15 Scents I Love 1. Vanilla 2. Roses 3. Lilacs 4. “Cotton Blossom” soap and lotion from Bed and Bath and Beyond stores 5. Cinnamon 6. Cloves 7. Sesame oil 8. A pine forest 9. Molasses 10. Candle shops 11. Lapsang Souchong tea 12. Earl Grey tea 13. Oranges 14. Mint 15. Chocolate

Andrea: That’s why when people ask me why I like science fiction I tell them “because it’s not as bizarre as real life.” Strange things don’t happen to me, personally, very often, if ever, but I must remember that answer for the next time someone asks why I like science fiction. It’s true after all [...]

Every time I think about making changes to this blog I’m afraid something will go horribly wrong, even if it’s a relatively simple change. So I procrastinate. I’m going to finally change the theme. I really like the pretty light blue theme and the beautiful picture of the mountains of southeast Oklahoma at the top [...]

…and here is the composer on one of the Chickasaw Nation TV spots that air fairly often in this area. That’s how I first heard of him.

Kiarian Lunch – A nice culture and sometimes political blog. I think this is an old blog with a new name and it might already be on my list but I can’t remember what the old name was. I hate when that happens. If it’s there I’ll probably run across it eventually. Artificial Owl – [...]

A Memorial Day story.

Seated on a stone wall in the courtyard of my school, I declared the following words to a coterie of my friends, who hadn’t really asked my opinion: “Those Beatles think they’re the Kings of Pop (yes, I really did use the term), but everybody knows it’s the Monkees!” — here This is all I [...]

Brit Gal writes about her cameras and shares some great photos. I like the one of the cemetery with the odd looking trees. It looks sort of like a surrealist painting. I won’t be overly modest; I do think some of my photos are really good. On the other hand, I often see some photos [...]

Number One Son loved trains when he was little. Actually he loved anything with wheels. Maybe the train love seemed more significant to me because I’ve always liked trains too. Anyway, when I saw this fabric I immediately knew I had to use it in a quilt for #1Son. Now he will have someone to [...]

Does anyone out there want two stuffed cats? Or how about a nice cat stew? They are adorable but I am so damned frustrated right now I could happily skin the two of them. They have decided that one of my flowerbeds is their bed and another is their bathroom. Those products that are supposed [...]

I saw this cartoon somewhere a few days ago but I didn’t (and still don’t) have anything to say other than, “So true.” Now there’s another “so true” cartoon on the same topic. Personally, the unrealistic sci-fi gadgets get me every time as well as the “amazing medical breakthroughs.” I know the media blows everything [...]

I almost forgot to mention this. Number One Son has coined a new medical term: Whine Flu. If you’re not deathly ill but you don’t feel like doing anything but laying around and whining you’ve got the Whine Flu.

This beauty contest finalist weighs 10 stone, which Bob at The Drawn Cutlass tells us is about 160 pounds. Sadly, I don’t think this could happen in the United States and my cynical side believes that even in Britain the recent fondness for dowdy singers and chunky beauty queens is merely a fad, a moment [...]

Byzantium’s Shores has this cool feature (which I’ve been tempted to copy) called the Random Wednesday Conversation Starter in which readers are asked to choose between two things. This week it’s spaceships. I’ll bet you can guess which one I picked before reading the comments.

Language is a Virus looks like an interesting and possibly inspiring site. It has all sorts of writing prompts, writing games, widgets and other writing related stuff. Found at Planet-X, a science fiction news site.

I finished reading The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell. If you like spaceships and space battles you might like this book. It is not a great book. The characters are cliche. There’s the standard issue Reluctant Hero who must deal with the standard issue loyal followers, insubordinate subordinates, uncertain allies and of course the [...]

I don’t have much to report about the long weekend. I could have posted something yesterday but I didn’t have anything to say. I don’t have anything to say this morning either but here I am. I need to go to the store this morning and want to get there early but I’ll take time [...]

10 Things We Have Planted in Our Yard That Are Still Alive 1. 3 Gold Coast Juniper 2. 2 Tomato plants 3. 2 Dogwood trees 4. Loblolly pine 5. Rose bushes (Well, some of them are still alive.) 6. 6 Chameleon plants (Wow, are they ever alive! Unfortunately they are not the colors they’re supposed [...]

This is me, in my back yard modeling the new blouse I finished this week. The fabric is seersucker. I made the pants too, a couple of years ago.

I need to stop buying groceries and pharmacy items at the same time. The total is too scary that way. I had to buy both Zanfel (poison ivy remedy) and Zyrtec (antihistamine, 45 tablets) today. The generic version of Zyrtec is over $18 and Zanfel is over $35! WTF?! Do they charge extra because their [...]

‘Cause this world’s a round hole, and if you’re a square peg, you’ll always be real glad you came. — here Street View has a disadvantage common to all technologies delivering massive new amounts of information: it vacuums time like a red matter singularity on a Romulan starship. — there One thing that often bothers [...]

Follow-up to my earlier post. I love this little scene in the Old House. There are stronger hints that Barnabas is a vampire. (Talking about the sunrise.) The boy flubs a line (at about 5:39) and that reminded me that this show was originally broadcast live,* like most soap operas were then. And the music [...]

I have been sewing like crazy this week. I have been feeling like I’m almost finished with the quilt for weeks but I am really getting close to the end now and I’ve been working on it a lot trying to finish it this week. There’ll be a picture here soon; maybe early next week. [...]