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Embroidering All the Things
I am not knitting these days. Or spinning. I am Embroidering All the Things.I don't know why I am Embroidering All the Things, but I am obsessed with it. I have been embroidering mandalas, to wit:I am...
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Welcome to a Whole New Look
You may note it looks a little different around here.I had to upgrade the software TNH runs on, and so had to change the look. I decided to go with something a little more contemporary. Some of the old...
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Five Steps to a News Diet
I am a news junkie. Perhaps it comes of my former career as a journalist, but it's probably the other way round. I've always had an interest in news. I like to know what's going on, especially in...
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Baby Grapes!
I may actually get grapes this year. Apparently I got them last year, but the blackberries were so thick I didn't know they were there, until I discovered their dessicated skeletons this spring.I have...
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Soot Sprites, Blackberries, Illnesses
The garden was finished about a month ago. I have been outside more in that brief time than I had perhaps the two years previous, entire.I walk the place every morning, making sure the blackberries...
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Top 5 Reasons I'm Choosing Sleeveless This Summer (Despite My Arms)
I've never liked my upper arms. I've been overweight most of my life, and I've always been ashamed of my body. Sleeves were a must even though I was often miserable in hot weather. This year, I'm...
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How to Keep Up with a Tomato Vine
We had a garden this year, for the first time in many. I planted two tomatoes, both of which I was assured did not need staking. Foolish me.We now have a sprawling tomato jungle, which has overrun the...
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Me on Family Finance at Mint.com!
I was interviewed on Mint.com! As it happens, I LOVE Mint, and not because they interviewed me. It predates the interview by at least two years. It's by far my favorite money management tool. An...
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In Which I Am Burned Out of My House
On November 13th, at 2:30 in the morning, we ran for our lives from my home of 27 years. A tiny spark from our pellet stove caught the bark dust alongside our house on fire; it smoldered until high...
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A Stroke
It occurred in early December. I was at the dinner table; I complained of a splitting head, then had to get down on the floor, or fall to it. John was online, looking up what might be wrong with me,...
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