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Women Fighters in Reasonable Armour

And this one too!

Yup, it’s the end of August, with all the weird weather that entails. While everyone else on the east coast got flooded, we got–nothing. So, for the dog days, today’s word is: arf

I’m blasting this from my laptop while Terri Gross is playing on the stereo. I don’t know why Michael loves me.

Morgantown AP 39° 39′ N 79° 55′ W

via Latitude & Longitude – Look Up.

Just cuz I wanted a reference.

But I was using it for this: UV exposure calculator

Especially, apparently, my spare sock bin.

More of a lazy weekend. I’ve done a lot of napping, and we just couldn’t get motivated to go anywhere. But that’s okay.

This week we had to find:

Bell
Book
Bus
Shopping
Writing
Learning

(more…)

This week’s challenge is about the first week of school:

Bell
Book
Bus (you thought that was going to be candle, didn’t you?)
Shopping
Writing
Learning

That’s right, not just has WVU started, but kids are already back in school–the earliest ever. (Reason: so many snow days in many counties, they aren’t getting enough instructional days.) So, for the start of school, today’s word is: stand-still

And since I wrote that post, I can’t get this out of my head.

So a couple weeks ago, I was looking for suggestions for displaying postcards.

What I neglected to mention at the time was that I have a single postcard on display, however, I purchased it “as is” so, recreating that layout was going to be beyond me.

But I love how you can see both sides of the card.

So I spent some time looking on-line, and didn’t see anything reasonable I liked. Then I checked Target where I thought I remembered seeing clear glass picture frames. I was right–they had them.

Unfortunately, this solution isn’t perfect–the frames were in a box, so you couldn’t see that they used double sided tape to hold the picture to the back frame of glass, and the wooden rectangle that holds the glass in the frame is kinda flimsy. Plus, the double-sided tape left ugly smears on the glass (Yes, I have Goo-Gone. But I figured the more I fooled with the glass, the more likely I was to break it and end up needing stitches). However, what I had going for me was that the postcards are thicker than pictures, and since some of them have spent years on my refrigerator, they aren’t particularly flat, all of which seems to work to hold them in place.

We’ll have to see how this holds up in the long run, but for now, I’m quite pleased.

Upon hearing this morning about the website What’s Your Favorite Number, I immediately went to enter my favorite number–and to attempt to explain why it’s my favorite number.

My favorite number is 7, but it must be written correctly, with a serif and a slash.

First, I like writing the number 7 (I obviously write it with a serif and a slash.) Second, 7 (when written properly) conforms to the thing I like about several other numbers–they physically represent in some manner their number.

1 (without the serif or slash) takes only a single mark to create. 3 has three end-points. And when written with a serif and slash, you can count seven points on a seven.

Odd? Yeah. But it’s not like there’s anything particularly logical about a favorite number.

So what’s your favorite number, and why? (And go vote! “I don’t have a favorite number” is an option!)

This was the view out the plane window, as we were coming in to land at Pittsburgh.

Here’s a summary list:
Alaska: Anchorage
Alaska: Potter’s Marsh
Alaska: Parks Highway and Denali National Park
Alaska: Kenai Peninsula and Seward Highway
Alaska: Exit Glacier and Seward
Alaska: Whittier
Alaska Botanical Gardens (Anchorage)
Alaska: Glacier Bay
Alaska: Skagway
Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau
Alaska: Whale Watching, Juneau
Alaska: Ketchikan
Alaska: Inside Passage to Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver: Stanley Park Rose Gardens
Seattle