arts and crafts – Never Jet Hot

Buggles at dawn

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June 5, 2024June 5, 2024

Flotsam, Love and War files

arts and crafts

Teresa gets up way, way too early. Like, sometimes 4am early. WHY? She doesn't have some nine-to-five downtown, or a paper route. No, she does it so...

Mister Tree Head TREE ART

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96

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023

Found, Mildly Interesting

arts and crafts

"Mister Tree Head" doesn't roll off the tongue like "Mister Potato Head". Not enough syllables?

Hippie cigar box! Groovy

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87

June 6, 2023

arts and crafts, Ephemera, History

Apparently some hippie took some newspaper articles and this deceptive invitation, and Mod-podged the hell out of this wooden cigar box. You...

steampunk hoses

Not sure my plumber would approve

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59

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

arts and crafts

This fellow seems to be making some sort of a steampunk type display, mostly involving hoses? It looks like fun, a good rainy day activity anyway? I...

We didn’t start the fire

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109

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

Back in My Day, Flotsam

arts and crafts, toys

Teresa gets a bit carried away with the “Arts and Crafts” sometimes. My son is appalled, this used to be his favorite toy fire truck. It survived...

heavy duty toothpaste tube squeeze

Should have done the toothpaste math!

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June 16, 2021August 30, 2021

arts and crafts, Frugal living

I got this toothpaste squeezer on a whim because I like gadgets. It costs $9.99 - Only now doing the math on that. Rounding up because Teresa...

The Floral Forest

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January 24, 2021February 25, 2022

arts and crafts, Trains

I saw somewhere where a guy substituted floral foam for Woodland Scenics ground cover... Look how it turned out! Just take a block of that...

■ 7/4 Teresa says some dude blew his thumb off, but I don't know where. That dude will never hitchhike again!
■ A "Life hacks" email I get says to relieve headaches, eat a teaspoon of mustard! Can you imagine? Maybe Grey Poupon will do something for constipation? ("poupon")
■ I cleared the bathroom sink drain with Liquid Plumber. It was very effective, but now the bathroom smells like a poorly run municipal swimming pool.
■ HOW DO DOGS TELL TIME- Our dog has a huge appetite, the vet advised us to give him a mid-day treat of frozen vegetables, which we do at 2:30- Now the dog pokes me with his nose PRECISELY at 2:30 every day. It makes me wonder what other things he can perceive that I cannot.?
■ Sept. 11 2023 ANACORTES WA • Anonymous party called stating that an elderly female neighbor was beating several carbon monoxide detectors with a hammer. Officers located smoke detectors in the garage smashed next to a frying pan with bacon in it. The homeowner stated she was cooking bacon and all the alarms started going off. (Don't they have reset buttons?)
■ More warped prose in this old Stephen King book; "Opal! Diamond! Sapphire! Jade! I smell Gary's Lemonade!" I wonder what his parent-teacher conferences were like?
■ I WAS on YT and ran across an outfit called "TypingDNA" - Serious big brother stuff here! Here is what it does. "By continuously authenticating your workers’ identities by the way they type on their devices, ActiveLock mitigates threats that arise with remote work such as fraud, device sharing, and unattended devices — giving you peace of mind that only trusted users are accessing your company’s computers."
GEEZE LOUISE I am SO GLAD that I am retired, discarded from the rat race back when rats stood a chance of winning.
■ I have half a mind to make some Jello, but put grapes, carrot peels, and other kitchen castoffs in it. Like they do at the juvenile detention facility.