Fleas Be Gone! or Taking a Little Fleacation.
Whilst Smallest Child and her Handsome Husband are taking a little Hurrication in New Orleans as "Isaac" does what he must do, I am similarly occupied here in the valley.Today I am flea bombing in...
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Here Lately....
My darling Middle Child is a splendid essayist (find her at www.jauntydame.com) and her bloggery is a continual delight to me. I look forward to her thought-provoking analytical musings. I, on the...
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RAIN...Day Three.....
Yes, my lovelies, it's been raining here for three days now. I am tempted to post pictures of our grumpy wet hens, but they look so pathetic it might spoil your appetite. Not that they were...
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Relearning How To Cook. A humble beginning.
Smallest Child and I are embarking on a mutual project of learning to prepare more mate-friendly suppers. Her reasoning is that she and her husband work different schedules and she's often the one...
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Ten Thankfuls
Ten Thankfuls1- I am thankful Middle Child has blogging skills that I do not, and that she generously offered to tidy up my blog to make it more readable. Especially that she fixed the header so that...
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Article 5
Here's what's going on in the valley. Two days to Christmas, which I don't celebrate anyway as I'm more the Bah, Humbug sort of person. As we both work for the university we've got 13 days off...
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Indiana Weather.
As far back as I can remember people have said of Indiana weather : If you don't like the weather here wait a few minutes. It will change. Typically Indiana winters involve a rotation of...
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A Contemplation of Stillness (which we have a lot of here lartely).
This is not today. This is last week, and it got saved as a draft rather than published. I figured this out when I hit publish on the post about Indiana Weather that I wrote today. So this is last...
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Article 2
Stitching...stitching....stitching.....Do any of these wee creatures look familiar?How about if I position them like this?
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When She's Not Scrubbing or A Very Slight Aquaintance With Permaculture in...
Now that Rapunzel has joined the ranks of the blue collar workers you can well imagine the fascinating details of her custodial life. Or janitorial life if you prefer. BUT, you may be asking...
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NEW LEAF 2014 -or- THE ARTIST'S WAY Ahem. for reasons I cannot fathom,...
A bit of a change from her gingham dressed original form.This little lady looks a bit angsty to me. She had a nice house and a pretty blue car, you would think this would make her happy. Add caption
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Shmata and Boro
Here's a blog post that maybe didn't get posted back when I wrote it. I'm going to hit "Publish" and see what happens. I am so un-tech. Sigh... Greetings one and all. It occurs to me, as I...
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Dear Blogger, Will you let me post pictures and label them today?
Dear Blogger, In haven't written a blog post in nearly forever, and You are the reason. When last I tried, and tried and tried, you would not let me post pictures -or- would not let me label them...
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Smart Phone possibilities?
Being a creature of great curiosity and wanting to share a work in progress I am wondering if it is possible to blog from my phone rather than having to do it from a computer......Testing.......
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