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  • All Things Interesting

    Status: Figuring out what post formats do

    October 20, 2024 - By ginny

    I don’t usually use post formats other than Standard, may add one for recipes or food pictures.

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  • Moblog

    Gallery: How does this post format look?

    October 20, 2024 - By ginny

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  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Link: How does this look? Just a link pasted into body

    October 20, 2024 - By ginny

    ‘I Was Not Prepared for That!’ Brianna Keilar Howls After Learning Probe into Trump’s ‘Swiss-Made’ Watches Led to Viagra-Laced Honey Manufacturer

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  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Aside: How does this look?

    October 20, 2024 - By ginny

    Not sure if the Aside post format automatically goes in the sideblog. Update: just gets a special heading in main column unless category is Minipost

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  • What’s Cookin’?

    Recipe: Sourdough Hamburger Buns

    October 20, 2024 - By ginny

      Husby has requested sourdough hamburger buns, as the soft sourdough sandwich bread is his new favorite. I’d like to use ring forms to make the sides more uniform, though. Sourdough hamburger buns are easy to make. Mix the dough in the morning and bake them fresh for dinner the same day!   Link: Sourdough Hamburger Buns

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  • Sewing And Quilting

    Future Quilt Project: Scrappy Lattice

    October 19, 2024 - By ginny

    I’d like to make this, but use very light foundation instead of tear-off copy paper. I already had some cut in 6 inch strips. Link: Scrappy Lattice

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Oh oh, ‘Elno! Bad minions, no no!

    October 19, 2024 - By ginny

    Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk’s America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters.

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Cheetoh-Stained Blogger Logs In To Pontificate, Updates Preferences to Ritz Crackers

    October 19, 2024 - By ginny

    It’s Saturday, I’m listening to a “clip show” retrospective version of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” and I’m trying to exercise my atrophied blogging muscles. I used to be a prolific long-form blogger, until Twitter, real Twitter, remodeled my brain to think in 240-character snippets. I have a desktop computer, and a wheezer of a laptop, that made this easy. And then I got more into wanting to say Something Important via my iPhone or my mini iPad, with their teeny on-screen keyboards. This is a frustrating process and I stopped blogging because it was hard to type and hard…

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  • Mini-Posts

    #VoteHope North Carolina sets record for first day of voting with more than 350,000 ballots

    October 19, 2024 - By ginny

    This gives me hope. People are literally crawling over broken glass, and the mess left by Helene, to vote in North Carolina.   “Haven’t stood in a line like this to vote since Obama 2008,” blogger Tom Sullivan posted on X, photographing dozens lined up out the doors of one Asheville polling place. Source: North Carolina sets record for first day of voting with more than 350,000 ballots

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  • Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    You BET We’re Better Off!

    October 19, 2024 - By ginny

    Four years ago, an incompetent braggart screwed up the scientific, public health based response to COVID-19. The world economy was at a standstill. I was furloughed, spouse was job-hunting, we stayed home and hoped like hell things would improve after the election. They did, but not until 12:01pm, January 20, 2021. www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/18/us-voters-economy-inflation-growth-presidential-election

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Asides

  • Insurance season is almost over, thank Dog

    Avoid health sharing plans, they're not that great a deal. A friend had one while getting some pretty serious treatment, and he struggled to get the care he needed.

    Elisabeth Yoder and her son Darragh recently experienced a huge gap in their health care "coverage." They stand in  front of the family home, and they belong to a Christian "health sharing" plan that didn't reimburse for a recent ambulance ride.

     

     

    Link: Not serious enough to turn on the siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance ride still cost over $9,000

  • Charm Patch Quilt: On Point

    From Sew Can She - this looks like a great way to use up charm squares and scraps that can be at least 4 1/2-5 inches square. The contrast fabric and on-point arrangement add good visual interest without being too busy.

    Link: Charm Patch Quilt Pattern: Free Throw quilt Pattern for Pre-Cut Charm Squares!

  • Tea Towel Hems

    Bought some tea towels for gifts, looking for tutorials for adding colorful hanging cuffs after hemming.

    I lean toward Method 1, mitred corners. Will decide once the towels arrive in case the selvage edges are good quality.

    https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2023/03/26/tutorial-how-to-make-a-tea-towel-three-ways/

  • Sorry About The Mess: Trump Wrecking World Economy

    Post: He’s nuts if he thinks manufacturers will move to the US; they like paying rock bottom non-union wages and they’ll pass the higher costs to American consumers. Lose-lose! What can possibly go wrong?

    Since he lives in his own bubble universe, I’m wondering how long his big donors, the few relatively sane conservatives in Congress, and his “IKEA cabinet” will hold out until the murmurs behind the scenes become screaming fights in the Oval Office.

    Spine of steel? Nope. Skull of rock.

    Maury Povich lie detector meme: It says here… Trump is as dumb as a box of rocks.

    Global economy rocked again as rates on imports to the US from dozens of trading partners rose further, with China hit by 104% tariffs

    Link: Donald Trump unleashes new wave of tariffs against dozens of countries

  • Now Listening: Joni Mitchell | Black Crow

    Joni Mitchell album cover Black Crow. A woman is superimposed over an empty road that leads into her silhouette.

    Text:

     

    ”Black Crow - There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue sky I took the ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I took a plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train I've been traveling so long How'm I ever gonna know my home When I see it again I'm like a black crow flying In a blue blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving diving diving diving Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked out the window And I I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw a back crow flying In a blue sky Oh I'm like a black crow flying In a blue sky”

     

    Link: Check out this song I heard on Radio Paradise

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