I am not sure when it was that I discovered the first doorway.
I wasn’t totally sure what it was I was seeing once I discovered it.
Here is a most wonderful artist creating a most wonderful world.
Explore, as I did, and discover, the Urban Fairies.
November 27, 2007
November 26, 2007
The Husband Stitch
I talked to my girlfriend in West Virginia the other day. She had mailed a box of West Virginia ‘taters to me, and I had called to thank her. While showing the worlds’ problems the light of day, we decided that we had known each other for 32 years.
I have to keep her informed of what I am writing on my blog via telephone, because Verizon does not provide her area with high speed internet connectivity.
“I have dial up. I click on a website, and go do the laundry while I wait for it to load.” she told me.
I was recounting an excerpt from the post of hippie…part twenty four…Oh, Baby! .
When I got to the part of that post where I expressed my incredulity at the doctor having asked for a relative age for the results of my episiotomy, my girlfriend said, without hesitation, “The Husband Stitch”.
I became momentarily speechless, and then I repeated, “The Husband Stitch?”
“Yeah, The Husband Stitch. I got one, and my sister got one, too, when she had her baby. When they sew you up, they give you an extra stitch. They call it the Husband Stitch. They just always have called it that.”
We went on to talk about other things, like West Virginia tromping UCONN in the college football game, and that she needed a digital camera, and how amazed we were that Senator Byrd was still on his feet.
After all this time of thinking I had been on the receiving end of a singularly callous doctor the day I gave birth, seems I am not unique.
Leslie
November 23, 2007
How to clean copper
It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and I must have too much time on my hands. We ate leftovers, which were delicious. In the process of cleaning up, I decided it was a good time to share a little “secret” about how to clean copper. My copper bottom Revereware is 34 years old. I received it as a gift for having a baby.
Here is the “secret”. KETCHUP.
Or catsup. It doesn’t have to be a brand name, just ketchup. It could even be the stuff that you get in the little plastic squeeze packet at the hamburger stand.
Squeeze a little on the copper.
Apply it with your fingers. Go ahead, play with your food. You don’t need to rub, just smear it around.
In the moments it took to get my fingers rinsed so that I could take the picture, the ketchup had begun to work on the copper.
I waited 5 minutes. Then I couldn’t stand waiting. I had to rub the ketchup around some more. Like finger paint.
Rinse.
It’s not “gleaming” spotless, but the pot is 34 years old, and it took more time to clean up between pictures than it did to clean the pot.
No scrubbing.
And then everyone loves you because you “smell like french fries”.
An alternative is lemon and salt, which is also fun to mess with. If you have a wedge of lemon left over from some recipe, rub it all over the copper. Then sprinkle salt on the lemony area. Watch the magic.
The lemon can be used as a ’scrubber’, and add more salt as extra abrasive, if you need it. Then throw the lemon down the garbage disposal. It gives it a fresh lemony scent, which it can always use.
Leslie
November 20, 2007
Turkey
I think this is a magnificent photograph.
Here is the website, Birds As Art.
I think my favorite bird is the Lesser Goldfinch.
Leslie