Same time... same station

Same time... same station... only one year later. Opening day is this week!!! Fantasy Baseball Drafts were Saturday night.

In between we have shoveled a lot of snow! Our dear old house is like a warrior after a tough battle.

I bought these pansies (just set in the window box) ... They are living indoors!

I'm anxious for the yard sales and flea markets to begin. I love Jane Wheel! More about her soon. See ya at the flea! annie

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.

Hi, When I began this blog I decided to let it shape itself ... so to speak. Recently I was thinking of removing the posts about tea parties but really why? ...
Today is the march in Washington, DC and I imagine there will be very many people. We considered going on a bus but it didn't work out. The price was so cheap that I had grave doubts. We will attend a tea party in the next town.

On another note we have been doing work on our antique house and made some interesting discoveries. This ia a carving over our door.

We had our roof redone several years ago and the builder assured us that we didn't need a gutter. This was a big mistake and caused a lot of paint peeling (we bought our house as a fixer upper and it needs a lot of work.) Anyways we are now newly barn red except the door and I have been walking around town finding similar carvings.

Sat, August 29

It is time to divide this into two blogs.

Today I'm going to look for several things. I want some really outrageous pens to wreck my Wreck This Journal. And maybe some tea dye muslin to make a doll.

I want a delicious cosy Mystery to take to the beach. I did get a super one about an antiques dealer in NH (kind of a low key female Lovejoy)... can't touch the Lovejoy humor though.

I may get a cook book. We are having work done on our house and meals have gone to heck.

I have to buy something to wear to a wedding late today. arghhh!