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Sass: Peter is full of it :P
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May 9th, 2013, 3:28 amReply
Feeling homicidal already, eh, Peter?
(This is one of the things that I *don't* like about the book [aside from the casual racism]: Peter's equally casual willingness to kill someone -- even if he *does* happen to be an enemy -- who 's not doing anything to him at that particular moment.)
May 9th, 2013, 3:47 amReply
@reynard61: Actually, pretty much everyone in the story is willing to kill their enemies (the pirates when they slaughter the natives during the raid on the underground house, and then the boys killing off almost all the pirates in the final battle).
I always took this sort of violence as that which comes in all fairy tales, like all the Grimm versions. It's violence, but it's also not, if that makes any sense.
And to be fair, this is the only point that he suggests killing anyone not in battle. (and in the next comic, he announces that he'd wake the pirate up, he's not about to murder him in his sleep)
I do agree about not liking the blatant racism, I'm going to be completely cutting it out, for sure.
May 9th, 2013, 8:16 amReply
This is one of the things about Peter that make him to who he really is. He's the soul of a child, and he is that completely, without leaving out even the tiniest bit that makes a child into a child. Children, especially young children (and in my opinion, Peter's behavior differs in age) do not have a clear picture of what "death" means. The average child can love and hate with it's full heart, but does not understand fully what it means to love, because the thing it loves the most will always be itself. Children get emotional easily and fast, and they act on their emotions without thinking; that's what makes them children, all those pure feelings that lead to their actions. Every action depends on which emotion is the strongest at the moment, and Peter is a charater who seldom lets anything different from from joy and excitement take that place, which is why he is always so full of energy and looking for an advendture. Children remember strong emotions very well, the good ones as well as the bad ones, and they are not easily proved differently. They tend to hold on to a certain picture they have of someone or something, in this case, a pirate. A pirate is an enemy, an enemy should be killed, that's the way Peter's world works. He doesn't really think about anything deeply, he just acts like he thinks it's right, and he loves to win. The fact that he almost always wins (partly because he tends to change the rules to his liking ^^) makes him always search for another fight to fight, for another adventure to live, for another thing to conquer. At this moment, he has not fully conquered Wendy which is why he continues to talk to her and ask her about things she'd like to do; but he's also feeling the excitement of a new adventure calling, and it's hard for him to withstand it. That's how I think he thinks ^^ or rather, feels.
As to "I can"; of course Peter can see what others don't see! He is Peter, and he's part of the soul of Neverland. It's not the least bit surprising that he's able to see that pirate ^^
May 9th, 2013, 9:32 amReply
@snow crystal: Wow, really well put! I teach a lot of kids, so I often see these qualities in them ^_^ It's pretty normal.snow crystal,
May 9th, 2013, 12:06 pmReply
@TriaElf9: Wow, thanks! :) How come you teach a lot of kids? Are you some kind of teacher? I'm going to be a kindergarten teacher in August! :)TriaElf9,
May 9th, 2013, 6:22 pmReply
@snow crystal: I used be a summer camp counselor, and until last year, I used to teach English out here ^_^
Ooh! I wish you luck@
May 9th, 2013, 9:16 pmReply
Exactly. A child acts on their own emotions without much of a thought, until a parent or guardian calls them on it and teaches them how not to act. Peter's never had parents, and therefore, does what he wills.
And cutting out the violence would kill the entire point of telling the story, the violence is usually the main /point/ that gets a child's attention. The thoughts of climactic swordfights, and crazy battles with terrible odds on both sides.
It gets the blood running, and gets the children in question excited to hear what happens. Especially if you describe it in the most gruesome, gross way possible. Most kids (especially boys) like gross. XD
Children in general are sadistic, bloodthirsty creatures. Simply, as it was said, because they don't have a real concept of death. It's human instinct, too.
On a side note, I'd like to be an Elementary School Guidance Counselor.
And don't cut out /all/ the casual racism. Some of it's funny. XD
May 9th, 2013, 9:27 pmReply
@Onasaki: Yeeeah, the only problem is that I wouldn't call the racism casual, I'd call it really very blatant. It was excusable in the early 1900's, but not really anymore. I can't really avoid using their name, but I'm going to avoid the more offensive terms that are used, and just mostly magnify the badass aspects of the tribe that Barrie attempted to talk about, even if he did do it in a super uniformed way ^_^;;snow crystal,
May 10th, 2013, 4:14 pmReply
@TriaElf9: Whoo, how cool!! And thank you ^^ I'm very busy with it at the moment, so I can definitely need the luck ;)


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Coming Dodd-Frank Bank-Affiliate Transaction Rules May Have Profound Impact on the Business of Banking
October 8, 2013
Much focus in the banking industry has been paid on the Basel III rules, recently finalized in the US, and the Volcker Rule, which is expected to be implemented by regulators by the end of this year. However, another potentially equally important change is also expected to occur in 2013, one that will further result in the strengthened ring-fencing of US banks from their non-bank operations, and potentially have a profound effect on the business of banking. These are the changes to the affiliate transactions restrictions applicable to banks, introduced under Dodd-Frank but not yet implemented by federal agency rulemaking.
Depending on how the rules are implemented, the changes may further limit banks to traditional lending activities, and restrict their ability to engage in the type of full-service financial activities they have traditionally conducted with their non-bank affiliates. They will also require banks to have enhanced compliance programs in place, as well as increase transparency in how they manage their legal entities and intercompany transactions.
The changes, introduced under Section 608 and 609 of the Dodd-Frank Act, strengthen the affiliate-transaction restrictions under Sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Reserve Board's (FRB) Regulation W. They include:
- Broadening the range of bank affiliates covered by the restrictions to include investment funds to which a bank or an affiliate is an investment advisor. Banking organizations will need to review their advisory relationships with funds to determine if any new funds are covered under the expanded definition of affiliate. Banks must make sure that their relationships with these funds comply with the affiliate transaction restrictions.
- Requiring banks to treat repurchase agreement transactions as extensions of credit for Section 23A purposes. As a result of this change repurchase agreement transactions with affiliates will become subject to the collateral requirements for credit transactions.
- Expanding the statutory definition of covered affiliate transactions to include: securities borrowing and lending transactions with an affiliate to the extent the transaction creates credit exposure of the bank or a subsidiary of the bank to the affiliate; and credit exposures to an affiliate arising out of derivative transactions.
- Imposing new collateral requirements on affiliate transactions.
- Changing how financial subsidiaries of banks are treated for affiliate transaction restriction purposes.
- Limiting the FRB's authority, and giving the FDIC veto power, to issue exemptions to banks from the affiliate transaction requirements. During the financial crisis, the FRB granted numerous affiliate-transaction restriction exemptions to banks in order to allow them to continue to provide liquidity and funding to non-bank affiliates.
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Nightvale, Lovecraft, Idea Channel, and an argument I had with one of my teachers today/
We just got to the part of the history of western civilization in my Western Civ 1 class when Socrates shows up! Yay... I shouldn't be totally surprised, but I was, that when we discussed Socrates, phrases like "Greatest philosopher ever" and "Still extremely relevant today" were thrown around. I have some pretty strong contentions with that point, especially where Socrates fades into Plato, and the Western canonization of Essentialism and fundamental truths.
See, as the teacher told it, Socrates was the hero who freed Greece from the cynical Sophists, who believed there was no such thing as essential truth. Now, I will grant that it's possible to get pretty cynical on that premise. But I'm on the side of the Sophists -- at least, the ones who understood, if any of them did, that the point is humans don't have access to unrestrained truth, and that all we have to work with are narratives that are varyingly successful in describing and predicting the reality they attempt to describe and predict.
I brought this up with the teacher after class, and we had a fun discussion in which he asked me if I thought the Pythagorean theorem would go away if nobody knew about it, and I said "Yes." The fact that triangles have certain relationships to themselves wouldn't, but the Pythagorean theorem isn't an insight into the core truth of the universe -- it's a narrative we use to arrive at certain among those truths.
Which is why it's pretty cool that today's Idea Channel decided to help me out by talking about H.P. Lovecraft, Welcome to Nightvale, and the huge problem most people have with accepting that some things just aren't knowable. Whole video linked and embedded below, but I particularly want to emphasize this quote:
Philosopher Graham Harmon describes Lovecraft as a writer of gaps. A gap specifically between what we understand to be possible, and what the characters are experiencing in the stories, expressed by the gap in the existence of something and the ability of language to accurately and appropriately describe that thing.
How Does Night Vale Confront Us With the Unknown?
Here, I also want to throw out another Idea Channel video, Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation?
There are totally people who believe math is a real thing, as Mike addresses above. Personally, I think those people are nuts -- math is a narrative we use to describe things. "Math comes from the human brain, and nowhere else." Fictionalism ftw.
I will totally be sharing these videos with my professor. But first!
The thing about essentialism, whether mathematical, Platonic, Christian, political, whatever -- (well, one of the things. Well, one of the things, and the line about where it becomes and stops becoming a thing is fuzzy. There's no real essential truth about essentialism.) -- is that it encourages people to believe that everything should be relatively easy for humans to understand.
If we believe the Socratic claim that all knowledge is embedded in the human mind, and it just takes the right questions to unlock it, how do we ever understand Quantum Physics? How do we even approach the question, "Can language even describe some things?" How do we deal with incompleteness?
It also leads to a different, more cultural, problem: the danger of a single story.
In this point, I'm referring to an awesome TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a storyteller who grew up in Nigeria, embedded above. The point I want to draw here is that the simplification of narratives that Essentialists pursue is not just wrongheaded, irresponsible, and doomed to fail: it's also civilizationally corrosive and destructive.


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Dawn: Protestors plan to bang on the doors of delegates' hotels in London.
7am: Anti-capitalism protestors are expected to gather outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square, near St Paul's Cathedral, to play a giant game of Monopoly as the G20 leaders sit down for a working breakfast at the ExCeL.
9am: Youth March for Jobs will begin at Camberwell Green, south London, heading for the Bank of England before turning east towards the ExCeL centre.
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1pm: Stop the War Coalition protestors will form up outside the Houses of Parliament to demonstrate against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to campaign for a free Palestine.


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February 14 - March 16, 2019
Christine Sefolosha is an oneiric or dream traveler. There are some artists whose work drifts like a dark voluptuous flower over the unseeing ant-like hordes of the art mainstream. It ravels and unravels histories. It moves even as it seems to be stationary on board, canvas, or paper. This art in a way, is about travel. We look to the distant horizon or up higher in the skies and see shivering roiling concentrations of energies: birds, clouds of dust, storms, insects, demons, angels, all indistinct in the chiaroscuro seconds before attaining form and disappearing in darkness. The unknown appears as a swarm of ectoplasm with an inner intelligence all its own. It is the open and aware traveler who sees it - not the tourist - the traveler.
"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home." Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.
Christine Sefolosha is just such a traveler. She raises new challenges constantly. She asks that we open ourselves to the intentional freedom of the observations of a consummate artist whose psyche is in constant flux, who is at home everywhere and nowhere in the world, in the art world, on the precarious contemporary world, who, in Kurt Vonnegut's immaculate phrase, has become "unstuck in time" like Billy Pilgrim in the novel Slaughterhouse Five.
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I'm officially blind!
Look at your own risk.
Via: Dean
Look at your own risk.
Via: Dean
Posted by Rosemary on 01.30.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Sunday, January 30, 2005
I'm officially blind!
Look at your own risk.
Via: Dean
Posted by Rosemary on 01.30.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Friday, January 28, 2005
Today marks 19 years since the Challenger accident.
Has it really been that long?
I still remember the day as if it just happened, I remember Virgil running down the sidewalk yelling "The shuttle blew up! The shuttle blew up!" I still remember having to eat lunch at Burger King because of the power going out. I still remember the image of the explosion after takeoff. And I remember watching Ronald Regan on TV that night consoling the country.
Posted by GuestBlogger Dave on 01.28.2005. 7 Comments 17 Trackbacks
Thursday, January 27, 2005
I'm back... I offered to continue for a couple of weeks to keep the content flowing...
The Queen in all her wisdom has given me a Birthday present and agreed to let me continue posting (bet you had no idea it was my birthday today)!
So, here goes...
I have a roundup of comments from Arizona Bloggers with regard to the recent Boil Water Advisory affecting 1.5 million people in the Phoenix area. I spent an exciting couple of days discovering new blogs in the area as well as my own smells (to conserve water residents were asked not to shower...) I'm going to refer to the situation as The Great Stink of 2005.
In other news I've posted my recipe for this weeks Carnival of Recipes (link to last week)...
Hot Peanut Chicken Stir Fry
More to come...
Thanks for reading!
Thanks to the Queen for allowing me to continue!
Posted by GuestBlogger Dave on 01.27.2005. 2 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Racist Democrats Fail To Stop Condi
John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd and 8 other hardcore lefty racists were unable to prevent Condi Rice from becoming the first African-American Woman to become Secretary of State. John McCain thinks they are just being sore losers but I think that it is much worse.
Who are they trying to stop from Cabinet appointments?
Only people of color.
Coincidence? Nah, I think that Robert(KKK)Byrd, who has been dubbed the "conscious of the Senate", is having a profound effect on the hardcore lefties. Perhaps they just don't like it that these highly qualified individuals have earned their way. People may figure out that they don't need handouts and crumbs from the Democrats. That would be bad...
Posted by Rosemary on 01.27.2005. 12 Comments 5 Trackbacks
Ding, Ding, Ding,Ding, Ding!! We Have A Winner!!!!!!!!!!
I have been on the lookout for stupid comments. Not just wacky moonbat drivel but a comment that was meant to be serious but turned out to be seriously STUPID.
I have found such a comment. The comment references a paraphrased quote by George Carlin that Maria used in her original post: "Christian Republicans talk about every life being sacred. Every life is sacred! Every life is sacred! That is, before birth. Once you're born, they don't want to have anything to do with you until you're eighteen. Then they want to send you off to war to die."
Here is the stupid quote:
Where do I begin? Should I type really slow and make an effort to correct ALL the stupidity or just call her a fucking moron and move on?
Maybe I'll do both.
First, it's pretty darn obvious that "Sandy" hasn't ever stepped into a freaking Church, because if she had she would know that Churches and their congregations spend their time helping the less fortunate. Feeding and clothing the poor, tending the sick and aged, helping single mothers, always running drives (clothing,food, etc) to help PEOPLE. Churches don't ever turn down requests for help even if you aren't a member. So her knock about Christians is not only wrong but IGNORANT.
According to "Sandy" the evil Christians don't care about the wounded soldiers either. What proof does she offer? NONE. Just angry bullshit rhetoric. So there are no ministers tending the wounded? There are no Church groups sending care packages to soldiers? If so, I wonder why my son has been collecting special items to send to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan at the request of our CHURCH.
Perhaps before impuning the largest religious group in the country and a huge majority of people, you should do a little research on Christian Services so you don't look like a fucking moron. Correction, a fucking bigoted moron.
Christian Republicans want to send you off to war to die, huh? I'd buy that one if a Christian Republican instated a draft and started sending the unwilling off to die. That isn't the case though, is it? Nope, we haven't had one of those since Lyndon Johnson did it, Johnson that
Our military is VOLUNTARY and they are trained TO FIGHT WARS. I'm pretty sure that they know that going in and it isn't a big surprise when they are called upon to EARN THEIR PAY. They do it willingly.
Christians want everyone to have a right to live and they put forth a huge effort to minimize the suffering of the less fortunate. I see it everyday. I know plenty of people that have benefited from the good deeds of Christians. If you haven't, it's because you have simply closed your eyes along with your mind.
Open them both up so you can see and learn. Otherwise, you will continue to be a fucking moron.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.27.2005. 7 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Some Pictures
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Monday, January 24, 2005
Big Hug and Thanks
I want to give a big virtual hug and say Thank You to Andrew, Juliette, Dave, Rhianna, Scott and my brother Jerry K for jumping into the fray and keeping y'all entertained while I was in the hospital.
I'm certain that everyone enjoyed the bloggers and I have made sure to blogroll any guest blogger that wasn't on the blogroll already. I put a [GB] next to the blog name of all my guest bloggers, so you can find them later. I did that for all the people, like me, that find themselves banging their head because they can't remember the name of the person they really liked and want to read. It is really annoying to forget something like that, this way you just scroll the blogroll and look for [GB] and you'll know that they blogged here.
Thanks again everyone!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.24.2005. 2 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Late Comment on Scary Harry (Juliette)
I know I'm late on this subject, but no matter.
Philip Ochieng gives
the history of the swastika.
For the swastika was a symbol of life and hope throughout the Mediterranean and up to India. The swastika is a small cross, the ends of whose arms are often bent at right angles, worn to attract good luck (from Sanskrit svasti, prosperity).There's more. (Now all can see that my long-windedness is genetic.)
But after the explanation, my progenitor gets to the point.
But even if [Prince] Harry's [display of the swastika in a Nazi uniform at a party] were just one of those boyish foolishnesses - if he had no idea what bitter memories he might kindle by fondling with the swastika - one would still remark how amiss his royal education is.Which is the problem I had with the young prince's outfit. It seems that nothing in his allegedly high-level education gave him a clue that such a get-up would not be the best thing to don, especially for one who is, at present, third in line to the British throne.
Many have commented that the incident was due to the notorious idiocy of many twenty-year-olds. But there are quite a few twenty-year-olds who were born without Prince Henry's (Harry's) high lineage and were not the beneficiaries of his supposedly excellent education who understand what the swastika *now* represents: fascism and genocide. They understand it better than he does, obviously.
And I must admit that,in my participation of Laurence Simon's Dead Pool, I picked Harry's older brother, William, to meet an untimely demise this year. A bit chilling to contemplate now--and not just because the death of the young is always tragic nor is it because I think that Harry is some kind of young Nazi. He just seems...dim. For leaders—even symbolic ones—it's a quality that is sometimes worse than evil.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.23.2005. 3 Comments 2 Trackbacks
Did you know that if your baby was really active at night, in utero, he will be on the outside as well? The nurses kept telling me that Draco has his days and nights confused. I think not. Draco kicked me on schedule every night starting at 1am and ending around 5am, so it should be no surprise that I ain't sleeping.
Should it?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.23.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Saturday, January 22, 2005
We're Home!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.22.2005. 11 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Friday, January 21, 2005
A few Items...
The 23rd Carnival of Recipies is up:The ABC's of cooking from around the B-sphere
You can see my entry for Pan-Fried Steak with Red Wine Reduction here.
I also want to direct you to a piece I did on The Great Hunter. I think it's pretty funny, you can let me know what you think.
This is worth spreading... please pass the links along on your blog!
One of the 'Wonks oldest friends on the Progressive Left, David Anderson, over at In Search Of Utopia, is asking the Blogging World to spread the word about a devastating flood that struck Costa Rica a few days ago which left over 8000 people homeless.
Posted by GuestBlogger Dave on 01.21.2005. 0 Comments 10 Trackbacks
Euopre realises Obesity is a problem (Rhianna)
The EU, which I despise, has seen fit to start taking obesity seriously instead of how they only recently
considered obesity to be a US problem. We made fun of Americans, in a way. It's a European problem now.
I find that gratifying in a way. I've lived in the UK and Germany, traveled to several other European countries, and will shortly be in Italy. I assure you they're all fat nations with a large percentage of the population overweight, if not obese. I enjoy seeing those in the glass house running for cover from the rocks they threw.
Back to the EU and their newest policy. They are advocating legislating commercials. I find this very stupid. Taking away the 'adverts' as the Brits call them, won't solve the problem. One of the ways the US has combated underage smoking, and the UK as well, is to make posters (sometimes very grotesque and very effective) and ads that show the damages of the behavior. I doubt having Walkers stop advertising on Cartoon Network will do much good. The idea is sound, but seeing no ad won't make a child or adult stop buying the goods in the store.
Some UK retailers, with a healthy market in the states, have done so willingly. I personally am addicted to Cadbury's chocolate and my favorite kind of coke is Dr. Pepper. I watch more kid's shows than should be legally allowed and I assure you they do not advertise on children's television. I enjoy eating Ben & Jerry's ice cream too. I can't say I've seen one of their ads on children's program either. I don't blame them for the fact I eat and drink their products as that is my choice alone. They are supplying a product and I am consuming their product. This boils down to me taking responsibility for my own actions.
What must be understood in this age of litigation and legislation is that a government, no matter how oppressive, can not mandate good choices. By only targeting the ads, and not filling the space with advertisements on healthy eating and exercise I think the world will be fighting this battle with one hand tied behind their back. That is a disservice to all the children and adults these burocrats claim to want to help.
You can not help those that won't help themselves, and removing photos of their obsession won't make the obsession go away. To see the jist of what I mean, check out this article, this one, this report from Canada, and here's another article. These are the standards of excuse and blame that rest with everyone but the parent and child. This isn't going to go away by legislating ads. Nor will it got away by false claims of childhood obesity causing death.
The bottom line is that people must take responsibility for their own lifestyles and those of their minor children.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.21.2005. 3 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Celebrate (Juliette)
Celebrate Inauguration Day.
Celebrate that this country can have a peaceful continuation of a presidency after a long and, sometimes, acrimonious campaign by two free men.
Celebrate that the defeated of the contest is welcome at the swearing-in of the victor.
Celebrate that the former can smile at this swearing-in and have people shake his hand.
Celebrate that a much-maligned (often justifiably) former president and his wife--a US Senator—are also welcome.
Celebrate the fact that one who has done much of the maligning was actually thrilled to see them there (the ceremony, you know).
Celebrate that a US Senator can insult a Secretary of State nominee and not be dragged off and shot; celebrate that the latter will still become Secretary of State; celebrate that the former will still be an honored member of the Senate (at least in some quarters of this free country).
Celebrate that there are still men and women who love each other enough to formally commit; celebrate that they have brought children into the world that are the beneficiaries of that love. (Welcome, Draco!)
Celebrate the fact that those who have skills and experience in this country can find work, even if temporarily; celebrate the fact that such work will make them too busy and/or too tired to blog. :-)
And, finally, celebrate the fact that young men and women—and some not so young--are willing to volunteer to at least try to bring some of the above blessings to those who have not.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.20.2005. 4 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Bush: "Equal Rights for Some!" (Andrew Quinn)
Originally blogged to Verité.
Sadly, I absolutely don't have the time for the detailed inauguration writeup that's itching to get out... but I'd like to make a quick comment:
Apart from the over-religiousness, there was gaping hypocrisy when the President quoted Abraham Lincoln. He repeated the following words of #16: Those who deny freedom to others do not deserve it for themselves.
Except gay marriage. Because God told Bush to ban that... right? Again, he contradicts his own beliefs:
We cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time.
Except... against... homosexuals. Right?
Posted by guestblogger on 01.20.2005. 8 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Happy Second Term President Bush (Rhianna)
In a great start to President Bush's second term he saw fit to quote my favorite President, Abraham Lincoln on the truths of oppression and freedom. All I can say is: You done Good George, you done good.
Not to allow the US to swear in a President without a stab in the back, and an attempt to stir up problems, the BBC dusts off a survey taken before the Tsunami hit. Surely they could have found something more interesting, unless 'the world hates Bush' is now breaking news since it is over a month old. Don't forget to note that the world's most populous Democracy supports Bush. Also, pay close attention to the fact India only supports us because
Another surprise was India's support for Mr Bush. The poll found 62% believed his administration was positive for global security.
Why does anyone take the BBC's reasoning for loathing or loving the US? Especial when they mention that
Anti-Bush sentiments also appeared to be strong in Latin America. Argentina, with 79%, and Brazil, with 78%, follow Turkey in the list.
So, we're damned if we do help out India because that amounts to buying their support, but we're damned for not buying the support of Argentina and Brazil.
Anyone at the BBC choose to question why the theocracies, and most corrupt and oppressive regimes of the world hate the US while the most free Democracies on Earth support her? Nope, that would mean actually questioning assumptions from BBC bigwigs and not digging up old reports and posting them as 'new' findings. We know the BBC can't be bothered to do that. I swear, they've gotten to the point of being no more trustworthy that cBS and Al-Quida News. That's a pretty long way to fall for such a formerly trusted 'news' agency.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.20.2005. 10 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Male Circumcision Reduces Risk of HIV Transmission From Women to Men
I thought this would be appropriate after Dean's HIV series. The content in this article makes sense, but it's still surprising.
The first study to examine the probability of HIV infection per act of heterosexual sex among a population with multiple sexual partners has found that uncircumcised men have more than twice the risk of acquiring HIV than do circumcised men. In the study, published in the Feb. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, Jared Baeten and colleagues from the United States and Kenya collected detailed sexual data from a group of male Kenyan truckers and, using statistical models, developed infectivity measures that estimate the per-sexual-act probability of HIV transmission. The study is the first to calculate the probability of infection for men who have multiple, concurrent heterosexual partners, which was found to be significantly higher than infectivity rates calculated in the past from studies of monogamous couples. Their results may help explain the rapid spread of HIV in settings where circumcision is not common and multiple sexual partnerships are.
This gets even more interesting:
Between 1993 and 1997, 745 male employees of trucking companies based in Mombasa, Kenya were followed for the study. Initially they were evaluated for circumcision status and HIV-negativity. Over the length of the study the men were asked to give information concerning the number of sexual encounters with three different partner types--wives, casual partners, and prostitutes--and were screened for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. At the end of the study the probability of infection was calculated using a statistical model that incorporated published data to estimate the rates of HIV infection among the three types of sexual partners.
Posted by GuestBlogger Dave on 01.20.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Mommy, again
Hi there. Scott here from Speed of Thought...
First things first. Congrats to Dean and The Queen. Mommy and Daddy again, how cool. Draco, welcome little man, to a fun filled adventure!
Second things second. I found this tonight and would like your comments.
Supposedly this is a GOTV ad from Iraq. What do you think?
(via Austin's Blog)
Posted by guestblogger on 01.20.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Worth Relooking (Andrew Quinn)
Many have probably already read much of Tutakai's work, but The Militant Moderate's foreign policy philosophy is always worth revisiting. His first point is probably his most controversial:
1 - A moderate foreign policy is engaged but not bullying or timid. Conservatives seem split between two extremes — the xenophobic isolationism of Pat Buchanan and Michelle Malkin and the aggressive unilateralism of the Bush Administration (particularly Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz). Isolationism plays to a "fortress America" mindset that is simply not tenable in the modern world of global communications and finance. The world's problems are America's problems and we need to deal with them.This is worth looking at, especially in the light of recent Iran rumors.
His views on other issues are also very interesting. See, for example, his recent piece SecDef Rumsfeld Should Resign, wherein he discussed the inexcusable allegations of Donald using an "autopen" to complete the sacred duty of signing letters to the families of deceased soldiers. I believe this seemingly minor infraction is an overall attitude of the man's horrible attitude toward American soldiers, and foreign policy in general.
Andrew Quinn posts regularly to his own weblog, Verité.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.19.2005. 1 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Slurpee Boy!! (Jerry K)
Birth: 12:27pm
Height: 21 inches
Weight: 7lbs 11oz
Mother and baby are doing just fine! When I got there they were both in recovery. Rose says those Monday night Slurpee's did the trick! Little Drake was all bundled up and I took 6 pictures. The one above and these 5 more.
Posted by Jerry Kondraciuk on 01.19.2005. 19 Comments 30 Trackbacks
Howdy... Best Wishes for the Mother to be (the Father too!)
Introductions seem to be in order, so here goes...
I'm Dave from AZ Perspective and Junk and like the others I'm here to attempt to fill in for the Queen (not that that is really possible).
I'll keep it short for now... but I do want to start off with something to talk about so here goes:
The latest good news for bloggers is a weapon against "Comment Spam". Thank you Google! The best part is you don't have to do anything, most blogging software is being updated to insert a link tag that will take care of it.
"From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel='nofollow') on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results." Yahoo and MSN are using it too!
Posted by GuestBlogger Dave on 01.19.2005. 2 Comments 4 Trackbacks
An Introduction of sorts (Rhianna)
Well, it seems I find myself in great company while Rosemary is gone. I'm quite honored to be here. For those whoe don't know me, and I'm sure that is quite a few of Rosemary's readers, I'm the mouthy Texan from A Texan Abroad.
I just wanted to take today's posting to say Thank You to Rose for finding me up to the task, Thank You to her readers for tolerating me while she's gone, and a giant CONGRATULATIONS for the whole Esmay family. We'll be anxiously awaiting pictures and news fo the big event.
Posted by guestblogger on 01.19.2005. 3 Comments 0 Trackbacks
We Are Off To The Hospital
My C-section is scheduled for noon today. I'll be at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan. As soon as we have any info, my brother Jerry will probably post an update as soon as he is able.
I hope that my guest bloggers keep you entertained and I'm sure that Dean will find a way to blog, eventually.
Keep your fingers crossed and your prayers coming. I'm grateful to all of you for all that you have done for me and my family. I'm blessed to have such good friends and I won't ever forget that!
See you as soon as they spring me from the hospital.
Take Care!
Your humbled and very thrilled Queen of All Evil,
Posted by Rosemary on 01.19.2005. 3 Comments 2 Trackbacks
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Good Luck, Rosemary! (Andrew Quinn)
The Queendom falls silent as Mystery Guest Blogger #2 emerges from the shadows...
Hi, everyone. It's fourteen-year old Andrew Quinn from Verité. I'll begin real, juicy content tomorrow, but I thought it might be nice to give Rosemary a proper sendoff.
I'd like this post to serve as an open thread of all of our best wishes to Rosemary. Post whatever you want... congratulations, good luck - I think a little message might be nice.
Thanks, and see you tomorrow!
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Posted by guestblogger on 01.18.2005. 8 Comments 27 Trackbacks
Another Test!!
Are you ready to travel the world? Take this test first: Don't Gross Out The World
Ara sent me this one!
I got 9 out of 11 right! Damn, Germans and Japanese...
Posted by Rosemary on 01.18.2005. 4 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Hello...(Jerry K)
You know how you go to your favorite bar, and your local bartender isn't there? You ask, "Where's Rose?" "Rose is on maternity leave, I'm Jerry." Then you're thinking, hey, who's this idiot? I like Rose. But you still want your drink. And even though Jerry doesn't mix your drink the same way you're used to, like Rose, you still like the bar. You don't want to have to go to a different bar. And even Jerry might feel kinda bad because Rose trained him. Rose showed him how to work the cash register, where the tonic was on the soda gun, who tips, who doesn't. [ pause ] Well, I'm Jerry. What can I get you?
I modified the above SNL skit to fit the current situation. The Queen has other guest bloggers who will be posting, but I'm here for one purpose. You see, I am the first person who will be close to a PC after Draco is born. So I'll be posting all the vital details and photos (from a cameraphone) shortly afterward.
The Queen has also given me the authority to post other things, so you may see more of me over the next few days..
The Little Brother of the QOAE.
Posted by Jerry Kondraciuk on 01.18.2005. 1 Comments 3 Trackbacks
T Minus One Day and Counting...
I'm finishing up last minute stuff and preparing for the trip to the hospital. Blogging will be light today but I'm sure you all understand!
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Posted by Rosemary on 01.18.2005. 1 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Monday, January 17, 2005
Unofficial I.Q. Test
Take the 11 question Test here!!
It may piss you off to know but I got 10 right!!!
How'd you do?
**I misstated that there were 10 questions but CaltechGirl points out that there are actually 11. So, I fixed that mistake!**
Posted by Rosemary on 01.17.2005. 8 Comments 3 Trackbacks
Some Photo Blogging!!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.17.2005. 7 Comments 0 Trackbacks
All's Well
I went to GR to see my sis and the new baby. Had a great time. Didn't get much sleep, though. I'm so big now that sleeping is just uncomfortable, so I stayed up all night with my sister-in-law, Mary, and we took care of the baby while my sister, the Milk Maid, rested. Not that she got that much rest as any new Mom can appreciate but we tried to help out.
Did I mention that my nephew is the cutest little thing? He is and his cries are soooooo cute. He sounds like a mewling kitten. I love babies!! I'll put some pics up later.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.17.2005. 3 Comments 5 Trackbacks
Saturday, January 15, 2005
I'm Outta Here
Well, I'm taking a drive to Grand Rapids to see my new nephew. There was much debate on whether or not I should go, since it is nearly a 3 hour drive. Dean and I decided that even IF I went into labor, chances are I would make it back in time. Technically, I am 38 weeks and I was overdue with Jake so - I'm risking it.
If I don't do it now it could be a month before I meet the new baby, since the C-section will put me out of commission for a few weeks. Hearing him over the phone isn't the same. I want to smooch those little cheeks and I want to see my sister.
I'll be back tomorrow. Be good!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.15.2005. 4 Comments 0 Trackbacks
And People Wonder Why I Am Against...
In New York City residents routinely begin their day at six or seven in the morning, work twelve hours, then stay on call all night. In a practice that I think is particularly cruel, they typically don't get home until noon the following day — several hours after morning rounds. During this extended time they perform simple tasks, like circumcisions. That's right, circumcisions. During my clerkship in Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, I noticed that many of the OB interns would do the deed post call. The man behind the guillotine is the same man that hasn't slept since last Tuesday. And you wonder why there's some funny looking penises out there?
The topic is really about medical interns, lack of sleep and functionality. But that bit about performing circumcisions after being awake and less functional should scare the shit out of any parent of a newborn baby boy. I don't believe in circumcisions, I find them barbaric and medically unnecessary.
I understand doing them for religious reasons and that is fine. I have my son doing things that aren't "necessary" too, like going to school to learn about religion. He will be having his First Communion this April, of course, that is a little different than forcibly removing his foreskin but to each his own.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.15.2005. 13 Comments 0 Trackbacks
I've got some really cool people offering to blog for me while I'm in the hospital. I'm not telling you who any of them are because I want it to be a surprise.
So, stay tuned to this network for an interesting array of blogging.
Also, if any of my guests have something that they need to post before I hit the hospital - feel free to get your feet wet!
Posted by guestblogger on 01.15.2005. 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Maria posted a list of Bushisms on her blog. Some are quite funny. I wanted to add my favorite Bushisms. I left them in her comments but I wanted to share, since I'm such a crack up.
Here are my two favorite Bushisms from 2004:
"Mr. Chairman, delegates, fellow citizens, I'm honored by your support, and I accept your nomination for president of the United States." Thursday, Sept 2, 2004
"Earlier today, Senator Kerry called with his congratulations."..." America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. With that trust comes a duty to serve all Americans, and I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as your President." November 3, 2004
I giggled like a schoolgirl when I heard him say those things. Didn't you?
Hell, they still make me chuckle.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.13.2005. 9 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Irony Alert!!!!
My lovely sister, Alice, and her husband are pretty hardcore liberals. They have been for as long as they've known about politics.
So, do you think it's ironic that they gave birth to their very first child, my handsome nephew Aidan, on Rush Limbaugh's birthday?
I don't think Al knows this yet, I can't wait to tell her!!!!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.13.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Questioning the HIV Hypothesis
Well damn. Read this why don't you?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.13.2005. 2 Comments 52 Trackbacks
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
This Kid Wants To Help
My niece, Christa wants to help tsunami victims. Unfortunately, she's gotten a less-than-enthusiastic response to her fund-raising efforts.
Here is the email I received from her yesterday:
Dear Auntie Rose,She's so cute, just like her Dad (my brother) signs a note to family members with her last name. Here's a ten-year-old kid with a heart of gold that wants to help others. Seeing pictures from Southeast Asia, she feels the need to help. She asked for permission to set up a fund raising drive at her school. They denied her request. She's tried a few other avenues, but to no avail. Now she's coming to you. Christa has teamed up with the Novi Rotary to handle and distribute the funds she raises.
Here is the flier she made:
The Novi Rotary has made arrangements with two Rotary chapters in the tsunami affected area. They will combine Christa's fund raising efforts with their own and send them directly to Rotary Chapters in Southeast Asia. These chapters have the ability to get aid directly to victims. For more information, please visit the Tsunami Relief Fund. For more information on Rotary go to Novi Rotary or Rotary.org
Cash and check donations can be sent to:
P.O. Box 159
Novi, MI 48375
Make checks out to: Novi Rotary Foundation. Note at the bottom of the check- Tsunami Relief Fund. If you tuck a post it noting "Christa's Tsunami Relief" they will know that it came from her efforts.
Help a kid make a difference!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.12.2005. 0 Comments 74 Trackbacks
Here's My New Nephew
Posted by Rosemary on 01.12.2005. 7 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Dance With My Father
Many of you know that I lost my father, in 2001, to Cancer. He was only 64 when he died. Some may think that he wasn't that young but he was. My Dad was a vibrant and active man. Very physically capable of doing or fixing anything. He was that way until he got sick and it all went downhill for him, very, very fast. He died within 5 months of his diagnosis. Of course, the doctors were shocked that he lasted that long, since he refused any treatment once he was told he was terminal either way.
Why am I talking about my father now? I think it has something to do with the fact that I am just days away from giving birth. Also, last night Jake and I were looking at some of his old baby pictures. Watching my son's silent tears as he looked at his Grandfather holding him, playing with him and smiling at him from his deathbed. It brought back a lot of feelings that I've supressed because I needed to be strong for my son. Jake was only 4 when my Dad died but his memories are still so vivid. He remembers his Papa. Makes me sad that Draco will never have the memories that Jake has.
Just to further cement the fact that Dad was on my mind, I hear The Song. I was driving Jake to school and the song that always makes me cry and reminds me of my Dad came on the radio.
Here are the lyrics but hearing Luther Vandross sing it makes it more incredible.
Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence
Posted by Rosemary on 01.11.2005. 6 Comments 114 Trackbacks
Guess Who Is In Labor?
Not me. My sister and blog shower thrower: Alice the 'Lil Sis of All Evil
Got the call at about 6am that her contractions were 2 minutes apart. She's in for a long, long day. As of 10 am, she's only dilated to 1 cm and it is back labor.
Wish her luck!
Posted by Rosemary on 01.11.2005. 1 Comments 162 Trackbacks
Monday, January 10, 2005
I'm Looking For Guest Bloggers
Hey everybody!
I'm looking for a few people to do some guest blogging while I'm in the hospital. As long as Draco cooperates, my C-section is scheduled for next Wednesday, January 19th at noon. I'll be needing some blogging assistance for the 3 or 4 days that I'm in the hospital because I'm pretty sure I won't have internet access there.
If anyone is interested in lending a post or two, please leave a comment with a valid email address so I can contact you. Or,if you prefer, you can email me directly: rosemary[dot]esmay[AT]gmail[dot]com
Any help will be much appreciated. My blog is very easy to navigate. I don't care what you write about as long as you have fun. I also don't care if you are a liberal or a conservative. Thank you for considering...
Posted by Rosemary on 01.10.2005. 2 Comments 1 Trackbacks
What A Rant
You must read this right now.
Thank you.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.10.2005. 5 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Saturday, January 8, 2005
What Is A Flurry?
I watched the news last night and saw that we had snow flurries expected.
I woke up this morning to 5 INCHES OF SNOW on my car and on the ground.
Is that a flurry? I thought flurries were like the equivalent of sprinkles. In Michigan, however, flurries could mean a freaking blizzard. And how has your day been?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.08.2005. 16 Comments 0 Trackbacks
So Who's Creepier?
Michael Jackson or this guy?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.08.2005. 4 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Friday, January 7, 2005
Busy Day
Sorry about not posting. I've had a sick little boy on my hands for a couple of days. Finally got his fever down to a controllable 100F, so I will be able to come up with something interesting to talk about in a little bit.
I'll be back later with something profound.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.07.2005. 8 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Early Warning Signs
You Might Be A Liberal If...
Stolen from Geoffrey, who, stole it from Mad Mikey, who also stole it.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.05.2005. 19 Comments 63 Trackbacks
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
My musical choices are very odd. In the car, during the week, I prefer talk radio or easy listening. On the weekends, I like to drive to old hard rock like Ozzie, Aerosmith, and Led Zepplin. When I clean the house, I must have ABBA to start. After that it must be disco, baby. ABBA always starts my cleaning and Gloria Gaynor, Barry White, The Weather Girls, KC & the Sunshine Band keep me going.
When I'm blogging it must be old funk. At this exact moment, I'm listening to Tell Me Something Good (Rufus and Chaka Khan). I love the funk. I bought Pure Funk and I have been blogging with it for months. I suppose it is time to get the next volume. How can you not just get inspired by listening to these old songs?
Plus, I want to make sure my boys can dance. I'm not the greatest classical dancer but I can shake my booty. Jake and I boogie to disco and funk regularly. When he was little, Jake was influenced by Dean's musical selections. It's my turn now. Poor Draco, he is currently getting blasted with Lady Marmalade and yes, I sing along. :-)
Posted by Rosemary on 01.04.2005. 8 Comments 0 Trackbacks
That Explains A Lot...
According to Gerber, the most common vegetable for a 15 month old baby to eat is...
The French Fry
And everyone wonders why obesity is on the rise in children. Well, not my baby. We had Jake eating a relatively lowcarb diet for his first two years and the carbs he did eat were fresh fruits and veggies. Draco will be the same. Having grown up struggling with my weight makes food choices for my children extremely important. I don't want them to have to struggle like I did/do.
I did hear a lot of crap from family members about how we chose to feed Jake. Now, they all see the wisdom in our behavior. My little sister is considering the same path with her soon to be born son.
Jake isn't like a lot of kids when it comes to food. If you offer him a treat more often than not his response is that he isn't hungry. He won't just eat crap because it is available. You can't bribe him with cookies or candy. If you want to bribe him with food you'll get farther with a piece of chicken or black olives than a cookie.
Posted by Rosemary on 01.04.2005. 1 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Iraqi Bloggers
Dean's World has the latest Carnival of the Liberated Iraqi bloggers up.
You have to wonder sometimes: do libs ever read any of the Iraqi bloggers except that anonymous Riverbend chick, who never has anything good to say?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.04.2005. 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
Monday, January 3, 2005
Top Baby Names 2004
BabyCenter has the list of the Top 100.
Here are the Top 10
Girls' Names
1. Emma
2. Madison
3. Emily
4. Kaitlyn
5. Hailey
6. Olivia
7. Isabella
8. Hannah
9. Sarah
10. Abigail
Boys' Names
1. Jacob
2. Aidan
3. Ethan
4. Ryan
5. Matthew
6. Michael
7. Tyler
8. Joshua
9. Nicholas
10. Connor
Posted by Rosemary on 01.03.2005. 18 Comments 93 Trackbacks
It Happens Every New Year
It is only January 3rd and I have seen at least 100 weight loss program/diet center commercials. We are all suffering from the after effects of holiday binging and BAM here come the commercials.
I wonder how much money is made by all the different companies during January and February. This has to be the biggest money making time of the year for the weight loss industry.
How many commercials have you seen that made you feel like a fatty?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.03.2005. 5 Comments 6 Trackbacks
Sunday, January 2, 2005
2005 Predictions
Supreme Court
Rehnquist Retires
Chief Justice of the SCOTUS : Clarence Thomas not Scalia because Scalia is too old. Easy confirmation. The Dems will bend over and take it.
Replacement Justice will be a woman, probably a moderate Conservative African-American woman.
Osama will be killed.
Iraqi elections will be successful but bloody.
An uprising occurs in Iran.
Iraq's WMDs are found, in Syria.
Jamie Foxx wins Best Actor Oscar for "Ray".
Tubby Riefenstahl (aka Michael Moore) gets Gastric Bypass surgery after a major health scare. Then sues his surgeon when he finds out that he still has to cut down on eating.
Michael Jackson get convicted and sent to prison. Six months later we find out that he really is still black.
Bush popularity soars.
Unemployment drops and stock market starts booming - big time.
SS partial privatization becomes a major political battle. Bush wins the battle when prominent Dems, including Hillary Clinton, cross party lines to back the measure.
Nancy Pelosi's eyes continue to bulge as her latest face lift becomes a fashion don't. Tubby Riefenstahl makes a film exposing Plastic Surgeons as a Republican conspiracy.
Got any predictions?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.02.2005. 5 Comments 68 Trackbacks
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Happy New Year
I want to wish all of you a very happy 2005. I look forward to celebrating this year with a few drinks, only a couple of weeks to go before Draco's arrival. We are ready for him, thanks in large part to all of you generous readers that sent us gifts from the registry, your hearts and some cash. All very much needed and appreciated.
New Year's Resolutions:
To post something of substance, on the blog, at least once a day. (Except when I'm in the hospital)
To make sure that Jake doesn't ever feel left out or forgotten, when his brother arrives.
Make sure my wonderful husband doesn't feel forgotten or neglected after the baby's arrival either.
To lose the baby weight by swimsuit season. :-)
To stay as healthy after I give birth, as I did during the pregnancy.
To plant a bigger garden this year.
To do my Spring cleaning , in the Spring this year, instead of the Fall.
Anyone out there have any resolutions to share?
Posted by Rosemary on 01.01.2005. 11 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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I am a trucker now. I became the proud owner of a truck in the same way I became the proud owner of a Cocker Spaniel and a Pomeranian. I didn't go to kennels in search of the perfect dog and I didn't go to car dealerships in search of the perfect vehicle. Both pets and truck came to me by way of being rescues. In both cases, I resisted at first before finally giving in. Actually, if I'd been choosing breeds, I'd own another German Shepherd and Pekinese and if I'd been choosing vehicle models, I'd own another Buick.
The truck was John's. Thankfully, it isn't a big, honking Crew Cab but a baby truck, a Chevy S10 Supreme. It has all the goodies, especially, because it was formerly my son's, a top-of-the-line c.d. player with extra-large speakers. It is quick; it is pretty; it is comfortable....but, it is a truck. When John got married, Lisa already had a new car. He also has a big work truck. They wanted to get out from under one vehicle payment. He suggested I use the truck as a trade-in because my car, the beloved Buick, was a 1990 and although it still ran like a dream, it had 108,000 miles on it and was beginning to show some wear. My future plan was to go down to see Chris Palmer at Denney's from whom I'd bought the Buick and trade it in on another Buick a few years newer. John's idea was that we could kill two birds with one stone. He could ditch the truck and I could get a newer car.
Problem was the truck is a 2003 and he still owed quite a bit on it. In order to come out on the deal, I would have had to trade it in on a brand-new car, an expensive brand-new car, a more expensive car than I could afford. So, in the end, I did as Moms do (and as the owner's of rescue Cockers and Pomeranians do), I took the path of least resistance and accepted the orphan that needed a home.
I have not bonded with the little truck. For instance, in just a few expert motions, I could slide the Buick into a parking space not much longer than the car itself. I often got admiring comments from people who watched me park the Buick. By contrast, I can't get a feel for the truck's dimensions, either lengthwise or width-wise. I have gone from being an expert parallel parker to one of those people who will drive around the block twelve times to find a space I can simply pull into head-first. But even that doesn't help much, because once I've parked and get out, I discover I am nine feet from the curb.
Once, a man embarrassed me by yelling from the sidewalk, "hey, lady, do you know you're parked in the middle of the street?"
In the same way, I'm befuddled by where the front of the truck actually is. I pull into my space,and see when I get that I'm straddling two parking spots instead of being parked anywhere close to being within the lines.
And it is no better with head-on parking spaces. The truck is kind of a low-rider. It has this extra piece under the front bumper that comes almost to the ground. John pounded into my head that I had to be careful about pulling up too close or I'd smush that piece into the curb. I took his warning so much to heart that when I pull into a straight-ahead space, I end up a full car length from the curb. If you come to Village Pantry and see all the other vehicles lined up like soldiers and then a black truck with its rear end sticking far out into the driving lane, you'll know that's me.
The upshot of all this is that people probably think I'm crazy if they watch me making attempt after attempt to park the truck properly. I pull into my space and get out, eye my location, get back in and pull in closer to the curb, get out, eye my location, get back in and pull a little farther up, get out and eye my location, get back in and reverse a little farther back, get out and eye my location....well, you get the picture. I have to leave an extra ten minutes earlier for work now so that I can make my parking adjustments without being late.
And another bad thing about the truck is that we don't really match. The Buick and I were a perfect pair. No flash but still a little dash. Totally reliable in our undemanding middle age. No beauty queens but companionable on a long trip. "It doesn't look like you," many people have told me about the truck. Well, it doesn't feel like me either. Driving it, I feel much the same as I would if I showed up at work wearing a mini-skirt.
And, lastly, a big negative regarding the truck is that John still feels a certain amount of possessiveness and John and I are diametrically opposite as vehicle owners. When he had the truck, it never went a mile over the suggested time for an oil change. It gleamed from regular washings, sweepings and polishings. It was decorated sparingly. The glove compartment was bare except for the owner's manual. The extra storage compartment contained only a few selected c.d.s. The section in the back held one box of tissues. The bed of the truck is virginal. It has a covering thing over it which sort of defeats the purpose of having a truck as far as I'm concerned.
Now, the glove box is chock-ful of stuff - receipts and napkins and pens and lighters and phone chargers. The storage is over-flowing with c.d.s, some of them falling onto the floor. The behind-the-seat section is filled with books and sacks and political signs. I can see that it hurts John that I smoke in the truck which he never did although, in deference to his sensitivity, I bought an ashtray rather than using the truck's own ashtray (which, in any case, is about large enough for a single butt).
He tries to be un-bossy as he asks in a pretend-casual way, "have you had the oil changed yet?" or "you going to wash the truck any time soon?" He actually winces when I tell him I'm thinking of taking the cover off the bed so I can haul a load of mulch.
I love the Cocker and the Pomeranian. Maybe I'll learn to love the truck.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
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Have a great Christmas everyone, wherever you are!
Hope you can get down to some stitching during this holiday period, and all the best for 2014.
Kim McLean
This blog is dedicated to applique. Glorious applique!!! The focus here will be hand applique, but there is room for machine applique too. Kim McLean is the designer whose patterns and quilts we will be working on together. Are you ready?! Let's SEW!!!
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Merry Christmas
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Chloe's Quilt
The story of how my first quilt, Chloe's quilt has come about is as follows.
My name is Carla and I live in Tropical North Queensland outside the small town of Bartle Frere. My husband and I have a small farm there.
Beginning 2011 we had cyclone Yassi come through which did a lot of damage outside, but most importantly took out a small vanilla plantation.
A few months later our beloved dog Chloe, at only 4 years old was diagnosed with a malignant colon cancer which was a terrible blow. As my husband has to work away from home a lot I decided I needed to do something for myself to help me to deal with this situation.
Inspired by the movie Julie & Julia I thought to teach myself something new, challenging and give myself a year to do it. (Like Julie in the movie cooking every recipes from Julia Child's book within the year)
A quilt I thought and stumbled on the Glorious colour website, could not look at any other option but Roseville Album by Kim Mclean, was it even possible to make something so beautiful? A starters pack and pattern was ordered and I started my quilt June 2011.
What a journey it has been, I kept going and going coming to the end I decided to take the first 3 blocks out and rebalance the quilt.
Hand appliqued, machine pieced, hand quilted and finished early this year. Last but not least Chloe is happy and healthy which is just a miracle! Without the inspiration of Kim's stunning work and designs and all glorious applique contributors I feel I would not have pulled it off.
A big thanks to you all.
As shared with me from Carla! It's positively AMAZING!!! And, so...sew GLAD to learn Chloe is well!!! : ) Piecefully, Pam
As shared with me from Carla! It's positively AMAZING!!! And, so...sew GLAD to learn Chloe is well!!! : ) Piecefully, Pam
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Well, I have completed more than I realised!
I was ready to organise my next couple of blocks for appliquéing and I thought I would put the completed ones on the design wall. I hadn't realised how many I had finished. The photos are not the best and the layout is a bit random at the moment.
Not a good photo, but these are the right and left side panels unpressed.
Thanks for the info re: trimming them to size. I have two borders left to stitch. I had started working on the border after completing the center squares rather than leaving all of them to the end.
Friday, November 15, 2013
You thought I forgot, didn't you
I spent an incredible amount of time thinking about how to quilt it. In the end, I just opted to machinequilt around the shapes.
I changed the way the binding was done, because from the very start that small line around the quilt bothered me. I feel it didn't fit all the squares and the busy quilt. So I added rectangles instead of squares at the exterior and used those to finish of the quilt. I have to admit the upper one does have a tendancy to faint but I can live with that, since the quilt is meant to be used.
I am very happy with how it turned out.
And thinking of which one to make now, since I enjoyed it so much.
Have fun,
Françoise in Belgium
Sunday, November 10, 2013
I am just completing my last panel of the Roseville Album quilt. I am wondering what is the best method to use in trimming the panels to the finished size.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Well, I finally finished the redesign of my in-laws 50th anniversary quilt. It took me about 18 months to figure our how to redesign the quilt, and then accomplish the redesign. I am getting ready to send it out for quilting. It is pieced and appliqued, so I have considered both machine and hand quilting. Any thoughts about it would be appreciated. Also, I wrote a poem to go with the quilt, not sure how to incorporate that into this heirloom. Again thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kim for all your inspiration.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Roseville Album centre blocks finished
It has taken a while, but I finally have all 9 centre blocks completed.
The are not stitched together yet so the arrangement may be altered.
I am happy to be back laying with all these gorgeous fabrics!
Now for the 4 corner squares.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
At last, Kim's Mariners Compass Medallion pattern is ready. It is a beauty. It will test your skills at applique, paper piecing, English paper piecing and more.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
fabric photos - this is the BACK of Hearts & Flowers
I recently updated my blog with a couple creative fabric photos. This one I love - it is the back of my Hearts & Flowers quilt that I finished a couple years ago. I have had it hanging for a while, but I've never displayed the back. Now I am "seeing" this quilt in a whole new way.
Check out my blog for a couple more fabric photos: quiltsewlive.blogspot.com
Check out my blog for a couple more fabric photos: quiltsewlive.blogspot.com
Need a little help
I was just going down thhttp://www.designingquilts.blogspot.com/e list of blogs in the sidebar, and when I clicked on my own, my website popped up instead of my blog. How do I change it?
Thanks in advance,
Thanks in advance,
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2 years and counting...
Well, this one has been 2 years in the making. Getting to the final stretch... I've had quite a few distractions, but I keep coming back to this one. Committed to 100% hand quilting. I am thinking about doing a quilt/embroidery stitch combo along the borders of each block... in a pink pearl cotton. Thoughts? Too much?
Also, to see my many distractions, please check out my new blog: Quilting.Sewing.Living. I have ventured into machine quilting... and also have posts on my sewing studio and my quilt buddy's amazing studio. http://quiltsewlive.blogspot.com
Also, to see my many distractions, please check out my new blog: Quilting.Sewing.Living. I have ventured into machine quilting... and also have posts on my sewing studio and my quilt buddy's amazing studio. http://quiltsewlive.blogspot.com
Monday, August 5, 2013
Fields of Flower Bouquet Quilt
Hi Everyone,
There is a quilt of mine in Quiltmania Special Summer 2013 edition, photo of the magazine below,
The quilt is,
Really easy quilt to do, it should get done in no time!
The fabric used is Kaffe Fassett's " Field Bouquet" and " Marquee" and if you are quick, Glorious Colors has the field bouquet fabrics on SALE!! I just checked the website.
Save you doing those " Baltimore" applique - Kaffe already had it printed in these panels. Rather neat fabric, don't you think? I rather enjoyed this easy piecing quilt. Cheers, Kim McLean
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Ta Dah.....finished!
It's been awhile since I've posted about my blocks but now I have finally finished the journey on the lollipop quilt top! It's now on the quilting frame. This year I'm focusing on trying to finish UFO projects. I have 30 projects listed....count down is this is the third one finished. Only 27 more to go.....and maybe a couple of new ones to pop up?! :)
Thanks for letting me share this journey!
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Glorious Garden
|24 blocks of Glorious Garden
I have started on my Glorious Garden (my name for Kim's Flower Garden pattern), quilt on January 3, 2013. Here I have all the blocks completed as of today July 4th 2013. The photo below shows the beginning of the top border. This is was done using needle turn applique in about 105,000 air miles. My favorite airport/flight activity other than reading. I am moving soon, so the floor is the only place to display it for now.
|Top border started
Sunday, June 30, 2013
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Roseville Album and my block #2 completed...
And, since I now have everything unpacked, I started my third Roseville Album block preparation today.
Piecefully, Pam
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Monday, May 20, 2013
"TREE"-mendous Fun!
Here is my first border of Kim's Trees of the Four Seasons. With this quilt, I'm starting with dessert first--the borders. Since I still haven't found a wall large enough to photograph my completed Roseville Album top (working on that), I decided I'd better downsize Trees so it would fit on an available wall. Of course that means working with some extra-tiny circles and leaves, but this border takes care of most of those. Working on the Kaffe Hydrangea Spots background is pure pleasure; I just love it.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Bizzy Bird Farm @ Denver National Quilt Festival
Hi Everyone,
It has been a long time since I've posted on this blog and thought I would toot my own horn. For the people that couldn't attend the Denver National Quilt Festival you can look at a slide show on The Quilt Show website, http://www.thequiltshow.com My Bizzy Bird Farm (aka Roseville Album) was juried into this show but was not a winner. Search the Denver Quilt show part 2 you can see my quilt along with 3 closeups of it. My quilt also received Judges Recognition Award from Judy Simmons at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival February 2013 and also is in the AQS desk art calendar 2013.
I've yet to finish the Medallion quilt by Kim, hopefully later this summer, will post when I get back to it. I have been very busy with finishing up other projects. I have taken a couple of classes on how to machine quilt on home sewing machine as I have always been and still doing hand quilting. I actually entered one that was machine quilted at the Denver Quilt show, wall quilt done in wool & embroidery called One Little Red Bird so I could get a critique on it....judges said the machine quilting was very well done....yeah...thought this was great for a beginner at it. Sounds funny to say I'm a beginner at something since I've been quilting since 1974 !!! This quilt along with another large applique hand quilted will be shown at the MN quilt show in June if any of you are going to this show and want to look at them.
That enough about me, got to get back to my machine sewing....had 20 wall quilts on my list 'to do' and have knocked off half of them. I've been saving all of these until I learned and had confidence in machine quilting.
Have a good summer.
It has been a long time since I've posted on this blog and thought I would toot my own horn. For the people that couldn't attend the Denver National Quilt Festival you can look at a slide show on The Quilt Show website, http://www.thequiltshow.com My Bizzy Bird Farm (aka Roseville Album) was juried into this show but was not a winner. Search the Denver Quilt show part 2 you can see my quilt along with 3 closeups of it. My quilt also received Judges Recognition Award from Judy Simmons at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival February 2013 and also is in the AQS desk art calendar 2013.
I've yet to finish the Medallion quilt by Kim, hopefully later this summer, will post when I get back to it. I have been very busy with finishing up other projects. I have taken a couple of classes on how to machine quilt on home sewing machine as I have always been and still doing hand quilting. I actually entered one that was machine quilted at the Denver Quilt show, wall quilt done in wool & embroidery called One Little Red Bird so I could get a critique on it....judges said the machine quilting was very well done....yeah...thought this was great for a beginner at it. Sounds funny to say I'm a beginner at something since I've been quilting since 1974 !!! This quilt along with another large applique hand quilted will be shown at the MN quilt show in June if any of you are going to this show and want to look at them.
That enough about me, got to get back to my machine sewing....had 20 wall quilts on my list 'to do' and have knocked off half of them. I've been saving all of these until I learned and had confidence in machine quilting.
Have a good summer.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Aine's Farm
I call this "Aine's Farm", made for my great-niece Aine Tenoch --she has both Celtic and Aztec ancestors. It's 36 inches square. I'm getting pretty good at selecting parts of Kim's designs and using them in small quilts-- more manageable for me. I know I'm never going to make a queen- or king-size appliqué quilt but I get enormous pleasure working on these smaller projects. These handsome animals are from Pandemonium. Fabrics by Kaffe of course. It is hand-appliquéd and hand-quilted. I can't wait to start another one.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Lollypop progress
It's been over a year since I posted any progress on my Lollypop project. I still love it but got sidetracked by several other projects (wedding quilt for my daughter among them). As you've probably experienced, once you step away, it's sometimes difficult to get back on track. However, I finally focused and finished my third block.
Am I the only one who finds the selection of fabrics to take more time than the handwork?
As I've mentioned before, I was inspired to use the red background after seeing Francoise's version. I haven't regretted my choice for a minute. Hopefully I'll be back with another finished block sooner than this one took!
~ Jan (Be*mused)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday April 28th was a day of celebration. I finished FBM ! Sorry about the photo quality. I had to pin it to a Kaffe quilt on my dining room wall to get a photo of all of it.
I started FBM October 2011 and worked hard on it ......until Pandemonium appeared on the scene! ...and it was left in a box until recently. I think I became "leafed out" there for a while. I promised myself I would not start Trees of The Four Seasons (T4S as I call it) until FBM was completed. But of course I cheated a little and cut all the templates, decided which fabric goes where for the T4S leaves, and I started making set-in triangles for Kim's "Pine Trees" (Quiltmania). I'm using "leftover" Pandemonium animals, birds, plants and circles plus a few extra shapes made from my huge scrap pile to fill in LOL ; ) I'm having a lot of fun and that's what life's all about, ain't it?
33 Pine Tree blocks - I need at least 33 more but they are fast and fun to make.
Happy sewing!
Sylvi, Texas
Thursday, April 18, 2013
lollipop tree block #2
prepped and ready to stitch.
I had made such a mess with the first one, I figured, why not continue?
This one went much faster, and I thought much less about the fabrics, fussy cutting and placement.
Much more fun and much more relaxing that way.
These trees are addictive and fun to make, but alas, I tidied up so I can begin stitching on tree #. Don't think it will take long before I begin on number 3....
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Sarah Barkley is a member of our Kaffe Fassett & Friends Club in Stafford, Texas. She finished her Flower Pots and brought it to Show&Tell at the last meeting. I would like to share it with you. It's interesting and fun to see all the different versions of Kim's designs! Enjoy!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Lollipop Tree block #1
prepped and ready to be stitched.
It wasn't easy! Although I've worked with Kaffe Fasett fabrics before it was in a different context, for a different sort of project. Now I had to look at them in a new way, to try to see new things. New color combinations. Fussy cutting is fun, but....I like surprises too and just letting the quilt happen. So lots to think about as to the approach to this quilt. Still not sure about the peach large leaves.....
When all the pieces were complete and I saw the block in its entirety, I decided to glue the pieces down rather than to baste them onto the background. The leaves are pre-basted, and for the circles I used Karen Kay Buckley's Perfect Circles.
At least I'm ready for Saturday's Bee.
Now back to my clamshells....
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Lollipop Trees Start
Yep, a new project. And one that I've been excited to get started on.
The Lollipop Trees Quilt by Kim Mclean. Some of you may remember that I had begun preparations on the Roseville Album Quilt, but other projects with deadlines got in the way. In the meantime, priorities have changed, and the "to do" list has been re-drafted. Working on the Lollipops is a way for me to work with wonderful colors, and it's an easy quilt to applique, leaving some energy over to work on some other projects ( or so she thinks...)
6 background blocks are prepared and stitched with a central cross done by machine to help with placement. I'm starting with block #1, and using the starter pack I purchased for the Roseville Album quilt. Just a few minutes of play and I already know that I'll be adding to this pack!
...and now the hardest part of making this quilt I think....
color selection!
warm and cool?
oh my, low contrast...hmm...now what?
let the texture do the talking?
Lots to think about, lots to play with. Easy? Hmmm...nope! Fun? Yes!
Just hope I can get at least one block prepared so that I have something to bring to the Kim McClean Bee in Haarlem's De Sampler's next session. I've missed two meetings and can't wait to finally join these kind and creative ladies again and share in the fun!
In the meantime, I'm off to ponder some more colors.....
Monday, April 8, 2013
Trees Of The Four Seasons # 1
This quilt was inspired by an 1800's one, I've had it pinned into my scrap book since the early 2000, it has now sort of morphed into something else and the only thing now that is similar to the antique one is that the pots are in the same position. It took me a while to realize that the best way to design it is to do it in quarters, this way, the leaves can merge into each other.
If you read through the instruction sheets in the pattern pack, it is important to transfer the position of the trunk to both sides of the background fabric, you may need to use a lamp under the glass coffee table.
Unlike the other quilts I have done, the midline guides here are only used for transferring the design on to the background, they will not be used for measuring the final size of the block. You will be using the line of the trunks of the trees to measure the final block size. As you'll be marking the final block size on the back of the background fabric, you really need to make sure that this trunk line is at the same position at the front as well as at the wrong side of background fabric.
You also need to mark the squares carefully, as there are 2 blocks which must be transferred in reverse. If one looks at the bottom left quarter, the right bottom one is the reverse. Going up, the top right quarter is the right side and the top left is the reverse. You'll also be needing 2 sets of leaves templates, one reversed and one set as is.
Now, to the fun part, choosing the fabrics. I've elected to do it in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter colours. This has given the appearance of half the quilt being diagonally light and dark which had my husband rattled a bit! There was a suggestion by someone in a previous post that she might like to do hers with darker colours down below and going lighter towards the top, this sounds good too and might be easier to control.
I have a lot of lighter colour prints which I don't use very often, so this quilt was a good opportunity to use it. Colour wise, this quilt is a great one for you to use you stash, I don't think you'll have any problems with it. The best way is to lay out the numbered background fabric on a big table or the floor and place the pieces of fabrics with the ironed on freezer paper templates at the right positions and build from there. Leave a decent area around the ironed on templates so can see what fabrics you have used. Please refer to the previous applique tutorials, these were done for the Pandemonium Quilt but the method is the same. You'll find these tutorials under the banner photo on this blog. Use those fabrics with texture on them, the Feather, Brassica, Scallops and Shells for example. Stripe fabrics would be a contrast to the texture and give movement. Don't forget the geometrics to breakup the florals and the textured.
I'll attach the close ups of the four quarters :
If you are going to the quilt with the four colours, it might be a good idea to do the cutting of the fabrics for each square in sequence and also write at the edge of the square which quarter you are doing. I did get myself into a knot! But this doesn't mean that you will though.
Have fun, I'll do another post with the borders - there isn't much to be aware of here.
Let me know if you have questions, Cheers, Kim
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Flower Trellis Quilt in Quiltmania Magazine # 94 ( March - April 2013)
Hi Everyone,
This is a quilt I did in early 2000 using red/green & white reproduction fabrics. I used a number of different red fabrics for the flowers and buds, I can"t remember what the collection was called though, they were lovely reds. The background is a shirting fabric and the green was one of those Baltimore greens.
The applique shapes are big, so they fill up the space pretty quickly. This was one of my first attempts at designing a quilt and I think the strips of diamonds were done on the sewing machine. Since I can't piece well on the machine, the quilt wasn't exactly straight!
I think this quilt would be great using all different colour flowers, buds and different green fabrics for the leaves. If you keep the long narrow strips a constant, then you'll be able to use the scraps for the diamonds.
An easy quilt to do! Cheers, K
PS. I don't know who Blueberries is! The article says " Kim McLean for Blueberries"
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Here are my finished Pandemonium blocks (in no particular order). All are stitched, except the Horse Yard which I just finished prepping this week. I still have a few smaller pieced and appliqued blocks to make before I can put it all together, but the majority of the work is done. My goal is to have it finished by the end of April. I am anxious to start Trees of The Four Seasons! My husband says he will confiscate the pattern for it until I have Pandemonium all sewn together. Ha! ; )
Sylvi, Houston, Texas
Sylvi, Houston, Texas
I placed a few circle blocks around to fill the photo. They will be placed differently later.
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These pictures were taken at the annual Battle of the Bulge/World War II Living History Week at Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Annville, Pennsylvania. The event takes place each year towards the end of January, and sees hundreds of WWII reenactors from across the country (and, often, the world) come to participate, as well as many WWII veterans who served during the Battle of the Bulge. This particular event (F.I.G./Gap 2012) marked the 68th anniversary of the last, ditch effort offensive Hitler launched during the war.
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Now that the busy holiday season is over, it's time to start thinking about gardening again. Unless you live somewhere warm, you won't be digging in the gardens any time soon. But there are several things you can do now to start preparing for spring.
|Winter garden area
- Design a new garden space – Now is a great time to start planning next years gardens. Start gathering ideas by searching online or in magazines and books for ideas. You can also start a list of all the plants you want to add to your gardens this year, and start planning where you'll put them.
- Plot out your vegetable garden – Take the stress out of planting your vegetable garden by plotting it out ahead of time. Plan to group vegetable plants by family (cabbage, nightshade, etc) to make crop rotation easier. Why stop at the vegetable garden? You can make a similar map for annual and perennial gardens too.
|Drawing of plan for vegetable garden
- Order your seeds – Decide what seeds you're going to start this year and order them now. Sort through your seeds from previous years and toss out any that are more than 3 years old. Read the instructions on the packets so you can plan when each type of seed should be started indoors; generally it's 6-8 weeks before last frost.
- Prepare for starting seeds indoors – Pull your lights and other seed starting equipment out of storage, and make sure everything is in working order. Serialize seed flats and trays to prevent damping off of seedlings. Disinfect them by soaking in one part bleach to 9 parts water solution. Don't forget to buy your seed starting mix now, before the rush.
|Serializing seed flats and trays
- Start winter sowing – It's too early to start sowing seeds indoors, but you can start winter sowing as soon as the temperature stays consistently below freezing. Winter sowing is a method of sowing seeds outside during the winter, and it's easy. It's a great way to get your hands dirty in the dead of winter, and get a jump on starting your seeds.
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- Protect your gardens during snow removal – Garden plants can be sensitive to the chemicals used on roads and sidewalks during the winter. Protect your garden areas by tossing chemical filled snow onto the lawn, not the gardens. Use chemical deicers sparingly, this will help to minimize damage to your lawn and gardens. Read all of my Garden-Safe Snow Removal Tips To Prevent Salt Damage To Plants
- Get your equipment ready for spring – Beat the rush by having your lawn mower and other equipment serviced or repaired now. This is also a great time to clean, sharpen and organize your garden tools – and wash your gardening gloves.
|Gardening gloves headed to the wash
- Start a lasagna garden – If you're planning to add a new garden area this year, start now with a lasagna garden. This is a method used to start a new garden area by layering organic material on top of sod or weeds. If you start it now, it'll be ready to plant by spring.
- Do some light garden cleanup – Now is not the time for pruning or digging, but you can do some light garden cleanup during the winter. You can remove dead plant material from the garden beds and pick up leaves that are left over from fall. Toss them into your compost bin, or use them to mulch around perennials.
Winter can be a nice break from the busy gardening season. But if you're like me, winters tend to drag on forever and make you long for spring. I hope this list has given you some ideas that will keep you busy with gardening tasks this winter, and help it go by faster.
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I'll be releasing a Boxed Set of the first five books (okay, four and a novella,) towards the end of summer. In it will be the short story that will be a lead-in to the next generation of books. That series, while still a part of The Caversham Chronicles, is titled The Titans of the Revolution. I'm working on those books now, and while the books are NOT finished yet, I do have covers for the short story and the first book. But I'll have a cover reveal for those at a later date. (The 3 girls' cover is absolutely gorgeous! I love it! Just wait!)
And here are some gratuitous cat pics because I've been kitty sitting my grandcats this week. Hmmmm... It seems only one of the three pics came through. I wonder why. Anyway, this is Ditto, and he's rubbing his face on everything this week. He has to remind the dogs that he was here before they were. :-D
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