A Summer Day

heyello

Bahamas - informal hello

a rubber stamped card, creator unknown

Today is a wonderful summer day.

I'd like to remember today, in November!

a lovely summer dress by Liana - address to the right

Time to be picking some great vegetables!

c.1861



We could go to a fancy Barbeque -

Scarlet O'Hara Barbie, Gone With The Wind

and invite a friend or two

BIG thanks to OrigamiBears and her wonderful paperdoll site.

Address is to the right -

Let's Make some cool and easy summer snacks:

This is from a Kraft recipe site,

but I didn't write down the directions.

This is what I would try:

Ritz type crackers

(there are some fun herbed type round crackers too)

Washed green grapes, cut in half

fresh raspberries and blueberries

a Philly flavored cream cheese, spreadable

Look at the photo, and make it to look like that!

I added in blueberries for a different change of color.

You could also do blackberry centers.

In the photo they show cut out green apple peelings

to look like stems.

I am way too lazy to do that, and would just skip that part!

Perfect kitchen food thing to do with the kids!

c.1869

c.1853

Maybe I'll just hang out in the yard -

the-spontaneous-picnic-dress

with a few friends of course:

Koda



c.1916

Zeus

recycled bottlecap magnet made from all recycled junk mail, etc.

for sale at www.inkspired.etsy.com



Tanner

I'll sit on my swing, and perhaps read a book.

'Storytime' entirely drawn with pencils,

www.JDHillberry.com/story_time.htm

I'm reading Michael Jecks right now.

He writes medieval mysteries

that are painstakingly researched for accuracy in all the details.

It's really been a fascinating way to learn history!

He writes fiction, but he mentions in his intros

what is fact and what is fiction.

Cool.

Here is the amazon addy for the first in the series:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Templar-Knights/dp/0060763442/ref=pd_sim_b_28

"The Last Templar"

I hope you check him out, and enjoy him as much as I have!

I have been doing some scherensnitte recently.

I need to replace my #11 blade that fits 2 of my knives,

but I cannot find my box of them

anywhere!

grrrrrr......

So today I am off to the store to buy some replacement blades.

But, going shopping

is a good way to spend part of a nice summer day too!

Think.....

air conditioning!

Well, all this talk of relaxation makes me want to go take a nap...

eyes getting closed...

best sign off

n

  o

    w

         ...

;0)

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.inksiredmusings.blogspot.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

yawn....

The Sesame Manifesto

By Capt. Fogg

(Ed. note: This is a follow-up to Fogg's post from yesterday. See the Fox News clip there or below. It's certainly enraging, but Hannity et al. are also massively stupid. It's hard to know whether to laugh or shudder. -- MJWS)

It's impossible for me to watch a Fox "panel" chew on a story without thinking of an alligator feeding frenzy or a bunch of mean dogs fighting for possession of a bit of rawhide. Actually, it's impossible for me to watch Fox News at all, but for those of a tougher breed, here's a prime example of that ruthless war on reality called Fox.

Listen carefully and you'll spot the message that Sesame Street aims at lower income, urban kids and you'll smell the racism and you'll hear the Republican anthem that the fraction of a cent per taxpayer that this show costs is "on principle" too much and especially because it tries to elevate the underclasses in direct contravention of Divine Law and Ayn Rand, whichever is the more powerful.

Does anyone really believe that Big Bird is a Communist or that Sesame Street is ruining America and the morals of its children? (Perhaps Doctor Spock fans can sigh with relief now that they've moved on to a new chew toy.)

Perhaps you do, perhaps you watch Fox anyway. Perhaps you're a malicious idiot with delusions of persecution, but here it is again:


(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)

Only on Fox

By Capt. Fogg 

Did you know that not only is Sesame Street "liberal," not only is Big Bird a bigot, watching it could lead to a totalitarian state and undermines morality and the destruction of the American family. It sets up an appetite for "governmental largesse" and prompts high schoolers to nominate homosexuals to host the junior prom. 

No, not only could you not make this up, you couldn't be paid millions to rave like a lunatic. It's getting to the point where you couldn't pay me to admit I'm American.