Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Regarding the Grands


























Whenever I spruce up the Children's Corner at the Library, I always set these three dolls on top of the pile. In the center is "Baby Kate" who always makes me think of Youngest*Grand (whom we gave a Baby Kate to last year, as she liked this one so much). To her left is D.W., Baby Kate's older sister, who therefore always makes me think of Eldest*Grand. To her left is Madeline, who always makes me think of VT*Grand, who looks so good in hats. :-)

20 comments:

  1. Howard Dean is First and has always been welcomed in Canada!

    Dick Cheney avoids dangerous Canada
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/dick-cheney-avoids-dangerous-canada-221531285.html

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  2. Interesting ~~ Usually at night there's about a ten degree difference between my front porch thermometer and the readings at my Weatherunderground Station (no matter which one I pick). This morning, it's forty degrees on my front porch, and 58 degrees in Mt. Parnasus, VA. *Something* is splitting whatever weather pattern's going on.

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  3. Oops! That'd be Parnasus, Mt Solon, VA. . . . And the temp just dropped four points over there. Weather: can't live with it, can't shoot it.

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  4. So. . . . Two or three loads of wash done (in the river); one hung, so far. A bit of road building, a bit of weeding in the garden. Beau ate the hose. And got into the river. Gonna sleep good tonight I guess. (Both of us.)

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  5. Puddle, I didn't have your get-up-and-go when I was thirty.

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  6. Why are so many web sites constantly changing their interfaces? The most egregious is FB, but YouTube has forced unattractive, inefficient and hard-to-use changes on its users and just now, at drugstore.come, I had trouble finding anything. Is it a conspiracy to make the innertubes usable only by the young, hip and eagle-eyed, whose aesthetic sense is in their toes?

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  7. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it IS stupidity. eBay used to update every year *just before the Christmas buying season* ~~ so many sellers left that they finally changed, and eased changes in over the whole of the year. They did, however, kill my artist doll sculptors group. Too hard to get in (peeps give up after four or five tries); used to be a jumping place. Visited Sunday, and the last post was in February. . . . May be that that is what they *intended* to do. Who knows.

    For the most part, I think it's very hard for the young to leave well enough alone. They LIKE change for the *sake* of change. What they *should* do is take a couple or three hours a day out of work, and go roller skating. Or sumpin.

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  8. Yah! Wish jc were here to make us a bumper sticker:


    Buy geeks roller skates!

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  9. Unholy Moly! Anywhere near you, Renee?
    http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/03/14/columbus-downtown-stabbing-police-shooting.html

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  10. Brady died today. :(

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  11. Bill Thomasson3/14/2012 06:59:00 PM

    Oh dear!! I'm sorry. My profound sympathies.

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  12. Bill Thomasson3/14/2012 07:06:00 PM

    In a couple of weeks I'll be in a hotel a few blocks from the scene. But for something like this, a few blocks might as well be across the country.

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  13. Thanks. I know it was his time, but I'm in a pretty crappy mood nonetheless.

    Today was a day I was supposed to teach two classes. On a break midway through the first one, someone gave me an emergency message from Demetrius. It wasn't hard to guess what it was about, as Brady wasn't able to stand up any more--even with lots of help--when I was leaving for campus today.

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  14. Ah, sweetie, hugz! I know: there IS no consolation, just sad. ♥

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  15. Oh, Renee! I'm so sorry! *massive hug*

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  16. (¯`v´¯)
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    (¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´¸¸.•¨¯`•. ♥ B R A D Y ♥


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  17. Whoo. I'm beat. Diving under the Wing early.

    BIG day tomorrow! Before work I'm headed to the Grand Opening of the new Mini Dealer in Burlington! :-D Maybe I'll even buy a driving hat or a key chain. :-)

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  18. Hey, yay! About time, I'd say. Gonna make your life much easier, lol! Congratulations.

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