I forgot to show you my second amaryllis of the season!
It is absolutely scarlet. I adore it.
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Books I think all Americans should read:
Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters at the end by Atul Gawande
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThere are other books I have loved. But, I think these are universal needs.
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Do you remember this?
My local wine bar has a club that you pay $40 a month to be a member. With the membership, you get a free tasting once a week (tastes of 4 wines usually goes for $5, enough in the tastes to be equivalent to a glass). And 2 bottles from the tasting the first week of the month priced $20 or less. If you go in every week, it saves you $40 a month. Except you end up spending more than that on the snacks you buy to go with the additional wine you drink while you’re there.
The glasses are Riedel and you can call yourself whatever you want. I saw one for She Who Must Be Obeyed. Helps the staff to learn the regulars and is a little something to make members feel special.
We went in a month ago and they had a bunch of them out on tables for sale for $10. Nice general purpose wine glasses with random names on them. People who had not been in the building for 2 years or longer. On sale to clear out the space.
Mine says “Al”.
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I didn’t mean to be neglectful. I got a muscle spasm (for NO reason) on Tuesday and I’ve been decrepit and whiney all week. Sleeping on the sofa seems to be helping. Also, my heating pad.
In the mean time, I’ve been working on this temperature blanket. Most frequently, people use the colors that TV news shows use and they start on January 1. Sometimes they choose the highest or the lowest temperature fo the day. Sometimes they do squares that use 2 colors to show both extremes.
Mine begins with Januay 21 and I’m using the colors of the desert near Taos, NM where my little friend was born last year. (I say “my little friend.” But I haven’t actually met him yet. NM is a pretty good distance from NC.)
I have greens for cactus and browns for desert rocks. I’ve used the WeatherUnderground.com archive to get the temperature at the time closest to his time of birth. (It’s off by 2 minutes, but close enough).
I got 3 months in and decide I needed to start over. So, I ripped it all out and began again with a less elaborate (aka shorter) stitch and a smaller hook. The original was going to be 9’/3m long.
Because of the way it’s wadded up, it looked like 3 different projects this morning and that gave me a chuckle.
I am the Audience 