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Vox Hunt: What I'm Reading

nobody@vox.com(TreeSweater) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:04:32 -0600

Show us the book you're reading right now.
Submitted by Strive2Be.

Miss Read

My mom recommended this author to me. Miss Read is the pen name of Dora Jessie Saint, a novelist and retired schoolmistress. The two series she is most known for are set in the English villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green (both, as far as I know, entirely fictional).

The Fairacre series is written in first person, and is about Miss Read coming to be the schoolmistress at the Fairacre village school. As usual, the small village is full of interesting characters and seethes with the undercurrents and intrigues that small towns always seem to have. All very innocuous and sweet, of course.

This book is the last one in the Fairacre series. I am working through all the books my mom owns, then I'll fill in the missing ones from the library.

My mom adores this author. I am enjoying the books, too, but I am surprised that mom likes them so much because of all the marital shenanigans that go on. But she gets sniffy over books where the characters imbibe alcoholic beverages. And I don't even mean getting roaring drunk...just having a couple drinkies.

But you know how moms are. They have their hobby horses, same as the rest of us, I guess.

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Classic Headline of the Day: Men sentenced for setting friend's crotch ablaze.

nobody@vox.com(TreeSweater) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:08:47 -0600

Yes, you read it correctly.

Sheesh...

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Lookit what I made!

nobody@vox.com(TreeSweater) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:54:53 -0600

A friend had a jewelry making party at her house a couple weeks ago, and we got to make our own pendants!

Pendant

Basically you take two largish, flat pieces of glass, one colored for the background, and one clear for the top. Then you add smaller fragments of glass in any design you want. The bigger color blobs were chunks from glass sheets that you cut to whatever size or shape you wanted. The lines were skinny sticks of glass. I think the metallic-y ones have some kind of foil in them, or something.

You stick it all together with glue, then the artist lady took everyone's pieces away to fire them in her kiln, and all the glass melts together.

Pendant closeup

You can tell which ones are between the big flat pieces and which ones are on top. The ones on top seem to float.

I have never claimed to have artistic ability, but I'm pretty impressed with how mine came out. Although it was looking pretty...citrus...so I added the purple foil ones on top, to mitigate the fruitiness.

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This cannot be real.

nobody@vox.com(TreeSweater) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:17:59 -0600

I just pinched this from CuteOverload.

Lets see the Dog Whisperer do this!!

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Is it possible to get too much exercise?

nobody@vox.com(TreeSweater) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:14:22 -0600

dog

I'm dogsitting this week (pictures next week, when I get home to my own computer and can download), and this dog gets three walks a day. Some mornings it's all I can do to drag my ass out of bed. The morning walk is definitely the most painful, too.

It occurs to me that part of my problem might be the fact that their guest bed is as hard as a block of concrete, so I'm not sleeping as well (or as long) as I would at home. I sleep on my right side until my shoulder gives out, then I turn onto my back until it starts complaining. Then I sort of toss and turn the rest of the night. Pleh!

Still, I'm hitting my 10,000 steps a day goal easily! Monday I had more than 17,000 steps, because I walked to lunch as well as taking the doggie for all of her walks.

When I got back from lunch today, however, I took the elevator because I'd had enough of the stairs...

(P.S. The only internet access I have this week is at work, so I haven't had time to read anyone else's blobs. Next week, I promise!)

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