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Card Making

Once a month or so a bunch of us get together at my friend Donna's house to make cards.  She has a large, dedicated craft room with a table that accommodates the nine or ten of us who gather to chat, laugh, eat, and make a few cards.  We range in age from 18 to 97. I took my grandson to one of these gatherings once and he whispered to me that he would be sent to time out for the type of shenanigans that were on display.  Some of these women could be stand up comedians.  The get togethers can be rowdy, even a little raunchy. It's fun and we do make some nice cards.  This weeks selection:

Oktober Fest?

I saw an ad for a nearby "Oktober Fest."  It's being held this weekend, September 22 to 24.  Am I missing something. Am I missing something?  This confused me. *** We had a fairly chilly and wet summer.  Now that autumn is officially here the weather prediction is for record breaking heat over the next couple of days.  They are reminding us that the lake temperature is still swimmable.  I have been enjoying the nice weather but I still am somewhat unsettled by all the extremes and tragic weather events elsewhere. *** I have been wishing I could get a new car.  Actually, I have only ever had a brand new car twice in my life and they were the two worst cars I ever had.  The Saab I bought was an out and out lemon.  So I am really looking for a new to me car.  Anyway, I was looking at some cars on line, reading an AARP article about good cars for those of a certain age.  I had never even heard of the Ford C-Max, so I made an inquiry about it.  I am now the best

Commenting

This post was inspried from a post by Cranky Old Man about watching movies backwards.  I have no memory of watching a movie backward but the post, as so often is the case, was quite amusing.  However, what caught my attention was the use of the expression "back in the day." My ten-year-old grandson uses that expression.   Grandma, did you have television back in the day? Oh, yes, I knew of televisions of a primitive sort.  We had one. One! And my parents (but mostly my father when he was home) had total control over it.  There were cartoons on Saturday morning and Captain Kangaroo on week day mornings but certainly no channels dedicated to kids' viewing 24/7.  The picture was only in black and white.  Programming went off the air for the night.  The horror! Grandma, what video games did you play back in the day?  Oh, the inhumanity!  There were no video games, no hand-held devices or computers.  The one phone in the house was connected to the wall and was used sparin

In the Wake of Irma

If you have a place in a popular vacation spot you can pretty much count on visitors coming to call. As we all know, some visitors are far more congenial than others.  Some visitors are the type you can't wait to be rid of -- some visitors like Hurricane Irma. At first it looked as though Irma would head up the center of the Florida peninsula.  Then it shifted to a path along the west coast and my concern for property escalated.  I watched the Venice weather -- mandatory evacuation of the island part, hurricane warning/watch, storm surge warning, flash flood warning, and, to top things off like a cherry on this disaster sundae, a tornado warning.   Water was shut off in Venice due to a broken main.  In the end, Irma downgraded and wobbled, leaving external damage but structures mostly intact. My bougainvillea was damaged.  That thing is more or less a weed.  It has an ardent will to survive and no doubt will thrive once again.  The frangipani was uprooted.  I am not sure wheth

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It seems certain that Irma will hit Florida and travel up the center of the state.  Florida is a peninsula.  The damage is likely to affect both coasts. My roof is not fixed yet.  It's not going to be fixed before the winds and rains come.  I can only be grateful I am not there and hope for the best. I was seeing the traffic jamb as people were evacuating.  There are always those who refuse to evacuate.  I am thinking about those who are on island countries.  They can't just jump in cars and leave.  Scary stuff.