The Lord Outdid Himself This Morning

We have rain in the forecast to start soon and to the South of my house we have this:

And to the west we have this:

Wanna Win a Book? Little Red in the City

This looks like a great book to have in your knitting library. I just entered the contest along with a gazillion other people but you never know it may just be my lucky day. By August 15 go here: http://ysolda.com/2011/08/08/how-will-you-wear-your-angostura/ and tell how you would wear this vest. I know I plan on putting this book on my list of books to buy.

From Michelle's Mirror

If you are not reading this blog, you need to. It is the only thing that keeps me sane some days.

This chart tells it all, and why we need a true conservative in the WH.

My Toilet Paper Holder

I posted the other day about Cottonelle and their "naked toilet paper" holders you could send off for. I don't use Cottonelle because I can get Angel Soft much cheaper so I decided I could make my own. I was at Joann's yesterday and in the paper mache area they have these containers. So I put scrapbook paper on the top and bottom and a green rafia ribbon around the top. I realize the flower on top does not really match but then it adds some bling. My bathroom on the main level is terra cotta orange so I mixed bright orange and chocolate colored paints and painted the bottom. As soon as it dries my naked toilet paper will be stored in style.

There is NO Way I Would Work Without Pay, This is NOT Right!

Congress Goes on Recess Without FAA Bill
CNN reports the Senate went on summer
recess Tuesday night without taking action
to fully fund the FAA, all but assuring that
almost 4,000 furloughed FAA workers will
remain jobless for the next five weeks and
preventing the agency from collecting $1.2
billion in aviation taxes. The only sliver of
hope for furloughed FAA employees and
laid-off airport construction workers rests
with the fact the Senate scheduled nine
“pro forma” sessions during their break,
giving the Senate opportunities to consider
the funding bill. But Senate leaders gave
absolutely no indication they would do
so. FAA officials worked into Tuesday
evening looking for a solution, but it never
came. “It’s a sad day for America,” FAA
Administrator Randy Babbitt said. Babbitt
said he expects a “brain drain” from the
furloughed workers, and said airport
construction projects will be set back “a
season.” “I’ve been around this business
a long time. I’ve never seen anything like
this,” Babbitt said. “And I find it appalling,
candidly.” On Monday, the House adjourned
after the divisive debt ceiling vote, leaving
the Senate with a version of the funding
extension bill that it did not like and could
not amend. On Tuesday evening, the
Senate recessed, without accepting the
House version of the bill. The FAA says the
impasse will prevent the federal government
from collecting approximately $200 million a
week in airline passenger taxes — or about
$1.2 billion during the congressional recess.

Safety Inspectors Work Without Pay
The New York Times reports FAA
Administrator Randy Babbitt said Tuesday
that the agency was depending on
the “professionalism” of airport safety
inspectors to continue their work without
being paid, because their jobs are paid for
with money that is awaiting congressional
authorization. Those inspectors are the
primary individuals responsible for ensuring
that commercial airports comply with federal
regulations. They also support runway
safety action teams, oversee construction
safety plans, investigate runway incursions
and ensure that corrective action is taken
on safety discrepancies. “The reason they
are out on the job is because of the risk
to operational safety or life and property,”
Babbitt said. “We can neither pay them nor
can we compensate them for expenses.
We are depending and living on their
professionalism at this point.” It is unclear
how long the inspectors can continue to
pay the bills for their own travel and hotel
expenses. Typically, each of the roughly
40 regional inspectors travels to up to five
airports in each two-week period, FAA
officials said.

Free Toilet Paper Holder

OK so we are gonna talk tp for a minute, if you want a cute little canister to hold a role of tp go here, but first you need a UPC code from a 12 pak or larger, so if you use cottonelle get yourself a little free gift.

https://www.cottonelle.com/respect-the-roll/roll-cover-offer.aspx

Camp Loopy Project 3 (Blue Skies)

Itis that time again to pick a pattern and yarn for Project 3. It has to have at least 800 yards in it. I chose Ferceis Reversible Shawl and am doing it in Kauni blue/white, kind of a pretty blue sky color. Now to get me yarn and wait til the 15th. Should have plenty of knitting time since I will probably be on furlough til after Labor Day.

Happy Birthday Harry

My tomcat Harry Will is 11 today. He has diabetes and takes two shots a day but he still plows on and torments his sisters.

Hellow Mr Butterfly

Ihave orange milkweed in my front flower bed. I just read an article in the paper that said due to a shortage of milkweed the monarchs are getting fewer and fewer. Look what is eating on my milkweed in the 104 heat. Isn't he gorgeous?

What to do when on Furlough

I decided since I am on furlough (thank you Congress) I may as well take advantage of the vacay compliments of Congress not doing their job. So Christmas is only less than 5 months away and what better use of my time than to work on gifts especially when it is over 100 outside.

Camp Loopy Project 2 was cable socks, mitten, or gloves, so here are my socks, FaFaFa Socks pattern using Studio June Yarn. Love the pattern and the yarn but the yarn is too busy for cables.

I found the supplies for these duffle bags that I had purchased last year for Christmas and so now they will be this years gifts, the day of the dead bag is mine as wellas the black one. I am experimenting with various weights of interfacing for the bags.

More grocery bags for a dog person.

A rug with enough left over for a dishcloth

And my August Rug

More cabbage rose potholders and dishcloths

It was a very productive week.

Camp Loopy Project 2

Project 2 is cable socks or mitten or gloves. So I am making the FaFaFA socks using Studio June Yarn in Autumn Night colorway. You can see that it kind of blends in the yarn I plan on making an Einstein Jacket from so I thought this might match.

Where Are The . . .

This was emailed to me, but gives you pause...

WHERE ARE THE GIRLFRIENDS?

I hadn't thought about this - but where are O's past girlfriends -
surely he had at least one? No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!

OK, this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American citizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the
piano.

We are Americans! Our Media vets these things out! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing ... but it's bugged me for years that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity....

We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or "What a great dancer!"
Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Check for groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.

Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president provides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What has he released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography!
And experts who study writing styles, etc. claim it was not O's own words or typical of his speech patterns, etc.

Does this make any of you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. ?
Not one person has ever come forward from his past.
This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movie titled, The Manchurian Candidate?

Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face...someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.
Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus.
Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984.
He says he never had a single class with him.
Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him?
And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Do you like millions of others, simply assume all this is explainable - even though no one can?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but not one remembers him. For example,Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) a political science major at Columbia, who graduated in 1983. In
2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER!

Nobody recalls him.

Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him."

At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

How can this be?

NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated
valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was.

Some other interesting questions.

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?

According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm, poise, and speaking pizzazz.

One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away with it. Go watch the movie The Manchurian Candidate, with Lawrence Harvey! Good movie!

56 Men

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.

Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy.
He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters.
He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.
For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

Remember: freedom is never free! The 4th of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.