I need some help from the general Mudflatter community. I have put my house on the market here in Bisbee in probably the slowest housing environment in history. I have heard of an Italian (I think) tradition that says if you bury a figure of St. Joseph upside-down under the for sale sign, the house will sell quickly. Has anyone heard of this, or tried it? Does it have to be an actual statue? Would a drawing work? My only nativity set is from Mexico and is made of tin. The figures are flat and stand up by means of a little wire in back that props them up. Would this work, or does it have to be a 3-dimensional figure? The ground here is hard-pan caliche, and almost impossible to dig in. Would a flower-pot full of soil work instead? I respect folk customs and am very willing to try this, but I want to make sure I get it right. Any advice you could give me would help, though I can just hear Mike from Iowa thinking of a real wise-ass reply as I write this.
My mother was a real estate agent many years ago (and Irish Catholic) so this is not an unfamiliar tradition for me. The details, however, are a little fuzzy (being the long-ago lapsed Catholic heathen that I am!), so I found this for you:
It is a Catholic myth or superstition or whatever you want to call it. You can actually buy St Joseph real estate kits at5 Catholic bookstores. One story was about Nuns who used to bury a St Josepn medallion on property they wanted for the church and then pray that it happened. Apparently it worked for some. The statue doesn’t have to be buried upside down or under the for sale sign. If you pray it might work. Just so I don’t discriminate,if you don’t pray it might work.
I have just ordered the “St. Joseph Home Selling kit” from Amazon, of all places. I call myself a Cultural Catholic. I get to enjoy the color and ritual, without the guilt, original sin, child abuse, or the Pope. I have prayed to Our Lady of Guadalupe when I have a lost or sick cat, and I swear she always comes through for me. So, I wll bury HolyJoe in the prescribed manner, and we’ll see what happens!
My Catholic sister and her husband have moved every 2-4 years over the past 20 years, and St. Joe has always come through for them. (Said sister was born at St. Joseph’s hospital, also, too.)
He and Lupe are on your side, and so are all of us, eh?
Leenie 17-have I got a deal for you. I am officially an orphan and I am always looking for a new home. I am adoptable,just barely past my teens(by forty years) and nearly house-broken. I don’t much like cats or dogs,but I am great with other children. Just leave me alone from late August through The Super Bowl and we will get along fine. I( don’t smoke or drink and am no fun at all. I would probably forget birthdays and don’t waste much time on holidays. What more could you ask?
OMG@12
When this thing played in Pella ,Iowa—–What I understand is that the theatre was full, because they were INVITED guests—–and did not have to PAY to see it.
SOOOOOO this was success????? DAH!!!!
Julie Bass, the vegetable gardener from Oak Park, MI is still facing charges–not for her garden; those charges were dropped. This time, it’s for unlicensed dogs, which have since been licensed. Can anyone say “selective enforcement?”
At last night’s 7:45 pm Saturday night showing of Palin’s movie, I ducked in and counted only 60 people. To be fair, the movie that I went to also only had around 60 people, but in the 9 years that I have lived in this area, I have never been to a sold out show at that particular theater. There are other larger theaters that service this same area, being a small suburb of Phoenix, so there are many options for movie times that people can choose from.
You would think that if people REALLY wanted to see Palin’s movie, they would have made the effort.
Remember, too, Fox has always has had a problem estimating numbers of people…..
Love the cosmos flower, AKM. I had never grown them or was even familiar with them until my second summer in this house. I had just gotten rid of the pool and had a giant circle of compacted, sand-laden dirt in the middle of the yard. I hired someone to come in and rototill some topsoil and compost into the dirt but I didn’t have the time or money to do a lot of fancy landscaping that year. I had put in a path which broke the circle into four sections and I found some cosmos seed in a local discount store. They were supposed to grow to about 3 or 4 feet but, since I was concerned that the ground was still rather inhospitable towards growing things, I hoped they would at least get to a couple of feet.
Apparently, they LOVED the location and the less-than-ideal soil composition because those puppies grew to about 6 feet tall! I discovered that they are one of the favorite food sources for goldfinches and had the lovely neon yellow birds all over the yard, hanging upside down from the slender branches and munching away to their hearts’ content.
I now have the circle landscaped with shrubs and perennials, but I always find a spot somewhere in the yard for my beautiful cosmos flowers.
No…my garden color scheme is purples, blues and pinks. The various combinations of pink cosmos match the rest of my flowers, so I stick with those, although the chocolate ones are beautiful. I have a lot of shrubs with green foliage in the summer so I always look for bright colors to spark up the garden.
In fact, I bought a bunch of daylilies a couple of years ago that were supposed to be half light pink and half a lovely dark pink. The light pink ones turned out beautiful but the dark pink ones are more burgundy with orange-y centers that clash terribly with the magenta echinacea next to them. By the time fall came around last year, I had forgotten which were which but I’m marking them this summer, and the dark ones will be given to a friend who loves flowers but sorely lacks a green thumb. I don’t have to look a colors clashing and she gets some plants that are nearly impossible to kill…win, win! 🙂
Just sent off my most recently visiting family members on their way home. They relocated back to this state from out west over the winter and they’re the only family I have east of the Rockies now, so I’m thrilled to have them only a couple of hours away. Having no kids of my own, I take particular delight in ‘borrowing’ the children and grandchildren of my sister!
It was wonderful to have kids in the house for a few days and particularly enjoyed Littlest One (almost 3) who has now seen me enough times in the past few months to be her usual (and highly entertaining) silly little self.
The house is delightfully disheveled and strangely quiet. I felt a tremendous satisfaction when Littlest One stuck out her bottom lip and said “Don’t wanna go home!” I guess Auntie did good! 🙂
It is a lovely day here in southwestern KY – will probably get into the 90s with 100% humidity. Got sprung from the hospital yesterday after another brief stay – all is back on track now and will hopefully stay that way for a bit longer. Spent a lovely hour in the pool with the great grandson. At 20 months, he is an absolute joy – so good natured and happy all of the time. He already swims like a fish, jumps off the diving board, doesn’t even hold his nose, and comes back up just fine – better than I do!
AKM – Your photographic skills are fantastic – I’ve never seen a picture of yours that wasn’t top quality and you should be submitting them for competition. You always lighten and brighten the day for all of us with your sharing of the beauty all around you. You have an inner beauty that allows you to recognize the glorious sites. If you weren’t such a lovely person on the inside, you wouldn’t be capable of such beautiful photography. The camera is only as good as the person operating it.
Thatcrowwoman – I also too would love to go through your library! I readily admit that I am a hoarder when it comes to books. I still have my Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and a host of others from my childhood, and will soon be passing them along to the great granddaughter with the hopes that she will take great pleasure in reading.
And now I’m off to hull some delicious strawberries to make a couple of strawberry-rhubarb pies. Happy Sunday to all.
Because my dad was in the Air Force, we moved around fairly often and I got used to losing most of my books every few years (left behind at libraries and in the temporary housing facilities). A long stretch of settling in Hawaii resulted in a huge library which I then had to weed down drastically when Hubby and I moved to the Mainland. Now, because of my work, my collection has again grown huge, and I’ve been donating books to schools and libraries in town. I’ll have to do even more, because they’re taking over the house!
In case anyone is counting. Bristol’s Recorded Book is 20% off at Barnes and Noble. It’s been, what, a month since the release of the book?
Does this very immature, rather stupid and ill raised girl/women realize that everything she owns she owes to the fact the Levi got her pregnant? She should be thanking him not accusing him. Whether he is worth the thanks or not.
That without the bastard baby which she could not have conceived alone, she is worth nothing more than any other unnewsworthy person?
Probably not, or she would not behave in such an embarrassing self humiliating manner.
Lovely picture and this could be a teachable moment. Any eye doctors out there? The flower and background illustrate perfectly a problem I have with my so called dominant eye. I am learning to shoot my shooty-gun left handed because my dominant right eye can’t focus on the front sight and the ground hog at the same time. One or the other is a blur which can spell disaster when being confronted by man/woman devouring ground hogs that have just decided they don’t like me. My left eye sees the world as it is supposed to look. However,shooting left handed is an entirely different process- the fit and feel of the gun are strange and the gun weighs more from the left side. The bolt is on the wrong side too,still yet. We had three and a half inches of rain since Wednesday and now it is near ninety with about 600% hummidy(that’s how my late ex’father-in-law pronounced humidity)
Good morning! We are heading outside in a bit to dig up stumps. Do we know how to have fun or what? Not the honking huge ones. These are little. Ish. Sort of. Anyway, has to be done. “They” can’t get the grinder in around the little stumps, so we are in dig mode.
Going to stop at 10 regardless, because by then it will be too near 100* for my delicate Southern self. I wanted to look on the Internet and find a recipe to make an explosive to blast those stumps out of the ground, but Himself won’t hear of it. The man has no vision. Off to sharpen the axe.
Have a lovely day, and thank you AKM for all you do.
Jimzmum and TCW- I like your spirit and your sense of humor. Life is an easier bitter pill to swallow if you can find humor in every situation. I tell younger persons that have a sour outlook that things can always be worse. They could end up looking as #### as me and that usually brings a smile to their faces. And NO I am not down on myself in case you ever wondered.
Get a good drill with a ginormous bit.
Drill holes in the center of the stump until you’ve made a really good hollow.
Put some beans or peas at the bottom–the ones you accidentally left too long on the vine and can’t be eaten. (nitrogen)
Fill the hole with unstrawed organic fertilizer (hoo-whee!)
Water.
Keep watered until the fertilizer has mellowed, then plant something in the hole. Drill a drainage hoe if you need to.
Add worms when they can survive.
In a couple of years, it will have eaten most of the stump away, and it can be taken out much more easily.
Or, you may just find you like the plants and you leave them, which is what I’ve always done in the end. 🙂
In a year or two, the
I sure would love to visit your library thatcrowwoman. I wonder how many books you have that I have read.
It’s a quiet morning in the castle gardens before work for me. I have to work late tonight thanks to the marvelous last minute changers that call themselves senior VP’s and whatever else. They decided on Monday to have a sale today with extended hours. So instead of closing at 6pm, we will close at 9. From 6-9 we will be picking our noses until it’s time to lock the doors. If these idiots ever get a clue, they might figure out they are losing money and switch the sale to Saturday.
Should see some rain today. Woke up to heavy clouds and no dew on the ground.
“To the Lord let praises be
It’s time for dinner now let’s go eat
We’ve got some beans and some good cornbread
And I listened to what the preacher said…”
please pass the mac ‘n’ cheese!
thatcrowwoman
*unplugging as thunder rumbles in the distance and 30-odd bookshelves watch silently*
Have you tried out bookcrossing, TCW–and all you others out there that, like I used to, hoard books done in cuneiform, and right up to the present day? Make cleaning out fun!
And you could start a project of it at school. A fun way to share book and cull your library stacks. I did it once when I was teaching.
It’s Still raining here in the forest, and supposed to rain all day again. What a blessed relief!
The frogs have been frolicking all night long. it’s a cool 76 degrees, and the mockingbirds have just started crowing back and forth with our Rooster Loco. The sun’s not up yet, but the sky is just starting to turn a paler shade of cloud.
I’m weeding my home library today.
It’s one of my favorite parts about collection development..at Work,
but I have an awfully hard time letting go of my own books. Seriously. I still have paperbacks that I bought starting in 3rd grade with quarters and dimes and nickels saved from my weekly allowance, which was 35 cents in 3rd grade! I have textbooks from college (class of ’77). I have Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, and Ellery Queen Mystery magazines that go back to the 80s. I have Audubon and Smithsonian magazines, and National Geographics back to the 60s… hahahaha caw caw caw caw!
So how fine is that line between Collector, so typically crow-natured, and Hoarder? I’m pretty sure you can see it from here! 🙂
I’ve been staging my own intervention this past week, asking myself (as DH Happy started), “So would you move it when we retire North?”
Happy has taken a load to the recycling center already. I’ve packed 4 cartons of magazines to take to school (somebody’s always looking for old magazines) and 4 cartons of paperbacks for our staff Book Trade shelves. I should have several more cartons ready to drop off at school tomorrow. *Surveying 30-odd over-crowded bookshelves*
Well the sun is not up, but morning has broken.
Still raining (praises be!) this fine Sunday,
so here’s a tune rattling around my head:
To TCW,
I know what you mean about the books. You can have my Whole Earth Catalog (1979) when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!
There is one book that is one of my best friends, because it describes life as a fisheman in the 70’s, when I was at it. It is called Alaska Blues, A Fisheman’s Journal. It has been re-released as a paperback, but the original hardback is the best because of the wonderful photos of SE AK. I keep giving mine away and buying more at Title Wave Books in Anchorage.
I was surfing the news channels tonight, and I noted that CNN had an extensive story on the Murdoch empire’s phone hacking scandal. I did the unthinkable, and checked in on Faux Noise a few times, and saw no such coverage. Maybe in the pretend universe of Fox, they didn’t just get caught with their pants down.
Maybe Sarah P. can become the spokesperson for Murdoch, and rejoice in his news organizations being cleared of all accusations? It worked for her during Troopergate.
Beautiful photo!
Hopefully I’m beating Mike to the wise-ass reply…… 🙂
Take one of the zero’s off the asking ptice, it will sell REALLY fast !!!! 🙂
I need some help from the general Mudflatter community. I have put my house on the market here in Bisbee in probably the slowest housing environment in history. I have heard of an Italian (I think) tradition that says if you bury a figure of St. Joseph upside-down under the for sale sign, the house will sell quickly. Has anyone heard of this, or tried it? Does it have to be an actual statue? Would a drawing work? My only nativity set is from Mexico and is made of tin. The figures are flat and stand up by means of a little wire in back that props them up. Would this work, or does it have to be a 3-dimensional figure? The ground here is hard-pan caliche, and almost impossible to dig in. Would a flower-pot full of soil work instead? I respect folk customs and am very willing to try this, but I want to make sure I get it right. Any advice you could give me would help, though I can just hear Mike from Iowa thinking of a real wise-ass reply as I write this.
My mother was a real estate agent many years ago (and Irish Catholic) so this is not an unfamiliar tradition for me. The details, however, are a little fuzzy (being the long-ago lapsed Catholic heathen that I am!), so I found this for you:
http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/selling/instructions-for-your-st-joseph-statue-and-selling-your-home/
It does say that you can use a flower pot so you’re good to go. Good luck!
Seriously, I have heard of this. But is was buried in the back yard.
It is a Catholic myth or superstition or whatever you want to call it. You can actually buy St Joseph real estate kits at5 Catholic bookstores. One story was about Nuns who used to bury a St Josepn medallion on property they wanted for the church and then pray that it happened. Apparently it worked for some. The statue doesn’t have to be buried upside down or under the for sale sign. If you pray it might work. Just so I don’t discriminate,if you don’t pray it might work.
Geez guys-I am always serious. Smart-ass replies? Why I never!!
Can’t imagine what they’re talking about, Mike.
I have just ordered the “St. Joseph Home Selling kit” from Amazon, of all places. I call myself a Cultural Catholic. I get to enjoy the color and ritual, without the guilt, original sin, child abuse, or the Pope. I have prayed to Our Lady of Guadalupe when I have a lost or sick cat, and I swear she always comes through for me. So, I wll bury HolyJoe in the prescribed manner, and we’ll see what happens!
🙂 still think taking a zero off the price tag will move it faster ! 🙂
I hope your house sells before that kit arrives.
Have you considered running an ad in the Wasilla paper? Seems a lot of folks from there are moving to Arizona . . . .
I’ve been to Bisbee several times for your Stairclimb race in October… good luck selling your home, Mag.
My Catholic sister and her husband have moved every 2-4 years over the past 20 years, and St. Joe has always come through for them. (Said sister was born at St. Joseph’s hospital, also, too.)
He and Lupe are on your side, and so are all of us, eh?
Good luck, Mag!
Leenie 17-have I got a deal for you. I am officially an orphan and I am always looking for a new home. I am adoptable,just barely past my teens(by forty years) and nearly house-broken. I don’t much like cats or dogs,but I am great with other children. Just leave me alone from late August through The Super Bowl and we will get along fine. I( don’t smoke or drink and am no fun at all. I would probably forget birthdays and don’t waste much time on holidays. What more could you ask?
Gee whiz, how could anyone pass up a deal like that? 😀
OMG@12
When this thing played in Pella ,Iowa—–What I understand is that the theatre was full, because they were INVITED guests—–and did not have to PAY to see it.
SOOOOOO this was success????? DAH!!!!
Julie Bass, the vegetable gardener from Oak Park, MI is still facing charges–not for her garden; those charges were dropped. This time, it’s for unlicensed dogs, which have since been licensed. Can anyone say “selective enforcement?”
Here’s the story: http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/15/charges-not-dropped-for-growing-garden/
And here’s a segment from the poem written about her by the Bard of Murdock:
The scofflaw, Julie Bass,
Rejected trees and grass,
And took to life of crime
With parsley, sage and thyme.
There’s much more at the link. Back later to read comments. Health and peace.
Wow…40 people came out to watch Sarah’s flick and the Fox headline claims that the movie is playing to packed theaters–a wild success?
http://nation.foxnews.com/undefeated/2011/07/17/palin-film-opens-strong-theaters-packed
🙂 Must be a home theater in a studio apartment! 😉
At last night’s 7:45 pm Saturday night showing of Palin’s movie, I ducked in and counted only 60 people. To be fair, the movie that I went to also only had around 60 people, but in the 9 years that I have lived in this area, I have never been to a sold out show at that particular theater. There are other larger theaters that service this same area, being a small suburb of Phoenix, so there are many options for movie times that people can choose from.
You would think that if people REALLY wanted to see Palin’s movie, they would have made the effort.
Remember, too, Fox has always has had a problem estimating numbers of people…..
Love the cosmos flower, AKM. I had never grown them or was even familiar with them until my second summer in this house. I had just gotten rid of the pool and had a giant circle of compacted, sand-laden dirt in the middle of the yard. I hired someone to come in and rototill some topsoil and compost into the dirt but I didn’t have the time or money to do a lot of fancy landscaping that year. I had put in a path which broke the circle into four sections and I found some cosmos seed in a local discount store. They were supposed to grow to about 3 or 4 feet but, since I was concerned that the ground was still rather inhospitable towards growing things, I hoped they would at least get to a couple of feet.
Apparently, they LOVED the location and the less-than-ideal soil composition because those puppies grew to about 6 feet tall! I discovered that they are one of the favorite food sources for goldfinches and had the lovely neon yellow birds all over the yard, hanging upside down from the slender branches and munching away to their hearts’ content.
I now have the circle landscaped with shrubs and perennials, but I always find a spot somewhere in the yard for my beautiful cosmos flowers.
Have you tried the chocolate ones yet? Oh, a whole garden of chocolate cosmos – heaven! 🙂
No…my garden color scheme is purples, blues and pinks. The various combinations of pink cosmos match the rest of my flowers, so I stick with those, although the chocolate ones are beautiful. I have a lot of shrubs with green foliage in the summer so I always look for bright colors to spark up the garden.
In fact, I bought a bunch of daylilies a couple of years ago that were supposed to be half light pink and half a lovely dark pink. The light pink ones turned out beautiful but the dark pink ones are more burgundy with orange-y centers that clash terribly with the magenta echinacea next to them. By the time fall came around last year, I had forgotten which were which but I’m marking them this summer, and the dark ones will be given to a friend who loves flowers but sorely lacks a green thumb. I don’t have to look a colors clashing and she gets some plants that are nearly impossible to kill…win, win! 🙂
Just sent off my most recently visiting family members on their way home. They relocated back to this state from out west over the winter and they’re the only family I have east of the Rockies now, so I’m thrilled to have them only a couple of hours away. Having no kids of my own, I take particular delight in ‘borrowing’ the children and grandchildren of my sister!
It was wonderful to have kids in the house for a few days and particularly enjoyed Littlest One (almost 3) who has now seen me enough times in the past few months to be her usual (and highly entertaining) silly little self.
The house is delightfully disheveled and strangely quiet. I felt a tremendous satisfaction when Littlest One stuck out her bottom lip and said “Don’t wanna go home!” I guess Auntie did good! 🙂
It is a lovely day here in southwestern KY – will probably get into the 90s with 100% humidity. Got sprung from the hospital yesterday after another brief stay – all is back on track now and will hopefully stay that way for a bit longer. Spent a lovely hour in the pool with the great grandson. At 20 months, he is an absolute joy – so good natured and happy all of the time. He already swims like a fish, jumps off the diving board, doesn’t even hold his nose, and comes back up just fine – better than I do!
AKM – Your photographic skills are fantastic – I’ve never seen a picture of yours that wasn’t top quality and you should be submitting them for competition. You always lighten and brighten the day for all of us with your sharing of the beauty all around you. You have an inner beauty that allows you to recognize the glorious sites. If you weren’t such a lovely person on the inside, you wouldn’t be capable of such beautiful photography. The camera is only as good as the person operating it.
Thatcrowwoman – I also too would love to go through your library! I readily admit that I am a hoarder when it comes to books. I still have my Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and a host of others from my childhood, and will soon be passing them along to the great granddaughter with the hopes that she will take great pleasure in reading.
And now I’m off to hull some delicious strawberries to make a couple of strawberry-rhubarb pies. Happy Sunday to all.
Twenty months already!! How time flies.
Strawberry-rhubarb is my favorite pie! Yum!
Because my dad was in the Air Force, we moved around fairly often and I got used to losing most of my books every few years (left behind at libraries and in the temporary housing facilities). A long stretch of settling in Hawaii resulted in a huge library which I then had to weed down drastically when Hubby and I moved to the Mainland. Now, because of my work, my collection has again grown huge, and I’ve been donating books to schools and libraries in town. I’ll have to do even more, because they’re taking over the house!
In case anyone is counting. Bristol’s Recorded Book is 20% off at Barnes and Noble. It’s been, what, a month since the release of the book?
Does this very immature, rather stupid and ill raised girl/women realize that everything she owns she owes to the fact the Levi got her pregnant? She should be thanking him not accusing him. Whether he is worth the thanks or not.
That without the bastard baby which she could not have conceived alone, she is worth nothing more than any other unnewsworthy person?
Probably not, or she would not behave in such an embarrassing self humiliating manner.
You make a very good point there.
Lovely picture and this could be a teachable moment. Any eye doctors out there? The flower and background illustrate perfectly a problem I have with my so called dominant eye. I am learning to shoot my shooty-gun left handed because my dominant right eye can’t focus on the front sight and the ground hog at the same time. One or the other is a blur which can spell disaster when being confronted by man/woman devouring ground hogs that have just decided they don’t like me. My left eye sees the world as it is supposed to look. However,shooting left handed is an entirely different process- the fit and feel of the gun are strange and the gun weighs more from the left side. The bolt is on the wrong side too,still yet. We had three and a half inches of rain since Wednesday and now it is near ninety with about 600% hummidy(that’s how my late ex’father-in-law pronounced humidity)
Good morning! We are heading outside in a bit to dig up stumps. Do we know how to have fun or what? Not the honking huge ones. These are little. Ish. Sort of. Anyway, has to be done. “They” can’t get the grinder in around the little stumps, so we are in dig mode.
Going to stop at 10 regardless, because by then it will be too near 100* for my delicate Southern self. I wanted to look on the Internet and find a recipe to make an explosive to blast those stumps out of the ground, but Himself won’t hear of it. The man has no vision. Off to sharpen the axe.
Have a lovely day, and thank you AKM for all you do.
Jimzmum and TCW- I like your spirit and your sense of humor. Life is an easier bitter pill to swallow if you can find humor in every situation. I tell younger persons that have a sour outlook that things can always be worse. They could end up looking as #### as me and that usually brings a smile to their faces. And NO I am not down on myself in case you ever wondered.
Here’s how I’ve gotten rid of tree stumps:
Get a good drill with a ginormous bit.
Drill holes in the center of the stump until you’ve made a really good hollow.
Put some beans or peas at the bottom–the ones you accidentally left too long on the vine and can’t be eaten. (nitrogen)
Fill the hole with unstrawed organic fertilizer (hoo-whee!)
Water.
Keep watered until the fertilizer has mellowed, then plant something in the hole. Drill a drainage hoe if you need to.
Add worms when they can survive.
In a couple of years, it will have eaten most of the stump away, and it can be taken out much more easily.
Or, you may just find you like the plants and you leave them, which is what I’ve always done in the end. 🙂
In a year or two, the
I sure would love to visit your library thatcrowwoman. I wonder how many books you have that I have read.
It’s a quiet morning in the castle gardens before work for me. I have to work late tonight thanks to the marvelous last minute changers that call themselves senior VP’s and whatever else. They decided on Monday to have a sale today with extended hours. So instead of closing at 6pm, we will close at 9. From 6-9 we will be picking our noses until it’s time to lock the doors. If these idiots ever get a clue, they might figure out they are losing money and switch the sale to Saturday.
Should see some rain today. Woke up to heavy clouds and no dew on the ground.
brothers, sisters, help me please!
Sunday dinner with bubbles and Happy and me…
…6 minutes of Church (and Sunday dinner) from Lyle Lovett and friends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZI0zO2TS1Y
“To the Lord let praises be
It’s time for dinner now let’s go eat
We’ve got some beans and some good cornbread
And I listened to what the preacher said…”
please pass the mac ‘n’ cheese!
thatcrowwoman
*unplugging as thunder rumbles in the distance and 30-odd bookshelves watch silently*
Have you tried out bookcrossing, TCW–and all you others out there that, like I used to, hoard books done in cuneiform, and right up to the present day? Make cleaning out fun!
And you could start a project of it at school. A fun way to share book and cull your library stacks. I did it once when I was teaching.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Lovely.
It’s Still raining here in the forest, and supposed to rain all day again. What a blessed relief!
The frogs have been frolicking all night long. it’s a cool 76 degrees, and the mockingbirds have just started crowing back and forth with our Rooster Loco. The sun’s not up yet, but the sky is just starting to turn a paler shade of cloud.
I’m weeding my home library today.
It’s one of my favorite parts about collection development..at Work,
but I have an awfully hard time letting go of my own books. Seriously. I still have paperbacks that I bought starting in 3rd grade with quarters and dimes and nickels saved from my weekly allowance, which was 35 cents in 3rd grade! I have textbooks from college (class of ’77). I have Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, and Ellery Queen Mystery magazines that go back to the 80s. I have Audubon and Smithsonian magazines, and National Geographics back to the 60s… hahahaha caw caw caw caw!
So how fine is that line between Collector, so typically crow-natured, and Hoarder? I’m pretty sure you can see it from here! 🙂
I’ve been staging my own intervention this past week, asking myself (as DH Happy started), “So would you move it when we retire North?”
Happy has taken a load to the recycling center already. I’ve packed 4 cartons of magazines to take to school (somebody’s always looking for old magazines) and 4 cartons of paperbacks for our staff Book Trade shelves. I should have several more cartons ready to drop off at school tomorrow. *Surveying 30-odd over-crowded bookshelves*
Well the sun is not up, but morning has broken.
Still raining (praises be!) this fine Sunday,
so here’s a tune rattling around my head:
The Cowsills The Rain The Park & Other Things
“I love the flower girl…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ord6UXaep_w
safe, peaceful, happy Sunday
*off to weed the shelves*
thatcrowwoman
To TCW,
I know what you mean about the books. You can have my Whole Earth Catalog (1979) when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!
There is one book that is one of my best friends, because it describes life as a fisheman in the 70’s, when I was at it. It is called Alaska Blues, A Fisheman’s Journal. It has been re-released as a paperback, but the original hardback is the best because of the wonderful photos of SE AK. I keep giving mine away and buying more at Title Wave Books in Anchorage.
Must be something wrong with my “r”. It was supposed to be in the word fisheRman. Twice. Arrggh!
I was surfing the news channels tonight, and I noted that CNN had an extensive story on the Murdoch empire’s phone hacking scandal. I did the unthinkable, and checked in on Faux Noise a few times, and saw no such coverage. Maybe in the pretend universe of Fox, they didn’t just get caught with their pants down.
Maybe Sarah P. can become the spokesperson for Murdoch, and rejoice in his news organizations being cleared of all accusations? It worked for her during Troopergate.
Ahhh, such a pretty little thing to start off a Sunday. Hope it is good for all!