near

Good Neighbors

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some days

Emotional Oscillation #2

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off schedule

Do the Dishes

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I had been doing the dishes once a week on Tuesdays, but the schedule has gone off track and I don't know where it is anymore. And the dishes don't go anywhere. They just wait and wait. Seems, too, that lately, right after I do them, they are all back in the sink. How do they do that?!

I wonder if Santa will ever bring me a dishwasher.

not where I want to be

Who Moved Me?

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I went to vote at my local town hall, as I have done for the last decade or so. We are a small town, everyone at least recognizes each other, if isn't downright related. Hellos all around. They even know me, or more accurately, they know where I live. So, we look for me in the election book, as we always do. No Ren. Not in any book, not under any spelling of any name in my name. Huh. I came back several hours later to find that, according to the Board of Elections, I had moved. To South Carolina. They even had a street address.

Surprised me and everyone else. So I had to vote via an affidavit ballot, swear that I am who I have always been, and have it witnessed by one of the ladies, for whom this was a first. I came home and googled myself, of course, to see if there is any record of me being in two places at once. Nope.

So here is my request: If any of you get any questions about me, please send them right to me here. I will assure them that I haven't gone anywhere. Thank you.

floating orb

This, I Believe

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jet lag with no travel

New Time

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I was going to call this Daylight Stupid Time, but then realized that that happens in the spring. Now we are supposed to be moving to Standard Time, but even that isn't true across the entire time zone, so why bother? Daylight is short in the winter and long in the summer, and when the morning starts or the day ends doesn't follow a clock.

Harumph.

Halloween

Unoriginal Sin

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at least it's not a porsche

92386 Miles

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the atom decayed

Ineligible

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New York State is able to hold two contradictory States of Being to be true at the same time, a bit like Schroedinger's cat. Yet, when it favors the governor's budget, only one is true and that one is the one that is unfavorable to those involved. Sheesh.

it happened again

Alien Invasion

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Once again, I was hit with the same allergic reaction as the other day. Something, maybe the B-Vitamins, the newest addition to my daily arsenal, reacts with something else. Cripes, it hurts!

earth-moving day

Folding Mountains

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series within a series

Emotional Oscillation #1

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where the sun ends

Dent in the Heliosphere

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Back in December 2007, astronomers found that the sun's influence—its heliosphere—was not symmetrical. Somewhere out there, it came upon pressure from outside of its influence. I had planned on building a large art quilt, using beaded sunrays. That piece got delayed and I finally decided that it wasn't going to get done, so now I'm using its pieces for other things. The first use of a beaded ray had to be this version of Dent of the Heliosphere. Here it is.

effects of time

Detritus

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Detritus: eroded or disintegrated material. We will all be that one day. Hold on to all your pieces until you can't.

building out

Importance

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This, from the workshop word size.

dark mornings

Dawn at 10 of 7

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anyone without these?

Complexities

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gone to water and back

Lock 11

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new vocabulary

Allergic Reaction

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I ate something spicy. Ten minutes later, I turned red. My face, ears, hands, palms, feet. Bright red. No rash, not really itchy, but very hot and painful. It hurt. I stripped bare and washed the affected parts with cold water. It felt good. About a half hour later, it was all gone. Gone. No rash, no red, no itch, no pain. A little tingling. Amazing what the body might do. It speaks a language that I don't always understand.

Sort of like listening to my cat demand I-don't-know-what.

a solution

Saw This

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Build a viaduct.

a problem

Came Here Last Week

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How to make a railroad cross a creek that is in a deep ravine?

they were right

Fish in the Snow

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It snowed. Yes, it did. Not much, but enough to gather on the roof and on the leaves that are still green on my maples.

The fish had a delightful time frolicking about. Intrepid little critters.

how to get things done

Organization

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Put things in boxes, stack the boxes, and then try to remember what is in them while they teeter in the closet. Even with notes inked on the outsides, it is impossible to really and truly know what is hiding there.

I favor open storage.

enjoy

Golden Afternoon

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We had one of these the other day, a day of brilliant blue sky, golden leaves, firebushes flaming on the ground, and the wind pushing the clouds out of the picture.

They say it will snow soon.

blog action day

Climate Change Changes Everything

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This year's Blog Action Day is about Climate Change. It's a day to make our viewers a bit more aware of what is happening in the world. See here or to the left there in the blue box for more.