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Grateful for my 2 kids, 2 granddaughters, 2 brothers and their wives and step-families, granddog, friends, and Brother David
Lots of ways. Ideas come to me for new ways to do old things, such as ‘furnishing’ my guinea pig’s cage, or tending my balcony plants, for example. Making improv quilts. Turning pieces of paper into greeting cards, such as the ones with patterns on them that I drew at the calligraphy table at the adult craft night. I’m surprised at how many new ways I find to do old things now, in my old age.
I make all kinds of stuff into cards that I send, especially to my bro and his wife, and to my recently widowed friend. They don’t have big messages, but I love sending them. I’ve had 2 craft classes this year, and I turn anything on paper into a card. They seem to appreciate them.
It’s still prayer Tuesday for some of us, and the rest of you can enjoy it on Wednesday. I’m grateful that our 40-hr power outage is over at last!
Silly Holly 🙂 I’m good at not wasting food, as you can tell from my ice cram sandwich. What shocks me is the amount of trash and recyclables I have. But half gallons of soy silk are ‘necessary,’ and quarts of yogurt are reasonable, given that I haven’t made it for decades. My [guinea pig’s] Romaine was pretty sad after the power outage, but it’s getting better as we eat into it. I think I’ll open my freezer and see how the stuff is, besides the ice...
Silly Holly 🙂 I’m good at not wasting food, as you can tell from my ice cram sandwich. What shocks me is the amount of trash and recyclables I have. But half gallons of soy silk are ‘necessary,’ and quarts of yogurt are reasonable, given that I haven’t made it for decades. My [guinea pig’s] Romaine was pretty sad after the power outage, but it’s getting better as we eat into it. I think I’ll open my freezer and see how the stuff is, besides the ice cram sandwich 🙂
SoulCollage – thanks, Carla! I’ve gone to their site now.
Yes, Marnie – it’s fun to solve problems with creative projects, isn’t it?
Wow! ‘braided rag rug’ delights me – my grandma had those. I wonder if she made them. I think we had at least one, too, when I was young. [I had said ‘growing up,’ but actually I was ‘young’ – AND I’m still ‘growing up’ even at my old age.] I put my old clothes in a big USAgain bin, where they’re collected by some clothing thrift store.
Wow, Holly, you keep your food well for a couple years – that’s a long time! 🙂 Hee Hee! Thanks 🤗
Me too – I saved it to my gratefulness doc. That guy in the cartoon Should be cleaning, shouldn’t he? I loved hearing what my colleague said about the monks in Japan – that they clean, not meditate, when they’re worried 🙂
What a good plan, dear Drew – have you ever met him? He’s wonderful. Warm wishes to you –
Oh, my! My first ice cram sandwich was nice in an interesting sort of way. Definitely refrozen. Only 1 left now. Am wondering if the foody trash bin was emptied recently. I’d have expected it to be full after our 40 hr power outage. Haven’t checked any of my other frozen foods – and haven’t thrown out the quiches yet. New ailment. Sigh. When I stood up last night, something shifted in my lower innards. Will find out tomorrow what it is. Am limping around with a walker ...
Oh, my! My first ice cram sandwich was nice in an interesting sort of way. Definitely refrozen. Only 1 left now. Am wondering if the foody trash bin was emptied recently. I’d have expected it to be full after our 40 hr power outage. Haven’t checked any of my other frozen foods – and haven’t thrown out the quiches yet. New ailment. Sigh. When I stood up last night, something shifted in my lower innards. Will find out tomorrow what it is. Am limping around with a walker my friend loaned me, not particularly painful but worrisome. I read recently that when we started walking upright and lost our tails, we got muscles at our tailbone to hold our innards in. I think mine might have a bit of ‘wear and tear now’. ‘Glad it’s nothing worse.
Oh, thank you Holly – I’m very big on covering food. I’m surprised it made such a difference. I’ll remember that. I’m curious to see how my ice cram sandwiches are – did they melt into puddles? I don’t promise to respond to all your fun replies – my conference starts again soon, and my day is likely to be full, but I do appreciate them all.
Our power company, PG&E, is accused of failing to maintain the grid, causing forest fires, etc. My son thinks the governor needs to be more forceful. Maybe that will happen eventually. Most things do seem to happen in ups and downs. It’s easy to worry about ‘end times’ these days, what with climate change. I was just delighted that we had water even without electricity. In Yogaville, we lost water, too, when there was a power outage. I’d not want a camp stove...
Our power company, PG&E, is accused of failing to maintain the grid, causing forest fires, etc. My son thinks the governor needs to be more forceful. Maybe that will happen eventually. Most things do seem to happen in ups and downs. It’s easy to worry about ‘end times’ these days, what with climate change. I was just delighted that we had water even without electricity. In Yogaville, we lost water, too, when there was a power outage. I’d not want a camp stove, after the fire in our condo complex, but I did fine with a day+ of cold foods. I opened the fridge but not the freezer, and I expect to eat the food in the freezer [except the quiche…].
Wow, Holly – our french press coffee makers, and now our RevereWare pans 🙂 Yes, I think we’re mostly responsible for food waste in the home. If people, restaurants, whatever tried to pass extra food along, think of how people would eat it and sometimes get sick from old food – except of course what can go to food banks. So that’s the main solution I see to food waste – we all need to minimize our own food waste. However… I got a buy-one-get-one qui...
Wow, Holly – our french press coffee makers, and now our RevereWare pans 🙂 Yes, I think we’re mostly responsible for food waste in the home. If people, restaurants, whatever tried to pass extra food along, think of how people would eat it and sometimes get sick from old food – except of course what can go to food banks. So that’s the main solution I see to food waste – we all need to minimize our own food waste. However… I got a buy-one-get-one quiche at the supermarket and froze 1.5 of them because they were so bad. Maybe I can get rid of the 1.5 quiches that sat in my freezer for 40 hrs during the power outage? Will you give me permission? 😜
Enjoy, Sandra! We’ll still be here when you have time to spend with us again.
That’s lovely, Drew – thanks for sharing. A barrier island in SC, google tells me. I went to the coast in NC once and there was a house on the beach, tilted and partly buried in sand. I looked in a window and saw the wrecked kitchen. The weather looks beautiful. When I referred to your ‘new home’ in the photo of your day place, I was referring to your new home state – I know you don’t live at the day place. Warm wishes to you –
Good grief yes! I caught up with email at my daughter’s Mon afternoon and uploaded my poster and listened to conference talks at my son’s this morn. It’s wonderful to be [momentarily not] listening to talks at home now 🙂 I’m soo lucky to have both kids so near!
Well, I was just one of the many who submitted an abstract for a poster… Happily I kluged a poster together this morn that was better than what I would have done with more time to ponder 🙂
Yes, dear Sandra, as long as you can look in without stressing out about things not getting done while you’re here.
Oh, Kevin, I’m sorry. Things are a bit crazy still with covid. My problem is the opposite – it turns out that I Am supposed to present a poster, but no one seems to have informed me of that. The delayed conference has been kluged together quickly and imperfectly. So be it. Warm wishes –
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