Grandbaby Quilt
There are three sailboats as this is their third baby. The royal blue boat is older brother's favourite colour, and is shown leading the way. The purple boat with pink highlights is older sister's favourite colors, and is shown bringing up the rear. Between them safely sails the green boat, for the new baby (gender will be learned at birth). There is a star in one corner for the theme "All I need is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." There are also three types of wind devices, depicted in the other three corners (propeller, old fashioned windmill, new brand of windmill). There are three hot air balloons (the glory of Summer for a Summer baby). I added shines around the sun when the baby's Mama mentioned that this baby is going to be a new light in the world. Last but not least I embroidered a Monarch Butterfly because just as I arrived for the Baby Sprinkle on Saturday, a Monarch Butterfly flew across in front of me, and it's the first one I've seen this year. It felt like a symbol of Hope.
Grandbabies are First!
ReplyDeleteAlan, stand at the door and click the (cat food) can so that your kitties come running inside. Then lock the cat door for the night.
ReplyDeleteNot effective for "our" cats. The older cat is more of a homebody, though.
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Notes on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteI like Robert Reich's idear of a phone tree, Cat. I think it's just a matter of time before DT or the other Russians crash social media. So how about if the group of us here created a phone tree? If you'd like to be included, send me your phone number, and say who you'd like to phone you. (If you'd rather I not have your number ~ which would not bother me at all, honestly ~ simply send it to someone else in our group and let me know that you have done so.)
ReplyDeleteOr how else might a phone tree work for us?
Inspired fabric choices, listener. It's gorgeous@@ :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, puddle!!! The day I bought the fabric, the woman who cut it for me remarked, "I like your palette." I considered that a high complement, since she cuts so much cloth. Later I learned that Youngest and his Dearest chose "Summer colours" for the baby's room in greens and blues! So that worked out nicely!
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DeleteI should mention that the thin white lines on the light blue used for the sky is big ol' dragonflies! They and the turtles really bring the quilt to life! :-)
A phone tree wasn't Robert Reich's idea, but the idea of someone posting on his page. That being said, it is a good idea.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think we are a small enough group that each of us should have e-mail and phone for each of the others. Just my thought.
Emil Fischer? I'm most impressed. Where possible, Asimov emphasizes the human element, making sure to attribute accomplishments to scientists. I'm getting on a bit better, but Chemestry is never going to be my favorite subject.
I knew from an early age--second or third grade--that I wanted to be a scientist. Then came Sputnik! High school Biology (pre-DNA) was a bore--dumbed down too much. Then Physics--also uninteresting. Finally, in 12th grade, a really inspiring Chemistry teacher--Mr. Elmore. First semester [general] Chemistry (modern) at the local junior college--definitely challenging enough to be interesting; then qualitative inorganic analysis, organic chemistry and quantitative analysis, all as classical as could be in the 1960's, taught by Glen W. Watson--a fine, experienced teacher with a great fund of stories. Biology I avoided like the plague; the physics classes were taught by engineers, who left me with a very practical attitude toward the subject, but not an academic orientation. Some things stuck, others didn't. Another of my favorite teachers at JC was Herr Schneider, the German teacher--again an outstanding pedagogue. When I was in graduate school it was still a very significant advantage for organic chemists to have chemical German literacy--English was just beginning to work its way into the abstracts of some major German language chemistry journals. If I had learned Latin in high school German would have been easier--but Spanish would probably have been more challenging.
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Didn't have the opportunity to take either Chemistry or Physics on the high school level. Did take Biology (thankfully with *no* lab component!) and hated it. The only part that interested me was Genetics. I have a recollection of my tutor's rather putting down that interest. Guess Genetics wasn't the bit she expected me to take to. :P
DeleteShe was a good and kind woman, endlessly patient as I look back, but with no imagination. She was mightily put out that, having enjoyed the excerpts from Paradise Lost in my English lit. book, I asked for and thoroughly enjoyed the poem/book entire and unabridged. She informed me that I only had to read what was in my lit book. Guess I shouldn't have told her I read the whole thing on my own. What she didn't know wouldn't have hurt me? *wry grin*
A little later, I decided to practice my Latin by writing little paragraphs and stories. The one that sticks vaguely in my mind concerned Lucius, whose great desire was to visit Britannia. Needless to say, that endeavor didn't go over well either.
I was a handful. In fact, I was an obnoxious teenager. Looking back, it's a miracle my parents or my tutors didn't murder me. Still in all, it continues to puzzle me how determinedly and consistently Mrs. McHenry strove to quash my curiosity and enthusiasm, when I displayed them.
Gee. That doesn't sound like a real teacher. I remember when I was in junior high school (or probably a lttle earlier--7th or 8th grade--that I liked poking around in the library room where they kept books that weren't popular enough with the students to leave on the regular shelves. We were as welcome to go in there and peruse, and borrow those books as any others; the one I discovered that particularly sticks in my mind is Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Some rollicking good stories there.
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Come to think of it, I don't think I ever encountered any other students in that room. It was like my own private treasure store.
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library story of the day:
ReplyDeleteChained library at Hereford Cathedral[Click]
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Perfect timing, Alan! I am right now headed over to the Library here to repair books. Imagine books deemed so precious they are chained to their shelves! That would certainly cut down on overdue books! ;-)
DeleteI might well be mistaken, but as memory serves me Chaucer had a very large personal library for his day--ten books.
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Wouldn't surprise me. He was a learned man, and rather an important one.
DeleteThink what he could have done with mass market paperbacks!
As part of getting our swimming pool operating properly, after changing the water I needed to add chlorine stabilizer and calcium salts. At our local pool supply chain store the cost of the chemicals would have been $217. A little poking around on the Inner Tubes and I found the same thing for $27 delivered.
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Pardon my French but... Holy shit!
DeleteWell, I guess that's why bricks and mortar stores are going out of business. :(
The chain store is very convenient--most everything having to do with swimming pools in one place. But their markups are considerable. The pool chemicals are an extreme case, but I discovered I could get a lot of things for 30 to 40 per cent. off their prices. It can take a bit of rooting around to get the exact right part, but I have a lot of time these days. I wish I had known better before I bought that pump motor from them.
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O’Rourke Crushed Cruz In Fundraising
ReplyDeleteJuly 11, 2018 By Taegan Goddard
Beto O’Rourke (D) “raised an eye-popping $10.4 million in the last three months — catching up to Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) six-year haul in just over 15 months as he seeks to topple the Republican darling,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
“The El Paso congressman’s ability to vastly outpace the incumbent is no longer in doubt. Cruz collected about $4 million during the same period, and O’Rourke has extended his streak of raising more than the incumbent in one of the nation’s costliest races.”
Gee....
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Well, what else would you expect? After all, Vito made a video jamming with Willy Nelson! the due's cool. Besides, he has a humdinger of a name. How many Vito O’Rourkes do you come across?
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Okay, so I've been mishearing his name all these months. *sigh*
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Beto O’Rourke at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic 2018 at Austin 360
A rousing speech and lovely fireworks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbsKGpdV0Y
Beto O'Rourke and Willy Nelson
https://youtu.be/lKVxOMVZ2Bk
Interesting tea leaves… [Click]
ReplyDeleteBrett Kavanaugh Had Massive Credit Card Debt. The White House Blames Baseball. [Click] Another take on Kavanaugh's finances. [Click] Sounds like the guy is living paycheck to paycheck; can't manage his personal finances. In debt up to his eyeballs even with his credit card debt retired.
Manafort Is Transferred From Jail Where He Was Treated Like a ‘V.I.P.’ [Click] (From NY Times)
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