New Grandbaby's Quilt
You can double click on the full-quilt photo to enlarge it, but even then you'll miss a lot.
There are symbols subtly quilted all throughout, most notably the Schooner. But there is also:
star (light blue), heart (light green), pumpkin (red), Maple, Gray Birch and Mountain Laurel leaves (dark green), Northern Cardinal and Hermit Thrush (yellow pattern):
plus a bit of embroidery, such as Champ on Lake Champlain and the red on the House:
D E A N !!!
ReplyDeleteSorry to be AWOL Saturday. We had another family day, this time at Grandbaby house! :-) I got to hold her and she is so absolutely sweet!!
ReplyDeleteSunday is for finally cooking our own Thanksgiving style meal here at home. Ah, but my darling husband scrubbed the kitchen beautifully for me, so I can start in fresh tomorrow!! YAYYY! Back when I can! LOL! :-)
Enjoy, listener!
ReplyDeleteCat--Re Thanksgiving on Nov. 27th, I was either misinformed or misunderstood. The year my mother was born it happened that Thanksgiving was that same day:
Presidential proclamatino of Thanksgiving, 1913. [Click]
The traffic was really light on our way up to the [SF] Bay Area and back (yesterday by the time you all read this, still today here). There were also very few trucks (all very different from Monday). We were probably averaging about 70 mph on the freeways IN the Bay Area. On the way home we saw that there was heavy traffic going into the Bay Area, but not going our way. Good.
It's really striking how many more and also much bigger wind electric generators there are now at the Altamont Pass (leading east through the Coast Range from the Oakland area). There has been a big change in less than a year.
Conservative Republicans for Bernie [Click]
I replaced my previous Bernie Sanders for President 2016 with an official (and much clearer) Bernie one.
And here's a very interesting analysis about how the US got to where it is today, at least in part:
Why the Economic Fates of America's Cities Diverged [Click]
--Alan
Great article on Republicans for Bernie, Alan. Thanks.
DeleteI agree. I'm not so sure about the other article. For one thing, he talks exclusively about average (mean) income, which can be unduly influenced by the top 0.01%. That could be the tie-in between mega-corporations and geographic income distribution, but he never looks at it. For another he talks a lot about small local businesses but has not concept of small to very small nonlocal businesses such as mine. I have a feeling that in general mega-corporations are actually either irrelevant to or good for truly small business. They're often our clients, not our competitors, in a way that mid-sized businesses never would be.
DeleteI am also not so sure, Bill; but it is worth considering. I should suggest that another large factor might be that not so long ago the US economy was far more self-contained than it is today.
ReplyDeleteRe Republicans for Bernie, it should be no surprise if some are aghast at the road their party seems to have taken, and at the dreadful crop of current candidates. Henry Kissinger would have taken the lot of them out behind the woodshed.
--Alan
It occurs to me that there is a possible political dynamic I had not considered. I had thought that since the Dems had been following the GOP to the right and occupying the ground they had abandoned, the logical place for a new (soon to be second) party to form would be on the left. But if the Dems should shift back to the left (consider Bernie, Warren, and now allegedly HRC), that would leave an opening for a center-right party to occupy the old GOP part of the spectrum. That would provide an escape for both traditional Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats, and the remains of the GOP could be shoved into the same dustbin as the the John Birch Society. Pure speculation, of course.
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Makes sense to me.
DeleteDrab, cold, rainy day. Snow prediction gone. More rain.
ReplyDeleteWe got an unexpected dusting of snow Sunday! Go figure.
DeleteWe were visiting with farmer friends of ours; they are in the process of pulling out all their grape vines, preparing to plant pistachios and almonds in their place. Currently nuts give the farmer five times the profit of grapes, so who can blame them? I assumed they were going to chip the vines (as is done with orchards these days), but they said there was too much metal in them--from stakes and wires--so they would have to be burnt. They told us that most of the cogeneration plants that took the chipped trees have closed anyway, so disposing of the wood chips without burning them is very difficult. I thought the wood chips would simply be plowed in, but evidently not. I don't know how to describe it, but I saw the specialized attachment for uprooting grape vines on the back of a huge bulldozer for the first time; it looked like it would uproot and toss aside the vines, and plow at the same time to boot. I doubt they will have to have deep ripping, but I have seen the monstrous bulldozers and plows they use for that in places that have only had field and row crops before.
ReplyDelete--Alan
I like small farms and simple tools. It is sad that a vineyard must be destroyed, but I do understand the profit concerns. Crop rotation is a good thing anyway.
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