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IAN: Thursday 8/12/2021 Razzle, Moose and Squirrel
When we first brought Razzle home from the pound, she walked silently over the hard wood floors. Her nails never made a sound for the first few days. I assumed she had worn her nails down over the...
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IAN: Thursday 8/19/2021 Blooms in my Garden
My garden is mostly succulents, as you have all heard 1000 times. They all bloom if you wait long enough so here are some of them and some that are not. The Life Saver plant above is a succulent.As...
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IAN:Thursday 8/26/2021 No Excuse-I Flaked!
I’m sorry guys, I flaked out and forgot to do this! Here is your open thread. I am fine but fell asleep and just forgot. Be safe and be well.As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is...
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DK Quilt Guild: Pillowcases for Christmas/Link to Fund Raiser for Sara
I am posting the link to Angela’s diary on the matching contribution to funds for Sara, with an update on how she is doing. Please tip, rec and donate if you can.www.dailykos.com/...Mr. Zen has this...
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IAN: Thursday 9/2/2021 It was a day to do Stuff!
I am writing this the evening of 9/1. My calendar was marked on 9/1/2021 “Do Stuff”. I knew that meant pay the bills, call the financial lady, get an appointment for a mammogram, get a new cable box,...
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IAN" Thursday 9/9/2021 Kittehs as Dust mops
We have lived in our house for 32 years in November. You can imagine or have lived 30 years in the same house and you know there is ancient dust under some of that furniture. Get kittens!As you can...
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DK Quilt Guild: Beyond Pillowcases
I have finished the pillowcases I wanted to make for Christmas but apparently was not finished with the idea of them. I wanted to do something else with the pattern.DK Quilt Guild is a place for...
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IAN: Thursday 9/16/2021 Life with Kittehs is Never Dull
Squirrel turns out the be the Edmund Hilary of house kittehs. She has scaled the pet screening covering the bookcase, making it to the top but not able to get up on it. I squirted her and she dropped...
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IAN: Thursday 9/23/2021 The Further Adventures of Moose Man and Squirrel...
When we bought this house, Mr. Zen had one demand-No alley. And I had one demand-two toilets. We both got our wishes. I had lived on an alley all my life and had no idea so many neighborhoods had...
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IAN:Thursday 9/30/2021 Fresh From Bored Panda...
Here are 50 pictures of strange places cat ended up.www.boredpanda.com/...As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not...
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IAN: Thursday 10/7/2021 Do Ants Sleep?
In my garden, I see the same bugs most of the time. I seldom wonder much about them. But I recently asked myself “Do ants sleep?” That led me to the interwebs and I wandered around looking at the...
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IAN: Thursday 10/14/2021 Card Board Snow People
I made these Christmas carolers out of the inner card board tube from industrial sized saran wrap that Mr. Zen’s company uses to wrap pallets. He brought a few home and asked me if I could use them...
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DK Quilt Guild: We Can Bez Helpers?
I had planned to be finished with this quilt so I could show it today as show and tell. As they say, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Her your plans.” I am still marking the quilting on the...
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IAN:Thursday 10/21/2021 Presenting the Pergola
The directions said 2 hours, at least 3 people in some places. They did not appear to have been translated from Chinese and the Chinese have the same measurement of time as we do anyway. 2 hours was...
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IAN: Thursday 10/28/2021 Carving Pumpkins
I have carved pumpkins all my life. At times when I struggled to buy food for me and my dog, I still bought a pumpkin to carve. I made one into a pie but that was way more trouble than it was worth...
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IAN:Thursday 11/4/2021 Staying in the Lines
All this started with a cutting board with a hole in it for a bowl. The bowl is long gone, the board is still stashed in my craft room because it is bamboo and too good to use for this project, but...
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DK Quilt Guild: Geisha and Kimono
I am making a small quilt for one of my oldest, bestest friends to use on her futon bed. It is a very nice bed and I think this quilt will brighten up her guest room The geisha panel, part of which...
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IAN: Thursday 11/11/2021 Sig Lines from the Past
When they started the newest incarnation of dailykos changes a some time ago, one of first things to go were our signature lines. Many of us used them to wonderful effect and I miss them, as do...
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IAN: Thursday 11/18/2021 Driving Behind a Pokey Truck
I have noticed the sever up tick in traffic since the lock down has been lifted and most people are back to work. It was gob smacking to see and drive on Los Angeles freeways during the stay at home...
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There were no other customers in the pizza shop when she saw the tighly folded $20 bill on the floor. She picked it up and looked around for someone who might have dropped it. No one. Her first...
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