Merry Christmas!

Hi, It's almost too cold to run. It feels like snow. Maybe it will warm up by noon. I've run in colder weather.

Why does the weather turn miserable when there is so much to do!!!

(later)... I did get out and run at noon but it was about 17. Eckkk! I've been spoiled being able to run at sunup and see the Christmas trees downtown during the recent Spring like weather.

My current doll is Una-na and I wrote about the book, Una-na (here someplace). I always take a little time everyday to play with patterns. I took the pattern to Staples yesterday and enlarged the actual doll. I'll do a paste-up of the clothes before I attempt enlarging the patterns... identifying some of those clothing pieces
will be a challenge. I LOVE the combinations of fabrics shown in the illustrations.

The coffee shop downtown is closed and I'm sad. I have gone there since we
moved here almost 40 years ago. The same family has run it and I'm not sure
they'll be back. It is funny how much a thing you take for granted can bother
you so much when it changes.

I should be baking or something... I used my Joanns coupons to get 2 Wiltons loaf pans. I must have given mine away during a phase when I decided teflon was bad. I used my other coupons to buy some Buffalo Snow for doll stuffing. I really NEEDED THAT!

Please don't let Christmas shopping and crafting keep you from paying attention to what is going in Washington, DC ... we can breathe a sign of relief when they all go home for the holidays. hugs, annie

fight for liberty

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/23/patrick-henrys-fight-for-liberty/

Wake Up!

I had hoped never to return to the subject of Socialized Medicine.

If you do not know the meaning of "statist" the term refers to a Modern Liberal. They are the 1960's and 70's radicals you may have met in college years ago. Now they are in Washington DC.

I suggest that you read "Liberty and Tyrrany" by Mark R. Levin. Mark is giving a speech at the Reagan Library tonight at 9:00pm est/6 pst and you can watch it on his web site;

http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp

here is a chilling article by a Canadian. This spells out the threat of Govt. run health care far better than I can.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/health-237719-care-government.html

This explains why the Democrats are willing to throw their careers away. It is scary stuff.

New Beginning

Today is a new beginning here on my blog. Pitchers and Catchers (Red Sox Spring training is around 3 weeks away and I even heard a mention of Mardi Gras. It is veeeey early Spring. reeeeally!

I have been running every day for over 5 years and I always take my little Kodak. It is a Kodak Easy Share C533 that I got for a steal because it was a return in a torn box. (you get a 20 or 30 day return privilege). Never be a snob about this stuff. (In Best Buy and Walmarts this stuff is in a locked case near the cash registers in electronics.) I think this is our third nice camera bought this way. I have a 2G memory stick ... no port, no program ... simple. This camera fits in a small cosmetic case with my coffee shop money. I have also added a Sansa clip MP3 player that I totally love.

Maybe it is the economy but I have been back to collecting Ginny and the patterns for her clothes. She fits the times somehow.