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The Light on the Dark Side of the Moon
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| Crystal love |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|08:28 am] |
Last week we spent a day out at the larger, more well known mine... the one they had to go put on TV and turn into a boom town resort. It was pretty much a waste of a day. It's the first time EVER that we've gone out specifically for crystals and came home totally empty handed. It was kinda funny because when I was picking a day to go I happened on one of my horoscopes and it told me what my luckiest day of the month would be... and so we went on that day. ROTFLOL! Well, maybe it was my lucky day in ways I won't know.... Maybe it was lucky I broke the handle on our brand new sledge hammer on the third blow, the fourth blow might have exploded the rock and knocked me out with a stone to the head. Maybe I was lucky I wasn't home where I woulda broke an ankle or something... who knows.
Anyway, here's a photo of a drusy matrix rock with embedded crystals that's out in the garden from a couple years ago. We shoulda went to the mine where I got this one. I rarely find good loose stones there, but we usually come home with a couple nice matrix rocks for the garden at least.
They are hard for me to photograph with my cheap camera... the crystals aren't white like they look from the reflected light... they are water-clear... sparkle soooo pretty....
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| DID YOU KNOW?!?!?! |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|10:58 pm] |
I just heard... on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thetoymaker 's LJ
Tim Burton is doing Alice in Wonderland... Can you imagine? It's going to be amazing...
of course Johnny Depp as the Hatter can't hurt any... :-)
Oh my... it'll be a dream and it'll be a nightmare...
I'm just so awed at how the universe is flirting with my fondest fantasy world and is about to roll out a whole new landscape to fuel the visions of Wonderland.
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| Funny Bonez |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|09:49 pm] |
Nope, I'm not frolicking about in the petrified remains of a mastodon.....
Despite the fact that we already live about as primitvely as civilized folk can get and still be fit for polite company.... Paul's been wanting a little "camp" spot out on the edge of the ravine on the game trail. I've kinda ignored him for a long time. :-) Then i was browsing in the candy store (Lowe's to be more specific) when I happened upon a whole rack of 1/2" by 10 foot pvc pipe for 35 CENTS a piece!!! I had to go get a customer service guy (and where Lowe's is concerned, the term is used very loosely) to confirm that I was reading the tag right.... and yup, discontinued pipe, close out... How could I possibly resist. So anyway... now Pauly is getting his camp.... I had no clue what i was doing and the plans I looked at on line either were too involved, used fittings I couldn't get, used the wrong kind of pipe or just had materials listed with no "how-to".... So, I'm winging it but it's all working out just fine. We ran out of day so I'll finish it up tomorrow and show more pix.
I pre cut all the pipe before hauling it to the woods...
Hey... it's actually coming together and working out!!!
It's really looking like something! This is cool... I could build these things all over the property if I could get my hands on more cheapo PVC!
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| The Reader's Digest Condensed version.... |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|08:03 pm] |
Ya know the longer I go between writing, the harder it is to even try to start again. I should be full of news but all I am is like... um.... duh...
I still read quite often, but really, I don't have a lot to say these days. No profound wisdom to share... I just kinda babble a lot around here. :-) I've always been a better listener than talker anyway. So please know... I AM out here listening.
I'm exploring and trying to rediscover myself, realize my identity as "crone" and gracefully slip into this phase of my life. It's so totally different than anything I've been before, so much is shifting and there's so much to accept that it's not as easy and as seamless as I'd imagined it'd be even a few years ago. Even my whole image is different... it's hard to explain, but who I was at 30 or even through my 40s doesn't work for an obviously aging woman in her 50s. The world even treats you so much differently. It's a good thing I'm pretty easy going because on my crankier days I could almost see me decking the next 28 year old chick who calls me "honey" or "sweetheart". Less than even two years ago I was still putting off sexual advances of 19 and 20 year old friends or co-workers who still found me "too intriguing to resist"... LOL!!! but now just a couple years later they settle in at my feet for grandmotherly advice. :-) Yes, I'm happy with it, I'm settling into the role comfortably... I just need to fit more comfortably in the wrapper.
I QUIT SMOKING!!! It's still making me crazy and it's been over three weeks. Do the cravings ever stop? Okay, so i probably made matters worse... About two weeks in I found a part pack of old clove cigs in my file cabinet. I had one of those a day for a few days. Yea... they are really bad... higher tars and likely twice the nicotine of my natural cigs since they have a rougher tobacco in them. But... it was actually just enough though... Enough to keep the edge off and keep me from the desperate emotional feeling of losing my main coping mechanism and self medication source. Just one a day helped me feel like I wasn't giving up everything "forever". Well, i'm out of them now... still doing okay. I ordered a couple packs of herbal no-tobacco cigs. I may or may not try them. At least it's an option. Yea, I know they are really very bad for me, body wise... but I do think they'll help me finish off the nicotine addiction.
Okay... the last time I really made significant progress at quitting smoking I put on 30 pounds.... fast.... that was quite a few years ago. I've attempted to quit several times since... pills, patches, gum... and I was such a mess I didn't get far... I was smoking within a few days to a week or two each time... AND put weight on fast each time too. So this time I decided I'd keep from putting on a bunch of weight by "dieting" at the same time. I'm "carb free" for three weeks now too... and I haven't lost a pound... well I think I gained one or two.... BUT I haven't gained 30 so it's working. But if I'm gonna torture myself like this I want to LOSE weight too.... Tomorrow I'm starting to add some carbs again. I can't cope with all these cravings at once... food-cigs... I'm starting to cave. I just have too much going on at once in my body I think... nicotine withdrawel, carb withdrawel, pre-menopausal hormone withdrawel... oh gawd.... no wonder i feel like I'm gonna explode and all the little pieces of me are gonna spin off into orbit.
All this talking about it... now I'm desperately craving a long draw on a fragrant cigarette.... *sigh*. Good thing I got rid of every trace of every butt and all the stuff.... or I would..... right now.... and it's a good thing I live miles out of town or it'd be too tempting to..... oh stop... Breathe deep... I'm okay :-)
EDIT: Okay.... yea it's sad and pathetic but nope, I didn't quit to get healthy... though that would be nice too. :-) I actually quit because NYS as well as the feds just stuck a bunch more taxes on the tobacco I buy and I couldn't afford to even stuff my own anymore.... just can't stretch the budget enough to do it... or I probably would! Yes, everyone should quit for their health but being unable to buy anything to smoke is a pretty good motivator too. LOL! It kinda takes some of the choice factor out of it. Yea, I do tend to have addiction problems.... why can't I get addicted to something GOOD for me?! Like.... Oh I dunno... chard...
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| testing 123 |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|07:59 pm] |
Well... this was last night, but the internet wouldn't play nice and I was sooooo tired....
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| This scares me.... |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|07:29 pm] |
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Really... you need to read this... it makes me sick to my stomach. I can only think and mourn for all the amazing old children's books that I have and even more so, the ones I may never have the pleasure of finding because they've been destroyed.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0212wo.html
Here's a small part from the middle in case you want to know what it's about before you click the link to read....
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..... I just came back from my local thrift store with tears in my eyes! I watched as boxes and boxes of children’s books were thrown into the garbage! Today was the deadline and I just can’t believe it! Every book they had on the shelves prior to 1985 was destroyed! I managed to grab a 1967 edition of “The Outsiders” from the top of the box, but so many! People who deal in children’s books for a livelihood now face unpleasant choices. Valorie Jacobsen of Clinton, Wisconsin, who owns a small used-book store and has sold over the Internet since 1995, commented at my blog, Overlawyered: “Our bookstore is the sole means of income for our family, and we currently have over 7,000 books catalogued. In our children’s department, 35 percent of our picture books and 65 percent of our chapter books were printed before 1985.” Jacobsen has contacted the CPSC and her congressional representatives for guidance, but to no avail. “We cannot simply discard a wealth of our culture’s nineteenth and twentieth children’s literature over this,” she writes. She remains defiant, if wary: “I was willing to resist the censorship of 1984 and the Fire Department of Fahrenheit 451 long before I became a bookseller, so I’d love to run a black market in quality children’s books—but at the same time it’s not like the CPSC has never destroyed a small, harmless company before.” *********************
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| Serious Carrotage |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|05:29 pm] |
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The other day I was reading my FL and onfruitstreet was wondering why she grows carrots the size of pinkie fingers....
Well, that made me think of the photos I have of Pauly's Aunt Mildred and Uncle Donald back when they were somewhat younger. Well, a lot younger I guess since they are both dead now....
...but anyway, they both had the greeeeenest-greenest thumbs I've ever known.
Thus they always had the biggest CARROTS ever-ever
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| News from a very small planet |
[Feb. 11th, 2009|08:58 pm] |
Wow... it's been so long that LJ made me sign in. It forgot who I was.
Glad to read that all is okay where you are, Cynjon... this weather is crazy. Interesting, but crazy. Those winds are supposed to come through here tomorrow. We've lost a few trees from ice and snow and maybe weakened a few more that will go in the wind. That's okay. We have lots. LOL! More for firewood next year.
CAROLYN!!! onfruitstreet Thank you so much for the arty card! It's lovely and I was so happy to get fun mail! The funnest part is noticing that Fruit Street is a real place and that's where you really live! LOL! I love the colors, especially the way the gold looks with the rosy pinks. Thank you :-)
I looked all over PetFinder and there are no Llamas in up for adoption in NY state. Oh darn. But Dolly really needs to come live here... anyone wanna pick her up and give her a ride? http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=12056276
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| babbleness |
[Jan. 14th, 2009|10:06 pm] |
The only good thing about ten below zero is that when you see the extended forecast and it says it's going to get to ten above zero you get all excited about the heat wave coming.
I don't know why I'm sitting here reading so much tonight. I'm not comfortable, I'm so tired I can hardly think and I don't feel so great.
Paul cooked a "snack"... he re-heated some leftover rice from supper and cooked a handful of little shrimp to toss in it. I HATE the smell of cooking shrimp... with a passion... makes me sick to my stomach even when I don't already feel sick to my stomach.
I'm not a big soda drinker, but Canada Dry Green Tea ginger ale is quite good.
Got my W2 form in the mail today. Oh joy. Since Paul had no income of any kind for the past year do I now claim him as a dependent? I don't have a clue about this kind of thing.
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| fiberness |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|03:04 pm] |
I had started to knit a new neck-wrap a few weeks ago. I fell absolutely in LOVE with the yarn... it's beautiful and soft, a gift from Cynjon. I just couldn't get into the groove of the actual knitting though for some reason. I'd do a short row or two, get distracted and leave it. Last night I picked it up again, did a couple more rows and noticed something... a really cool surprise! The color of the yarn was shifting... transitioning to rose! The rose with the moss green is soooo beautiful, I had to make better use of it. I frogged out all the knitting and went and got one of my tri-looms to better showcase the colors. The gradual way the color shifts and blends gives it almost an iridescent kind of look as you move it. Gorgeous...
I wish you could reach in and touch it... it's soft as a cloud. I'm just getting ready to go out and full it just enough to bloom the fiber a bit and lock the weave. From the end of the ball I've crocheted a blossom sort of thing that i'll use as a fastener. I probably won't get to finish it up until next week.
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| just a short word |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
Your Word is "Think"
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You see life as an amazing mix of possibilities, ideas, and fascinations.
And sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to take it all in.
You love learning. Whether you're in school or not, you're probably immersed in several subjects right now.
When you're not learning, you're busy reflecting. You think a lot about the people you know and the things you've experienced.
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| Old Lady Annie |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
Annie is the matriarch of the feline family... she's an old trollop... a stray that the old man Winter Cat brought home one day and left her here in our care while he went off again on his merry wild tomcat way. She was a wild woman and the old man dropped her off barefoot and pregnant. I don't know where she had them, but when her kittens were just about weaned, she brought them in through the cat door one by one and left them. She'd sneak in during the dead of night and nurse them and take off again like a rocket if she heard anyone move about in the house. Anyway, long story short, one day she just decided we were okay and weren't gonna eat her and she moved in to stay. Now she's royalty around here and is full of cuddly, snuggly appreciation. She's also getting senile in her old age and plays the roll of jester as well as queen.
This morning as the sun streamed through the window she decided that the terrarium I had just cleaned out looked like a nice cozy sun-room. The opening into the glass case is only about three inches wide. Annie is fat. It took her several minutes and a lot of determination but somehow she finally squeezed in. She was quite pleased with herself until she decided she wanted to get back out again! LOL! I tried using the video on my camera for that spectacle but it turned out too dark to see.
Oh.. and I found the URL to my blogger address.... http://ravenztea.blogspot.com/
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| OH YEA! |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|07:23 pm] |
Forgot to add this link in case anyone wants it.... it's a program you can use to download and save your LJ archives. I don't know if it will work for me... DAMN DIAL UP!!! But I might give it a try....
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/ |
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| wow... |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
That was easy and really FAST too.... I'll be here....
http://alien-anomaly.insanejournal.com/
Just in case... or maybe as a regular too. It's like EXACTLY like LJ but without all the newer crappo. I LIKE it
I'm on FaceBook too even though I REALLY dislike it. I joined once ages ago, hated it and left.... then a very special friend insisted I had to join to stay in touch since they are smitten with the place... so i joined again. I stay in touch with a few people over there who I hadn't even been able to convince to join LJ. I just don't like the way it's so superficial. You really don't get to know people there very easily and there's a lot of really inane, stupid rubble there that can clog up your site if you let it. I joined a bunch of communities over there last week on a whim so I'm there a bit more often now than I was last time I was a member.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696991418&ref=name
Hmm bet that won't work, by name it's under Raven Norejko
I'm also on VOX and Blogger and I think there's another one.... but I haven't updated any of those in AGES and AGES... but they are there if I ever need them I suppose. I'll dig up the addresses to those later maybe or if I need to. My pix are on Photo Bucket but I can't think of my username at the moment. It comes up automagically so I don't have to remember. LOL!
cindie_loo sent me a link that doesn't sound quite as gloomy... </span>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html
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| Good afternoon... WHAT!?!? |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|05:03 pm] |
Just babbling a bit to check in. Getting ready to head to the kitchen to make Cantonese fried chicken, fried cabbage and probably cook some rice in the broth from parboiling the chicken.
I was just doing a quick scan through of FL entries for the past few days... WHAT is this I've seen a couple passing comments about concerning the possible demise of LJ?!?!?! That would freak me out... bad... over and over I've felt some concern about journaling on line... all the memories and stuff I've entrusted to LJ. It's why I was a bit hesitant about starting in the first place. I've wondered now and then "what if in five years or two or three the whole format becomes redundant and disappears?" I learned long ago not to totally trust any kind of internet service after losing web sites on very well known and popular services. Then I figured LJ was too popular to just go "poof" and would always be here. Now I'm gittin skeered. There are so many people I count on LJ to keep me in touch with. None of the other community places work in quite the same way and make it so easy to keep up with everyone and write back and forth.
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| wooliness |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|08:40 pm] |
Latest spin and dye...
No matter what I do I just can't get the color of the blue and pink one to show right. It's so pretty too... darn. The blue varies from bright pale turquoise to deep indigo and the pink is like cotton candy or bubblegum pink. The black and red one looks true to hue... dunno why I can't get the blue/pink to photograph.
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| goodbye 2008!!! |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|07:59 pm] |
(apologies in advance for hogging your screen if this cut didn't work right.... it's all weird looking on my screen and I've redone it a few times but I can't tell in the preview if it actually worked after all)
Just a few pix to finish off the day....
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| Haunted... |
[Dec. 30th, 2008|08:46 pm] |
Okay... first a bit of family history....
My Dad would do things a bit strangely sometimes... well, okay... a lot of times.
When I was a kid and we moved to the cottage out in the boonies, it didn't have indoor plumbing so Dad had a lot of work to do. Since he was doing it all, he decided to do it the way he wanted to. He plumbed all the sinks so that the hot water was the knob on the right and the cold water was the knob on the left. (I'm the only right handed person in several generations, both sides of the family, of lefties) Of course I never thought anything of it because I grew up with the backwards faucets. I was nearly an adult before I knew that was way-weird.
Some time ago, after my Dad had passed away, my brother came and fixed some of the leaky faucets in the house. Even though he too is a lefty, the backwards taps always bugged him so he crossed and switched the water lines on them so they would be "right" finally and they've been right ever since.
Some years have passed and Mom wanted new faucets in the bathroom and kitchen to replace the old worn out ones and my brother came today and replaced them for her. When he left and she was running water to do some dishes, she realized that the water lines were switched BACK again!!! Both the kitchen and the bathroom ones were back they way they were when Dad did them! Apparently my lil bro totally blanked out on the crossed lines and hooked them back up the way they used to be.
Dad REALLY got the last laugh on this one!
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