There has been some tooth gnashing over President Obama’s authorization of the signing of the Patriot Act extension with an autopen. This machine long ago took the place of the chief executive’s hand in dealing with routine correspondence, but apparently this is the first time a mechanical device has been used to turn a bill into a law.
A legal opinion written by lawyers with the Bush (2) administration was used to justify the move.
Even so, Obama will be criticized, but that’s not the greatest risk. The greatest risk, as anyone who has worked in a factory knows, is allowing a machine to get a metal and plastic toe in the door when it comes to doing an essential part of your job. History tells us where that leads – sometime in the future our President (whoever it may be) and the autopen are bound to have their John Henry Moment.
When John Henry got into the White House
Famous ‘cause he worked so hard,
He arrived with much renown, he had people all ‘round.
He was popular and held in high regard, Lord Lord.
Popular and held in high regard.When John Henry reached the Oval Office
Surrounded by women and men
He said, “Now I’m feelin’ fine, I got papers here to sign”
They said, “All of that is done by auto pen” Lord Lord,
“We don’t need you with the auto pen.”John Henry said to his people
“While it’s true my arms are sore,
I won’t let them wires and wheels fix my presidential seals,
Bring us bills and I will sign them all and more, Lord Lord.
Bills to sign and more and more and more.So John Henry signed with his left hand
Autopen signed with the right
Though it didn’t have no arm or no presidential charm,
It signed every bill that he did through the night, Lord Lord
Both of them signed bills all through the night.When they found them there in the morning,
It was dark and cold and damp.
Just a gizmo and a bloke, blood and oil and sweat and smoke.
One was broken and one died of writer’s cramp, Lord Lord.
What a way to go, from writer’s cramp.The moral to this story
Is to do all you can do.
But there ain’t a man alive who can challenge and survive
when machines arrive to take the place of you, Lord Lord.
When machines arrive to sign then you are through!
The John Henry song sure comes in handy at a time like this. I love to re-write it – some of you may recall I’ve done it before. But why not take advantage of every opportunity while I can? Because it’s a repetitive activity, I’m sure someday there will be an app to do it for me.
What arts and crafts project could you do over and over and over without tiring of it?
Trail Baboon 
there once was a man from nantucket
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Morning all! This is easy… stamping, cards, scrapbooking. Give me rubber stamps, ink and cardstock and I’m set. (Of course, I’m more set if you add ribbon, die cuts, sparklies and paper punches.) In fact, last Sunday, when it rained all day, I made 38 cards!
I bought my first stamps to placate my sister, who was having one of those home parties. They sat in a drawer for over a year until a friend also had a party. I went just to see what I could actually do w/ said stamps and got hooked that night. Except for reading, it’s my favorite sport – I find it incredibly relaxing to sit in my studio and stamp and cut and paste!
We have a busy schedule this morning (teenager giving blood for the first time) and a big party next door this afternoon so if I don’t get to check in later, everybody have a great day!
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And…. an even better day is when I have a book on CD that I can listen to WHILE I’m stamping. Heaven.
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Yea new blood donor!
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Way to go teenager.
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Free cookies afterwards! Just one of the many benefits of donating blood. Thanks for doing your part, teenager!
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Good morning to all:
I do sudoku. There are electronic sudoku puzzles, but I’m not letting a machine get involved. I buy small pulp books from newstands filled with 100 or more sudoku puzzles and use a pencil to fill them in. Usually I don’t stop until I have completed at least on sudoku puzzle. The hardest ones can take more than an hour to do. If I ever get completly carried away doing sudoku you might find me slumped over a sudoku book with a glazed look in my eyes and a pencil stub in my hand.
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We are so different, Jim! In the planet where I live, numbers are arrogant bullies, and I fear them. I’ve never finished even the simplest sudoku in spite of working pretty hard at a few.
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Me too, Steve. I just look at sudoku puzzles and shake my head.
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Sudoku actually has nothing to do with math – it’s logic. I’ve seen sudoku’s with 9 chosen letters instead of numbers, same process.
Jim – if you want an even greater challenge, I believe there are grids of 16 instead of 9 to a side, to make you go slowly out of your mind.
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You’re probably better off not getting hooked on Sudoku, Steve. There’s something compelling about puzzles; they give you the illusion that you’ve accomplished something, in a way that makes you want to accomplish the same thing again and again.
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BiR, I’ve seen some of those other kinds of sudoku. I prefer to do the usual kind. I like trying the most dificult ones which are plenty challenging for me.
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I started doing sudoku because I like puzzles and I found I am better suited for doing them than for doing cross word puzzles which I have lots of trouble solving. The sudoku books usually include some very easy puzzles for beginners and some instructions on how to solve them.
The most important thing to know is that by process of elimination you can determine the correct number to put in a blank space and you should be sure you know it is correct. Putting a wrong number in a blank will make it very hard to solve for the rest of the blank spaces.
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i was talking to some computer geeks on the phone a while back and they tell you to do something while helping you to get your computer back up and running properly. thye would tell you to do something and then wait literally 15 or 20 minutes while your computer did whatever it needed to then the next thing 15 or 20 minutes etc… i asked them if they are just sitting there or if they are reading a book or what. most were just sitting there. i suggested sudoko for them just ot keep their brain working. they tried and enjoyed the mental poke in the ribs. i think its a good brain teaser but i a not good at it.
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I always do Sudokus on long flights and during long waits.
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You might like Kakuro puzzles also. Unlike Sudoku, there is actual math involved, but it’s a similar logic challenge – eliminate possibilities until there’s only the right answer.
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Arts and crafts? It’s gotta be that? I was thinking of cooking, but you probably meant to rule that out. I can make tabouli and hummus in my sleep.
An artsy project I can do forever, loving it all the time, is editing digital photos. It is restful and lovely and utterly satisfying to “fine tune” the look of a photo. Is the sky in that landscape too bright? Now it is not. Would that woman look a little more stunning if she had whiter teeth? Fixed that! Does that Labrador retriever need a little work on his face to make his eyes and mouth more expressive? Done! And that little girl on the carousel, is she really as bored as she looks? Well, I can go in and give her mouth the tiniest tweak to cause her to smile. And now everyone is happy.
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Cooking is a fine art and it counts. In fact you can cook supper for me any time! That way you can earn some money and have some joy.
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Steve, that does sound like a lot of fun. Maybe I need to learn… is it photoshop?
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Barbara in Robbinsdale Any photo editing program will let you do some simple things, like turn up the light so a dark photo becomes pretty or increase contrast so different stuff stands out more. You might be amazed at all the subtle ways you can alter the look of a scene, and it doesn’t take an expensive program to do it.
There is a simple, intuitive program you can download for free called Picasa II. From the folks at Google. It will start off by finding all photos on your computer and then organizing them for you. I work with an application called Lightroom. The most famous and expensive is Photoshop.
I’d be delighted to help anyone learn some of this stuff.
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GIMP is another free program that my go-to geeks at work say is as powerful and more user friendly than PhotoShop. I think it was developed by the same brain trust as Open Office which has free versions of a word processsor, spreadsheet, and other applicatiosn found in suites like like MS Office Word, Xcel, etc. http://www.gimp.org/
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applications ;-D
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Too bad “Smile Tweaker” isn’t a recognized job category. Thanks Steve!
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Nicely done Dale. Wonder if I can go to Ultimate-Guitar and download the tabs/chords to this song so I can learn it on my guitar??!?!
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It is on page 146 of Rise Up Singing, the folk music reference sometimes referred to as the “blue book.”
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Once you get it worked out, please make any necessary word changes to adapt it to your voice and style – and then expand on the idea or re-write it completly. The folk process in action. Thanks, Scott!
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thanks for the lead scott. i have ultimate bookmarked. what a great website. 47 different ways to play john henry. john fayhe, leadbelly, woody guthrie, traditional who could ask for anything more.
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ultimate guitar on the iphone too
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Rise and Shine Baboons!
Mine is sculpting with polymer clay. Christmas decorations, multi-media collages, family members. It is mesmerizing and soothing. The second choice is pastel pictures of toddlers, who are so cute.
And VS is ever so correct on the background noise. An audio book to listen to puts me in a state of bliss while working.
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Jacque – do you mean you draw toddlers in pastels?
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Yes I do. Love it. They are so beautiful at age 3.
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Would love to see some when the BBC meets at your place…
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I have too many to name!
Learning songs on guitar or mandolin can fill up a rainy Saturday morning for me. Or, cooking up a nice Italian tomato sauce with my own canned tomatoes while listening to some really great bluegrass music might be just the thing ( 😉 thanks Steve!). I also get carried away with crafts like embroidery and/or bead embroidery. I took a North House Folk School class from Jo Wood and learned about how she paints with beads. I’ve done a couple of pieces that way and am ready to move on to something a little bigger. The only thing about bead embroidery is that it’s really hard on the eyes. I also love to crochet. I’ve crocheted things for so many years that it’s become kind of effortless (except for the counting). I crochet while watching a movie out of the corner of my eye. This latter activity competes with reading, another whole addiction topic.
Enjoy the weekend, Baboons!
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I have a tendency to watch movies without watching, too. If I’m not following the plot very well I switch to an audiobook. The library has lots of them. I wish Netflix would send audiobooks.
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Audible dot com? Audiobook version of Netflix.
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I will ponder that…I’d really like a single service that would do DVDs and audiobooks, for a single subscription. My checking account keeps springing leaks – it’s too easy to think, well, it’s only 5 dollars a month…or 10, or whatever. All my income seems to disappear without my actively spending it.
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painting with acrylic or watercoor are the things i can do forever. its too bad i don’t get to it more. woodworking is meditation for me. cooking and guitar are possible at the same time in my house i have a couple guitars in the kitchen. i used to leave putters laying around so i could practice putting now i leave guitars in convenient places. i enjoy sculpture but don’t do it often. yep painting is the one.
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Good idea, tim – I still haven’t got back to the guitar… I’ll try putting it in the kitchen!
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Any baboons who are sculpting, painting, cooking, scrapbooking, etc. over the holiday weekend are invited to take a photo of your work and send it to me at connelly.dale@gmail.com.
I’ll put together a hobby post for Monday – works in progress!
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My tendency is to be too scattered and unfocused to finish anything complicated, but I do like working on small craft projects. Sometimes jewelry-making, painting things, stenciling, woodworking on a small scale. I have done some quilting and embroidery, but not so much lately. I’d like to get back into that. I’d also like to try making mosaics.
Maybe the photo challenge is what I need to get something done this weekend. 🙂
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Ooh, I used to make quilts, too. What kind of material were you thinking for the mosaics?
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I always have a few broken things that I hate to toss – my dishes are white with a brown pattern, and I’ve broken a few over the years and thought it would be nice to turn the pieces into a serving tray or something. This project is more aspirational than operational at the moment, though.
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ever try garden mosiacs? i have a little path in a garden maybe 10 feet by 3 feet and i took the easy way out and bought brick pavers to stick in there in kind of a random pattern but if i had time and a collection of stone, concrete chunks, broken patio stones and broken glazed pots etc from the defect pile at mills or home depot i would love to do pathways and tabletops etc
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I have some pieces of tile that I salvaged from the home of a friend – from a tiled entryway that was broken up with a jackhammer. Not a shiny ceramic tile, but more of a matte-finish stone look. I’ve though about making stone steppers or something. It’s a bit challenging to work with though, with globs of old mortar stuck to it, and it doesn’t look like it will be easy to cut.
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i have a grinder tool that will clean it up in a minute if you need it for an afternoon sometime
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My “book” group used one summer meeting to make mosaic stepping stones with a cement base – actually wasn’t very hard.
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Do you remember what kind of ingredients went into the cement? Was it just QuikCrete or something? What kind of mold did you use?
Maybe BBC should consider Garden Mosaics Made Easy as our next selection.
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we can pick out where in jacques front yard we want to pour the contents of the concrete truck and we can take it from there.
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Linda, I’ll ask my friend what she used for a mold – we did use something like Quikcrete.
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WE did them one Christmas as a gift for my mother from the grandchildren. They turned out nicely and were personalized. Each of the kids put something of themselves into it, then they went to the garden. It was fun. We used Quikcrete poured into an old paint pail.
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OK, I’ve dabbled in embroidery, tried to learn to knit and crochet like some of my friends. I can sew, and love to do it but don’t make time often. But my claim to fame is… (drum roll) … making placemats out of used greeting cards. This started last year when I saw a set of Christmas card placemats at my mom’s senior residence. Cut into 4″ circles, 12 of these are arranged around a large center card and some border, which becomes a contact paper sandwich – clear over the cards, backed with something pretty so it’s reversible. I branched out from Christmas cards, and now do “theme” placemats, like seasons, flowers, etc. It’s so tacky, and appeals to the recycler in me – I always hate to toss those beautiful cards. Save your prettiest ones for me, Babooners.
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I think the key word for me is recycling, too – anything that’s pretty but in danger of being discarded – can I turn that into something, give it a second go-round?
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I love to do counted cross stitch. Danish charted floral designs are fun, especially with the muted Danish floss on 14 count Aida cloth. My husband even did some with me when we were in graduate school. We finished some, but they are just sitting in my embroidery bag, unframed. I started a new project a couple of years ago on 32 count raw linen for a piece that I would like to give to my daughter when she graduates from high school. Aging and the onset of bifocals has caused some problems with being able to see the tiny weave. I haven’t got very far on it as I need to invest in a magnifier/light. I only have two years to finish it, so I guess I had better get going. Thanks for the topic today, Dale. I feel challenged to get cracking!
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getting kinda technical renee
muted Danish floss on 14 count Aida cloth
we’ll all know the jargon and be heading off to the scando store if wea re not careful.
bless you for passing on the old family traditions and creating heirlooms.
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Didn’t mean to be jargony-just trying to communicate that its really tiny weave and my eyes aren’t what they used to be.
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its neat how when you are into something muted Danish floss on 14 count Aida cloth sounds like the normal thing to call it. what else would it be? any sunshine for the gardening today. we have some over here. i need to get out. jockying hosta positions
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Oooo, and you are pretty near Nordic Needle, aren’t you? Love the Danish floral work, but counted cross-stitch is for me like Sudoku sounds like it is for Steve-frustrates me no end. I do love Hardangar though I haven’t touched it in years.
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It is pure torture to visit the Nordic Needle, as my aspirations outweigh my abilities. What a great place!
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I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch in my younger days when my eyesight was better. My first couple of years in college I was an art major. The metal smithing/sculpture classes were my favorites, and I would love to do more of that. I tried my hand at weaving, which I loved, but setting up the loom was too tedious, so I switched to pottery. Liked that too, though I was never very good at it. Nowadays I dabble in painting on fabric, mostly silk and linen, but my real passion is cooking. Right now I’m trying to decide what to bring to the Eddies’ annual Memorial Day picnic on Harriet Island tomorrow. Good food, fun group of people, and spirited singing, even the occasional shower won’t put a damper on that affair.
Have a great Memorial Day everyone.
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OT – A good portion of the rest of weekend could be taken up with finding a replacement for a very old washing machine that just bit the dust…
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Aw shucks, that’s not how you want to be spending a long weekend. Good luck. Try freecycle.com, you might get lucky.
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Good idea, and craigs list maybe.
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There’s a place near me that has a scratch-and-dent room – they often have some good buys if you’re not real hung up on perfection. Allinc.com, if you are interested.
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Will check it out! We went to our favorite used appliance place yesterday and it was closed for Memorial Day weekend.
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if you need a cheap ugly bandaid let me know
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We’ve done that before — what kind?
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tan
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If you can afford it, upgrade and get a front-loading HE washer. I absolutely love mine — they are soooo top-notch. They get clothes cleaner, use way less water and less soap.
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Someone else mentioned this – what is HE? (GE with a typo? : )
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High efficiency, I think.
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How old? I’ve got one chugging along that is older than many baboons. Put it this way: we had a choice of two colors, olive or copper.
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Wasn’t that avocado and copper? In either case, definitely vintage.
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Blood Center Update. Teenager didn’t think the blood giving was any big deal but she got very dizzy and lightheaded afterward and had to lay down for about a half an hour before we could leave. She’s very tired this afternoon as well. The technicians said this is fairly common for first-timers and said next time she should have a HUGE breakfast. But when I said “next time…..” she didn’t say “there won’t BE a next time” so I think we have a victory.
tim – we got some planting in here as well…. all the hanging baskets and planters are done. Hopefully tomorrow we can finish w/ the rest. Time to party!
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Here, too. I got all the peppers from the Farmer’s Market in the ground and lots of flowers! That is what I can do all day! I’ll have to post a picture of the garden.
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The rain held off for enough of the day to squeeze in a few garage sales AND some gardening. Also went to the farmers’ market, but the fellow who sells the rainbow trout was sold out completely, so I had to go buy a salmon fillet to console myself.
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You poor thing…
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We have solved the case of the wayward Wedgewood. Today my husband and I trimmed the lower 5 feet of branches off of two very tall Blue Spruces. The trees stand next to one another. The branches made the sidewalk impassable. As we were cleaning up and raking through 6 inches of spruce needles that had been shed over the years, what should I find but two Wedgewood oatmeal bowls. My daughter said “Oh, those are from when Gabe graduated from High school” (7 years ago). Daughter and best friend had filled the bowls up with mints and chips and dived under the trees to feast during the reception. The bowls were perfectly intact and just needed a spin in the dishwasher. I always wondered what happened to those bowls. I did not uncover any soup spoons, alas.
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Renee, have you asked your daughter where the spoons are?
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Yes, but of course she has no idea.
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I have been missing a favorite hand hoe that is shaped just right for cultivating and weeding small vegetable plants. I was pulling some weeds out of a flower bed and saw a handle there in the weeds. It was the handle of my favorite hoe. I had already bought a similar one so now I have a back up. Another mystery solved similar the return of your bowls, Renne.
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We are missing my favorite hammer, and I think it is across the street at best friend’s house.
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Say wayward Wedgewood 3 times really fast.
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I spent two weeks looking for the hummingbird feeder. I went to all the places where I might normally think to put it and more than once I went out to the yard where and stood right where it lives in the summer trying to imagine myself last fall and what I did with it. No luck. So yesterday I bought a new one at the hardware store (old, dust-covered model w/ one of the little red plastic flowers missing — talked them into a real bargain for it). You guessed it. Within an hour of getting home I found the original one. I had never removed it from the hanging basket so it was sitting in the dirt at the back of the garage. Sheesh! If I actually HAD hummingbirds in my yard, this wouldn’t be so pathetic.
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Morning–
Been kinda crazy around here… might be able to finish planting soybeans today if I don’t get any more rain today.
I was thinking yesterday how it seems this year I have found more odds and ends in fields than usual. Picked up an old cultivator shovel that must have fallen off 30 yrs ago, a skid plate from the haybine, found an old wrench, found something I don’t know what it is and in the ‘garden’ as I was thinning radishes found a 20d nail.
Plus the assorted rocks of interest I add to Kellys’ rock garden…
A spring of rediscovery!
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Greetings! Renee, that is so funny you found your 2 Wedgewood bowls intact 7 years later. Perhaps a streak of good fortune is coming your way!
VS – congratulations to your teenager for giving blood. I gave as often as I could after I turned 18 and got my gallon pin by the time I was 21, I think. Unfortunately, I can’t give blood anymore. About 15-20 years ago, the Red Cross sent me a very nice note asking me to please not give blood anymore as my blood had given a false positive for some weird blood borne disease — which I don’t have and never will — but they don’t want my blood anymore. {sigh} I loved sitting in the canteen and eating — the nurses always made me feel so special for giving blood and it never even phased me.
You guys are all so talented and crafty. After reading the posts, I got motivated to try making a pop can tab bracelet, but I forgot how to do the weave. So I made a pan of homemade granola bars instead. I’ll find my instructions and give it another try though; maybe get a picture to send in of my recycled jewelry.
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Joanne the folks at Memorial Blood Center are more savvy about weird markers. The Red Cross banned me for years because of a reason similar to the one they gave you and Memorial is happy to use my blood. You can call and ask.
For any other potential donors out there-Memorial Blood Centers have great treats including cookies from the Cookie Cart.
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yeah this is a bunch of artsy fartsy sob’s isn’t it joanne? but you can do a roundhouse kick upside the head of any of these tree hugging basketweaving thumbsucking artmajor wannabe’s.
hey your not glowing in the dark yet are you? life at the nuclear power plant still ok? good to hear from you again.
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Thanks, Tim for putting my strengths in perspective — you’re too funny! And no, I’m not glowing. Truth is, I don’t get any more radiation than you do. Another secretary who’s been there 12 years and has actually been in the plant told me her dose report (which they get yearly), always says ‘0’. Everybody wears these dose meters which are turned in quarterly. I think the folks who actually work in Radiological Areas might get extremely small doses, but it’s all carefully tracked. Each area and job is surveyed and measured before workers even go in, so they know exactly how much ahead of time the amount of radiation each worker will receive. They are EXTREMELY careful and rigorous in this area. If you go to a different nuclear plant, they will measure your ‘whole body count’ before they even let you in the door — besides all the security clearances each time.
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play Bach
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i love getting inside bachs head. he was so into the variations on all the tricks you can do with the scales it almost makes you laugh to see where he is going next. what a fun thing to choose. welcome kathy, stick you head in again anytime.
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Bach had 20 children by two wives, although “only” 17 of the children survived their early years. We don’t have to ask what Bach’s hobby was. I just wonder when he found time to compose music.
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I have limited patience for repetitive tasks. I learned how to knit this winter out of shame (Daughter wanted to knit, Grandma taught her, but when she was knitting at home and dropped a stitch or needed help, I was no good – “you can fix everything else, Mommy…why not this?” was the tearful admonition – and truly hilarious to have your six-year-old trying to show you how to knit). I started on something about as wide as the needles and figured I’d just knit rows until it looked done. It’s been sitting for months. Sewing is a little better, but I need a specific impetus to crack out the machine – but I like that the project is finite.
Part of what I enjoyed about creating sets back when I was doing a lot of theater was the variety in what I would do to put something together: wood, paint, fabric, more paint, different fabric…no two sets were the same, and I will admit to designing sets based on a hair-brained idea of a technique I wanted to try (or a hair brained idea a director wanted me to try…like the set where I was asked if I could create a tie-dyed look on the floor). But these are things that are relatively quick (4-6 weeks start to finish), and come apart when I’m done – and part of what I like is the taking it back apart. It’s like magic having a full set (especially the elaborate ones) get taken apart, swept up, and the floor repainted black in a matter of hours. Different stuff has to happen at different times, and I could easily adjust what I was working on based on my patience level that day (as much as I do my best to not design “box sets” – think realistic looking living room – I love putting up dutchman, a sort of mud and tape like you’d do on drywall but with muslin and wheat paste for stage flats).
Fun catching up this morning. We’ll see if Daughter has any more patience for trying to fish off the dock here on Gull Lake. She really likes the idea of fishing, but doesn’t have much patience for letting the hook and bait just sit. We got lucky yesterday on that front – had a very persistent, and cunning, sunny that would swoop by, tug just enough on the hook to nibble off the bait, and then swim off. Daughter called him Trickster, I called him Moby Gull. We did catch a couple of tiny little things that my aunt and I thought might actually be little guys thrown in to stock the lake (they weren’t sunnies, and were only about 3 inches long) – enough to make Daughter happy. Take a picture, throw ’em back in, rebait the hook…we kept the rental pole to try again today. I suspect all I will get is sunburned – and that’s just fine. 🙂
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Oh, and thanks to you lot, I am freshly inspired to break out my fine new (pink) ukulele on a more regular basis when I get home. I have taught myself a few things – I like how quickly I can learn a new chord or two and get a tune working. I do find, though, that sometimes Rise Up Singing has a chord progression that don’t quite match up with the tune in my head.
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Rise and Shine almost in time for lunch!
Last night I finished my garden day by baking 2 strawberry-rhubarb pies ( our garden rhubarb ) which I will photograph for the Dale’s Show and Tell tomorrow. The pies are for a going away party tonight. Yesterday was a luscious gardening day, starting with enough time to go to Farmer’s Market. We then returned home to plant some purchases or cook and eat other items. We did both! Then it rained just enough so I did not need to water the new plantings much.
The 4 year old boy next door came over to “help” me plant while he talked and asked questions. A lot of questions. You forget about that over time. He was so cute and enthusiastic. Then right in front of my husband Stevie said, “Jacque, you are amazing.”
I said, “Thanks, Stevie. Lou, (husband) did you hear that? I’m amazing if you ever doubt it.”
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4 year olds are so smart!
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Definitely an astute kid. 🙂
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I have also had a young neighbor over to “help” me with gardening this spring. She didn’t stay very long, but it was fun while it lasted. I’m not good at taking pictures to load on my computer so I needed some help from my wife. With her help I did manage to get a picture for Dale of a garden I worked on this weekend which might fit with your picture of your pies, amazing Jacque.
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My gooness snakes, what a lot of creativity! Does anybody here hanker to start making stained glass windows? My former spouse did that at one time, retiring from the craft when she finished her first project: our bathroom window. I have her tools and a bunch of expensive glass now. Free to the first baboon to speak up.
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Steve, I make stained glass mosaics, does that count?
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Could you make use of glass cutting tools (knife, pliers, etc) and the kind of glass used in stained glass compositions?
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I sure could. 🙂
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Sold to the fuzzy lady in the mortar board! Based on your avatar photo, one of us should drink less. Maybe a healthy hobby will do that for you.
I’ll try to be at the next Blevins meeting, and I could tote this stuff. Or you could make another arrangement. You are on the west side of what? I’m on the west edge of Mac-Groveland.
mnstorytelr (at) comcast.net
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Thanks Steve. I’ll have you know that that picture of me is a perfect representation of how I remember myself at that time, fuzzy around the edges and totally out of focus. Feel free to have a go at it with your photo editing skills.
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Well, I finally got my quickie lasagna in the oven that I started 2 hours ago. Went shopping for the week’s groceries and thought I had everything to make lasagna. Wrong! Halfway through preparation, I just went back to store for 3 more essential items I forgot, as well as 2 Blu-Ray movies for Jim to try out.
We went to the see the movie “Thor” this afternoon. As one critic said: “not great art, but mighty good fun.” And just for the ladies — the hunk who plays Thor is well worth the price of admission alone. For the guys, you’ve got the lovely Natalie Portman. But Thor is shirtless for a scene or two. Anthony Hopkins is absolutely grand as Odin and of course, great special effects and fight scenes. Have a great day!
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Evening–
I wanted to let you all know my 18 yr old son and three of his friends went to the Spam Museum yesterday and they had a GREAT time.
Curious, he didn’t say he had such a GREAT time when he was there with his folks and little sister…. but he does give me credit for introducing it to him. And he and his friends had fun playing trivia and taking pictures.
And he bought home Garlic Spam and Black Pepper Spam! (See ‘Ben’s Fox burgers’ in the Kitchen Congress’)
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when i think of spam i have to think of back int he day when i ate meat. it is a little like describing red to a blind person. the spam recitalist that sounds god to me includes peanut butter and pineapple
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thats recipe sounds good
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