A friend sent me an email telling me about how Mars is going to be the closest it's ever been to earth August 27th. One won't need a powerful telescope to see it as it will be about the size of a full moon. Don't remember the time but as soon as it gets dark I'm going outside to check it out if the night sky is clear. I've forwarded the email to people with children/grandchildren in hopes that they will share with them this phenomenon. And hope they'll pass it on to others who have children/grandchildren.

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I truly don't know why I keep this up. Since its inception only my daughter has read it. It does, however, let me vent or put down thoughts. I read other posts and find my writing sadly lacking in just about everything. In other words, I don't wax poetical, etc. Just mundane, that's me. And today's mundania has to do with the power company coming out to let me know how badly my house leaks air. I understand that I need a new, upgraded AC unit. The only reason I'm doing this is because the company does it for free and I don't have to spring for the AC unit all at once, but it's added to my power bill a little at a time every month which I can handle. I think I may get in touch with the power company that serves my daughter's house to see if they do the same thing. If so, perhaps we can get her power bill down some. Of course, it would help if her paying roommate wouldn't leave his TV on all day and night as well as his light and computer. He pays her just about enough to cover the power bill. In some ways I wish he would find another place to live so she could use the room for something else, but then again he does pay some rent (not enough to my mind, but he is unemployed at the moment). And he is another presence in the house who can, in an emergency, watch the evil genius for a short time.
Hope to see you today, daughter mine, and we can discuss the power thing. I know you have that class tonight and I'll be thinking about you.....

My daughter is soooo clever. Check out her blog Shade and Sweetwater if you don't believe me. She's the one who told me how to retrieve pictures on my phone and was able to download a ring tone for me. It's all too much for me. I'm proud of her.....(now if she'd only get published....)

All the lovely, poetic posts I read make me feel like such a mundane hack. Words do not come easily to me. Perhaps my sentiments are shown in some of the jewelry I have made and hope to make in the future. But first there is a quilt that must be finished this month (my deadline) before I can go explore all the possibilities open in the metal I have have coming. I look forward to re-arranging my work spaces in the basement. Out with all the stuff I haven't touched in over a year! I have a wonderful work bench that will be perfect for pounding and shaping metal. My brain is full of ideas that want out. Alas, they will have to wait until I get the quilt done. That being said I guess I should get started on that project, eh?

Went shopping today with daughter. Not the usual mother/daughter shopping for clothes, shoes, etc. Nope, we shopped for art supplies and equipment (mostly equipment for me). And boy did we buy supplies! Throw in a great lunch at Red Lobster (snow crab legs, yum) and you have a perfect day. And now for a glass of wine.....

It's raining....a perfect day to go play at the gallery, thereby avoiding that which must be done at home...like laundry. Played yesterday also to make up for the day in the week that I missed and am playing again today because I will be late this week. The power company is finally coming to do that home check thing that lets you know just how much your house leaks air. They're going to fall down laughing at my log house 'cause it leaks air like a sieve. The upside is that they will tell me what I need to do to up the efficiency of my AC unit....which means replacing it.....and the upside to that is that the payments for said replacement are spaced out on my power bill and I get to choose the contractor for the installation of said new and better unit. I just happen to have a neighbor who is one of their contractors and is a very conscientious HVAC installer. Soooo....even if he is not the lowest bid I'm choosing him (I know where he lives, heh, heh). Perhaps if it is not raining tomorrow I can play outside.