Here’s a song about the constellations. You’re welcome.
ETA: I was sure I typed Saturday. Oops. LET’S DO THE TIME WARP, AGAIIIIIIN!
Almonds and Edamame
Healthy snack. I think Frances is more excited about it than I am.
Goodwill Haul
I had another round of fasting bloodwork this morning. Ugh. I decided I needed some retail therapy afterward, so I went to Goodwill.
The store on my side of town moved and had their grand opening on Tuesday, so this was my first visit to the new location. It’s huge! Things are still a little jumbled, in the book section, but that’s okay. That didn’t slow me down much.
The big books on the bottom are full of illustrations that I’ll use for collage.
The little Laura Ingalls Wilder book is her journal of her and Almanzo’s move from De Smet, south Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanantly. I dont think it’s the entire journal (I’ve read it but don’t own it). It’s packaged for young readers, with a foreword by Rose Wilder, so I’m betting it’s pretty heavily edited. It has quite a few pictures I’ve bever seen, though, so I grabbed it up.
I also found a pair of Yaktrax for $5. Now I can walk Frances when there’s ice, withought killing myself.
The Blue Skies of Pluto
The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue.
Source: New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto | NASA
They’ve also found water ice. And if you read the article (and you should!), there is a link toward the bottom to a high spectacular high resolution, color image of Pluto.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood
Rain tonight, they say, but today is about as pretty as it gets.
Throwback Thursday
Grandma Jeanne
My grandpa took that photo. I absolutely love it.
Grandma Jeanne was a great letter writer. If you wanted something fun in to show up in the mailbox, you wrote her a letter and she’d write back. And she’d put fun stuff in the letter, too. Or maybe send a small care package. Those always had a little can of Three Diamonds almonds in them. Usually smoked flavored.
I’m supposed to be working on getting my HDL cholesterol level up. Almonds are one of the things that can (hopefully) help with that, so I’m eating a lot of them lately, and every time I do, I think of my Grandma Jeanne.
Grandma Jeanne with her Cocker Spaniel
On the Magical iPod
Mercy I Cry City
Incredible String Band
Since you got me here
I see you’re trying to steal my soul
Your army’s trying so very hard
To find for me a goal
But where’s your quiet pastures
Where there’s time for me to be
Nothing else but what I am
That’s what you seem scared to see
You cover up your emptiness
With brick and noise and rush
Oh, I can see and touch you
But you don’t owe reality much
Have mercy I cry city, you’re all upon my mind
And sometimes I think you keep forgettin’
That you don’t know me
Mercy I cry city, you’re all upon my mind
Oh, send another carriage
Chugging down your chokey tube
I hope it makes you happy
‘Cause it don’t do my health much good
You’re slowly killing fumes
Now squeeze the lemon in my head
Make me know just what it’s like
For a sin drenched Christian to be dead
Ah, show to me your glitter
And your flashing neon light
You see, I think that only the sun knows
How to be quietly bright
Have mercy I cry city, you’re all upon my mind
That sometimes I think you keep forgettin’
That you don’t know me
Mercy I cry city, you’re all upon my mind
Oh city, what you been doin’?
All these years, what you been doin’?
Who would believe that what you been doin’
Would make such a ruin of you?
Hey city, what you been doin’?
All these years, what you been doin’?
Who would believe that what you been doin’
Would make such a ruin of you?
Tell me city
We can do it!
My awesome coworker stopped by my cubicle to give me a little present. “We can do it!” Post-it notes.
Ain’t it foggy outside
Foggy weather always makes me think of America’s Sandman.
This Dog
I give you upside down side eye with itty bitty teefs. You’re welcome.
red paper boat 