Category Archives: Books & Tapes

Oops

It wasn’t until the Youngest looked at my current cross stitch project that all the pieces fit together in my head. Oh! she said – Quidditch! What? Oh yeah – Snitch in the center and the four house colors… Darn … Continue reading

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It will be Sept

Did I mention that George and I are looking to relocate sometime in the not so distant future (next year? Year after?)? I realized as part of the move a requirement to shift from my German web host which I … Continue reading

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To the ends of the earth – or my garage

Driving to Wallhausen is fun, especially when I do it with someone else. We had a good time there and back. A stop at my house involved Nana and the kids books. And some old shirts for wearing, painting, crafting … Continue reading

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What do I do with this?

I have this yarn –   It’s a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3rd mix of silk, cotton and acyrlic with a nice feel, shine and bounce. It’s not my color but it seems to want to be knit. But into what?  Never … Continue reading

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Also in the box

We dropped off books this afternoon in Rohrbach, the next community down the B3 from Heidelberg. Apparently they have added a community bookshelf. While George talked to a neighbor who was walking by, I unloaded books. Sixty of them. Children’s … Continue reading

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The Book Pile

I waved good bye to our household goods; all boxed up and on their way to California. Actually it was 7 Aug 2014 but this is close enough. Since then, they were delivered. Shifted around several times. Several things have … Continue reading

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Recovered

It is a new day and my sense of humor is somewhat restored. Made better by my husband getting back safely from Switzerland last night and taking me out for dinner on the way home. I was getting pretty sick … Continue reading

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Ok, I voted

for the Hugos. Hello? I don’t know where you live, but I haven’t ever lived anywhere that there is much of anything to vote for at the end of July. Small things around home – like do I sit inside … Continue reading

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reading & Hugos

I seriously thought about what I should be doing this morning. Two loads of laundry won over cleaning. Then I remembered that the Hugo voting closes in two days and I hadn’t read everything. There is such thing as intelligent … Continue reading

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Chicago Literacy Festival

Once a year the part of Harrison Street that starts at the Dearborn Station as well as a block of Polk shut down on Saturday and Sunday for The Chicago Lit Fest.  I had decided to make another attempt at … Continue reading

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Books

It has been a long time since I have had hours and hours to browse a real book store. Brick and mortar – major chain – shelves and shelves of books. Barnes & Noble seems to wisely have scooped up … Continue reading

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Walking to town

It seemed logical to walk into town today. Cheré and I wandered in, dropped off another 16 books at the Give-away-Shelf. This takes me up to 642 books that have found a new home so far. I wish I could … Continue reading

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ANZAC

For those of you who don’t remember from the last two springs – 25 April is ANZAC day – standing for Australian-New Zealand Army Corps. This year is the 100th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in WWI. The casualties … Continue reading

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the plan falls apart

I had this afternoon all planned out. When I returned back to the hotel after hiking all over in the inner city of Vienna I had a task list. Update all of you so it didn’t look like I had … Continue reading

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SABLE

No, not a coat. Just the knitters’ abbreviate for … Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy which I now have embroidered on this lovely project bag courtesy of Dagmar (NanaWolf’s Sister). She thinks I did her a kindness by giving her … Continue reading

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Disguises

or costumes or masquerades. That is what a lot of the day seemed to be about. However, you will get those tomorrow since Sunday is Hall Costume Day and it is more fun to batch the insanity in one place. … Continue reading

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What got left behind

When I discovered the first of the “oops” items not even an hour after the truck left, I thought it might be fun to start a list and see how it goes: a basket containing parts of two spinning wheels … Continue reading

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It is Monday, might as well clean

Well, the kitchen is clean. As clean as I can make it considering the water pressure in the sink decided to give up the ghost providing me only a trickle of water, a lot of buzzing with effort. To top … Continue reading

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Reprise –

Ok. I was going to give you a long and happy rant about how I finally have MY house to MYSELF. Sounds like a cat doesn’t it? Purfectly happy without all those pesky humans about who don’t deliver food on … Continue reading

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Loose ends

My muscles this morning announced with no uncertain creaking that I was not going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting today. Revising my plans – I still dropped off the first batch of books at Neuegasse (148 books), … Continue reading

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