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Friday, November 24, 2023

Show day, snow day

We started early, Charlie and I, to get his stuff and my stuff to the venue for this weekend's vendor show. It's at a shop for anime and other pop fans and enthusiasts, their annual 'customer appreciation weekend.' Not a big show, but friendly. Charlie's bears, his ink arts, his book TAIHAR, and a few other things are at one end of the table, and my wooly-works are at the other. It was snowing all day, tiny grainy snow that you get with very cold temperatures, and the thermometer didn't get much... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

It's the Day!

Four burners! I have four electric burners to cook and steam and sizzle! It will start with getting the turkey in the oven, accompanied by little taters and sweet corn on the cob. I am not so much up for the traditional making of stuffing to put inside the bird. I quite like it cooked inside, but I've been provided by Rob from next door with a couple of boxes of StoveTop, one cornbread, one regular bread seasoned for poultry. Charlie has come up with a solution to my preference for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Updating...

The new-for-me stove is acquired and will be delivered tomorrow! They're scheduled to come by in the early afternoon, will pull out and haul away the old one, After a day of chilliness and snow, lunch at the Chinese buffet, some time at the workshop, and a stop by the grocery store picking up a few more things for The Feast... I am home again now, watching Escape to the Country and sipping warm, milky, caffeine-free Postum. Sign in to see full entry.

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Starting out the US Thanksgiving week

Wind is up, low grey clouds are moving from east to west across the sunrise, and snow, They say, is on the way in even now. Not quite likely with the temperature several degrees above freezing, but I don't doubt it will mess with our day before much longer, blown in on that wind. Today may turn unpleasant for going out and about, but I plan to visit that appliance shop this morning having gotten the go-ahead from my landlord to buy the stove and take it off the rent. And I might not wait for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 19, 2023

Not lost, just a mite perturbed...

So today's post for this blog has happened on the Loosely Speaking blog by virtue of my not paying attention adequately and not even noticing until it was already posted. I'm taking two new meds this weekend, and 'drowsfusion' is a possible side effect of both, so... despite food recommendations for the acid reflux, I am having a cuppa caffeine. One of those meds is something they refer to as a 21st Century medication. That seems to mean that it is still fully owned by the company that makes it,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Odd and a little bizarre

I went for an appointment an hour up the interstate at the Kaiser facility there, and shared the elevator with a couple of seniors, a woman in a red jacket and a taller but bent man with a buff jacket. When I came out of the doctor's office, I smiled at them again as they were sitting in the waiting room, and then Charlie and I went on our way with only a brief stop at the pharmacy. Our next stop was miles away, visiting some friends. It was a good visit with all four of us talking and talking... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Change, change, change...

This is what happens when They assume everyone wants to do everything on their 'smart' phones. Surprising how much changing the format interferes with my sense of creativity and writing. For one thing, I have to get past the annoyance of having to get comfortable with new looks, a new environment. I will give it a try because I have friends and neighbors here in Blogittown. Change should happen because it has to. For instance, yesterday I went to see the eye/ear/nose/throat doctor, and because... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 5, 2023

Sunday morning: Foyeled Again

Here it is, near 7:30 clock time. 6:30 body time. The sky is all alight with fiery color again this morning, and my high school buddy is asleep downstairs. She came down from Bailey for the weekend to enjoy a few days of child-free time, and to trade the sock-slippers she made for me for the scarf I made for her. She lives with her daughter and son in law, and their kids--a pre-schooler and a toddler. It's a bit of hectic in that situation, so spending a few days away is a vacation. At noon-body... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Well, this was an interesting day.

I actually set the alarm to wake me at 7 because I was supposed to take the truck in for an oil change at 8. At the time I needed to actually leave, I had everything together--except the car keys. I could not find them anywhere they should have been and I had no memory of where they might have been set down instead. I knew they would not show up until I called and cancelled and rescheduled the oil change. I did that--and still, they didn't appear. The search roamed around the house: clutter was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

woooooo...!

So here we are at another Halloween, as if the mundane world of politicians, guns, germs, wildfires and catastrophic weather has not been scary enough! My Pagan friends are celebrating Samhain--or soo-wain if correctly pronounced--the end of the bright time of year, and the coming of the dark time, the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, the end of harvest and the beginning of battening down against the cold and dark. Charlie and his housemates are once again rigging up... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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