I've just done 3 craft fairs in 3 weeks, since the winter holidays are upon us. Oy. I will not be doing that again! I've been a slug since the last one on Saturday. It didn't help that I barely made my table fee back. It was doubly dissapointing because I did so well at the one before it! Break time for a while, but I am hopefully getting my online ( Read more... )

Our email system has been a bit screwed up for the last few weeks due to a massive hardware failure. Yesterday, I could see emails, but not send them. Before that, I couldn't delete emails. Today was the newest one. According to the sidebar, I have 1.8 x 10^19 new emails. Before it looked like 18 billion, but then I noticed that there was a scroll ( Read more... )

Add 4 envelopes to the damn the man tally. A disappointing few, but I suspect that some of the envelopes are in the "to shred" pile in my husband's office.

Add 17 envelopes to the tally!

First there was Rush telling us that Michael J. Fox must have been faking. Then there was the backlash against Rush (woohoo!) and supporting Fox. Now this:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/alexpkeaton/index.html

Unfortunately, it looks like what I feared came true. People have been going out of their way to kill stingrays. We've been hearing about since Steve Irwin's death. How sad! But perhaps the stingrays are trying to get their revenege:http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19

Last weekend my husband was cutting the grass in the backyard and found the top of the stolen pineapple. The top had started to root, so we went ahead and planted. This made us think that maybe the pineapple theif was a crafty raccoon, because those things are amazing with their hands. I've seen them open closed 5 gal. buckets to get fish, and seen ( Read more... )

Well duh...this explains a lot about my students...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/09/21/science.education.reut/index.html

A friend who moved gave me one of her pineapple plants, and right after she did, it had a tiny fruit on it (each plant has only one). I've been growing this pineapple for about 6 months now. The fruits take a really long time to mature to the point of being edible. The thing finally turned yellow this weekend - a good sign that my first homegrown ( Read more... )

Well, this has got to be one of wierdest things. I wake up this morning, turn on the tv, and see breaking news: Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, killed. So, like everyone else who probably saw that headline, I figure that he probably got taken out by a croc. Oh, no, no, no. Stingray barb to the heart. Here's the linkNow, I've been swimming with ( Read more... )