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Brassieres
Courtesy of eonline I have never liked wearing bras. Even as a young woman, I found them uncomfortable and difficult. All that was available when I was young was traditional bras with back closures. They were almost all padded to some extent … and pointy. Not at all natural looking. Courtesy of Click Americana As…
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Tried Something New
I’ve been crocheting for about 46 years. I got by with the basics for a long time. Made lots of afghans and scarves and doilies. Socks and slippers were a mainstay for a while. Tea pot cozies and toaster covers were popular once. I made a couple of rugs too. Last year, I learned how…
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Common Misconceptions, Part Four
Courtesy of the Encyclopedia Britannica Bulls are Enraged by the Color Red Do you remember school field trips? Do they still do those? Or is the educational system in most districts so strapped for cash that field trips are a thing of the past? Or is it considered too dangerous? I remember field trips. I…
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How to Know your Husband Loves You
Courtesy of Free Vector Art & Image It isn’t always easy to know the why of love. Why does someone love you, why do you love them back? I’ve thought for many years that love grows out of knowing someone well; that first comes attraction, then infatuation. Both of these work to keep two people…
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Pet Peeves
Courtesy of the Enchanted Home Oh, you so do not want me to write about my pet peeves (but I’m going to do it anyway). And besides, no one can do that better than Andy Rooney did. But I don’t think he thought of them that way. There haven’t been too many celebrity deaths that…
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Yarn Remnants
This is my storage tub of small remnants. I like to crochet. Well, it might actually be more like I need to crochet. As a result, I have a lot of remnants of yarn. If the skein remnants are large enough, I leave them as they are. If they are small, I make them into…
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Gender Confusion
The only place our cat would sit still for me to take a photograph was in the scratching tray. As I’ve written before, we rescued a stray cat at the end of 2021. And I don’t mean we got the cat from a non-profit rescue organization. We really rescued the poor thing. The cat had…
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Stairs
Courtesy of RentCafe The first place Bernd and I lived after we got married was a very small bachelor apartment in Santa Ana, California. It was about 500 square feet and inspired efficiency and organization in all things. It didn’t always work out that way, but we did our best. Courtesy of Apartments.com This is…
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Nobody Told Us: Projectile Car Ramps
Courtesy of Dragzine. Bernd’s car was white like this one but lifted higher in the back. The Chevy Nova of the time also looked a lot like the Chevy II, so it’s hard to be sure if this is actually the Chevy II. Years and years and years ago, when Bernd and I were first…
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Nobody Told Us: Frozen Waste Pipes
EcoClean We are accustomed to cold winters. We lived for almost 28 years in the higher elevations of Arizona. Temperatures could dip into the single digits in the winter and we would get snow. But we never had a waste pipe freeze. We never had to do anything special to keep them from freezing. Didn’t…
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