People, if you are bemoaning the icky orange weird bacteria -or-whatever scunge that starts to grow on your shower curtain liner: wash it! I've always done this, but I told someone, and they said they though you couldn't wash plastic. Au contraire! Just wad the darned thing up and stuff it in the washer with a few towels (I do my white bath stuff ( Read more... )

I have a history of saying I'm going to lay low on my birthday, but that seems a little passive aggressive. Like, did you forget to say something to me? Well, hmmph ( Read more... )

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I'm moving my book logging over to goodreads.com... where you can find out what I thought about The Wright Three.

I think you can find me this way: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/337314

Hey... I made my first piece of clothing with a zipper in it over my recent vacation at my parents' house. It's a jumper for the Beetle. Here's my mom in her well appointed sewing dominion with the child, modeling the garment:

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( 50 Books in 2007 )

This morning when I took out the trash, I took the time to weed the front "pie" (mini planted area between all of our driveways). As I crouched down with my butt to the road, a woman drove by and shouted out her window, "It's beautiful!" It just made me feel so good. (I'm assuming she was talking about the planting ( Read more... )

I really wish I'd gotten any good pictures of The Beetle's birthday festivities last weekend, but I have at least a technical documentation of some of it:

( And Now We Are Six. )

I have a Nikon FG-20 that I bought in 1984, and used with great happiness through many photo classes and life in general. I keep thinking I'll bust it out and shoot film again, but I haven't used it for years (and years and years), and it's time to let it go. Does anybody know anyone who shoots film and would be interested in a retro manual camera ( Read more... )

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