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One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of the parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.

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Taking inventory, it looks like I had some fun over the years creatively building and playing with blogs. I have 17 blogs that I have created over the years at Blogger, and 11 at Word Press not to mention the other blogger sites where I built blogs. I began blogging back in the early years when blogging hadn't yet caught the popular imagination. My early efforts were in accord with the limited

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Kudos to the Congressman and his staff for hosting a successfully civil discourse Town Hall meeting last night in Ilwaco, in Pacific County, WA. And of course, the primary range of questions had to do with Health Care/Insurance Reform. Death threats to the Congressman aside, he still managed to conduct his usual in-person Town Hall meetings in several Southwest Washington counties. What was the

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Did you watch Bill Moyers on Bill Maher this past Friday? It is worth watching. Bill Moyers is well … Bill Moyers and he says it best. If you missed it you can see 3 part video posted below; also at LiveLeak - links here and here and here. Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3

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KoKo Head in Hawaii, photos taken by daughter when stationed in Hawaii, 2006.   She did her kitchen in Coffee motif, using  Espresso painted cabinets, and coffee cup napkins pasted to kitchen backdrop Her patio garden, Hawaii, 2006

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Our weekend;   The Story.  I have a peridontist appointment about every three months, in a town about 2 + hours from where we live.  So we have turned it into a weekend getaway, and a visit with my mother who lives in a nearby town to the town where my peridontist is located. Had my peridontist appt Friday and the report was good - some small improvement actually.  Not much improvement, but far

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Make Your Own Seed Tapes - More DIY How To Projects

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American Farmhouses: Country Style and Design by Leah Rosch My review rating: 3 of 5 starsI like to study the architecture of homes of bygone eras. View all my reviews.

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Forgotten Household Crafts by John Seymour My review rating: 4 of 5 starsFrom the point of view of someone who grew up in Europe, it was more intriguing to read not only the how it was done, but the perspective from a child growing up, seeing the results of how it was done. View all my reviews.

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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest by Lawrence Kreisman My review rating: 3 of 5 starsActually it was quite comprehensive and regionally specific. View all my reviews.

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I created 5 new paintings in a day. I was really into it that day. Two oils and three acrylics. Trying acrylics was new for me, see the post below.Here is one of the oil paintings, and you can see the paint is so much more vivid.

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Trying my hand at acrylics. Reason; well oil painting can be rather toxic from what I hear and read, and you know, I'm just getting along in years and not too anxious to gunk up my lungs and system. I also have read that Bob Ross designed his wet on wet paints and thinner not to be toxic, so maybe I'm safe to continue using those products. Adapting the wet on wet technique of oil painting to

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Holidays are over and the 'Company's Coming' size dining room table not needed now, so shortened it and added lighter table dressing for that fresher summer look.I think I got some pretty good thrift deals on these plates.-- a dozen Anchor Hocking Peach Lustre plates. While I'm not collecting these, I see the peach lustre pieces everywhere I find a collectible shop. This time, the price was

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I don't have those lovely vintage type handkerchiefs, and am at the mercy of finding them at thrift stores, collectibles and such like. So I went and found some because I found a few fun ideas for how to use and wanted to give some of the projects a try.In my painting/sewing room, the upstairs cupola, I used the handkerchiefs to create a window treatment. The view outside to peek views I have

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Fun video, College baseball, players from UConn and USF, filled in some of the time during a 5 hour rain delay with a Dance off  Thursday, May 21, 2009.  Enjoy and wow do I envy their ‘young’ energy!  

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We attend St John’s Episcopal Church, which is located in a small town in a sparsely populated county in a southwest corner of Washington state.  It is a tiny congregation, of sturdy people, with traditional values, and they have kept the fact of St John’s alive over the decades with their sheer determination and will.  I admire them for the values that have gotten them to where they are in

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I have avoided creating a blog specific to my faith beliefs, partially because it's so highly personal and I like to think uniquely my own. Within the context of the church we have come to call our home church; within the context of the evangelical faith community having stepped into politically shaping our country with their belief set; within the context of sorting out my personal space of

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Came across this information this morning from another blogger.  An ad she found at Facebook and at YouTube.    I wasn’t able to find what she found at the source on Facebook, so it is copy and paste with a shout- out to her blog.  In Naselle, Washington, just down the road from us, another local business person is having to close up shop.  The why details are included in her offer (below) to

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  Daughter and son-in-law had flowers sent to my house; meant to arrive Easter weekend.  Since we live as far away as we do from urban centers, it takes UPS a bit longer to deliver, so the flowers arrived a couple days later than they planned, but the flowers did arrive.    Came in a florist box that looked like long stemmed roses might be inside.    Opened the box to find fresh spring

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After a too long time away from my paints, brushes, and the messy operation that is oil painting, yesterday I completed two paintings! The paintings I've accomplished grow fewer and fewer over the years since 2006. Lots of reasons why, but I hope this change in momentum means 'I'm Back'! I sought out the old painting clothes and found I've outgrown them (that means I weigh more now than I did

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So hey, thanks Crochet Dude - he actually has a name = Drew Emborsky, aka, The Crochet Dude. He left a comment at my post about using his pattern to make travel jewelry purses. Thanks Drew! Odd coincidence or serendipity because I have a grandson (9 yrs old), nickname 'Drew' who plays basketball, x-box, football and is also fascinated with Grandma (me) teaching him to crochet. He is

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Got the packages out in the mail to my older daughter and her family.  Pictures of the tote/purse I made for her; again using placemats and napkins for the interior pockets.   I adapted the many patterns I found on blogs, to make some simple channel pockets for the interior of the purse.   I crocheted 2 pairs of wrist cuffs (above) using fun fur yarn for my two teenage granddaughters.  And I

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Last year I bumped into a crochet blog by a Guy!  Yep, and he calls himself  'The Crochet Dude'.  His crocheted creations were different and fresh.  I was quite taken with them, and the idea of a guy who not only could crochet but come up with his own creations was enchanting!  He had a few free patterns, and I was happy to try his pattern for 'Travel Jewelry Purse'.  I liked it so well, that I

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Enjoying the crafty ideas I've seen in crafting blogs for using placemats - or better said - for upcyling placemats.  I finished up this one in a jiffy, an organizer, using two placemats, sewing up the channels and well, I sewed it directly onto a plastic hanger.  Quick as that, I have a pretty little fabric bathroom organizer, or a cosmetic organizer or perhaps a child's room organizer.I hope to

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We do have in our little community what is called Bay Center Association.  It is a service-oriented group comprised of willing volunteers from among the community of Bay Center.  Residents of Bay Center are automatically members of the Association.  The Association goes back to the early origins of the formation of Bay Center.  I’ve seen documents in the Association records that show the sense

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excerpts from article in Chinook Observer BAY CENTER - The Chinook Indian Tribe has moved its office from the Sea Resources building in Chinook to Bay Center. Tribal Chairman Ray Gardner said the move had been in the works for quite some time. "When you look back historically, it made sense to move to Bay Center because 90 percent of our staff live there and there's a very large volunteer

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Helpful hints from bloggers prompts me to try new ideas. This is a recycle, refashion idea. Using a pillow case that I picked up at thrift store, it becomes a chair cover with enough left over to cover a small pillow.

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Among my completed crochet projects, here is a long scarf and matching hat that I crocheted from the chenille yarn. I was showing my basket full of finished crochet projects and my mother was taken with this set. I rather had it in mind to gift it to her when I made it, so I'm pleased she was happy with it.

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Didn't do so great in keeping up with adding my completed projects to this blog. So a bit of catch up if I may. In fascination with working placements and napkins into purses or totes, I made this one for one of my daughters. Intended it for her birthday in February, and the trip she was taking to Hawaii to reunite with her husband returning hone from his second Iraq deployment. I had some nice

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Kathy Freston at Huffington Post Excerpt: If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save: ● 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months; ● 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year; ● 70 million gallons of gas--enough to fuel all the

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I am not sure why I found myself agitated after reading the book, and in talking to my husband who has written and published his own book ‘And Should We Die’ on the same subject, I came to realize some of the reasons for the agitation. My husband, is a descendant of one of the ancestors of the Martin handcart company; Mary Crossley. He did not know that when he wrote his book, and the sensitive

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Well that is too bad, because we have a beautifully working library system here in Southwest Washington, one I rely on heavily, and hope the voters didn’t vote the  wonderful library services into extinction.   Voters in five Washington counties rejected additional funding for libraries Tuesday The library-funding proposition passed in Pacific and Mason counties, but was overwhelmingly

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Article I came across this morning at Washington Post turns out to be much more than one article.  It is an article collection in a series on the clean up efforts and lifestyles of the  Chesapeake Bay reported by the Washington Post.  I read with interest, recognizing that I could well be reading the future of Willapa Bay were it to become more densely populated; were it to become less

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Well, whewww, someone put it together – activism + craft = craftivism.  That works for me!    Because it is possible to go beyond banners, email petitions and chants as ways of fighting for a cause you believe in. You could have a knit-in, papier-mache puppets, teach a crafty class for kids- all ways of turning that energy into a more positive, more useful, force. Atrocities are happening in

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Our wonderful dog, Jake – Australian Shepherd breed – which means NOT that he is a shepherd breed, nor from Australia. These dogs likely got their names because bred in America, they were most often used by Basque shepherds to do sheep herding. Thus the Australian part of the name and the shepherd part of the name. They are working dogs, guarding dogs, and are bred to be working dogs, herding

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Adding this bit of information that was circulating around the internet a few years ago.  Seeing it  surface again in one of my subscribes, I thought I would add it to my blog. ** LIFE IN THE 1500′S *** The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the

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Too many blogger template choices these days, and as the years keep passing, what people can now do with blogger compared to those early years…..why, I remember when you got the bare bones basics with blogger.  Then I learned enough html to be able to add to my blogger html template.  I thought I was doing pretty great, until the ‘feeds’ came along.  I couldn’t quite figure out how to make that

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Lovely holiday luncheon yesterday.  Dear Lady put on a sit-down holiday luncheon for about 20 women in our community.  If  it had been 1950, the luncheon might have looked like women wearing shirt-dresses with petticoats to make them flounce, hats and gloves, and a fashionable purse.   But it isn’t 1950, and that is not what the women looked like at our luncheon yesterday.  Although, our dear

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This must just be our week for meeting lots of new to us neighbors.  It happens on occasion that my google alerts set to Willapa and Pacific County, alert me to a neighbor who is blogging.  Such was the case this morning, and I encountered this blog  seaviewwa – a couple who moved to Seaview and are refurbishing a home there.  She’s been blogging as long as I’ve been blogging. Where she has

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Met our  newest Bay Center neighbor via Facebook.  How interesting!  He or they contacted me via my Facebook to let us know they were new neighbors, and paid us a nice compliment on our house.   They bought the house that I so love – the one I’ve been drooling over practically since we moved here and bought our house.  Two owners ago, we were guests of the then-owners of that house and I was so

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Lovely weekend activities.  Last year at this time, everyone was still digging out from the storm (Dec 1-2, 2007) with those hurricane-strength winds at 140 + mph.  Can’t really know the full strength of those winds because the gadget that measured and registered the winds at 140 mph broke.  This year, no windstorms, some temperate, cool weather, bits of sunshine, some normal rainfall, fog and

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How terrific is this woman!   At her age even….!!!

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Morning revelries.  Up before dawn gives us opportunity to watch the skyline as it goes from dark of night to graying with streaks of pink sunlight for those days promising sun.  Once the dark of night clears, I look out the window as I go through my ‘morning reads’ on my computer.  Familiar sights ground me.  The tall evergreen trees that line the side of my yard and create peek a boo views of

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Fruit and vegetable gardens in the US are rising in popularity as environmental consciousness meets depression economics Last week, while helping a friend turn over her soil, I came across a giant bean that had grown out of old compost. "Fava beans," said my friend the gardener. I opened the pod and there they were, nestling in fuzzy little pockets. How come I had never seen a fava bean pod

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DENVER -- About 40,000 people showed up to a Weld County farm Saturday in the hopes of getting some free food. But within an hour the food was gone. "We had originally planned to take everyone by tractor to the fields but due to the overwhelming response we had to allow people to walk or drive themselves," said Dave Miller. Many families had be to turned away and sheriff's deputies were

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Playing around with the templates to my blogger blogs and I ran across this gift from this blogger, some fresh new 3 column templates to use.  I liked what I saw and immediately began changing the templates on several of my blogs.   You can play around with your templates too --- visit her site .   Oh and a little bonus, she has added many holiday templates

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article at Daily Astorian If a project isn’t sold to the community it will struggle to gain public acceptance There are suddenly plans for a lot of wind-based power generation blowing into Washington's Pacific County, possibly a hint at what may occur in many of the coastal counties of Oregon and Washington in the years ahead. A "joint operating agency" of Washington state electricity

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-38730481361024196342008-11-27T11:10:00.001-08:002010-03-21T12:34:42.126-07:00

Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving quite like Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-51687184752023452152008-11-27T11:10:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:41.872-07:00

Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving quite like Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-50730725459401755472008-11-24T09:23:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.849-07:00

  Sept 2008 marked my 2nd year anniversary being smoke free after 40 years being a smoker. Quitting was not as difficult as my imagination told me it would be and I sure wish I had done it 20 years earlier or 30 years earlier or never started. But what is done is done. I'm used to having a somewhat thin body, and the combination of going through menopause and quitting smoking around the same

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-63539995750497338092008-11-23T20:30:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.664-07:00

I was capturing some of the scenery on our drive home. We were driving home as the sun was starting to set. I was able to get a nice set before we lost the light. Not bad considering these were taken as a passenger in a moving vehicle.

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article at Daily Astorian If a project isn’t sold to the community it will struggle to gain public acceptance There are suddenly plans for a lot of wind-based power generation blowing into Washington's Pacific County, possibly a hint at what may occur in many of the coastal counties of Oregon and Washington in the years ahead. A "joint operating agency" of Washington state electricity

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-25595981835463776162008-11-12T17:42:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.698-07:00

She really did. She phoned on Veterans Day. I was sitting at my desk in my home in my lounge around the house clothes, working on my laptop. The dawning of the fullness of the recognition that I was listening to Michelle Obama, who will very soon be the First Lady hit me like a ton of bricks and blew me away. Wow, I'm on a phone call with the First Lady -- how cool is that!Actually, it was a

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-59848158437972788492008-11-12T09:12:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:41.849-07:00

Returning wounded Iraq veteran, and now Director of the Illinois Dept of Veteran’s Affairs, Tammy Duckworth who lost both legs in combat in Iraq war with President Elect, Barack Obama on Veteran’s Day 2008;  ceremony of placing the wreath on Bronze Soldiers Memorial. link - more photos and article On a more personal note, Arthur, along with the rest of the veterans living here in our

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-57060378394412657922008-11-11T15:02:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.798-07:00

Straight from your kitchen; it’s become a holiday tradition now – the growing collections of ‘gifts in a jar’.  They are all over the internet, blogs and websites.  Thought I’d make a post, open a category and collect links to what is already out there.  Since so many have built their own collections, it would be redundant for me to repeat one by one, so let’s go for collections. Found this

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AP Technology writer, Jordan Robertson has an article at Newsvine.com today that speaks to this subject. Reading the entire article is certainly not a waste of time. Highlights: (1) "The most paranoid people in the world — computer security experts — say it's absolutely fine to bank online. As long as you guard against the person who is likely your biggest adversary: yourself. If you're

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-7358227740184603102008-11-10T19:55:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.775-07:00

Released in 2008, the film ‘Crawford’ produced/directed by David Modigliani is a documentary/biography of the small town of Crawford, Texas before George W. Bush arrived at their doorstep, during the time of his Presidency. (And now after as new President-Elect, Barack Obama, is preparing to assume the office of President of the United States).  The film,’Crawford’  is put together in a way that

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-29612046757769799982008-11-10T11:59:00.001-08:002008-11-10T11:59:49.553-08:00

Released in 2008, the film ‘Crawford’ produced/directed by David Modigliani is a documentary/biography of the small town of Crawford, Texas before George W. Bush arrived at their doorstep, during the time of his Presidency. (And now after as new President-Elect, Barack Obama, is preparing to assume the office of President of the United States).  The film,’Crawford’  is put together in a way that

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-15349313156419527062008-11-09T17:45:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:46.710-07:00

I've issued what I think is a fun challenge to the families that make up some of our family tree. This year, with the economic issues, downright crisis in some instances, and with sustainable living - green - recycle - reclaim - reuse - global warming, well seems a perfect year to make a change we've been gradually making anyway. Say No to Consumer Shopping and Yes to Joyously Remade Christmas

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-32088668526373923382008-11-07T07:56:00.000-08:002010-03-21T12:34:44.395-07:00

I’m a Will Smith fan, I just like the guy. I  like his approach and attitude and I like his movies,  and yes, he he makes me laugh.  Video of him on Oprah show after the elections results in President-Elect Barack Obama.  Watch the video at this link.

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-79368941172368152682008-10-28T19:01:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:46.786-07:00

he holidays are coming! The holidays are coming! I like to enjoy the celebration part of the holidays, keeping the holiday cheer, without overdoing it and turning it into holiday stress. And since it is a long holiday season, somewhere about midstream I began to fade a little and lose some of my jubilance. The thing is that in my mind's eye, I make plans to do so many things that I lose my focus

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-77381045144482009152008-10-28T14:03:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:42.431-07:00

"Dads are often expected to raise the first glass and offer inspiring remarks, as family and friends come together with anticipation and cheer," said Paul Banas, CEO of Greatdad.com. "Holidays events are wonderful opportunities for dads to rise to the occasion, deliver unforgettable words, and set forth a tradition for generations to follow." Five Top Toasting Tips Prepare remarks in

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Holidays approaching and so approaches all that Holiday anticipation. You may love it or leave it but the Holidays don’t take a vacation, every year around this time, here comes the Holidays. A collection of all that goes into the Holidays, whether you are in a Daze, Dazed, or Glazed, here you can find Holidayz to help you make it all you want it to be, whether more or less, it is yours to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-35412827399863828542008-10-28T10:05:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:44.370-07:00

Until you notice the orange-suited men clambering around, it's hard to grasp the extraordinary scale of this underground crystal forest. Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, this cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine. It is an eerie sight.  Up to 170 giant, luminous obelisks - the biggest is 37.4ft long and the equivalent height

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-53117780119774795882008-10-28T10:00:00.001-07:002008-10-28T14:22:15.894-07:00

Inspiring and Hopeful.  And just a few days away now from becoming a much needed change in our political reality. 

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Inspiring and Hopeful.  And just a few days away now from becoming a much needed change in our political reality. 

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-2815232112551209642008-10-28T09:53:00.001-07:002008-10-28T14:30:55.540-07:00

As I understand the SOFA (status of forces agreement), the urgency now underway is to come to a mutual agreeable agreement before Dec 31, 2008 as that is when the ?? ‘legality’ ?? of U.S. troops in accordance with UN mandate ends.   The Iraqi government has not reached agreement with President Bush, and speculation is that Iraqis know there will be a new Administration after U.S. November

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-62274237817120347872008-10-26T08:53:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:46.751-07:00

aturday Morning. Brisk, snappy cold Autumn morning. House is chilled, and I have on extra layer plus the wrist and neck warmer I crocheted for when I'm sitting at my laptop and not moving around too much. As the morning beckons, the light shines through with the promise of another sunshine filled day, I look forward to doing some work outside to clean up the garden beds. Where we live, with rain

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-45784381932614743052008-10-23T18:58:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:46.825-07:00

olidays approaching and so approaches all that Holiday anticipation. You may love it or leave it but the Holidays don’t take a vacation, every year around this time, here comes the Holidays. A collection of all that goes into the Holidays, whether you are in a Daze, Dazed, or Glazed, here you can find Holidayz to help you make it all you want it to be, whether more or less, it is yours to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-71573339798641058632008-10-20T13:30:00.001-07:002008-10-20T13:30:13.432-07:00

Steal Back Your Vote! from Greg Palast on Vimeo.   FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding of the Iraq War, political, peace and social justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-65807924107686502012008-10-19T10:12:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:41.826-07:00

The photo Colin Powell referenced in his endorsement of Barack Obama.  The photo of mother at her son's gravesite, a young man, 20 years old, killed in Iraq, awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart.  Emblem on his gravesite is not the Christian cross, the Jewish Star of David, but the Muslim Crescent and Star.  Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Cpl., U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom, was an American who

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-65642650607815955142008-10-19T10:07:00.000-07:002008-10-19T10:09:35.303-07:00

The photo Colin Powell referenced in his endorsement of Barack Obama.  The photo of mother at her son's gravesite, a young man, 20 years old, killed in Iraq, awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart.  Emblem on his gravesite is not the Christian cross, the Jewish Star of David, but the Muslim Crescent and Star.  Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Cpl., U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom, was an American who

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-30700546209537159572008-10-11T12:42:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:44.359-07:00

The Presidential debates (2 so far).  The Vice Presidential debate.  The gubernatorial (Governor of Washington) debate.  Even one of the U.S. Representative debates.  I’m debated out for now.  I’m politicked out and there are still weeks to go till the election.   Running a 2 year campaign cycle for President only to do it again say 2 years later is too much!  And I’m a voter, not campaigning.  I

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-30852230245095447842008-10-11T12:33:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:47.319-07:00

Summer ends.  Autum leaves turn.  The garden valiantly lives on…the carrots are growing, the beets, newly planted lettuce varieties.  Parsnips planted (but  I think the visiting dog dug that section up).  I already know that parsnips, carrots and beets will be okay in the ground from my ‘accidental’ discoveries i previous years.  I had given up on the garden and was surprised to find these root

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-7053412760096844512008-10-06T08:30:00.001-07:002008-10-06T08:35:27.323-07:00

This video feels good, surprisingly so, and hits you at your heart place before you realize your heart is invoved. Makes me teary-eyed. We Can be More. Courtesy of video posted to youtube, but originates at The Responsibility Project.

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Here is his bit 'TV Commercials' in 2007. Great Fun!

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire, Eva Longoria Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Demi Moore, Sarah Silverman, Jonah Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Laura Linney, Natalie Portman, Jamie Foxx, Usher, Kyra Sedgwick and will.i.am all tell you first 'Don't Vote', then identify reasons why you might want to vote, then let you know you have to

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What's your take? And this from VetVoice.com Brian McGough :: McCain overstretches his support of veterans and troops.[Excerpt] In tonight's debate John McCain said "I know the veterans, I know them well, and I know that they know that I'll take care of them, and I have been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans, and I love them, and I'll take care of them,

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-1110111216240698772008-09-26T11:43:00.000-07:002008-09-26T12:01:55.027-07:00

John McCain, Presidential Candidate, on Wednesday 'suspended his campaign' (his own words) to get to DC to help with the financial bailout. In suspending his campaign he wasn't going to be available for the Presidential Debate with Barack Obama in Mississippi on Friday.But look at the McCain ad below advertising he already won the debate! copy/paste snapshot of page where McCain campaign ad

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Bush 2003 Scares U.S. into Iraq invasion; Bush 2008 Scares U.S. into Financial Bailout -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show shows the side by side almost exact speech of President Bush on Iraq 2003, President Bush on Financial Bailout 2008.

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The cancelled guest appearance of Presidential candidate John McCain scheduled for the David Letterman show, Sept 24, 2008. In which John McCain phoned Letterman to advise he was cancelling as he had to fly back to DC because the economy was 'cratering' and in crisis ($700 Billion Financial Bailout). Ah, but that same night, John McCain appeared on Katie Couric, and didn't actually fly back to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-18767435473540864092008-09-26T09:54:00.000-07:002008-09-26T09:58:39.554-07:00

A quick post. I abandoned this blog after the disappointing election 2004, and went on to create other blogs that I continued to update. Blogging has, of course, evolved considerably since the early blogging days and is a quite different environment in 2008 than it was in 2004. It was good to visit this 'old friend' stub of a blog. I'm thinking I might use it to add some items related to

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Survey Report Excerpts from The Pew Research Center for the People & the PressA sizable minority of Americans find themselves at the intersection of these two long-standing trends in news consumption. Integrators, who get the news from both traditional sources and the internet, are a more engaged, sophisticated and demographically sought-after audience segment than those who mostly rely on

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-48630929435576609742008-08-16T08:51:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:44.318-07:00

I hear occasionally that we are going to see more usage of trains, particularly for freight hauling. Read the excerpt below and check out that map.On Willapa Bay the trains are gone and the remaining tracks are rusted. Nearest active rail lines are 30 miles north, 50 miles east and south across the Columbia in Oregon.[Excerpt}BruceMcF at Docudharma.comMidnight Thought on Living Energy

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No employment duties today, just gardening, house cleaning, no rush no hassle, just me and the little woman.Quiet and side by side reading and writing Internet stuff."hey, look what I found!""Look Honey, what you can get on Firefox.""Does it upload pictures?"" I have too many blogs.""Now this one is a catchall for whining, it's titled THE WAILING."If that cat tries to sharpen its claws on the

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It's true, visitors should be advised (warned) to follow the speed limits exactly when passing through the nearby towns of Raymond and South Bend on Hwy 101. An article by Stephanie Frieze appearing yesterday in Tacoma News Tribune; In Your Neighborhood section encourages an inexpensive vacation to Long Beach and then offers some tour guide information; where to go, where to stay, where to eat.

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"Alan Trimble, a researcher at the University of Washington, has noticed similar problems in the wild. Sampling seawater in Willapa Bay, Wash., he found that the oyster and clam larvae had disappeared in the last two years from waters where bacteria counts had been high."Excerpts from L.A. Times articleclick on link above to read entire article.Oyster ’seeds’ are dying as Pacific Coast

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Our dog, Jake, after surgery on his ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). Didn't realize it was going to be such an invasive procedure. He healed, never fully, and has a permannt limp, and we are grateful the veternarian who performed the surgery did as well as he did. Prior to the surgery, Jake couldn't seem to walk at all. It took about a year of recovery, and now Jake bounces in excitement

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  Today is my birthday = 57 years old. I'm pleased and proud to report that I am still smoke free, having smoked my last cigarette September 2006. Means that I passed my one year anniversary of no smoking September 2007 and am on my way to second anniversary smoke free this year. It's been entirely 'natural' to give it up without regret, and without much in the way of pangs or temptation to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-24771933999092875692008-07-07T07:57:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:44.216-07:00

The link to the entire origianl article is in this post's title above.The writer, Linsey Knerl - wheverever in rural America she is living - describes herself as a "Stay-at-home Home-Educating Mama of four, I'm just cheap!"The article is Linsey's contribution to: click on image to go there.Excerpts:After landing a very nice job at an insurance-related company, I was slowly seeing the world in a

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-5014322468690320652008-07-05T06:41:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:44.199-07:00

Lietta and I have allocated enormous amounts of our spare time to a serious examination and plan of our response to the implications of Peak Oil, gas guzzling transportation and what to do about potential shortages of commodities, services and medical expertise that stare us in the face as we move into our 60's.All this business causes us to miss some of the prime entertainment and diversion

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-67483219429470603152008-07-02T12:05:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:43.881-07:00

Attended U.S. Representative Brian Baird Town Hall Meeting in South Bend, Pacific County, Washington on July 1, 2008. I had very personal reasons for wanting to talk to Congressman Baird this year based on our experience talking with him at his Town Hall meeting last summer.You may recall that last year Congressman Baird made national news in his support of the 'Surge' (of U.S. troops deployed to

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Sweetie has been diligent in helping me create our kitchen vegetable garden bed these past several years. He digs it and turns the soil by shovel each spring, and then I add seeds, water and watch it grow. Oh were it that simple! Not!The first couple of years, vegetable garden grew well. When he first laid out the garden bed, I came in behind him, laid down newspaper to cover the soil, then added

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7793850.post-8223466822613754632008-06-30T08:04:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:34:47.285-07:00

I have a sweet potato vine growing in a container in my kitchen window, and I keep wondering if it would actually grown a sweet potato underneath the soil. Perhaps so. From a poster at one of the listservs I am subscribed to, she cites her experience with sweet potatoe vines...and it sounds like it was an unexpected surprise to her to find actual sweet potatoes growing.I am put off a bit by

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