This morning’s walk/run was done without an mp3 player as my son’s iPod shuffle was dead and he hadn’t charged it yesterday and my other son’s RCA Lyra was still in his ears. I headed out with just a timer and myself. This is the first true walk of fall. I actually wore warmup pants… Continue reading The Sights and Sounds of Fall
I have written about plastic bag beads before here. I really enjoy this process – having taken a kabob skewer and making it a crafting item. I have made blue beads for my first attempt. The above is my second attempt. I wanted to make them look more like precious metals. I used a goldish… Continue reading More Plastic Bag Beads
I belong to a Yahoo! group that is called The Latest Trends in Mixed Media. The group is doing a Halloween ATC (artist trading card) swap and contest that is sponsored by TwistedPaper.com. TwistedPaper.com supplied the image and participants had to make an ATC from the image. Above is my entry. It is the third… Continue reading Halloween ATC for Swap
This is a digitally altered image. The original image is from TwistedPapers.com. It is a part of a Halloween swap in the Yahoo! Group – The Latest Trends in Mixed Media.
Okay, I work in the political arena. I have heard the stories of opponents registering the other candidate’s name as a website domain. I have heard stories of opponents looking for dirt on other candidates. Today, I saw the proof in the pudding. A website had been wiped out. Seems, according to the candidate, a… Continue reading Politics – The Ugly Side
While the weather has not yet shown to be true autumn weather – the forecast people say that is coming this week, the smells as I was out this morning are definitely fall. In the thick fog, you can smell the testing of the wood stove. The smell hangs fragrantly in the air, even overpowering… Continue reading The Smells of Fall
No, not an actual picture but the scene I am about to describe. I went out for my morning constitutional today. Mind you, today is October 7th – the height of fall in upstate NY. I wore shorts and a tank top, not even a tee shirt. The temperature when I left my house was… Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture?
It is fall so as I have said before, it is road trip time. This road trip came with a little mother-daughter bonding, too – just an extra plus. I took my 20 year old daughter to her first ever big time football game. She goes to basketball and hockey all the time at her… Continue reading Road Trip #2
It is fall! \’Nuf said. I have been off apple picking! My 20 year old daughter is home for her only real visit for the fall semester. She will be home right before Thanksgiving but she is bringing a gang with her for a concert. This is she and mom time. We went apple picking… Continue reading Apple Picking
My oldest daughter has always been a homebody. She love college life, though, and Niagara in particular. This past summer she stayed up there for the summer working. Summer work is hard to find in our area and what she was doing up there paid more. Anyway, she was home for three weekends all summer… Continue reading My Daughter’s Visiting
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