Blessings Darlings!

Wednesday I FINALLY made my monthly trip to the DC suburbs.  I have business to do there early in the month, and I try to combine a lot of things in the trip.  However, it’s VERY hard to drive there without a car … so the trip had to be delayed from Monday when I intended to go until Wednesday, when my car cooperated.  Car needed an offering of a new starter before it was going ANY where.  Or, as we say around here, “O Entropy!  Dread sister of Death”.

Yes, we are Shakespeare sluts.

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Blessings Darlings!

All apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein, who wrote the original words and music to the song “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”, and to Dr. Who for the second verse, but I feel some filk coming on.

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Blessings Darlings!

Fall is an insanely busy time around here.  The Chubby Hubby has caught up on work after the summer conference he teaches at and is involved in new projects, for one thing.  For another, the weather has finally cooled off so I’m doing more things.  Meanwhile, the garden hasn’t really slowed down yet.

The first thing I did with the cooler weather was…

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I respect authors, artists, etc – as a result, I take a hard line on plagiarism, as I’ve mentioned before. And I don’t keep silent when I see folks do it FaceBook.  Oddly enough, that doesn’t endear me to some people.  Specifically, it doesn’t endear me to plagiarists.  Which, actually, cheers me quite a bit – if I am to be known by what groups hate me, being hated by plagiarists is a fine thing in my never humble opinion.

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H. Byron Ballard, a delicate flower of Appalachian womanhood and the author of “Staubs and Ditchwater”, is A Very Bad Influence. She sent me a copy of her book, which I am enjoying immensely and will write a review of when I am done reading it. But I’m reading it slowly, because I am savoring every word of it.

What, you ask, makes a woman I just raved about a Very Bad Influence? It’s because she makes me even more shameless about what I do that draws strange looks. Let’s look at today…..

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There is a call for submissions to a Demeter devotional being put together….

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Blessings Darlings!

First aid/CPR/EMT training is an area you need training AND MIND TRAINING to be able to use in a crisis. I know – I’ve seen someone fail at this, someone who was fully trained. Let me tell you that story…

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Mondays aren’t a ‘thing’ with me. I work at home, so it’s not like this morning is somehow different than other mornings are.

So it was a real surprise when this morning (and I realize that all y’all will likely be seeing this on Tuesday) turned into a stereotypical Monday….

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We’ve been out of eating chocolate for a couple of weeks now. It didn’t bother me much, since I can be happy making a cup of hot cocoa; or mix cocoa powder, vanilla, and some sugar into yogurt; or make chocolate pudding….

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Blessings Darlings!

I’ve been making my own laundry soap since about the beginning of the year. It’s a pretty simple recipe – grate a bar of soap, add a cup each of Washing Soda and Borax, mix well, use 2 tablespoons per load. It’s easy to make, with grating the soap taking the longest time….

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