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Like a woman possessed

May 29th, 2007

Or obsessed…….
Since the weather broke, all I want to do is be outside.
Mostly I sit squat with my coffee and watch the garden grow.
It’s pretty interesting.

So I tend to take my camera out with me. That of course leads to some borderline OCD behavior with the flickr.
I even created a new garden group, We Grow Food! (so if you do, join, why don’t you?)
That teeters on my other obsession about obsessing about (meta obsession!) my relationship with food, specifically food as a consumer product. Money for food, Growing food and eating food. (humm, I never realized what a funny word food is until I just typed it out six times… Say it 50 times slowly, then try to tell me otherwise.)
Food, we all use it.

Apparently, it is also a good distraction. Keeping me otherwise not focused on the things I need to do.
(Speaking of that, I have yet to update the sidebar with the reciprocal links I spoke of in my epic the other day. I will get to it! I swear!)

Now, I must get back to my garden squatting, before I miss something.

My mind was wanderin’ like the wild geese in the west

May 27th, 2007

Three Posts in four days, I’m going for a new record! (Or I’m deep within the throws of some mania, you decide.)
What’s first? How bout a skunk stench update? I’ve determined, from a bit of research and your comments, that the bugger didn’t spray in the mudroom, but someplace outside. The odor inside dissipated quickly with some open windows & a quick wash of the mudroom floor. The bulk of the stench came from the back of the house, near the open window where my son was sleeping that night. Putting two and two together like such, me thinks the skunk met a raccoon or even a fisher cat. Either way, the headache inducing smell was gone by 3pm. Yay. Thanks to all for sharing your sage advice, helpful hints and empathetic stories!
More with the wildlife, but in the less smelly department… I was out in the garden, moving some of the renegade cilantro (which, we have a-plenty.) And a noise snapped me out of my zone, looking up I saw a goose family! Trying my best to be graceful and slick, (HAR!) I made a dash for the front door to retrieve my camera from inside, only to find that the kids had locked me out (a favorite hobby of theirs.)
By the time I got back outside they had made their way up Naked Sledding Hill.

AWWWWWWWWWW! Babies!!!!!
(That slope sure has filled out with green, in only a matter of 18 days. Spring is so amazing!)

Something else amazing, the view from just a bit more up that hill…

Taken just a bit after sunrise yesterday & I had every intention of posting it yesterday for my Saturday Sky.
Better late than never! (Right? Maybe?? Perhaps?)

More with the better late than never. (I suppose I’m having issues with transition this morning.)
I’ve been tagged with that viral things meme…. More than once, first by Dianna, when it was 8 things, and now by Deb, and it is down to 7 things…. (I’m only doing it so I can tag Mz. J, cuz she needs to update that *&($#!!&* blog)

Ahem. the rules:
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts about themselves.
2. People who are tagged write a blog post about their 8 random things and post the rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and post their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I have a collection of Grateful Dead ticket stubs numbering in the triple digits. That means, I’ve seen them a bunch. ha.
2. I have terrible posture. My Nana would always tell me to sit up straight, I never listened.
3. I’ve never had a pedicure
4. I like both coffee and tea (I drink copious amounts of each)
5. I’m excited about turning 35
6. I have an obsession with Chomolungma. I get OCD during the climbing season and check Explorers web daily for updates. (Sadly they don’t have RSS, and I have to check manually.)
7. I’m currently fixated on the Appalachian Trail, I don’t think I’ll get around to doing it anytime soon, as it costs about 4k and takes 6 months. Plus, all that walking, sheesh, that is intimidating! Especially since I’m a big fan of the sitting. We’ll see.
8. I kick tookas at trivial pursuit and want to get some of the new card sets.

Okay, I tag no one, but Mz. J still needs to update her *&($#!!&* blog!

Since I’m on the topic of updating blogs (see, transition issues! I told ya so.)
I’m going to update the side bar on this one. So, if you are linking here and would like for me to return the favor, shout in the ye comments. OR if you have moved! I know some of you have recently. (You can run, but you can’t hide, lol.) I’d like to get everyone up who is linking, it does not seem right to have it so incomplete.

If you have read this far, you deserve some kind of award! Have a cuppa on me!

Peeee U!

May 25th, 2007

Holy crap! (Some stream of consciousness forthcoming, watch out!)
I went to bed at 8:30 (in the PM) last night, and just got up for the day a bit ago.
I don’t remember the last time I slept so long.
My son did wake up at 4am trying to tell me something. (Being so early, or late, whichever….It was nothing I was able to understand)
I smelled an awfully strong skunk smell, not too terribly unusual for the thicket. So, I did the proper thing and ignored.
I shuffled him back into bed, then did the zombie shuffle back to bed myself… 4:10 am seemed to early to wake up today.
Upon going outside to water the garden (when I was awake for good this morning,) I discovered that a skunk was in our mudroom and tore everything apart.
er, YAY! (Humm, I wonder if the skunk tried to get in bed with the boy… He smells kinda bad, the skunk could have mistaken him for another skunk… I bet skunks would find him cute..)
At least I’m well rested.

Seriously, who else gets skunks in their house? Honestly?
How did that skunk know I was not going to wake up and kill it?
Moreover, how did the skunk get in the door?

Hopefully the 10 hours of smell, er sleep has done me some good and I can tackle the day, wrestle it to the ground and get all my shit done (and clean up the mudroom.) I do not remember the last time I slept so long. I don’t think my brain & body know what to do.

I wonder what he thinks of the rancid smell round here?

The projected high temperature here today is 92F! (to that I say ‘What the eff’ crazy!)
On the bright side, perhaps these reach full bloom, and eliminate the stench.

If the computer holds up (stays on) I’ll put up the rest of the photos I took of the garden this morning, over on the Flickr, in my (sadly lacking) Garden set.

Powered by the sun (and coffee)

May 24th, 2007

I know I mentioned something about a NHSW update, er, two weeks ago.
I’ve been caught in the land of computer woes, busy kids, and work.
Life has gotten me by the ovaries but good the past month. And things are just going to get more hectic from here on out. (Send strength and chocolate!)

I did manage to eek out some dyeing recently AND get the fruits of that up on Pippi. Wonders never cease.
I even did some solar dyeing! And hopefully there will be more sun powered goodness in the future!

Now, it seems like the ass alarm has caught the attention of some weee folx.

A case of the Mondays

May 14th, 2007


NHS&W was totally fun, relaxing and inspiring. Big thanks to the Pinko Commie for carting my ass & sharing the same absurd sense of reality humor. The day zoomed by, now it is Monday, and I’m suffering from a bit of overwhelm-ed-ness.

A full report forthcoming, until then, there are photos. And even More photos! Our trip within the trip was highly amusing. Perhaps it was so sad that it had to be amusing. I think I lead a highly insulated existence. The town of Lebanon, NH kind of blew my mind. “Live free or die” is supposedly the state motto, but, what was overwhelming to the point of comedy were all the “NO! this or that” sighs EVERYWHERE! ‘Live free or die as long as you walk in a strait line and wear shoes, breathe only out of your nose and smoke cigarettes whilst chewing gum’
Tho, they do have liggett drugs! The goods, if you will.
I took this photo for you, Mike E

Happy day my comrades!

May 13th, 2007
(Yes, I post this every year, but, hey! Who am I to break my own traditions! This one stands the tests of time.)
Mother’s Day Proclamation
Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant
agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy
and patience.
We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, “Disarm, Disarm!”
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the
summons of war.
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the
dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to
the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of
Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of
nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most
convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace.

~1870
Julia Ward Howe

NHSW bound.

May 12th, 2007

The shop has been updated!
I’ve added:
Six  new colorways of handpainted yarn!
All a 20% nylon blend.

I’m offering Free shipping while I’m off to the NHSW!
Just enter “NHSW” in the coupon box and get free shipping!
Hurry on that! As it ends when I get home!

You can view everything in the shop using this link or you can see everything that is new

Fallen

May 10th, 2007

This has really thrown me for a loop.

As a woman, fiber artist, Vermonter and survivor of domestic abuse, this hits close to the bone on many levels. I feel really very compelled to do something…
I don’t know what that something is… But I want to do something. I feel the need. I don’t want this to go down as just another statistic. I want more than my heart to be going out to Gwen’s friends and family.
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