The PIC in my arm, which had been needed for the IV antibiotics I've been mainlining since getting out of the hospital, got removed Monday ( Read more... )

Actually, mostly cutting fabric FOR quilts, but I actually DID make two more blocks for the GaFilk / Interfilk quilt for 2017. There are now twelve blocks ready to start stitching-together, and I know what I'm going to do for the label ( Read more... )

Ganked from Starcat_jewel ( Read more... )

Sometime recently I got into a discussion about the relative ages of actors and the characters they portrayed. I think it started with Reba McIntyre vs Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley in "Annie Get Your Gun", but sometime in there "The Sound of Music" also got mentioned, contrasting Mary Martin and Julie Andrews' portrayals of Maria, while I opined ( Read more... )

I am organizing the photos from my recent road trip into Word documents so I can ID all the airplanes I took pictures of.

Here is how the pages of one of the files come out when I try to print them:

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I did a little digging in the Family Photo Albums after lunch today, looking for the last pictures of me without glasses and the first ones with them. My third-grade school picture [1955-56 school year] and photos from Christmas 1955 show me not wearing them. I don't seem to have a 4th grade school photo, but my 5th grade pictures [1957-58 year] ( Read more... )

At the downtown Air & Space Museum this time.

Alan Shepard's REAL Mercury capsule. Robert Goddard's 1925 rocket. The "Spirit of St. Louis". The model of the Enterprise from Classic Trek. The X-1 and X-15. Tingmissartoq. The Gossamer Condor. The 1903 Wright Flyer. 100+ photos. Swapping-in the spare camera battery at around photo # 85.


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Still at Udvar Hazy location ( Read more... )

At the Udvar-Hazy Center, just south of Dulles Airport ( Read more... )

Mini donkeys in need of homes:

http://www.fox13news.com/news/104859801-story

ever wanted to breed mini mules?