Someone turn the oven off please

Trash Fashion by ~stasha-pistachio on deviant ART

Another day of record breaking heat and I'm ready to call it quits. It's just too hot to do much of anything. The weather service says it was 95 at the hottest point yesterday, but the temperature display across the street read 99 at about five last night. Thankfully it's a bit cooler inside, but I'm wondering how miserable this summer's going to be if this keeps up.

I haven't gotten anything planted outside yet, I'm worried about the heat killing the seedlings off. It's hard enough to keep them watered when they're sitting inside on the window sill.

On the etsy front things are going better. I've been having a lot of fun browsing through all the new summer stuff and I've been pumping out the paper. Who knew cold paper pulp would feel so good. I've gotten quite a bit behind on all my blog reading though. I've been keeping up with crunchy chicken and burbanmom, but nothing on the etsy side of things. As soon as it cools off I'll be powering up the laptop and totally binging. I miss all the funny stories and the crafty inspiration.

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Earth Day aka "Green Love" 2008

Leafy Tree Pendant from OneElf Earth Day’s fast approaching and I’m super excited. My ‘hug a tree’ shirt’s ready and waiting and I’m impatiently counting down the hours. Yes I’m a giant geek, but it’s the one day where spreading the green love is totally socially acceptable. Although I will still try and refrain from yelling at people who chuck plastic bottles in the trash; I will not refrain from rolling my eyes at people who look at me funny when I remove perfectly good rolls of wrapping paper from the trash. It’s going to be fun. However since it is Earth Day I know everyone’s being berated with things like ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ and ‘turn the water off when you brush your teeth’. Important, yes, but I think there’s a bit of a bigger picture that gets missed in all that, so I’m going for something different. I’m not going to talk about it, at least not today. Today I’m talking about worms. Yes, I’m finally writing a real entry about something, and yes it’s about worms. ...

12 on 12: September 2015

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Teaser Tuesday - July 29th

Lack of perspective in literature (or in readers) often causes a contemporary condition I've heard referred to as "presentism"; that is, a disposition to judge all literature by the narrow standards of present time and present culture. This leads to the phenomena such as the denunciation of classic novels such as Huckleberry Finn , on grounds that they deal with issues such as slavery, women's civil rights, ect., in a way not consistent with the notion of present-day political correctness. - "Presentism" The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading . For other contributions click here .

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