Warez MB – August Edition

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

Don’t you find that if you push really hard on something, you need a little downtime to get ready for the next thing? I do. Finished quilting and any day now I’m going to get going on the next part. Honest!

Yesterday I did a little painting and a little writing. Oh, and it’s the return of the August Postcard Poetry Fest. Tenth year for the Fest, third time around for me. Simple premise – sign up and get put into a group of 31 other people. You send a postcard every day to the people on the list starting with the person below you on the list and everyone else does the same. The leader of the PoPoFest would prefer that we write directly on each card and send it out as is. I’m not quite there. I write on the screen but I don’t edit. So I’m close. You can see last year’s cards up in the menu bar above.

What else. Work. Back to school. Upcoming vacay time and oh yeah better get that project done and done.

Today, this was on my doorstep!

HP and the Cursed Child

Should be fun after listening to the Silmarillion. Some parts more than once!

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Found on the porch (a little sad)

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

It was a little sad to come home and find this little bird dead on my porch. It had apparently hit the storm door based on what I could see of its injuries. I had first wondered if a cat had left me a present but there was only a head injury visible.

In any case, I had to spend a few minutes admiring the beautiful feathers, the beak and legs. So much beauty in a little thing that is seldom still in life.

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For the Quote Box

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

These three quotes from today’s Letter from Robert and Sara Genn (today’s is a reprint of Robert):

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies on the creation of what is good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have touched with a sense of art some people — they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? — Mary Cassatt

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Late Sunset

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I really needed groceries and sometimes you just have to give in and get groceries. Fine. On the way home though, the northern and eastern skies were quite interesting as I came through Nassau. I pulled off at the top of Lord Hill and enjoyed the scene overhead. (Flickr album – click on the bottom photo here.)

Here’s the Flickr album:

sunset 25 July 2016

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Bobbincount 7 plus 10 (plus a smidge more)

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I thought earlier I couldn’t possibly do anymore quilting tonight but you know – sort of like horses knowing the home barn is nigh… I found myself back at the sewing machine.

The seventeenth bobbin ran out and I stopped to wind a new one. I knew there was not much left but what can you do.

Here’s a view of the tiny bit of thread used from what is technically number eighteen. A smidge doesn’t really count as a whole bobbin though so I’m going to declare the total to be seventeen!

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