Looks interesting… but I would substitute purple sweet potato for the beets. www.eatingwell.com/fall-vegetable-tian-11812180>Vegetable Tian
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I had never heard of Hazel Scott before, her star fell into the shadows of McCarthyism before I was born. It’s a shame that she was forgotten the first time; let’s resist her second disappearance. It may be time to fire up a PBS Passport membership to watch this documentary (and so much more). I wonder what Mom and Dad thought of her TV show; Pop did love Nat “King” Cole and other Black entertainers. Sometimes it seems we Americans are forgetting who we were, which means we don’t know who we are, and we won’t recognize who we’ll become.…
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This may look like playing in mud, but it’s pre-k “how to do school” set in an experimental farm study area. The kids have a mobile classroom that takes them all over the Grand Valley, in the shadow of the Colorado National Monument. Link: A Grand Junction pre-K in the midst of farm experiments teaches kids how to learn and parents how to support them
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I’m on Caroline’s daily newsletter list and have made one or two of her projects (I think a threadcatchers one or a sewing machine pad with pockets). Her tutorials (written and video) are always clear and cheery.
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My niece wants me to make her a quilt using her daughter’s outgrown onesies. Leah Day has a practical, inexpensive method, but touching fabric fires off my dang “burning tinglies” that I’m fighting during my #strokerecovery. Also, I’m determined to engage her in the process; not doing hours of work while she sits on her phone or visits friends. So my niece will need to do a lot of the prep work with me, rather than simply dropping off a garbage bag full of onesies and skyving off. We’ll be working with sharps, so it’ll need to be just us…
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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. Tutorial: How To Make A Tea Towel Three Ways
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My dad enlisted in the Army for WWII, he was not drafted. He was in his early 30’s and willing to serve…
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A family member is on Medicaid, and could be affected by the #BigUglyBill and the murky definition of “able-bodied.” Also, a family friend is on Medicaid, but is moving to a Red state. I worry that both of them could lose health care in this era of “screw the poor and disabled.” Via Mother Jones: “The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge” www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/medicaid-rfkjr-able-bodied-keyword-mother-tongue/
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A family member is on Medicaid, and could be affected by the #BigUglyBill and the murky definition of “able-bodied.” Also, a family friend is on Medicaid, but is moving to a Red state. I worry that both of them could lose health care in this era of “screw the poor and disabled.” Via Mother Jones: “The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge” www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/medicaid-rfkjr-able-bodied-keyword-mother-tongue/
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If ICE shows up when my lawn guys are working, I will go out with my walker and shout at them to get off my property, and demand to see a warrant. I will make one hell of a racket, and my immigrant neighbors are welcome to video it all.